A reminder to check OTHER people's houses as well...

[mama2yorkies]

Oh my! How scary!! Sending good thoughts for your little guy. Thanks for sharing this important reminder.

[Mardelin]

Hope all continues going well.

One other thing people should do if traveling with pets and staying in hotel rooms; thoroughly check the room, under the beds, the carpet. Maids don't always clean under beds or in closets.....those little plastic tabs off of new items are dropped, needles, pins, pills, old food etc. One hotel carelessly left rat poison.....if it hadn't have been for quick thinking neighbor (dog show weekend) a yorkie would have died.

[cowgirlc]

Wow, I just know your baby will be fine, this is such a lesson to keep in your mind always, my husband has a bad habit of dropping his pills on the floor, even though he keeps his meds in a spare bedroom where he watched television sometimes, I keep a check on that room and all the others at all times. As a matter of fact this very thing happened here in my home today, my yorkie Gizmo is rarely out of my site even inside the house, but we also have a 10 week old german shepherd puppy that is indoors most of the day and is confined to that spare room. Low and behold I was about to let him out on our deck porch and as we got to the door Gizmo decided to chase little Bruno out the door and it startled the puppy who actually had a Hydrocodone pill in his mouth and he dropped it on the floor. When I picked the pill up it was still dry, so he must have just found it so I know he did not digest any of it. Needless to say that was a very close call and I traveled up one side of my husbands back and down the front chewing him out about his pills. He felt so bad about what could have happened.

So please be carefull, Gizmo is always in a carrier when visiting and prefers to stay inside the carrier away from home.

[TxVicki]

Just checking on Armani, how is he this morning?

[sukikimetoo]

Please forgive if I am posting improperly but we have a problem. Hi, all. Suki and I are visiting YT after a year. Loved reading some of the chat of late and seeing your adorable babies. Suki is nine now and still weighs 2.4. She has stopped eating again and we are away from home. The only thing she has found acceptable these past 9 mos. Is cottage cheese and these past 3 days she won't bother with it either. She will eat carrot slices and jerky. Recently saw an ad for Dr. (somebody)'s mix that even very picky eaters will love, money back guarantee. She is drinking a little, thank goodness. Oh, and I am giving her NutriCaL every 2 hours. Any life-saving ideas out there? Thanks.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by sukikimetoo

Please forgive if I am posting improperly but we have a problem. Hi, all. Suki and I are visiting YT after a year. Loved reading some of the chat of late and seeing your adorable babies. Suki is nine now and still weighs 2.4. She has stopped eating again and we are away from home. The only thing she has found acceptable these past 9 mos. Is cottage cheese and these past 3 days she won't bother with it either. She will eat carrot slices and jerky. Recently saw an ad for Dr. (somebody)'s mix that even very picky eaters will love, money back guarantee. She is drinking a little, thank goodness. Oh, and I am giving her NutriCaL every 2 hours. Any life-saving ideas out there? Thanks.

You just cannot take a chance on her life - get her to a vet!

[TxVicki]

Originally Posted by sukikimetoo

Please forgive if I am posting improperly but we have a problem. Hi, all. Suki and I are visiting YT after a year. Loved reading some of the chat of late and seeing your adorable babies. Suki is nine now and still weighs 2.4. She has stopped eating again and we are away from home. The only thing she has found acceptable these past 9 mos. Is cottage cheese and these past 3 days she won't bother with it either. She will eat carrot slices and jerky. Recently saw an ad for Dr. (somebody)'s mix that even very picky eaters will love, money back guarantee. She is drinking a little, thank goodness. Oh, and I am giving her NutriCaL every 2 hours. Any life-saving ideas out there? Thanks.

She needs to be seen by a Vet and be cheked out and have some blood work done to find what may be going on. I know it was mine they would have already been to the Vet, and most certainly one that tiny. I do hope she will be OK.

[RachelandSadie]

thank God your pup is ok. hope he is still feeling good today and i think prob has angels watching over him keeping him from wanting to eat those pills. poor girl that you had such a scare. i hope you are both recovering today.

[Lou]

Originally Posted by sukikimetoo

Please forgive if I am posting improperly but we have a problem. Hi, all. Suki and I are visiting YT after a year. Loved reading some of the chat of late and seeing your adorable babies. Suki is nine now and still weighs 2.4. She has stopped eating again and we are away from home. The only thing she has found acceptable these past 9 mos. Is cottage cheese and these past 3 days she won't bother with it either. She will eat carrot slices and jerky. Recently saw an ad for Dr. (somebody)'s mix that even very picky eaters will love, money back guarantee. She is drinking a little, thank goodness. Oh, and I am giving her NutriCaL every 2 hours. Any life-saving ideas out there? Thanks.

Please do take little Suki to the vet NOW. You have been doing a great job with her but she needs professional help now. Also please repost on the sick and injured forum to get more responses and help.
Good luck.

