A man whose dog died hours after eating contaminated food believes his pet was deliberately poisoned.
Stephen Parr, of Linthwaite, had fruit and rotting food found at Blackmoorfoot Reservoir tested for toxins.
Mr Parr sent samples to a lab which carried out 30,000 tests.
The results found that Penitrem A, a fungal neurotoxin known to be poisonous to dogs, was present in the food found dumped near a path at the local beauty spot.
Mr Parr said there were mycotoxins in all the food which would also be poisonous to wild animals as well as pets.
Mr Parr’s seven-year-old terrier Spud died last month after eating pomegranates, grapes and onions partly covered with blue mould, which can be deadly to dogs.
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Having had the test results Mr Parr believes the poisoning – also reported by several other people – was deliberate.
Writing on a Facebook page he set up to warn others, Mr Parr said: “I feel that this is malicious as the rotten food with fresh fruit is very suspicious and a combination that is lethal.”
Mr Parr said while some toxins were to be found naturally in rotting food he added: “It’s too much of a coincidence that some of the food is poisonous for dogs, and that food keeps getting left in the same spot.”
Last week the Examiner reported how another dog had to be put down after eating poison, thought to be slug pellets or strychnine.
Lily, an eight-month-old Patterdale-Lakeland terrier puppy, belonging to Tim Dawson, had been running free in the gardens of a house he owns in Netherton.
A third dog, owned by a Meltham man, has also died amid social media claims that a dog poisoner was at large in Huddersfield.
Other areas believed to have been targeted include Beaumont Park and Honley Woods.
