Well, last night was a nightmare, and I'm hoping that this will maybe save a life.

Last night around 7:50 PM my pup went to her room for a drink of water. A few seconds later she comes bounding into the front room with something in her mouth, I hear something rattling and see that she has a medicine bottle. I tell her to drop it, she takes off, bites it hard and the bottle breaks, the top pops off and pills go everywhere. I tackle Ahyoka take her to the bathroom and give her hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting. I call pet poison control and tell them what Ahyoka got into, they tell me that it shouldn't be lethal but I should go to the emergency vet.

After blood and urine tests, there was a very small trace and we were on our way home. So I get to bed at 2AM and I have to be up at 4.

What happened was Ahyoka pushed the kitchen chair out from under the kitchen table, got on the chair, and got the medicine from the center of the kitchen table.

So for just under $400.00, 5 hours and a lot of worry, I went through the house and extra puppy proofed the house.

Ahyoka got a clean bill of health, Vet said my quick action kept it from being bad. Lesson was learned and the worst of it all was I got bloodied and bruised from inducing vomiting on Ahyoka and Ahyoka being dazed and confused wondering what the hell just happened.

The whole time she was calm, looking at me like I had lost my mind (which I was). She didn't fuss or fight except me when I was trying to get her to vomit.

So, for God's sake, take a second and look around, make sure that medicine is put up and that dangerous things are put away.


ARman

Good work and good reminder.

I was visiting my Dad's house a few years ago. I always keep my pillminder in the kitchen at my house so I put it in their kitchen.

We came home from being gone all afternoon, and I find my pill minder on the floor and pills everywhere. I count up all of my vitamins and prescriptions, and a couple blood pressure pills are missing.

At the time, they had 3 cats. The old female is acting normal (in the middle of a multi-hour nap) and so is the hyper female, but the youngest is a big muscular male and he is acting lethargic. I Google the drug and it's dangerous for pets and children so off to the emergency vet we go. The vet confirms that we did the right thing and the cat ended up spending 24 hours at the vet getting IVs pushed to flush the drug out. He ended up fine.

Every time I visit Dad now the pillminder stays in the bedroom and the door remains closed.

... crazy pups !!! They sure keep us on our toes. Emergency vets aren't fun nor cheap. Don't ask me how I know. Shoot

Yeah, she's into EVERYTHING! Hell, she found a ball that my last dog lost 2 years ago and I tore the house apart looking for it.

I had thought that I had done a good job puppet proofing the house, but she has found chinks in the armor.

ARman

Yep ... everything. I too thought I'd puppy proofed my house and found out I hadn't. It was a stupid rubber shower shoe ... rubber and had my scent ... dang pup chewed and ATE exactly one half of a shower shoe when 9wks old. Vet came this close >||< to thinking he was going to have to operate on my 9wk old pup if another x-ray hadn't shown he'd finally passed the last bit of rubber chunks after much induced vomiting and enemas. DON'T LEAVE NOTHING OUT. Shoot ... and that wasn't even an after hours emergency visit ... that time. I liked those shower shoes too !!! Had keep them from my Naval military career. They were well used. Crazy pups

My son brought home a brownie yesterday.

Put it on the kitchen table.

The damn cat evidently conspired with our 14yo lab.

Working theory is cat knocked it off the table and the lab ate it, plastic wrapper and all.

Luckily it wasn’t big enough to do anything.

Lesson...lock up the cat, too.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
My son brought home a brownie yesterday.

Put it on the kitchen table.

The damn cat evidently conspired with our 14yo lab.

Working theory is cat knocked it off the table and the lab ate it, plastic wrapper and all.

Luckily it wasn’t big enough to do anything.

Lesson...lock up the cat, too.

Yeah, I blame the dog too when the candy/cake/pastries go missing.

Yep. Don't leave anything out.

My ex-wife left a $400 stack of $20 bills on the counter one morning. She came home that evening, the stack was missing, and she found some scraps of the bills around the house.

Turns out our two dogs at the time had jumped up on the counter, and shredded and eaten the pile of bills.

We spent the next 2 days collecting dog poop, washing the shreds found within, and matching up pieces of individual bills.

Luckily, the dogs were in a hurry, so most of the pieces were relatively large. And the canvas used for bills holds up surprisingly well to canine digestive tracts. Plus the dogs suffered no ill effects.

Recovered all $400, and turned them in for replacement, but it was a lot of (smelly) effort.

Ok. Now the rest of the story. Where did you take them for replacement and WHO took them? Pics not needed.

Did they wonder why you were wearing rubber gloves when you turned the money in?

The bills were clean (washed using soap and warm water, then laid out to air dry), and had no remaining odor, they were just stained. My bank accepted them, since the bills were complete with all the pieces, and the serial numbers were legible. The teller even laughed and joked about it as we were going through them.

If they had been more seriously mutilated, I could have sent them off to the government, who'd send back a check. But that involves a multi-month delay. https://www.moneyfactory.gov/s...rencyredemption.html

Definitely not counterfeit bills if the dogs were able to pass them.

^^^ Ha

Back to the OP, wonderful job and thank you for the reminder about hydrogen peroxide. I had forgotten about that.

Now to the poop money, your story gave my wife and I a good laugh. Thanks!

I have a love/hate and very expensive relationship with the emergency vet. They saved my dogs life once and years later it is where his life ended. They took very good care of him but I always hated going there.


Another dog ate a part of glass cordial glass. My wife forgot it on the coffee table and my big, goofy GSD thought it was food. He swallowed only a small bit of very thin glass. I called my vet in a panic, they calmly said feed him rice for a couple of days and he'll be fine. He was. I took it from the vet's demeanor that this was not an unusual occurrence (though it never happened again at my house).

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Definitely not counterfeit bills if the dogs were able to pass them.

One of our pups picked up an AA battery which had dropped on the floor,

We saw her chewing on something and then she started foaming at the mouth.

We called the Vet emergency line, and they advised we get some milk in her

We flushed her mouth with milk and had her drink some also, luckily she did not swallow the battery.

That was very scary

What a fright, my friend!

So glad that she is okay.

You both will survive this.

Hang in there

Ahyoka is absolutely fine, like nothing happened while I'm still freaked out! Heck, now I'm flipping over every little sound.

What gets me is in training, when we do "leave it", Ahyoka is almost 100% perfect with just a "no, leave it" on the first command. She will set or lay down and not move. Not so in the real world.

I keep working on it, and she is getting better in the "real world ", but I'm afraid that something like this might happen outside away from home.

She's always picking up stuff outside on our walks, only sometimes will she listen to "no, leave it", the rest of the time it's a wrestling match to get it from her.

It really scares me, especially now after this fiasco! I will say it again, double check and check some more and have your information available for that call that I hope you never have to make, and one that I never want to do again. Because it might just save a life!


ARman