{"id":5093,"date":"2009-07-08T06:37:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2009-07-08T06:37:04","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T11:37:04","slug":"their_pee_could_kill_your_dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/07\/their_pee_could_kill_your_dog.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Their Pee Could Kill Your Dog&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yournabe.com\/articles\/2009\/07\/07\/brooklyn\/brooklynjvzwwzc07072009.txt\">&#8220;their pee could kill your dog&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Here&#8217;s another reason to hate rats: Their pee could kill your dog.<\/p>\n<p>Health officials and pet owners in North Brooklyn are on the alert after a report last week that two dogs may have died from leptospirosis, a disease that can be passed on to canines through water tainted by rat or mice urine.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s Department of Health said this week that the cases in Brooklyn are only suspicious for leptospirosis, and are still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily News said a six-year-old rat terrier called Parker died within days after romping at one of the dog runs in Greenpoint and Williamsburg, particularly muddy and wet after June&#8217;s heavy rains. The dog&#8217;s owner, Aaron Goodman, said the his sweet pup stopped eating, turned yellow and ultimately suffered severe kidney failure, according to the report.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in &#8220;their pee could kill your dog&#8221;: Here&#8217;s another reason to hate rats: Their pee could kill your dog. Health officials and pet owners in North Brooklyn are on the alert after a report last week that two dogs may have died from leptospirosis, a disease that can be passed on to canines through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-need_to_know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5095,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}