[Dailydrool] Those tasty dog treats

[Pamela McQuade via Dailydrool]

Anita:

Be glad that all your hounds got was a box of treats. We once had a much 
worse event with a bag of dog food.

Holly got into a brand-new, full bag of dog food that I had left in the 
living room. I think I left it on a chair, figuring it would be beyond 
her reach.

Well, you know what I came back to--two full hounds, Holly and 
Belvedere, I think, and a bag that was missing lots of food. I'm not 
sure if we only had two hounds at the time, but I know it was only the 
two. Dex may have been here, but if so, the top two hounds in the pack 
didn't let him anywhere near their fabulous find.

Holly had no adverse affects at all. But Bel stopped pooping and seemed 
sluggish. Since the food had been in one of those metallic dog-food 
bags, I was very concerned. I found most of the bag pieces on the floor, 
but I wasn't sure if some more were lodged in a hound tummy. The next 
day I ended up taking Bel to the ER, because of course this part 
happened when my vet was closed, probably on a Sunday. After Xrays, the 
vet decided to try some medication to see if it could get Bel to pass 
the mound of food that was blocked into his tummy. I left with visions 
of surgery in my best boy's future.

Thankfully, the medication worked, and those poops started up again in 
volumes unlike anything I'd seen in a basset.

So be thankful your hounds' offense wasn't worse, Anita, because I 
probably aged a few years over that basset badness!

Pam, food slave to all the Dashing Bassets, who have added many gray 
hairs to their mama's head