How to train your dog from taking poisoned bait


By AGENCY

A simple training against poisoned bait: Put out a piece of food in the forest. If the dog runs to it, call it back before it reaches it. If it obeys, it gets a treat. Photo: dpa

"Warning: Poisoned bait." Sooner or later, every dog owner hears a scary story about two-legged terrorists hounding four-legged friends with booby-trapped treats.

Social media posts about animals having to be put down after finding sausages with razor blades in them or tasty morsels filled with rat poison are, sadly, all too common.

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