Daisy is a good puppy, really she is. But she has this one really bad habit: she eats anything and everything she can get her mouth on.
Friday, Rob had a bunch of guys over at his house working on a truck. They were changing out the tires, replacing the brakes, that sort of thing. While changing the tires, they suddenly realized that 4 of the brand new lug nuts were missing – and highly suspect that Daisy ate them.
All day Saturday & Sunday, we kept an eye on her – hoping that she’d pass them thru on her own. She seemed to be okay, although she did develop a rather severe case of diarrhea and did not seem too interested in drinking. She still played with her ropes and bones, just like normal – and her visit with Grandma was full of Frisbees and walks.
Monday morning Rob said that when he let her out for her morning bathroom break, she didn’t go. So he went home at lunch to let her out and found that she’d messed in her kennel. This meant that runny poop was all over her, her blankets, her toys, and her kennel = which smelled just nasty. So, he got her in the shower and cleaned her up – then hosed down the kennel and got that cleaned up – then put her blankets and all the towels thru the wash – and then put her back in the kennel and went back to work.
I stopped by her house on my way home at 4:30 to let her out and found that I was too late – she’d made another mess. So Rob rushed home from work and did the whole routine again. Daisy was clearly upset about it all, but seemed to be okay otherwise – but he noticed some blood in the mess, and she is drooling (highly unusual for her) a bit.
He had to put her back in her kennel again because he had promised to help a friend out that night. And of course when he got back home, he found another mess to clean up so had to go thru the whole routine yet again.
I haven’t heard yet this morning, but I am going to assume that he slept on the couch last night, getting up every 2 hours or so to let her out, thereby hopefully preventing yet another accident.
I also hope that he takes her in to the vet to get those lug nuts out before any permanent damage is done!
Oh golly! When my dog was just a puppy she used to eat everything! Even figured out how to open the cupboard doors to get inside them! Thankfully she never did anything quite as serious as this!
ReplyDeleteI hope Daisy is okay, and Rob doesn't have to clean up any more mess!
Um... he should really take her to the vet. If she did eat them & hasn't passed them yet, they could be stuck or causing other blockage issues. I'm going to text this to you as soon as I get back to my desk.
ReplyDeleteIf he doesn't take her to the vet & she continues to "make these messes," he deserves to have to clean it up.
He did take her - and they did x-rays and found that she did NOT eat the lug nuts: Yay!
ReplyDeleteBut she did eat something, and it gave her a nasty infection/stomach bug... so she is now on antibiotics.