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*le sigh*
Wonderful.
Imagine this: You come home from work to find your excited dog and not to far from her, a half eaten mini twizzler on the ground. You go to pick it up, and notice that your dog's food and empty water bowl is ten feet away from where it normally is. When retrieving that you notice a nutrition bar in a very chewed on wrapper by the patio door. With a sinking feeling, you realize that these are items that were in your Easter basket, and head towards the basket you had yet to unpack in your bedroom.
Enter your bedroom to find the wrappers of two or three mini chocolate eggs and a completely empty nutrition bar wrapper scattered across the room. Chocolate stains on the carpet. Two more mini twizzlers, half eaten.
And you begin to wonder if your dog is always this hyper and excited to see you.....
So yeah, Miss Pugsly has been a very bad girl. I took her outside while DH called the vet, but all she wanted to do was drink water out of puddles, so I brought her back in to give her water. She drank an entire bowl of water in about three minutes, and I took her back outside, where she puked some of the water (plain water) back up.
The vet wasn't too concerned about the chocolate, which surprises me, but said that the next twenty four hours could be pretty gross in terms of mommy-duties. Pugsly seems fine - on a sugar high, but fine. Gave me scare though.....
Oi.
Re: *le sigh*
Oh, bad doggie! I hope she's okay, but I don't envy you in the next few hours... Poor Pugsly and poor Karen!
I'm happy that even though our cats get into everything, they don't seem interested in eating it, so the messes are pretty easy to clean up.
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I completely understand. I would be so upset too. Actually, my dogs got into one of those big packs of individually wrapped reeses last year and ate ALL of them. I was so upset. Even that amount of chocoalte though didn't hurt them.
The risk with chocolate is seizures I think. Just watch her for bad seizures, otherwise she should be ok besides upset tummy.
Bad Dog! Naughty Puppy! I'm sorry that happened... I'm sure she'll be OK once everything passes through. You only really have to worry about the caffiene/sugar high if you have a REALLY small dog (think chihuahua or teacup poodle). It does muck up their digestive system a little bit - do you have tile floors anywhere? That'd be where I would pen her for today until everything works its way through. Poor thing, I bet her tummy feels rotten. That'll teach her (but it won't - I'm sure she'd do it again in a heartbeat if she could!).
My dog ate a half bag of hershey kisses once - granted she's an 80 pound garbage can so after inducing vomiting via milk with hydrogen peroxide in it and waiting for it all to come up, she was just fine. She ate the first half when I wasn't home so we didn't catch her at it. Things were a bit *ahem* loose for a bit but she's no worse for the wear.
So far, so good - you wouldn't even know that she ate what she did. Thus far, no vomiting (aside from the water she drank too fast) or accidents.... We decided not to pen her in a tile floor area because she seems to be doing okay thus far. If she does have an accident today, we're replacing the carpet in the immediate future anyway... so we're fine with that.
Two hours until I go home for lunch to check on everything...