Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

This Dog Will Be the Death of Me

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If she doesn’t kill me on the trail, she’ll frighten me to death.

Let me start by saying as far as I can tell, Delilah is okay.

If you’re my friend on facebook, you already know what happened.  If you’re not, what are you waiting for?

I came home after a four hour break yesterday to find a shredded plastic bag on the floor.

Nothing new.  I picked up the remnants and looked at the bag thinking, what the hell was in that?

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I looked around, couldn’t figure it out and went about the rest of my day.

When Hubby came home I said, do you know what the hell was in this bag?

Nope.

He looked around and exclaimed, Packing Peanuts!

Holy shit. Are you kidding me? (I lied, I actually cussed a lot more than that.  What can I say?  I could make a sailor blush.)

We searched every room in the house but not a trace of packing peanuts did we find.  Hubby went out to the trash, no peanuts.

There’s only one conclusion.

Delilah ate about three to four cups of packing peanuts.

I about lost my shit.  I im’d Jodi Chick who said, Keep an eye on her. If she stops eating/pooping or if she vomits, you need to worry.  Hopefully, you’ll see a whole lot of packing peanuts come out the other end, but if you don’t? Worry.

I called the vet’s office to get the number for the emergency vet and thankfully the vets in my office are available by phone before 9:00 pm.  As luck would have it, I pulled my vet who called me back within two minutes.

She felt it was probably cornstarch peanuts and that Delilah would be okay, but recommended no food.

Well that’s not going to go over well I said.

Then just give her a small handful, if she vomits during the night you need to bring her to the emergency vet, but if she doesn’t then she can resume regular meals tomorrow.

Then I sent a text to Jenny Jugs, who assured me she’d probably be fine, but to watch her.

Do you see how I roll?

Flash forward an hour, we’re sitting watch TV and Hubby says, what if it was him?  What if he’s been doing it all along and we’ve been blaming her?

So neither dog got a full dinner.

IMG_4613 You’re such a drama queen, it was just a little bag of peanuts. Before you were allergic to them, you loved them too.

Thanks Delilah and my gray hair and shortened lifespan thanks you too.

Update:  Despite not having a full meal, both dogs did very well last night.  After waiting a couple of minutes for the second course they both went and settled down.  I held off on their filled bone snack until almost 10:00 pm.  They went out for the night but she didn’t poop.

I’m exhausted, when I slept it was with one eye and one ear open, but both dogs (and Hubby) slept comfortably through the night.

This morning she had a tiny movement which looked okay to me.  They had their normal breakfast although I refrained from giving them their garlic tablets as I was afraid it might make her gassy.  I plan on going home at lunch for our walk and have asked my mom to check in on them if she hears anything unusual.

Delilah seemed her normal self this morning, scrounging around for food and I even caught her grazing at wood chips.

What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger right?

This is the Monday Mischief Blog hop hosted by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Dog Blog and My Brown Newfies.

 

Follow-Up Friday – April 19, 2013

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Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday.  I’m flying solo today as I waited too long to ask people.  It’s  super easy and I’m always looking for a co-host, just let me know if you’re willing to co-host the Follow-Up Friday blog hop.   The hop that let’s you wrap up your week and leads you right into the weekend.

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

Black and White Sunday

Black and White Sunday 4-14-13

100_0944 Here’s the original photo.  It was taken in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.  One of these days I’m going to do a post all about this trip as you can see I have some beautiful photos.

Miss Harper Lee asked, “How do I get there?”  We drive Miss Harper, but there are local airports as well.

Dead Dog Walking – Update

This post was incredibly hard to write, as I feel so helpless.  The photos really tug at my heart.  So far I’ve been told by three of my contacts that they don’t have any contacts in the area. I’ve got a couple more to try but right now it’s not looking very good.

Please if you know anyone that does rescue, pass the information along, working together we really can make a difference.

ACD6Pack said, “I often look at my rescued pack of seven and wonder how could nobody want them?”  I wonder that myself my friend.

Our Appointment with the Holistic Vet – Update

The prescribed herbs came in the mail on Tuesday, two bottles that need to be kept refrigerated, something I’ve found very common with the Chinese herbs I’ve used.

I dug frantically through the box looking for the invoice and couldn’t find one, so I looked at the invoice from his visit.  Everything was already included on that!

Rosemary mentioned, “I’m thinking it might be a little pricey though.”

Are you ready for the sticker shock?

The vet charges a traveling fee of $75, HOWEVER my friend Jo-Anne was having her dogs looked at the same day directly before me, theoretically Jo-Anne and I could split the travel fee in half.  I say theoretically because thus far Jo-Anne had refused to do so.  Yes, I’m aware I owe her BIG.

Without the travel fee my bill was $111.00, which included $30 for the herbs and $6 for shipping making his home visit including the acupuncture $75.00.

Now even if I had paid the traveling fee the entire bill would still have been less than $200.00.  I don’t know about you, but it’s a rare occasion when I get out of my vet’s office for less than $200.00.

Genevieve asked, ” Does he do massage therapy?” Not to my knowledge, he does laser therapy and he can do chiropractic adjustments, but I don’t know about the massage part.

Most of you felt similar to the way I feel, that treating with a mix of traditional and holistic is the way to go.

Wordless Wednesday – Update

Some of my favorite caption suggestions were:

Caren Gittleman “I don’t know about you, but this Squirrel TV that we hear about is highly over rated!”

Roxy the Traveling Dog “Did you see it? No, did you? Maybe, I think it was that same squirrel. Crap, and we’re trapped inside.”

Jessica@YouDidWhatWithYourWeiner “No…but that looks like my old couch :)”

Misty Shores “Sampson did you see that, I think that squirrel just flipped us off!”

So without further ado, here is the original photo with my caption.

IMG_1505 Sampson – Hey

Delilah – Hey

Sampson – You

Delilah – You

Sampson – Get off of our

Delilah – lawn

This ‘N That Thursday – Author’s Note

Here’s the difference in my two dogs.  Sampson wants to be where we are, as long as we are together and calm, he’s the same way.  He’s traveled with us since he was a puppy.  He would stay in a hotel room by himself (not that I would EVER do that!) he would lie under or beside me or Hubby wherever we were.

Delilah won’t.  She would bark in the room every time someone walked by the hall.  She would be trying her best to get at any piece of food she thought she could reach and she certainly wouldn’t lie under the table while we were eating.  She has traveled with us, but we’ve always stayed in houses.

Right now it’s looking like both dogs will be staying home.

I’m sad because I really wanted Sampson there, but I have to do what is best for both my guys and in this case it means keeping them together.

That’s another Follow-Up Friday wrap!


 

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