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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our Baxter is a gassy boy and a couple of times (he and Bunny came here in September) I’ve wondered if he was trying to bloat. Well yesterday was really scary. We had a bunch of relatives over for Christmas dinner, and I think one of them must have had a little stomach virus that they passed on to me, the DH, and also to Baxter. The three of us have not felt great the last couple of days, a little rumbly tummy and draggy, nothing awful. Okay, so yesterday I went to the store and got more rawhide chews for the dogs and gave each of them one when I got home. A couple of hours later we got hooked up to go walk, and once we started out I noticed that Baxter’s belly was blown up with gas. I felt his belly and it was not hard, just large, so I decided we would slowly go a little further and see what happened. He had diarrhea pretty quickly, then threw up, and the belly went down to normal. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Now our Bunny loves rawhides, but she doesn’t chew them much, she takes them to the back yard and hides them. After dinner yesterday someone went out and found one of Bunny’s hidden rawhides and brought it in and Baxter ended up snagging it. He chewed it up and then his belly blew up again. It was definitely caused by the rawhide. I got a little Gas-X down him, then he went out into the yard and threw up again, and the gas went away once he barfed. Gave him some more Gas-X and watched him the rest of the evening, you could tell he didn’t feel great. This morning he was fine, and then here came Holly dragging in the nastiest, dirtiest piece of rawhide you’ve ever seen. I grabbed Milk Bones for everyone and immediately traded with Holly and wrapped up the nasty rawhide and put it one top of the refrigerator so no one could get it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Baxter has never had any problems with rawhides before, but you can bet all the ones I bought yesterday are going out in the trash Monday. He really scared me big time, blowing up like that, and while I wasn’t sure what caused the first episode, the second one was definitely the rawhide, so there will be no more rawhides at our house. Woof, what a day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>Anita Woodrum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><a href="mailto:awoodrum@clear.net">awoodrum@clear.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>