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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>I agree, always check with the vet first before making your hound puke, unless you absolutely know it is the thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>I say this because:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>Nor did I really want to think of a rat in Jenny’s stomach over the next couple of days. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>I do not think I ever kissed Jenny on the mouth after that, certainly on her face, but not her mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'>wen and the Bounders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'><a href="http://www.seniorhoundsabound.org/"><span style='color:#76923C'>www.seniorhoundsabound.org</span></a> check us out!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#76923C'><a href="http://www.bassetshop.com/"><span style='color:#76923C'>www.bassetshop.com</span></a> shop online and help the Bounders<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#76923C'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>