A recent investigation has uncovered that dogs were taken from a pound and poisoned for six days as part of an experiment before being killed. The dogs were killed alongside at least 138 other animals, which included cats, chickens, ducks, pigeons, budgies and weta. Cameron Burnell About 148 animals - including dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, pigeons, budgies and weta - were killed in a trial testing sodium nitrite as a humane alternative to 1080. In the second part of the study, 10 dogs, 10 feral cats and 10 chickens were fed possums that had been killed with sodium nitrate. None of the dogs showed any obvious symptoms and were killed after the six-day experiment, along with the feral cats and chickens.

Source: Stuff December 19, 2019 04:18 UTC