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Careful what your puppy gets into

6/10/2013

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It’s my own stupid fault for leaving the bottle near the edge of the kitchen bench… Honey is a cavoodle – more oodle than cav – and she bounces quite high. Came home Friday lunchtime to find a chewed up plastic bottle in the front room. Realised it was the bottle that had my vitamin D tablets. Fortunately there weren’t many left. Rang the vet to check, just in case and to my horror they said high doses could cause a lot of damage to the liver, stomach, brain…

So, off we went to the local vet who put her on a fluid drip to flush her system out. Went back at 5.30 to pick her up but they wanted her to stay on the drip for 24 hours. That meant either being locked in the empty vet’s all night – not ideal, I knew she’d chew the catheter – or taking her to the animal emergency centre who are open 24 hours. Off we went again, down to Mount Waverley. Checked her in, gave her a big cuddle, fought to get her back in the cage, and went home, very alone.

Good news is she’s okay. The dose wasn’t enough to damage her liver or stomach. Too much vitamin D produces overloads of calcium in the organs. Got her home yesterday and she’s been sleeping most of the time since. Learned my lesson, I have. Anything remotely bad is now out of reach. Thank the powers for pet insurance = $900+ in blood tests and overnight care.


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