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I never gave Green Algae any thought. I always assumed it was something that occurred in the States...or across the waters as one would say. Stupid me. Suddenly did a Google search on it and came up with some very interesting articles. Anyway, it reminded me of an incident I had with Pippin in her early days. Our favourite place was Snuff Mills and she always loved running in the river and taking a dip and drinking the water.
Well we'd gone down there one summer's day when the weather had been really hot for over a week and the water looked absolutely dreadful. It was stagnant. Lots of debris and flies. Anyway, before we could grab Pippin to put her on her lead, she was gone, straight in the water and started drinking it.
When we got home she was in a really bad state. My husband wanted to take her to the emergency vet. I had just started studying homeopathy and decided to look in my books. The only symptom was that everytime she moved she would gasp for breath, as if she couldn't breathe, and would stagger, as if she was drunk. She was ok so long as she remained still. Bryonia came up tops because it has worse for movement. I gave her one 30c. Just before going to bed I gave her another. (I didn't know about medicinal solutions then.) Anyway, next morning she was absolutely fine. It was as if nothing was ever wrong with her. She hadn't vomitted either.
Obviously, everything depends on total symptoms and matching a remedy to it but the sooner you can treat, the better.
Thankfully, it was not as serious as the incident mentioned below :
Signs of algae poisoning: http://dogs.lovetoknow.com/wiki/Blue_Green_Algae_Toxicity_in_Dogs
