Amber is having a medical emergency

dkean said:
I think the safest way for me to dispose of my patches is to flush them.
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I am not sure that is a good idea. You could honestly cause yourself some plumbing issues. What you could do is you could get an old container and put the patches in that and store it up high until trash day. Maybe like a milk carton or something of the sort. Kind of like what you would do with a sharps container. Just a thought...
 
Mignarda said:
I just read this thread, and am so happy things turned out well for you.

If you don't already have one, you might consider one of these very nice auto-closing trash receptacles. They're a bit pricey, but are excellent quality and "should" (knock on wood) keep your doggie out of the trash!

http://www.simplehuman.com/50-litre-semi-round-step-can-black-plastic
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I agree, I went to a tall kitchen trash can that couldn't get knocked over or invaded, and I use the foot type pop up ones in the bathrooms, just so trash STAYS in the trash for my sanity and their safety. Because I know anything reachable is fair game in my lil monsters viewpoint. Savannah paces around the trash cans, still trying to figure how to work them. Probably one day she will succeed.
 
I think amber might be the queen of table surfers. One time my wife left her buttered bagel to close to the edge of the table while she went to get her cup of coffee. Amber stood on her hind legs using her front paws for balance and turned her head to the side and licked half the butter off the bagel.:lol: I watched her all the while and didn't have the heart to stop her. She did it so well, she floated like a butter fly.
 
I had a dog once before Spirit - a long, long time ago. I was babysitting and brought him with me. Partway through the evening, I noticed that he was being strangely quiet. There he was in the dining room, STANDING on the table (this was a 12 pounds Lhasa Apso), eating the food that the kids had left on their plates. And the best part about it was when I saw him and yelled at him to GET DOWN OFF THE TABLE, he looked me straight in the eye and went back to what he was eating. Didn't seem the least bit concerned that he had gotten caught. Silly dog :-)
 
Well I changed my patches this past weekend.I thought of putting them in the trash but I didn't. I wanted them out of the house asap so Amber had no chance to root them out. So I took some TP and rolled them up and flushed them. No problem. They went right down and everything is normal with the toilette.

Our Amber is worth a toilette clog any time. It's easier to fix then a stopped heart. We have done CPR on a neighbors dog but she didn't make it.:cry:
Like I said I was an EMT for 12 years and only had one CPR save. It doesn't happen like on TV.
 
dkean said:
Well I changed my patches this past weekend.I thought of putting them in the trash but I didn't. I wanted them out of the house asap so Amber had no chance to root them out. So I took some TP and rolled them up and flushed them. No problem. They went right down and everything is normal with the toilette.

Our Amber is worth a toilette clog any time. It's easier to fix then a stopped heart. We have done CPR on a neighbors dog but she didn't make it.:cry:
Like I said I was an EMT for 12 years and only had one CPR save. It doesn't happen like on TV.
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having volunteered on and off in hospitals for decades, when I hear code blue, I get very nervous, because I know resuscitation isn't always a sure thing.
 
I'm late reading this post... that seems to be the norm for me lately. I've been trying to keep up with Sheltie Nation more regularly... not sure how I missed this post. Anyway, I am sorry to hear this story about Amber and elated that the outcome is a happy one! I can only imagine how worried you were when she was so sick.

I agree with the posts above recommending "sheltie-proof" trash cans. Every sheltie I have owned would gladly get into any trash can he/she could in the blink of an eye. One time when I was getting my kitchen trash bag ready to take out, my son, a year old at the time, starting crying so I rushed upstairs to check on him. In the short time I was upstairs, my sheltie, Keegan, had himself a little party downstairs and helped himself to whatever he desired in the trash. When I came back downstairs, there was trash all over the place... egg shells, old sticks of butter, etc.! Needless to say, he got really sick and I had to take him to the emergency vet. That is just one of several "garbage gut" stories I can tell with my shelties. Luckily, the other stories were not as severe as this one was. I am very careful about trash these days and do my best to make sure my dogs can't get into anything.

Just yesterday I had to speak to my son (now 10 years old)because I noticed
he had thrown a Doritos bag in our mudroom trash can... a trash can our dogs can easily get into if the mudroom door is left open. I explained to him how easily a sheltie can get a potato chip bag on his/her head and not be able to get it off. I know shelties have suffocated this way.... I've heard a couple stories that are very sad regarding chip bags. In addition to doing our best to make sure that our dogs can't get any chip/food packaging, we cut or tear the bags from top to bottom before throwing them away, just to be on the safe side. Trust me... if they can smell food in a bag, even if it is only a few crumbs left on the bottom, a sheltie will try to get to it... so please keep this in mind and don't leave chip bags lying around where a dog can get to them.

Again, so happy to hear that Amber is doing well!

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