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Rhode Island pet rescue says it was targeted with rat poison
“We honestly can’t believe someone would come onto our property and do this.”
Rhode Island-based Vintage Pet Rescue co-founder Kristen Peralta noticed an usual pink substance on her front fence on Monday morning. She was alarmed when she found out what it was.
“It felt like taffy or clay,” Peralta, who runs a sanctuary for homeless senior dogs, told Boston.com in an email. “About 20 minutes later, I found another large chunk on our fence downstairs but this had a wrapper on it so I knew it was rat poison.”
After further inspection, Peralta said she found six “large chunks” of rat poison on the fence. She called the police and filed a report, she said.
Peralta then told her husband, Marc Peralta, a cofounder of the nonprofit. He became worried.
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“He had seen our dog, Bug, eating something pink earlier that morning but didn’t know what it was,” Kristen Peralta said.
She rushed Bug to the veterinarian, where they induced vomiting and gave the dog vitamin K, she said.
The couple founded Vintage Pet Rescue, which provides cage-free living for senior rescue dogs, after they met at an animal shelter in 2013, according to the nonprofit’s website.
Kristen Peralta said she has “no idea” who put the rat poisoning on the fence.
“We honestly can’t believe someone would come onto our property and do this,” she said. “We just want to know why.”
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The situation has made the couple “very angry and uncomfortable,” Kristen Peralta said, adding that they have installed new cameras and floodlights.
“We just want to make sure this doesn’t happen again to us or anyone else,” she said.
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