Photo: Gail O’Neill
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Thanks to a local police officer and Tufts Veterinary Clinic in Walpole, a dog lives to see another day.
A Foxborough resident's one-year-old Arubian Cunucu named Maple ate a piece of rat poison tucked away inside a closet during the brutal blizzard on Monday. As the heavy snow poured down and the winds howled, the owner feared she couldn't get Maple to Tufts in the storm.
"I panicked, and I just called 911 just for any suggestion," Gail O’Neill said.
Tufts told O’Neill to give Maple hydrogen peroxide to make her vomit, but it wasn't happening. Within a few minutes, Officer Sean Taylor, who was getting off duty, called and offered to drive Maple to the vet.
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"Officer Taylor called and said, just hang tight, be looking for me, I'm coming," O'Neill explained. "It was a huge surprise to us; we were so grateful."
Maple's doing well, but Dr. Meghan Vaught, who was working at Tufts during the blizzard, said the story could have ended badly.
"The biggest concern is that they could develop tremors, seizures, or even go into a coma and pass away."
WBZ NewsRadio's Suzanne Sausville (@wbzSausville) reports.