All signs point to someone deliberately poisoning this beauty, Jagger…

This dog has died having allegedly been poisoned at Crufts, the famous British dog show. And now the mystery deepens with claims by a judge at the competition that two other dogs have been poisoned as well. Sadly, the three-year-old Irish setter known as Jagger collapsed and died after returning home to Belgium last Friday. Belgian police are now investigating the killing. It seems either that Jagger was fed cubes of poisoned meat by a member of the public or that it was killed by a jealous competitor. Jagger’s owners are Aleksandra Lauwers and Dee Milligan-Bott. Mrs Milligan-Bott told Dogworld she believes her dog, Pot Noodle, was the real target of the dog-killer:

“There would have been windows of opportunity for someone to feed Jagger something at Crufts. It’s been suggested that someone’s really got it in for us, and to not let it get to us. There do seem to be too many coincidences. You go to shows trying to win, and one of our dogs is on a roll at the moment, and our kennel had a good day at Crufts on Thursday. We’re very proud of our record and maybe some people aren’t happy. But there’s no excuse for this. Sometimes you can’t prove anything but you know in your gut what has happened and that something very untoward is going on.”

The situation became scarier after a dog show judge, who wants to remain anonymous, told the Telegraph that they believed two other dogs had been poisoned:

“I saw one of the prize-winning dogs being sick in the ring on Friday. The lady who owned the dog was very upset, he is a top winning dog. His eyes were rolling and she had to take him to the vet. She thought someone had poisoned him, although she had no proof. Then there was another lady with a champion bitch who was sick in the morning, then she was ok when she was shown, and when she got home she was passing blood. Both ladies thought their dogs had been poisoned.”

This makes me sad, as it does most people. And as Hollywood has learned, you can kill a hundred bad guys but if something happens to a dog on-screen, you better cut to it running around happy at some point or you just wrecked your movie, big-time. If this were an Agatha Christie mystery and not a real-life one, Hercule Poirot would get to the bottom of this within the hour. (via The Daily Beast)