Dumb Dog Shit - This is not a covid related post

[kitewithfish]

The dog ate a chunk off my cork yoga block. CORK. She just gnawed it off while we were sitting at dinner and kept at it until we realized there was an ominous crunching noise, and there she was!

We got it away from her, but she definitely had eaten a good chunk and swallowed it. I called the vet and left a message, and an hour later they got back. The vet recommended that we induce vomiting - which I will gloss over, but suffice it to say, you need to give a dog a small amount of hydrogen peroxide and then block them into an area with a washable floor.

She performed beautifully at this unpleasant task. Upon inspection, she brought up a good deal of cork along with her dinner. Happily, she had been clearly chewing the cork into small pieces, so if anything made it into her intestines, it's pretty likely to pass thru without incident.

She's pooped since, so she's probably fine - we'll monitor her a bit to make sure this story has a happy ending. 

But, FUCKING CORK. 

Comments

[spikedluv]

OMG! Dogs can be such dip shits, lol! I'm glad she's okay now. (And thank you for glossing over the important bit. *g*)

[kitewithfish]

No one needs to have that in their brain. (Tho the secret ingredient was useful to know about!)

[recently_folded]

May I introduce you to my year-old kitten who was happily munching away on the tin foil around my plant light while I was in a Zoom meeting with noise-canceling headphones on? It wasn't until someone else in the meeting interrupted me to ask if my cat was supposed to be doing that...

She's an adored member of the household, but honestly, tin foil?

[kitewithfish]

I thought cats hate tin foil!

[recently_folded]

I suppose that's what they want you to think.

[tei]

WHYYYYYY. A CORK.

[kitewithfish]

An actual cork I could almost understand! That might have food smells and be, roughly, food sized. But this was a BLOCK the size of her head! WHY INDEED?

[novembermond]

dogs, man. such sweethearts, but sometimes they have no survival instinct at all.

[tropicsbear]

Oh no D: I hope she's okay!