Some days I swear Delilah is either out to kill me, or out to kill herself.
Saturday she ate raisins! One would think I don’t watch my dogs, but in fact I do, which is how I caught her before she’d ingested too many.
All told, I think she only got about 10.
I was downstairs helping my mom figure something out and didn’t realize there was a box of raisins within her reach. Delilah is not a sneaky dog, and her enthusiastic slurping sounds alerted me.
The emergency vet advised I should induce vomiting and I did. Within 10 minutes of eating them, I had them out. I was fairly certain she’d gotten them all up.
The emergency vet said I could bring her in to hook her up to an IV but after talking to my vet, I decided to keep her at home with me. Since Sampson was scheduled for his annual exam yesterday, my vet requested I bring Delilah along so she could check her kidney levels.
Typically I schedule the dog’s appointments for the evening so Hubby can go with, but for some reason I scheduled Sampson’s for early morning. Which meant I was on my own with the two nuts.
Why must you always call us names? You’re a mean one Mama. You give the Grinch a run for his money.
First things first, the weigh in. Sampson weighed in at just under 86 pounds, which is perfect! The vet does not want him to lose anymore weight! All told he’s lost 25 pounds since we started his weight loss journey.
Then came the examination. My poor Bubby has a dead tooth. Dr. Soutter said the blood vessel in his tooth exploded and the tooth is done. It will need to be removed. Right now she doesn’t think it’s bothering him, but eventually it will. I feel badly because I hadn’t noticed the tooth until she pointed it out.
Mama….pwease stwop puwing my wip.
I’m not sure if you can tell from the photo, but it’s an upper tooth and it’s gray. 🙁
Sampson’s definitely got some arthritis in his inured leg, and his Ilio Psoas muscle is still tight. Otherwise he is in good shape. It was also the year for his rabies vaccine, which he had. I held off on his Leptosporosis vaccine and will schedule that in a couple of weeks.
Then it was Delilah’s turn. The blood draw went very well and Dr. Soutter should call me with the results later today. She’s also checking her liver levels so we can get an idea if we are on the right track or not.
I asked Dr Soutter to check their nails and while she was trimming Delilah’s, Delilah yipped. We were all surprised because the clipper wasn’t close to the quick. Dr. Soutter waited a few seconds and went back to trim that nail again and Delilah snapped at her. That has never, ever happened before.
I requested the nail clipping be stopped and Dr. Soutter released Delilah AFTER she had relaxed. She explained that you can train a dog to react to the nail clipping. Ah, I snapped and it stopped, so the next time I’ll snap again. By giving her time to relax, with Dr. Soutter holding her foot, she is learning when she is calm, it will stop. Poor thing, she practically flew to me once she was released. I’m not sure what to make of this, I trim her nails at home all the time with no issues. She does have some scarring on her feet from her previous life and she is kitchy if you move your foot fast near her feet or while she’s sleeping and I’m wondering if it had anything to do with the fact that a vet tech was holding her and she couldn’t see what was going on.
So after the nail trimming was stopped we headed to check out. Our vet’s office has a container with treats on the counter, right next to the business cards. I made the mistake of hitching Delilah up on the side of the counter with the treats. She stood up to try and open the treat container and knocked the business cards onto the floor. After I’d picked them up, I asked if it would be okay if I put the dogs in the car before settling the bill.
I opened the door and as luck would have it, there was a couple coming in with a small dog. Both my dogs darted for the dog, Sampson to greet the dog and people and Delilah, well I’m thinking at the way she was barking she wanted to eat that dog! It dawned on me right then and there that she’s not fond of small dogs.
Thankfully I kept my wits and got the dogs back inside and as soon as it was safe, I brought them out to the car. Sadly by the time I got back inside the couple with the small dog had already been shown into an exam room so I didn’t get a chance to apologize.
I will keep you posted on the liver/kidney values but the one good thing I learned from the raisin incident is not all dogs have toxicity reactions to raisins/grapes.
Has your dog ever ingested a potentially toxic ingredient? What did you do?
Shadow once swallowed my Dad’s hearing aid. It was on a Saturday afternoon, a few hours after our regular vet had gone home, so I called the pet poison helpline. They told me how to induce vomiting and up it came, along with some small rocks, twigs, and leaves from the backyard. That was back when she was about 6 months old.
Oh! And Callie doesn’t like small dogs either (other than her little sister), although she does like young puppies. I’m not sure if it’s her prey drive or not.
Oh dear it is all go over your way. Luckily no such problems for us but we bet it was quite scary having to deal with another of D’s snack attacks. Pip use to be OK with nail clipping until the vet cut her and after that it was a nightmare. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly
Sounds like a slightly stressful experience, sorry hun!
Yesterday Mom came home to a demolished extension cord. Bailie left the cord part intact but totally crushed the plug ends, it was an expensive computer power cord. We don’t think she ate any, just chewed it. Cat bro Bert, on the other hand, has probably eaten lots of toxic stuff since he eats everything, but we don’t know for sure. You sure have the good luck with those two these days. Usually one thing is plenty, but you like to roll with about a dozen things going on at a time!
