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The INDEPENDENT, September 21, 2011
Salmon poisoning disease can kill dogs – take precautions
Dogs that eat even a small
amount of uncooked Salmon,
Trout, or Steelhead are at risk
of getting potentially fatal
Salmon Poisoning disease.
The cause is a microscopic
organism that sometimes lives
in a parasite that can infect the
salmon family. The germ is
killed by cooking, freezing or
hot smoking fish.
If a dog eats infected fish,
symptoms start from a few
days to five days later. Symp-
toms include decreased energy
level, increased temperature,
loss of appetite, swollen lymph
glands, vomiting, and diarrhea
(turning bloody within a day or
two)
If untreated, 90 percent of
dogs with symptoms will die
within 7-14 days from dehydra-
tion and blood loss.
If caught early enough, Sal-
mon Poisoning is treatable with
antibiotics. In severe cases, in-
travenous fluids may be need-
ed. Get the dog to a veterinari-
an as soon as Salmon Poison-
ing is suspected. The longer
before treatment starts, the
harder and more expensive the
treatment will be, and the
greater the chances that treat-
ment will not be successful.
If your dog is seen eating
fish, talk to your veterinarian
about a preventive shot of an-
tibiotics to avoid Salmon Poi-
soning.
Most dogs are immune to fu-
ture Salmon Poisoning, once
they have had and survived it.
Special emphasis on MOST,
not all dogs develop immunity.
Preventive measures in-
clude disposing of raw fish
From page 1
mated by the Department of
Veterans Affairs that Iraq and
Afghanistan veterans are be-
coming homeless within three
years, compared with 13 years
for Vietnam-era veterans.
The Veterans Administration
and many other governmental,
community-based agencies
and employers will be attend-
ing and providing a host of
services and information which
will include health screenings,
job opportunities and the
chance to register with the VA
for medical care and other ben-
efits.
staff and more capacity to hold local offenders.
I am committed to working through the diffi-
culties this will present to our communities. As
your elected sheriff, I know how budget cuts in
your own lives have affected your lives. You take
what’s left and do the best you can with what is
left.
I am devoted to that same philosophy. We will
not give up. We will continue to take as many as
we can in our jail and respond to as many crim-
inal calls as we can with the few enforcement
deputies we have left. We will do our best to
serve you, and hope for the best and for your pa-
tience in these difficult economic times.
Want to know what
happens around here
all year? Get
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when fishing, or leashing dogs
when near water.
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From the Sheriff’s Desk…
From page 19
we have, the more staff we need. The more in-
mates we have, the more we have to pay for
medical expenses, food expenses, water, sewer,
clothing, visiting programs, etc.
Budget cuts have produced the loss of five
positions in the jail over the last three years. Op-
erational costs have risen beyond the county’s
ability to pay for them with the jail at – or near –
capacity.
The good news is that we have been able to
rent beds to the federal government, which
helps offset the costs to the county to provide
beds. If we were to lose or cut back U.S. Mar-
shal beds to any extent, we would lose more
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Letters
From page 3
the criminals and thieves will
conduct their business some-
where else.
If this County does not have
a properly functioning Sheriff’s
Office and the current use of
force laws stay in effect, then in
my opinion the “Lone Ranger”
Deputy on patrol will be spend-
ing most of his or her time ar-
resting citizens that will take
the law into their own hands by
misguided advice from Sheriff
Dickerson. The average citizen
will then be the “More Violent”
criminals the Sheriff’s Office
will have time to arrest and the
bed space in our jail to house
them.
The people of this County
have all the power in their
hands, not the Commissioners
and not Sheriff Dickerson!
They are elected by the people
and for the people! As the City
of Vernonia knows firsthand, if
we don’t like what our Commis-
sioners and our Sheriff are do-
ing for this county we can re-
place them. We have the pow-
er to make them properly fund
the CCSO or change the use of
force laws.
Properly fund the CCSO or
provide new ordinances that al-
low the citizens to legally pro-
tect themselves and their prop-
erty with the use of force in-
cluding deadly force. Do so
without criminal prosecution for
the use of deadly force under
our current laws! Then we will
see how long the criminals and
thieves work in Columbia
County. If the Commissioners
don’t want to do either of these
things and ignore the problem,
then maybe a recall is in order.
It is time to make our elected
officials do their jobs or we will
replace all of you with someone
that will! It can be done! All we
have to do is stand together as
a community and hold them ac-
countable for their actions! It’s
not rocket science, its politics.
There are 49,351 County Resi-
dents vs. 3 County Commis-
sioners, and 1 Sheriff. I think
the odds are slightly in our fa-
vor! 13 colonies took on the
strongest nation in the world
and won by the power of the
people standing as one. Taking
on three Commissioners and a
Sheriff should be a cake walk if
we stand together and demand
funding, accountability, or
change the use of force laws!
Michael Botchie
Rainier
WEATHER REPORT
AUGUST 2011
DATE
TEMPERATURE
HI
LO
PRECIP.
AMT.
1
81
43
--
2
77
45
--
3
79
46
--
4
77
48
--
5
70
55
--
6
68
50
--
7
72
50
--
8
68
53
--
9
65
54
--
10
75
45
--
11
74
47
--
12
76
45
--
13
70
47
--
14
66
47
--
15
74
47
--
16
80
40
--
17
77
38
--
18
74
46
--
19
77
42
--
20
91
42
--
21
87
46
--
22
78
54
--
23
80
57
--
24
85
55
--
25
84
52
--
26
84
50
--
27
83
47
--
28
79
47
--
29
72
55
--
30
65
55
--
31
65
50
--
Temperature and precipitation
amounts are from the official U.S.
weather station at the Vernonia wa-
ter plant. There was no measurable
precipitation in August.