Des Plaines Dog Owners Warned After Cut Up Hot Dogs Apparently Filled With Poison Found Near Condo
(CBS) -- Des Plaines Police are warning dog owners to watch out now that cut-up hot dogs have been found on the lawn of a condo building: hot dogs apparently filled with rat poison.
The condo building: just five minute walk from the Des Plaines train station.
Deputy Police Chief Chester Zaprzalka says they got a call from a woman who'd been walking her dog in the area around Perry and Laurel.
"She had seen several cut-up hot dogs on the front lawn in front of a condo building right there in that area," Zaprzalka said. "In the hot dogs, it was kind of hollowed out with a bluish tint. And she called the police believing it had some sort of poison in it."
Deputy Chief Zaprzalka says the woman apparently took the hot dog pieces to a veterinarian and the vet said they'd been filled with rat poison.
He says they don't know who did it - somebody in the condo building or somebody passing by.
"Maybe somebody who doesn't like dogs," he says - or someone who's had issues with people not picking up after their dogs.
In any case, Zaprzalka says, if it was rat poison, that's a crime.