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近日在清水灣（檳榔灣村已有 2 頭犬隻死亡）及西貢（躉場路路段已有 3 頭犬隻死亡及 1 頭犬隻重傷）已發現最少 2 單蓄意毒狗事件。
Pets Central Dr Mike（莫米高獸醫）己取得懷疑用來毒狗的呈綠色肉類，西貢區警方及便衣正亦已進行調查。
有一西貢居民曾看見一名男子在早上 5 時 30 分行為不尋常並已報告警方。希望各位能知會住在及前住清水灣及西貢區遊玩的狗主。
A senior veterinarian believes a copycat of the Bowen Road dog killer may be on the loose in Clearwater Bay and Sai Kung.

In the past week, six dogs have died or suffered intestinal agony after eating chicken tainted with insecticide.

Pets Central director of veterinary services Mike Muir believes the six dogs in Clearwater Bay and Sai Kung were poisoned by the same person even though the two areas are far apart.

He said the insecticide used in the latest cases was not the same as that used by the Bowen Road poisoner, who killed 22 dogs and injured 60 others in a spree that began in 1989 with the latest case just last year.

Police have yet to identify the Bowen Road killer and a HK$30,000 reward for information posted by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals remains unclaimed.

'I don't think the person killing dogs in Sai Kung and Clearwater Bay is the same as the one in Bowen Road,' Muir said.

But he believes the recent poisonings were committed by a single culprit ,' Muir said.

On August 2 a cross-breed and a poodle became seriously ill in Upper Tan Cheung Village in Sai Kung after eating insecticide-laced chicken. Two stray dogs were confirmed dead in the same area at about the same time.

Last week two dogs died in very similar circumstances in the remote Pan Long Wan Village in Clearwater Bay.

An SPCA official said the cases were unusual as dogs were not normally walked in those areas.

Muir said the cross-breed, called Spud, and the poodle, Doddle Doo, sent to his Sai Kung clinic, were twitching and convulsing and salivating excessively. He had to induce vomiting to clear the poisonous substance from their bodies.

Muir urged dog owners to be 'extra vigilant and to keep their pets on a leash, especially in the early morning.'

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