Dog owners beware!
If you take your pooches to freshwater lakes, ponds or slow-moving rivers so they can take a refreshing dip, you could be threatening their health and even their lives, due to a phenomenon new – at least in the public consciousness – to the Garden State: blue-green algae blooms.
No reports of the potential canine-killer have been reported in southern New Jersey this summer. Repeat, blue-green algae blooms have not been reported in Southern Ocean County.
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