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Kobi
This is kinda gross. Enjoy!

Guy: Hello, Vet Emergency Place, can I help you?
Me: Hi, I have a Shiba Inu. He, um, he ate a tampon. He threw it up a little while ago, but before we could take care of it he...he ate it again. Should we make him throw up again or just wait and see what happens?
Guy: He ate what?
Me: A tampon.
Guy: Oh, hold on just a sec...
~music~
Girl: Hi...so we ate a tampon, huh? A couple times?
Me: Yeah. Should I make him vomit again?
Girl: Well, we don't want that in there. Best to make him vomit. Do you have hydrogen peroxide....?
...etc...

Fortunately, we have peroxide just for this reason. And a turkey baster also just for this reason (if you ever need to force liquid down a dogs throat, a turkey baster is the tool of choice). We've only had to administer peroxide once before, but Kobi got antsy as soon as we opened the bottle. So Annie got to hold him and I got to put him in a headlock and we got to force our dog to vomit. Poor guy was so confused. He thought he was going to get his after-dinner treat, and suddenly we've taken him outside and forced awfulness down his throat and then waited patiently while he barfed up the full contents of his stomach on the lawn. Fortunately, everything came out okay and he was too sick to try and re-eat anything. So he napped all evening on the couch, and I got to clean up and hose down the lawn.

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[info]teacher_tabi wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2008 03:28 pm (UTC)
Why do does eat these weird things?? It's so strange. Gracie likes to eat used kleenexes out of the bathroom trash. *shakes head*
[info]coendou wrote:
Jun. 4th, 2008 09:39 pm (UTC)
Heh, yeah, we've only used peroxide on Fred once, but he freaks out when he sees the bottle. It must be really, really not fun.

My mom's dog has now eaten large amounts of chocolate so many times that the peroxide *almost* doesn't work anymore. Apparently she throws up like an hour later.
[info]llamadragon wrote:
Jun. 5th, 2008 01:33 pm (UTC)
They said, "If he doesn't throw up in 15 minutes, give him more." They said to use 1.5 tablespoons, but he didn't need that much. Can't imagine giving him a full turkey baster full (which is about 1.5 tablespoons) much less more 15 minutes later.

We had some friends and their dog ate a bag of M&Ms but the vet said not to worry about it because it was milk chocolate. Dark Chocolate, apparently, is much more deadly (and delicious!). Of course, it was also a pretty big dog. The same dog also ate a full pack of birth control pills. They did induce vomiting then, though it was no use, the girl was soon pregnant with her first child.
(Anonymous) wrote:
Jun. 6th, 2008 12:34 am (UTC)
Haha!

I mean, poor Kobi.
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