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.  

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.

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.

 

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?