[Dailydrool] To Puke or not to Puke

[Wendie Prince]

I agree,  always check with the vet first before making your hound puke,
unless you absolutely know it is the thing to do.

 

I say this because:

About three years ago,  on a lovely Friday evening, Pat and I were heading
out to dinner.  I had gotten all the hounds fed,  it was about 545pm.  While
getting everyone outside one more time before we left,  Pat found Bunnie
ATB, and Scooter tossing a fruit rat.  Gross.  It was alive, but seemed to
be very wobbly.   Earlier in the week, our neighbor had told us she had put
out some rat poison,  we figured this rat was poisoned and that is how it
got in the mouth of the hounds.  In the midst of Pat trying to get it away,
using a broom,  Jenny ATB,  came out and while Pat had it pinned under the
broom,  Jenny ducked in and put the whole thing in her mouth.  

I come outside at this point,  I am yelling at Pat to get it out of Jenny's
mouth,   she is looking at me like I have three heads.  My thinking is , it
was on her watch, she needed to get the rat.  In all this, um,  15-20
seconds,  I look at Jenny to see a tail hanging out of her mouth,  and then
it was gone.  She swallowed the whole rat, one gulp.

OK,  I call my vet,  but being that it was about 550pm,  they had already
closed at 5pm.   I call the ER Vet to find they only open at 6pm.   I
decided to grab the Hydrogen Peroxide, and as luck would have,  I had gotten
a fresh bottle just that week.  We start giving Jenny doses and then another
and then another.  It must have taken her about 5 minutes to "respond" to
it.   She was not happy,  the rat came back up,  totally intact and dead by
now, along with her dinner.  Once 6pm hit, I called the ER to find out that
I should not have had her throw up,  due to claws and such which could have
damaged her esophagus coming back up.   Also was told that the poison was
considered secondary ingestion,, as the rat ate it first.  And that she
should have been just fine doing nothing.  Makes sensed, but having had a
couple of other hounds ingest rat poison, and ER visits to help them,  I
just have a hard time believing it.  

Nor did I really want to think of a rat in Jenny's stomach over the next
couple of days.   

Would I do that again?  Probably,   but don't know for certain.  I pray I
never have to find one of our hounds in that situation again.   

I do not think I ever kissed Jenny on the mouth after that,  certainly on
her face,  but not her mouth.

 

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