Today somebody deliberately tried to kill our dog.

We let Indi out of her bedroom (the laundry) this morning to go run out in the backyard, take care of her morning business, and just generally be a dog.

A little while later, Hannah went out to get her food bowl and just happened to notice some paper and green pebbly things on the patio. On closer inspection, it turns out that it was a packet of Ratsac rat poison that Indi had discovered and eaten.

The thing is, we don’t own or use Ratsac so there’s no way Indi should have had it. The only conclusion we can draw is that somebody threw it over our backyard fence deliberately for Indi to find and eat.

Why would anybody do this? Why would anybody elect to murder somebody else’s dog? What sort of arsehole do you have to be to do this?

Ratsac is a poison, but doesn’t take effect for 24-48 hours after digestion. So if it weren’t for the fact that Hannah noticed a bit of the rubbish left from Indi’s eating we would have no idea that she had eaten it and she would almost certainly have died this week.

We rushed Indi to the vet, who was able to induce vomiting and get most of it out of her stomach. She’s now got to take three weeks worth of medicine, and we are living in fear that the person will try again. So today we had the fear of our dog dying and the cost of the vet and medicine to save her, all because some prick doesn’t like our dog.

Indi is our dog, a member of our family and we love her. I can’t believe somebody tried to kill her.