What an experience. I wonder if Delilah’s nail may be split or maybe she did what Freighter did and shoved the nail up into her toe? Those can be really difficult to spot and are very painful. We couldn’t even see it first. I am guessing it hurts her so you may want to keep an eye on it.
If its not one thing, it’s another, right? So glad you got those raisins out of Delilah and hope her lab work is improved. Poor Sampson! Thankfully none of my dogs are counter or trash surfers. In fact, if food (or whatever) falls on the floor, they wait to be invited to eat it. Years ago we had a yellow lab mix who did eat a whole party bag of M & M’s the kids left out while we were gone. No ill affects.
When Theo eats something he shouldn’t,,, like 60 grapes in no time at all, I give him a small piece of bread soaked in the amount of hydrogen peroxide appropriate for his weight. I am reluctant to force anything down his throat and he happily eats the soggy bread. It works perfectly for him. My vet was really surprised as she had never heard of anyone doing that before. It might not work on a picky eater, but it is also how I give Nelly liquid Benadryl.
I hope Delilah is okay!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I would have probably made a lame comment like, “Ha! 52 card pick up!” when the business cards hit the floor. Blueberry often tries to get at the treats at the vet’s counter too, but thankfully, she’s a little shorty and hasn’t knocked anything over…yet.
As for things my dogs have eaten that have been poisonous? Well, my dad used to feed my dog Shadow grapes all the time – not a copious amount – but a handful here and there and she never had any ill effects. I was surprised when I learned they were poisonous a few years later. I think I’ve told this story to you before, but Shadow also once ate a miniature Hershey bar that my mom had placed (unbeknownst to me) in a little stocking I had hanging on my wall before Christmas time. It was funny because I told my mom on the phone how Shadow had knocked the stocking down and my mom shrieked and said, “Oh no!! Did she eat the candy bar inside too?”. I was like, “What candy bar?”. Shadow didn’t get sick that time either. And then…there was the time a man-sized garden glove mysteriously disappeared. I’m sure either Shadow or Copper ate it – but thankfully, neither one showed any symptoms. I called the vet and they said to watch for vomiting, straining during BMs and if that happened – to bring them in immediately. I have thought of writing a book about things my dogs have eaten…
Thankfully, Blueberry is really good and even if I drop something on the floor right in front of her she hesitates and if I say “No” she’ll not touch it. Of course, once I pick up the bad item, I treat her with something good so she doesn’t feel ripped off.
Delilah is in a class all by herself – she cracks me up! Have you gotten a sign yet that they often have in warehouses – you know, “_____ Days Without Incident”. Then you fill in the number! You could customize it “12 Days Since I Had to Induce Vomiting in Delilah!”
As for the nail trimming at the vet’s – I’ve often wondered whey they don’t have Kongs stuffed with peanut butter in their freezer for these events. One of the techs could just hold the Kong for the dog while one trimmed the nails and one held the dog in place.
OMG! What an adventure! I take chemotherapy pills for my rheumatoid arthritis. When I first got Cupcake, I made the mistake of putting my five tiny pills on the table and walking into the kitchen without pushing in my chair. When I sat down 30 seconds later, FOUR pills were on the table and Cupcake was standing there grinning. ASPCA Poison Control, a couple of tablespoons of peroxide, some vomit, and $60 later, the pill was out. Scary, but no residual effects, thank God. Ugh.
Thank goodness those raisins came out. Don’t give mom heart attacks
Snorts,
Lily & Edward
Never a dull moment no matter how careful you are!! I hope that Delilah’s blood work comes back okay!!
One of our foster dogs who we had only had a few days, on Thanksgiving day ate a whole pan of yeast rolls that were rising in the very back of a counter. I had no idea she was a counter-surfer extraordinaire and learned that about her the hard way. As you know, this is very dangerous, and I immediately tried 3 times over a period of about an hour to get her to vomit the rolls and couldn’t get them to reappear. Time was crucial, and very thankfully I was able to get her to an emergency vet and up they all came, totally and perfectly whole…. And NO, I didn’t bake them! 😉 But from that experience I learned that peroxide doesn’t always work, and can lose it potency and expire, which is what I think happened.
Aww poor thing!
Mika doesn’t like her nails being clipped, but my other two aren’t too bad.
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oh my what a day. And Delilah really your gonna give your momma grey hairs. Glad you got the raisins out, hope the blood test comes back normal. The vet was correct in not letting her up when she freaked about her nail trim, we do the same thing. That is why a lot of dogs have to come in and get their nails done is because they freak at home the people give in and then they learn to do that. Congrats on getting 25# of of Sampson that is so wonderful.
What a series of misadventures!
I’m not sure about the nail trim thing; sounds like that old traditional trainer saw about “not reinforcing fear.” You can’t reinforce an emotion, and dogs don’t fake being afraid–they react because they actually are afraid. In any case, I’d keep doing the nails yourself and administer really good treats next time.
My childhood dogs seemed to eat grapes and raisins all the time, so imagine my surprise when I grew up and heard dogs should never under any circumstances eat them! I think you’ve got it right; not all dogs have a toxic reaction.
I thought Dahlia had eaten an entire lip balm the other night, so I have her some hydrogen peroxide to induce vomiting. Have done the same thing when the pups got into some chocolate. Better safe than sorry!