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DOG owners have been urged to take their pets to the vet immediately if they have eaten fresh or frozen raw pet meat and show signs of illness, following a spate of dog deaths across Gippsland and the Mornington Peninsula.
Agriculture Victoria and PrimeSafe, the state’s authority responsible for regulating pet food, are investigating the deaths of eight dogs and the hospitalisation of 44, to identify the potential causes of a “liver disease cluster”.
The department is aware of an additional six cases, including one death anecdotally, and says the cases were detected in three clinics in east Gippsland and in south-east Melbourne.
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