Lenny didn’t have a wound on him but hasn’t been the same since, his owner says.
The dog’s owner waded waist-deep into Taku Lake and was bitten on his hand while pulling the husky-mix away from the river otters,.
River otters (Lutra canadensis) observed in a lake that typically is home to beavers.
Reports of symptoms such as diarrhoea and vomiting are being investigated in South Ostrobothnia.
Norwegian authorities said up to 40 dogs had fallen ill with vomiting in at least 13 towns.
Nearly 1,000 water damages have been reported following the heavy rainfall night to Sunday.
The summer rain broke a hundred-year-old record.
A blue-green algae advisory is in effect for Prior Lake in Thetis Lake Regional Park after the toxic blooms were spotted in the water.
Visitors advised not to swim in lake and keep dogs on leash
Caution: Blue Green Algae has been detected in the Lower Klamath River and contact with water is not advised. Samples in the South Slough located in the Estuary of the River and near the confluence of Tulley Creek and the Klamath River recently detected low levels of toxic algae.
"I am worried that unless we do something, the algae will kill the lake, or at least our enjoyment of it."
"He could have picked it up in the backyard or on an earlier walk to the park."
The fish, likely former aquarium pets, have attracted the attention of invasive-species managers.
Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.
Rabies has been identified by the State of Alaska as being endemic (regularly found) in the fox population in this area.
Forecasts indicate that ice cover will thin by dozens of centimetres all the way up to Lapland.
Warm temperatures are rapidly melting snow and creating ice, which creates difficult conditions for dog mushers. Migratory birds are arriving early, and a mosquito emerged months early. Small owls dead around the Goldstream Valley that looked unusually thin.
Patrick Jones, wildlife biologist for the state Department of Fish and Game, said he has heard of dogs killing moose, caribou and a days-old musk ox calf, but nothing like this attack.
In Etne in Hordaland, 30.4 degrees of heat were measured at 15 today. Never has it been so hot so late in the year in Norway.
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