Letter to the Editor | Another poisoned owl dies

Writers: Ed & Sally Meyer, Voëlklip.

A very sick, adult Spotted Eagle Owl, brought in to the Eastcliff Village Vet Clinic by a concerned resident in Kwaaiwater last week died of secondary poisoning before it could be treated. This follows the tragic death last year of the popular mother owl and her young chicks on the Golf Course, also reportedly killed by poison.

Residents and pest controllers need to be warned of the dangers of secondary poisoning to our pets and raptors from rodents that have ingested anti- coagulant rodenticide.

One of the Meyers’ beautiful adult Spotted Eagle Owls in their garden.

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