Blue-green algae danger grows; Some state lakes harbor toxins that can sicken or kill dogs and people

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: November 24, 2005| Author: DON BEHM | Copyright information

Madison Becky Mittelsteadt remembers watching Griffin, her yellow Labrador retriever, emerge from a Dane County pond near Lake Kegonsa covered in green slime after a June 2004 swim.

Within two hours, the 90-pound dog was near death with non-stop seizures as it lay in her arms in the back of a family vehicle being driven to a veterinarian.

"I was scared," Mittelsteadt said recently. "I tried to keep him calm. I laid on him and I hugged him."

Jim Stevenson, co-owner of th...

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