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Christmas Trees Sprayed With Chemicals Could Be Dangerous To Pets
By Paula EbbenDecember 13, 2017 at 6:17 pm BOLTON (CBS) ? Elizabeth Abbot will never feel quite the same about buying a live Christmas tree.
Her pet goats love to nibble on pine, so as a treat her husband bought two Christmas trees to put in their pen last year. A few days later, they came down with a mysterious illness. ?Their urine turned highlighter orange,? she explained pointing to a picture she had snapped of the orange color on the snow-covered ground, ?It was startling.?
Elizabeth says her vet immediately suspected a toxin, so she and her husband searched every inch of the goat pen and their yard, but couldn?t figure out what was making the goats sick.
That?s when Elizabeth thought of the trees and pulled them onto their deck to take a closer look. ?I saw a very obvious paint line running right down the stem of the tree. My heart just sunk,? she said....
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With the help of WBZ Call For Action, she eventually tracked down the grower in North Carolina and they sent her a sheet of several chemicals that were used on the trees.
?Come to find out; it was a color enhancer,? Elizabeth said...
By Paula EbbenDecember 13, 2017 at 6:17 pm BOLTON (CBS) ? Elizabeth Abbot will never feel quite the same about buying a live Christmas tree.
Her pet goats love to nibble on pine, so as a treat her husband bought two Christmas trees to put in their pen last year. A few days later, they came down with a mysterious illness. ?Their urine turned highlighter orange,? she explained pointing to a picture she had snapped of the orange color on the snow-covered ground, ?It was startling.?
Elizabeth says her vet immediately suspected a toxin, so she and her husband searched every inch of the goat pen and their yard, but couldn?t figure out what was making the goats sick.
That?s when Elizabeth thought of the trees and pulled them onto their deck to take a closer look. ?I saw a very obvious paint line running right down the stem of the tree. My heart just sunk,? she said....
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With the help of WBZ Call For Action, she eventually tracked down the grower in North Carolina and they sent her a sheet of several chemicals that were used on the trees.
?Come to find out; it was a color enhancer,? Elizabeth said...