Holy shit my dog just ate

[hokiegirl82]

Part of a fire starter log. I was stupid and left her alone downstairs while i was upstairs for 5 minutes and she managed to eat into a new box of logs and eat about 1/3 of a log. We gave her hydrogen peroxide and she threw up all of it but I'm still worried about her. I'm sure I won't be getting much sleep tonight since I'll keep up checking on her on the floor next to me.

I feel so awful. I know she can't be left alone from past stuff she has done yet I did it anyway. I feel like such a bad pet parent.

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[simpsongal]

How's your pup? Okay? Good move with the peroxide. And they say pet ownership isn't realistic practice for parenthood.

[hokiegirl82]

Dec 19, 2013 8:14:07 GMT -5 simpsongal said:

How's your pup? Okay? Good move with the peroxide. And they say pet ownership isn't realistic practice for parenthood.

Well, she threw up 5 or 6 times last night and had some trouble getting comfortable but she finally fell asleep between 10:30 and 11:30 - I was up several times throughout the night checking on her and she seemed ok. She was super excited to get up and go out and eat her breakfast at 6 am this morning. She ate really slow (she usually gobbles her food down) but I'm guessing that is because her throat is raw from throwing up last night. Poor thing threw up half of her breakfast not 3 minutes after finishing eating (and then of course she tried to eat what she had just thrown up). She seemed alright this morning even though she threw up half of her breakfast. She is drinking water and using the bathroom regularly, and it looked like she puked up all of the log last night. I'll be keeping my eye on her the next couple of days, but I think she is alright.

We knew to use the hydrogen peroxide because 4 years ago she ate 2 chocolate bars and that's what our vet told us to do to make her throw up.

We have 2 labs, and they are both my whole heart and life (in addition to H), and I love them to bits, but our black lab has just been trouble from day one. She has eaten everything from part of a sweater, to a flip flop, an oven mitt, a coaster, an ornament, and she ate part of the wall a few years ago - she has been crated when we are not home ever since that day for her own safety. I don't like to crate her when we are home since she is crated so much during the week when we are at work and she usually follows me around like my shadow, but she just can't be left by herself, even for 5 minutes, as she proved last night.

Yeah, people say pets are nothing like kids, but I have to believe that the hell this dog has put us through is a little bit of practice - nothing like cleaning up puke for hours on end and losing sleep because you are worried about your dog.

Even with all of the trouble this dog has put us through (she has also cost us thousands of dollars over the years because she has terrible awful allergies and requires lots of medication for it), I still love her to death - she is such a happy dog, always wants to play, always smiling and wagging her tail.

[hokiegirl82]

Dec 19, 2013 12:43:41 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Dogs are little shits, aren't they? I have a lab and I totally know how it's like. He has ripped a TV cable cord out of the wall, swallowed an entire bread bag, ripped apart a huge box of nails in the garage (and this was when I was like 7 months pregnant, it was brutal picking up every single piece), had chronic diarrhea for his first 1.5 years of life (OMG), goes BSC barking over nothing (I think he just likes to think he's protecting us from SOMETHING), etc. Ahhh labs....

I think it'd be best to give your dog something other than her food- something that is gentle on her stomach perhaps. Canned pumpkin or boiled beef/chicken? Usually when our dog has been vomiting, we hold off food until he hasn't thrown up for a while and slowly introduce him back to food.

This is a good idea - when our other dog was very sick last year the vet had us give her chicken and rice and she LOVED it. I might do this for the next day or two.

[mannah]

Dec 19, 2013 12:43:41 GMT -5 mekiakoo said:

Dogs are little shits, aren't they? I have a lab and I totally know how it's like. He has ripped a TV cable cord out of the wall, swallowed an entire bread bag, ripped apart a huge box of nails in the garage (and this was when I was like 7 months pregnant, it was brutal picking up every single piece), had chronic diarrhea for his first 1.5 years of life (OMG), goes BSC barking over nothing (I think he just likes to think he's protecting us from SOMETHING), etc. Ahhh labs....

I think it'd be best to give your dog something other than her food- something that is gentle on her stomach perhaps. Canned pumpkin or boiled beef/chicken? Usually when our dog has been vomiting, we hold off food until he hasn't thrown up for a while and slowly introduce him back to food.

I was smiling/laughing at the beginning of this post and I drooled all over the floor by accidnet. How fitting!

[Stingyshark]

Wyatt will eat anything he can get his teeth on.

We usually feed brown rice, boiled chicken or plain scrambled eggs when he has an upset tummy.