May have poisoned my dog

GordonThree wrote:
The smell commonly associated with chlorine bleach is actually from the oxidation byproduct and breakdown of the chlorine salt (sodium hypochlorite). The salt dissolved in cold water with nothing to oxidize will not be giving off much smell. I emptied most of the jug onto the dirty ground and there was plenty of smell. A clean chlorinated pool will have slight odor, a dirty one will have a strong odor.

The State health department isn't going to say anything about another State agency.

I saved some of the water and I'll have it tested on Monday. Problem is, the sample 48 hours from now will have degraded considerably.

I don't really care if anyone believes me. I know my dog became sick shortly after drinking the water. It is my fault for not tasting the water first, but I'm going to be a thorn in the side of whomever is responsible for maintaining that drinking water well. As to how smart my dog is, compared to a human, he's as dumb as a post. He certainly has no chemistry background and I doubt he knows anything about the quality of the water he's drinking.

I just posted as a caution for others to not trust drinking water wells, even in government run campgrounds.

I have never let my dogs drink from strange sources. I always haul water along. And when I say strange, I mean ANY water that I did not bring from home. Even water that does not contain chemicals can have bacteria that is foreign to the dogs system. Dogs are smarter than many people that I've known. I would not refer to my dog as 'dumb as a post', when I worried that I was the one that may have poisoned him. :R