Many thanks to Kevin Meyers for writing an open letter to Good Morning America, called Dogs Don’t Do Guilt, after the show featured the “guilty dog” from the viral video, perpetuated dog behavior myths, and glossed over what is really happening in the video.
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First, it was peaches. Then, we had to do a banana intervention. And, now … what kind of fruit and/or vegetable heist do you suppose resulted in Ginko making this “Who me?” face?
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Pals Edie Jarolim from Will My Dog Hate Me and Amy Burkert from GoPetFriendly.com teamed up on this Pet Blogger Challenge, where they urge folks like me to ponder some of the bigger questions about why we blog.
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Yesterday, I gave you the lowdown on how exactly Lilly found the opportunity to eat about 130 paintballs and end up quite poisoned. Today, I’ll try to explain how we and the local veterinary emergency team had triage, treatment, and luck on our side … to save Lilly’s life.
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All of us remain exhausted, so I’ll try to tackle one main question at a time about Lilly’s severe paintball poisoning this week. The big thing everyone wants to know is how on earth Lilly had the opportunity to eat 130 (or so) paintballs. Here is that tale.
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I’m sorry I didn’t have time to post until now. I tried desperately to get some work done so that I can take care of Lilly when she comes home, which is right about NOW. Tom is picking her up as I write this.
Lilly’s sodium and other electrolyte levels stayed in the safe range all night and all day, thanks to lots and lots of fluids (both via IV and up the old wazoo).
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Managed to sleep from 11 pm to 3 am, despite worry. Just called to check on Lilly. She is tolerating treatment pretty well, poor baby:
- Not a single seizure yet.
- Her latest electrolyte check shows that her sodium dropped from 157 to 154 (very much in normal range), which is good. If it went higher, that would be bad and put her at more risk.
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I’m too tired and worried to explain everything, but Lilly is at the ER/ICU animal hospital getting treatment for paintball poisoning. She got into a bag of paintballs in the basement. We’re still trying to figure out how many she ate, but it was a LOT. Much vomiting ensued. Natural and induced.
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Let me describe a few all-too-real situations where dogs needed protection, then I’m curious about your thoughts about how much you’d do, how much you’d risk (especially if it seemed like you were in danger).
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A few months ago, I saw a discussion on Facebook between a few dog training folks that essentially blamed people who wear bait bags for ruining the reputation of positive reinforcement trainers. Personally, I disagree, but I wanted to open up the debate.
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Black Friday. Cyber Monday. Blah, blah, blah. I’m watching less and less TV these days, so I missed all the hype over rampant consumerism flaring to a frenzy for the holiday season. Everyone MUST be shopping online today because for a first-day-back-at-my-desk-after-a-week-off day, it’s eerily quiet. Cue the crickets.
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Posted by Roxanne Hawn | Posted in Dog Life, Dog Musings, Dog Rant | Posted on 09-11-2010
When I wrote a bit about feeding dogs a raw diet, over on my Dog Food Dish blog, I included a mini-rant about how when raw proponents start talking about wolves, I stop listening. It teeters too close for my tastes into the outdated, debunked idea of dogs as wolves. In my mind, if it isn’t true when it comes to behavior, then it also likely isn’t true when it comes to food.
I’m probably oversimplifying, but there you go.
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Posted by Roxanne Hawn | Posted in Dog Life, Dog Rant, Dog Whine | Posted on 05-10-2010
We ask our dogs to LEAVE IT all the time. It’s a handy dog training cue that essentially means “Let it Go.” Ignore that food on the ground. Stop fixating on that squirrel in the tree. Don’t snark at that other dog. Yes, I know he’s being rude, but keep on walking. We ask, and if we’ve done all the groundwork, our dogs often comply. They let it go. They move on.
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A while back I delivered a full-on rant about the (insert strongly-worded editorial comment here) FedEx guy. So, what’s a girl to do when one of many UPS guys feeds barking dogs treats?
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Remember, my quest to get written prescriptions with plenty of refills so that getting Lilly her medications wasn’t such a hassle? Remember how it took two visits to get the prescriptions because of another emergency at the hospital? Well, imagine my frustration to find that the prescription was wrong — all wrong — when we finally needed refills.
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