Last night my husband and I returned home after about 4 hours and, while carrying in groceries, let our Yorkies Turner and Annabelle outside to relieve themselves.
They seemed fine, jumping up and down, glad to see us. We didn't watch them carefully but they were only in the front yard for what seemed just long enough to empty their bladders and then followed us into the house, eager for a treat.
We gave them each one "Breath-less Brushless Toothpaste," which they've had several times before with no problem. They're black on the outside with white centers (the color's important here).
About half an hour or so later, we came up large piles of vomit. Every time we'd get a couple of them cleaned up, we'd find more fresh piles. We were so busy cleaning up vomit for the next couple of hours that we never could figure out which one was, or if both of them were, vomiting. And we couldn't figure out what those blueish green pieces in the vomit were. At first tiny pieces, then pea-sized pieces and tube-shaped pieces, and finally what looked like half of a formed oval disk, an inch or so wide, in that same blue-green (they'd been confined to the bedroom with nothing like that around).
We were concerned about them getting dehydrated so we decided to take them both to the emergency vet. Then suddenly it dawned on me . . . That color. Rat poison. Not sure, I did a quick image search online and the color match looked unmistakeable to me.
We rushed to the vet at 1 a.m. and two other emergencies were ahead of us, including a surgery. More than two hours later, the vet got to us, but by that time the blue-green pieces in the vomit sample we had brought were no longer blue-green but a brownish green. She said she wasn't certain it was rat bait.
She gave them something for nausea, some subcutaneous fluids and some Vitamin K, and prescribed a bland diet.
They have been lethargic all day. Neither will drink water. They ate a little scrambled egg and rice this morning. This evening Turner had a good portion of rice and chicken broth, but Annabelle would only drink broth. So I've been consulting Dr. Google all day and it seems that dogs don't usually vomit rat poison but have to be induced to vomit. Does anybody here have any explanations or thoughts or experience with this?
