N.S. news: Hope For Wildlife treating fox pups [Video]

A Nova Scotia wildlife rehabilitation centre is sharing a cautionary tale for people who may use mouse or rat poison.

A few weeks ago, Hope For Wildlife received a call about three fox pups in Cape Breton who were very sick.

The animals were showing serious neurological symptoms – they were seizing, lethargic, tremoring and unable to stand.

One died on the way to the centre’s Cape Breton drop off clinic.

The other two are now being treated at the main Hope For Wildlife facility in Seaforth, N.S., and are showing signs of improvement.

“Our doctor feels the prognosis is good for the two remaining ones. We’re thinking it’s probably rat poison but we’re not sure, we will be doing more tests to find out. The one who passed has been sent away for a necropsy,” says Hope Swinimer, the founder and director of Hope for Wildlife.

Swinimer says the centre sees many cases involving sick animals …