[Imihooniump]

I received some very disturbing news last night from a neighbor and fellow APT owner.

As per the doctor's orders, I have increased Villa's exercise and walking regimen to work out that pulled muscle he's been suffering from. While I was out last night, I learned that my neighbor's APT was rushed to the vet yesterday afternoon after being near electrocuted on the main intersection of our town! My neighbor said there were no exposed wires or anything where they were walking and couldn't figure out how it happened. So I started to do some research.

I found out that this thing called "Contact Voltage" is probably what sent his dog to the vet. Contact Voltage is caused by aged electric wires that send currents of electricity through the ground and they end up charging all kinds of things like sidewalks and streetlights. Dogs and people have been killed by this "Contact Voltage"!!

I want to try and get more involved in preventing this from happening again. This organization:

CVIC | CONTACT VOLTAGE INFORMATION CENTER

seems to have a pretty good handle on where to go for help so I am going to start there.

I know we all love our APTs and would never want what happened to my neighbor to happen to us. Let's try to get something going here. APTs are already criminalized enough, we don't need something else to kill them on the street.

PitBullsEye