 Scary 12 Hours
We just went though he** yesterday. First I found a little black cap from a tube on the floor. I was upstairs and looked everywhere for the tube it should go with. I couldn't find anything. A couple of hours later I went downstairs and was talking to my elderly father and saw a chewed up white tube sitting on the floor of his room. When I picked it up and read it, my blood ran cold. It was electric trimmer oil and the warnings on it said fatal if swallowed. I looked more closely at Pogo and realized that he had an oil residue on his front paws and around his mouth. I have never moved so fast. We got him to the vets in 10 minutes. They wanted to keep him for twelve hours but I felt we would watch him better. They gave him a shot to prevent vomiting and gave us some meds to give him to coat his intestines. We then went home to start our 12 hour wait. If he went that long without symptoms, we were in the clear. No food for all that time either. What is also very bizarre about this is that he was supposed to go in today for surgery on his luxated patella. We have canceled that for a week. I am happy to report thta he is symtom free almost 24 hours later. WE GOT LUCKY. It was a very old tube so it may not have had much in it. We are so careful, I couldn't figure out how this happened. My Father had had the trimmer case under the bed and somehow Pogo had found it.
The moral of this story is that you just never know. I am now going to look around somemore and make sure we have covered EVERYTHING!
Take Care All!
a VERY relieved Gina |