Scary Experience

I thought I'd write a blog post about what happened with our corgi, Roscoe, last Friday.

First I have to say that Roscoe has never chewed on anything that isn't his to chew on. Somehow he knows what belongs to him and what he's allowed to chew. An example: He has never chewed on a throw pillow anywhere in our house. Then one day my mom brought him a little pillow with doggies embroidered on it, in a little gift bag that had his name on it. So I took it out and showed it to him, you know, "Look what Grandma brought you!" and the didn't think of it again, until I saw him biting on it later. It's so strange that he KNOWS.

Anyway, point being: he never chews on things.

So, lately, we've had a bit of an ant problem. I had some of those "bait stations" in my kitchen (the kind with the paste in them that the ants supposedly take back to the hill and kill all their brethren) for a while. Then I noticed they were coming in through the dining room, so I put a trap on the floor in there.

Roscoe ATE the thing. I mean all we found was some chewed up black plastic. I was so terrified that it was going to hurt him. We called the vet's cell phone panicking, and she said that the active ingredient (we read it off a different trap) wouldn't be harmful to him, but if we were really worried we could give him some hydrogen peroxide to make him vomit.

So we did that, and he was NOT happy with us. He looked like he thought we were playing a mean trick on him when we made him swallow it. He never did throw up, but never acted ill. I was so relieved that my baby was okay.

Anyway, I'll just end that with a warning-- apparently the poisoned ant-food in those traps smells good to corgis, too, so be careful where you place them, even if you don't normally have a chewing issue!

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Comment by Becky S on June 6, 2008 at 8:45pm: Just goes to show... never know what a puppers will find tasty. When my husband and I were dating my dog ate his glasses (turned out they like the taste of the chemicals in the plastic lenses.) Glad to hear your puppy is doing ok!

Comment by CaptainCorgi on June 6, 2008 at 8:25pm: I'm glad he's okay! I never thought a dog would eat those. Thanks for the warning!

Comment by Lauren on June 6, 2008 at 3:07pm: Another thing that tastes good but IS poisonis is the rat poison expecially the kind in a brick, this is really dangerous, watch were u put it. Anyways thanx for the heads up

Comment by Vannette on June 6, 2008 at 1:34pm: When using peroxide. Make them drink enough, poor it down their throat to make them throw up. Some poisons are worse if you make them throw up so you should also have poison controls number. Mine got into Armour Etch a year ago....you use it to etch glass...Throwing up was supposed to make it worse. Luckily they didn't really get any in their systems because I made them throw up. I took them to the vet because I'm a worry wart and they called poison control too. I would watch where I put the ant poison!!

Comment by momto3ltlgrlz on June 6, 2008 at 12:52pm: I am really glad that Roscoe is okay! I have my vet's number stored in my cell phone so that in emergencies I have it right with me. Sometimes our puppies are just so nosey and have to try everything huh? Give him plenty of huggies! He deserves them!

Comment by Sam Tsang on June 6, 2008 at 12:42pm: Wow, great post! Thanks for sharing. I'm glad he's ok :)

Comment by Charlie on June 6, 2008 at 12:32pm: That's good to know! Thanks for sharing that story. We should all have conveniently posted our vet's number, the closest emergency vet's number, and the 24-hour National Animal Poison Control Center number (888) 426-4435 for just such events.

Glad to hear that the ant bait was not toxic! I would think some brands might be.