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| A dog who died after competing at Crufts appears to have ingested poison in Belgium, the Kennel Club has said. | A dog who died after competing at Crufts appears to have ingested poison in Belgium, the Kennel Club has said. |
| Irish setter Jagger died after the event in Birmingham earlier this month, having allegedly eaten beef laced with poison. | Irish setter Jagger died after the event in Birmingham earlier this month, having allegedly eaten beef laced with poison. |
| A post-mortem examination found two "fast-acting" poisons in the meat but Jagger showed no signs of illness until he was back in Belgium, the club said. | A post-mortem examination found two "fast-acting" poisons in the meat but Jagger showed no signs of illness until he was back in Belgium, the club said. |
| It said it was "inconceivable" the dog was poisoned at Crufts. | It said it was "inconceivable" the dog was poisoned at Crufts. |
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| Jagger's Leicester-based co-owners have previously said he must have been poisoned "while on his bench" at the show at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC). | Jagger's Leicester-based co-owners have previously said he must have been poisoned "while on his bench" at the show at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC). |
| Three-year-old Jagger, whose pedigree name is Thendara Satisfaction, died on 7 March after returning to Belgium with fellow owner Aleksandra Lauwers. | |
| A spokesman for the Kennel Club said: "There has been a lot of concern about whether the poisoning happened at Crufts and we are now able to reassure all dog lovers who came to Crufts that this could not have been possible and it is highly likely that the poisons, thought to be on a piece of beef, were eaten in Belgium, shortly before Jagger's death." | A spokesman for the Kennel Club said: "There has been a lot of concern about whether the poisoning happened at Crufts and we are now able to reassure all dog lovers who came to Crufts that this could not have been possible and it is highly likely that the poisons, thought to be on a piece of beef, were eaten in Belgium, shortly before Jagger's death." |
| Severe symptoms from the two poisons - carbofuran and aldicarb, which are banned in the EU - would usually occur within 30 minutes to three hours, the club said. | |
| "Considering we are told that Jagger showed the first clinical signs usually associated with these two poisons shortly before his death in Belgium, late on Friday 6 March night, leading to the immediate call for veterinary attention, we must conclude that it is inconceivable that he could have been poisoned at Crufts on Thursday 5 March, some 28 to 36 hours earlier," the spokesman said. | |
| Speaking at the time of Jagger's death, co-owner Jeremy Bott said he did not think the dog was specifically targeted, but the culprit may have been acting on "a grudge against dogs or the Crufts show". | |
| Days after the dog's death, The Telegraph published claims from other exhibitors stating their dogs were sick after the event but Crufts said it could not look into the claims as it had "no direct information". | |
| There were also claims another dog - a shih tzu - was fatally poisoned, but the club said it had not received any information about it and confirmed no shih tzus were seen by vets at the show. |