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<DIV>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. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the memory Dawn..LOL!!!</DIV>
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<DIV>Shelley, Owen, Abraham Ga-linkin, Vivian Kay and Mary Todd Ga-linkin
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