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[Chickassan]

Going to be one of those weird days I can already see it. Negan came and sat in my lap....oh taters.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I've had lizards in my bra... but I've put them there.

They were my pet anoles and they liked warm places.

Any coffee =

Except Kahlua.

I used to pick up wild anoles and put them in my hair. They would just hang out with me until i put them on a bush.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Yeah, I shoulda jumped on here sooner. If vomiting is going on more than a day with supportive care, I start to worry.

Food avoidance can happen, but that should resolve within 2-3 days. Dogs eat when they are hungry.

I would be less worried about toxic dog food (that's kinda the zebra in the horse list of differentials) and be more concerned about foreign body obstruction (FBO)(hence the xrays) or she got into something she shouldn't have (AKA "garbage gut") then you worry about infectious, metabolic, etc.

It's good she is active and pooping! But an xray will help rule out an obvious FBO, that is your first step. Bloodwork second if they can't find anything on xray.

Sometimes they don't find anything and it's just supportive treatment--subQ fluids, an antiemetic, bland diet like Hills i/d....and boom, there goes 500 bucks! But seriously, toxic dog food is way down the list.

Again, sorry I didn't hop on here sooner! Is she drinking?

I hope she will be ok. My sheltie ate a whole chicken with dressing once!

 

[WVduckchick]

I think we have a new pet in front of my office.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Yeah, I shoulda jumped on here sooner. If vomiting is going on more than a day with supportive care, I start to worry.

Food avoidance can happen, but that should resolve within 2-3 days. Dogs eat when they are hungry.

I would be less worried about toxic dog food (that's kinda the zebra in the horse list of differentials) and be more concerned about foreign body obstruction (FBO)(hence the xrays) or she got into something she shouldn't have (AKA "garbage gut") then you worry about infectious, metabolic, etc.

It's good she is active and pooping! But an xray will help rule out an obvious FBO, that is your first step. Bloodwork second if they can't find anything on xray.

Sometimes they don't find anything and it's just supportive treatment--subQ fluids, an antiemetic, bland diet like Hills i/d....and boom, there goes 500 bucks! But seriously, toxic dog food is way down the list.

Again, sorry I didn't hop on here sooner! Is she drinking?

Yes for sure the toxic feed is way down the list. This bag is "off" though. The bits are like half the usual size...... Just weird.

She has puked only twice and not two days in a row. She puked Monday and then today.

Yup super worried about obstruction. My old guy had that issue 9 years ago. Very touch and go for weeks and weeks. He had surgery to remove the rock and nearly died on us. We spent 2 weeks barricaded 24/7 in the kitchen. Yup I slept on the floor with him.
Not ever wanting to go through that again.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Oh and yes she is drinking a normal amount.

I do scrub the water dishes. Just regular dawn and lots of rinsing inside dish. Outside dish gets light bleach mix scrub out and heavy rinsing.

 

[pitbullmomma]

I hope she will be ok. My sheltie ate a whole chicken with dressing once!

They eat unbelievable stuff. I have some good vet stories, lol. But personal ones, too.

One time, back when I lived in Detroit in the 80's or 90's, my dumb-as-a-rock JRT/Beagle/whatever else mix, Toby, got into some old rotten, moldy food that I had taken out of my fridge. I'm talking the kind of food that you are like "What the hell WAS this?" and has little pine forests of orange and green mold on them.

After eating all this grossness, he promptly puked and diarrhead it all up. The smell and sight and clean-up was horrendous! I don't puke, and I was dry-heaving cleaning it up. Garbage gut to the max!

My old psycho Corgi/shepherd mix, Maynard, ate all the leaves off of a 3 foot tall pot plant that belonged to my crazy first ex-husband. That was an interesting call to my vet at the time.

One time my old Detroit pitbull, Solstice, ate through my bathroom door.

I have had a couple dogs (currently, Penny) who love to eat poo, which is foul. If they barf it up, it is doubly foul.

Dogs...gotta love em.....!

 

[ronott1]

I opened up my coop door this morning to see there was a chicken explosion over night.
Both of my Welsummers haven’t laid in a few days and this morning their feathers were everywhere!

I wonder how many feathers are on your average chicken?

Thousands!

 

[pitbullmomma]

I think we have a new pet in front of my office.
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That's really cute. Love froggies (or toadies)!

 

[pitbullmomma]

Keeping on the subject of crazy dog obstructions, this one was a funny memory:

I was in vet school on my anesthesiology rotation. We had a big dumb Labrador (they are always big dumb labs! The worst offenders!) that was undergoing anesthesia to do an exploratory surgery for FBO. I was at the rear side of the dog.

After they intubated him and gassed him, he got all relaxed. Sometimes they poop. Well, he started pooping this long, giant, smelly brown object. Since I was at his butt, I got the honor of catching it.

It was a fully intact, large menstrual pad (with wings!) covered/embedded with poo. I wish I had a picture. Needless to say , that lucky dog got to avoid being cut open!

All vets laugh about Labs and FBOs, they are the worst. The big dumb lugs eat EVERYTHING, literally!