LOMPOC, Calif.- A man from Lompoc says he may lose his service dogs after he claims they were poisoned.
Jose Guerro is a Lompoc native and a Vietnam veteran and says without his service dogs, he wouldn't be able to survive.
"I'd be almost helpless without them. I've lost all my hearing in my right ear just in the last few months, so they're my alert dogs they let me know if somebody is around," says Jose Guerro, a Lompoc resident.
For nearly four years, Guerro has been walking his dogs around H street in Lompoc and three weeks ago he says his dogs were poisoned.
"I noticed that my dogs got sick just after visiting here, vomited within five minutes, five times," says Guerro.
At the time Guerro says he didn't suspect anything because the grass was so green, but when he came back after his dogs got sick he says the grass looked dead.
"Even since the day they told me they didn't spray, they came and sprayed that week," says Guerro.
Central Coast News reached out to the landscaping company, Landmark, to see if they had anything to say, but wasn't able to get ahold of anyone.
"If the landscaping person or company isn't doing it then obviously we have a mad poisoner," says Guerro. "I'm concerned that these dogs that ate this grass and got sick are going to develop problems later on and I'm going to loose them."
Meanwhile, Guerro continues to walk his dog around town, but says he is much more cautious.
