VETS have launched a trans-Atlantic attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the deaths of at least eight dogs in the New Forest.

They are hoping experts in the United States will be able to identify a mystery toxin that causes acute kidney failure in its victims.

All the dogs died after being exercised in the Latchmore Brook area, which was part of a bombing range during the Second World War.

They are thought to have been killed by a water or soil-born toxin that has been disturbed, possibly by recent heavy rain.

The animals were treated by vets in the Fordingbridge and Verwood area. Some