Woman perplexed by strange items found in her backyard
A Queensland woman fears someone might be trying to poison her dog after finding food thrown over her fence.
The woman, a resident of Kippa-ring north of Brisbane, wrote on Facebook on Monday she came home to find a slice of ham in her backyard.
She believes someone threw it over her fence.
“It is the second one I have found in the past month,” she wrote.
“The first one was a slice of bread with the same finger-shaped mould.”
The Kippa-ring resident added her fence is six-feet-tall and it would “take a fair throw” to get it into her yard.
She asked fellow residents if they had experienced anything similar recently.
Some suggested it might have been school children but the woman says she doesn’t live near any schools.
One resident expressed relief the original poster found the suspicious meat before her dog did.
“I had a bait with rat poison in my backyard last year,” she wrote. “The backyard is 60 metres from my front fence.”
Others were horrified at the idea someone in the area was looking to hurt a dog.
“Gosh, I hope it isn’t bait,” one woman wrote.
“How people can do that to animals is so cruel and horrible. Interested to hear the latest results.”
The woman is yet to have the meat analysed for traces of poison.
An RSPCA Queensland spokeswoman told Yahoo News Australia they weren’t aware of this particular case.
But they added if anyone’s concerned about someone trying to harm their dog there are steps they can take.
“If they think what they’ve found is suspicious, use a glove to pick it up and call police or give us a call,” the spokesperson said.
“You can also set up a little camera outside or bring your pet inside.”
The spokesperson added while there have been some cases of dog baiting or people using methods to try and steal pets “it doesn’t happen often”.
Queensland Police has been contacted for comment.
In January, a Perth family were devastated after three of their dogs were poisoned.
Two of the dogs lived and one of them died.
In November, dog owners in Sydney were warned after meat laced with poison was found on a popular dog track.
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