Ex-Miss Hong Kong winner and other pet owners bewildered by spate of poisonings
Dog owners describe horrors of watching their pets seize up after ingesting poisoned meat laid out on streets and call for tougher penalties for the crime
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Hong Kong former beauty queen recalls the deadly poisoning of her dogs
Within 30 seconds of eating meat left on a street in Lam Tsuen, two dogs belonging to former Hong Kong beauty queen Lisa-Marie Tse Ga-ye, Peachy and Summer, began foaming at the mouth and dropped to the ground, overcome by seizures.
“[Peachy] was kind of jumping back, she was very scared … There was like this white horrible, horrible foam just coming out like every second,” the Miss Hong Kong 2020 winner recalled.
“When I turned round back from Peachy, then Summer started to have seizures as well.”
Her two dogs ate what appeared to be a mixture of roast pork and chicken covered in white powder. Peachy died during the ride to the veterinarian, while Summer was alive when she arrived at the clinic only for her heart to stop 15 minutes later.
Tse adopted Summer, a dachshund, at 12 weeks old in Scotland in 2017, and met Peachy, a mixed-breed, who was 12 weeks old, at a charity event in 2021.
“I’ve been emotionally traumatised,” she said. “That’s like two months of absolute horribleness and both my dogs are dead now.”