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Residents in night search for pet baits
John Morcombe
8 May 2008
CONCERNED residents have formed a torch-light search brigade to try to keep their pets safe after the discovery of more glass-laced sausages.
The Allambie Heights local who reported the danger in Tuesday's Manly Daily has revealed his cat Sapphire had brought home yet another cooked bait full of the lethal splinters.
The resident said he had now seen five of the sausages he believes must have been dropped within several hundred metres of his home.
The owner, who has asked not to be named, and several other pet owners have begun torch-lit night searches of their area for other glass-spiked sausages.
Sapphire brought home glass-laced sausages on Saturday and Sunday, but each time either didn't eat the sausage or managed to eat around the glass.
On Monday night she brought another one home uneaten.
But Sapphire's owner fears a dog will be less meticulous and simply gobble it down.
In each case the sausage has been cooked then hollowed out. The hollow sausage has been filled with glass splinters and plugged with more sausage.
Sapphire's owner said he was surprised at the effort someone was going to.
"First they have to break the glass and crush it, then empty a cooked sausage and fill it with glass before plugging it up again," he said.
"That's a lot of work."
Northern Beaches police have not heard of any other instances of glass-spiked sausages, but Sapphire's owner and his neighbours aren't waiting for the worst.
"I've warned my neighbours, who both have dogs," he said.
'We take turns to go around the area to see if we can find more sausages.
"It's pretty horrendous and we worry when Sapphire hasn't come home by 8pm, after which she stays in all night."
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