A popular Salt Lake County dog training facility is closed after half a dozen dogs died following visits to the training grounds.
On the edges of the Lee Kay Wildlife Conservation Training area, gates sat closed Wednesday across the dirt road entrances. Utah Division of Wildlife Resources-branded banners across the gate stated the area was closed "due to possible contamination."
He's currently training his 2-year-old pup to be an AKC Senior Hunter, as they get ready for duck hunting this fall."Later that afternoon, about 4 o'clock, she started groaning, moaning, making kind of a, you know — you could tell something was wrong," Southwick recounted. "She wouldn't stand still. She wouldn't lay down ... she wouldn't eat. She went outside and threw up a few times.
"Six dogs had got sick, perished ... and I thought, wait a minute, we were there two weeks before them. Something's kind of up," he said. He called the dogs back, she said, and placed them in their kennels. Later in the day, the dogs began to vomit and have diarrhea. The Utah Division of Water Quality has noticed a bacterial growth on the edge of the water at the Lee Kay Wildlife Conservation Training that can be deadly to dogs.
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