[Lou]

Originally Posted by ArmaniMan

I am SOOO careful about what is laying around in my house, but don't think as much in other people's houses- today my parents had a big yard sale, so I went over to bring some junk I wanted to get rid of since I don't really live in a yard sale friendly area myself. I took the dogs along and put them in a bedroom in my parents house so they wouldn't be let out by accident with the doors opening and closing. I kind of just tossed them each in a separate bedroom and didn't think twice. They were up there about 2-3 hours when I went to get them to go home.

I went in the room Armani was in and sat on the floor to calm him down for a second and I noticed little blue pills- my mother takes morphine for migraines Of course I FREAKED OUT! for good reason I think- she had no idea how many there had been or even how they got there. I was LIVID. I scooped both the dogs up and ran home.

Once home I called the ER vet who directed me to Poison control (everyone should have the direct line on their fridge- lesson learned I will from now on, although ER vet was nice enough to give me all the info). Poison Control thinks he probably didn't ingest any- they say his weight combined with the dosage probably would have shown severe symptoms now. They say ER vet can't do anything but monitor him in the meantime so they think he would be better off being monitored at home, especially since I live so close to ER vet. He is not to be left for 12 hours, I already canceled my evening plans to sit with him. Again, they have led me to believe everything should be okay- but obviously if you have any spare vibes to send, they are much appreciated.

He is absolutely banned from entering anyone else's house ever again unless he is crated or totally supervised by me the entire time. Trust me- BIG, HUGE lesson learned.

I am basically furious at my mother, how can people be irresponsible with medicine- any medications in my home are stored in child proof containers, on a high shelf. I open them over a counter only and take out only what I will be taking right away- she thinks I am overreacting of course.

I guess this is part rant/ part reminder to watch your pets everywhere they are- if you read the whole thing, I will send cookies.

I should have posted to you first but I did want to say how glad I am that your little one is alright. There is just no reason for anyone to leave pills out like that even if they do not have little children or pets living with them. Sigh. I hope you can forgive your mother though. Your relationship with her is important too.
Hugs Sweetie.
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[ArmaniMan]

Thanks everyone- Armani is totally fine this morning- last night I kept waking him up to make sure he was okay- and he seemed a tad bit annoyed with me- how was I supposed to know if he was lethargic if he was sleeping- haha! I did let him sleep late this morning to make up for it. Obviously, he did not pick anything up- I am very glad that he is pretty well trained in that area- but you can never be too sure unless you are right there.

The thing that makes me mad is that my parents have two small dogs and a cat of their own, so its not like they have no one to be concerned about- I could understand more if they didn't have pets of their own and didn't understand the risks. In the end it comes down to the fact that they are my pets and my responsibility and I have to be more careful when we are outside my house- I can't rely on other people to be careful.

[yorkietalkjilly]

It is a relief to hear that he really is fine. It is scarey that your parents have pets of their own and they could access these drugs just like your's did.

I am so careful with medications and always look around to see if somehow a pill slipped out unheard and unseen but know that you still can miss one sometimes. I also teach Tibbe to "leave it" when I show him a pill on the floor or on furniture and I use different pills to teach him. He gets big praise and a kibble treat every time he backs away. He is funny, he goes way to the center of the room now when I tell him "leave it". I like that. He's learning those different pill things are to be avoided. I just hope it is a lesson he will take to heart in the event he does find one somewhere sometime when I am not around.

But I sure am grateful Armani is fine and thankful for the post as a cautious reminder. Thank goodness he knew enough not to partake!

[YorkieMom6]

So glad to hear that Armani is okay!!!

This is a good reminder for us all and I went to retrieve the closest poison control center number to keep on my fridge too - so thank you. Not having any skin children of my own, this is not something I had previously considered.

[Coton Momma]

So glad to hear everything is OK! I just gave Hubby a stern talk about this. Good reminder for everyone. I will be sure to take the playpen when we go visiting.

[Lou]

Originally Posted by ArmaniMan

Thanks everyone- Armani is totally fine this morning- last night I kept waking him up to make sure he was okay- and he seemed a tad bit annoyed with me- how was I supposed to know if he was lethargic if he was sleeping- haha! I did let him sleep late this morning to make up for it. Obviously, he did not pick anything up- I am very glad that he is pretty well trained in that area- but you can never be too sure unless you are right there.

The thing that makes me mad is that my parents have two small dogs and a cat of their own, so its not like they have no one to be concerned about- I could understand more if they didn't have pets of their own and didn't understand the risks. In the end it comes down to the fact that they are my pets and my responsibility and I have to be more careful when we are outside my house- I can't rely on other people to be careful.

Yikes! I hope they have learned a lesson here. So glad Armani is going to be ok.
Hugs
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