[Dailydrool] Miss Millie the Foster and her Poop Party

[GalinkinSK at aol.com]

As I was reading about the escapades of Miss Millie and her poop party my  
heart started to beat faster and I had a flashback of many years ago...I had 
to  be about 16 years old and my mother was the main care giver of the  
pets.  At the time we had 2 bassets, a bulldog , 3 poodles, and 3  cats.  My 
parents went away and my mother put me in charge of feeding the  animals.  We 
had a doggie door so I thought, easy enough!!!  This one  day I come home 
from school opened the door and you would have thought a poop  bomb went off.  
There was diarrhea throughout the entire house...I mean  everywhere ...the 
couch, the chairs, the beds...everywhere.   I became  hysterical ...I just 
wanted to leave the house and never come back.  I did  have enough sense to 
call the Vet (whom happened to be a family friend).  I  was screaming and 
crying on the phone with him.   He calmed me down  and said there were two 
things that I needed to do immediately...the first was  to open all the windows 
and the second was NOT to walk around the house  barefooted....I was not 
amused but he did make me giggle.  He then gave me  the Pepto instructions with 
making a pocket in the back of their lip , pouring  in and then jump back 
cause they do shake the pink stuff all over...(he  suggested I  do this 
outside).(they didn't have caplets back then)    He also suggested that I make 
them rice.  With this information I proceeded  with  the task of cleaning up, 
gagging the entire time. I did have one  plus and that was we have hardwood 
floors to make the job just a little  easier.  It was the rest that was 
daunting.  Of course later that  evening my mother called to check up on how we 
were doing.  I proceeded to  tell her what happened and her question to me 
was "After the bowls were empty  did you wash them out?".  Now at 16 years 
old who would know to wash out  their bowls...they were all fed dry kibble and 
the bowls were sparkling clean  ....duh!!!  My mother explained that there 
was bacteria from their saliva  and that she always would clean the bowls 
after they ate...especially since they  would go to each other bowls after the 
fact and lick the one last lick. That was  a hard lesson but I learned it 
very quickly...something I pass onto anyone who  does care for my dogs when I 
go away.  
 
Thanks for the memory Dawn..LOL!!!
 
Shelley, Owen, Abraham Ga-linkin, Vivian Kay and Mary Todd Ga-linkin 
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