Oh, what a night!
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thewayneCut for biological yuckiness of poodilous vomitus.
Russet met me at a Chinese place last night after I got out of class, she walked. The Chinese food was marginal, but it was calories. We get home and Russ notices a small piece of something on the floor, it was a small, torn piece of plastic with printing on it. The trash had not been raided by the poodle, Russ took it out as she left. Then Russ sees where the primary area of damage was: a box of spices and kitchen stuff. Their were two casualties, one was but a flesh wound: my fleur de sel salt. The fatality was a 1 lb container of Mexican hot chocolate.
And worse, it wasn't a powder mix, it was small chocolate bars.
This box has been on the floor for a month and the poodle has not previously touched it. Celeste seemed fine, Russ listened to her heart and it was a healthy level of slow and steady. She's eaten chocolate before with no ill effect, but we kept an eye on her. A little later she started acting a little clingy, a little like she wasn't feeling too good. And before you knew it, *RALF!* all over some clothes. Didn't throw up much. So I'm taking the soiled clothes and putting them in the washer while Russ is trying to make her comfortable, and *BIG RALF!* all over a blanket! This was around 1am. So I got dressed and took her for a walk around my apartment complex to hopefully encourage her body to toss some more out, and as expected, she let loose once again a healthy volume (healthy in terms of better out than in). I decided she should have one more walk around the complex, but nothing more happened.
Just got up this morning, she seems ok, though lethargic. She drank a huge amount of water last night, we probably won't give her much in the way of food most of today.
It looks like she'll be fine, and hopefully she'll develop an anti-taste for chocolate, which will serve her well in the future. She's stolen chocolate before, but never this quantity. The chocolate was probably not a high cacao percentage since it was sweetened and you'd want a lower melting point for it.
Definitely my fault for not putting the spices and stuff away, though it looks like she'll be ok.
Russet met me at a Chinese place last night after I got out of class, she walked. The Chinese food was marginal, but it was calories. We get home and Russ notices a small piece of something on the floor, it was a small, torn piece of plastic with printing on it. The trash had not been raided by the poodle, Russ took it out as she left. Then Russ sees where the primary area of damage was: a box of spices and kitchen stuff. Their were two casualties, one was but a flesh wound: my fleur de sel salt. The fatality was a 1 lb container of Mexican hot chocolate.
And worse, it wasn't a powder mix, it was small chocolate bars.
This box has been on the floor for a month and the poodle has not previously touched it. Celeste seemed fine, Russ listened to her heart and it was a healthy level of slow and steady. She's eaten chocolate before with no ill effect, but we kept an eye on her. A little later she started acting a little clingy, a little like she wasn't feeling too good. And before you knew it, *RALF!* all over some clothes. Didn't throw up much. So I'm taking the soiled clothes and putting them in the washer while Russ is trying to make her comfortable, and *BIG RALF!* all over a blanket! This was around 1am. So I got dressed and took her for a walk around my apartment complex to hopefully encourage her body to toss some more out, and as expected, she let loose once again a healthy volume (healthy in terms of better out than in). I decided she should have one more walk around the complex, but nothing more happened.
Just got up this morning, she seems ok, though lethargic. She drank a huge amount of water last night, we probably won't give her much in the way of food most of today.
It looks like she'll be fine, and hopefully she'll develop an anti-taste for chocolate, which will serve her well in the future. She's stolen chocolate before, but never this quantity. The chocolate was probably not a high cacao percentage since it was sweetened and you'd want a lower melting point for it.
Definitely my fault for not putting the spices and stuff away, though it looks like she'll be ok.
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Date: 2007-10-27 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-27 06:35 pm (UTC)Wayne left out the additional vomiting and unhappiness at 4 am, which he slept through.
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Date: 2007-10-27 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-10-27 09:19 pm (UTC)Hopefully I can pick her up in the AM.
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Date: 2007-10-27 09:23 pm (UTC)