Fresh Disasters & Forced Vomitus
We try to look ahead.
We try to foresee pitfalls.
We really do try to see things through the eyes of various critters and adjust accordingly for health and safety and efficacy.
And then they pull an unforeseeable loo loo of a stunt.
…………….Enter this last Monday morning.
Add a devious pack of Wolfhounds, with full bladders, necessitating a backyard romp……….
This pack of Wolfhounds have a great many potential activities from which to choose.
Firewood stacks to dismantel, mud to surf, errant Nightshade weeds to floss with, squirrels to chase and never catch.
But what did they choose during that nano-second of unobserved time in the morning?
They chose to come onto the porch, select a securely-closed container on top of two other containers———-and wrench the lid off.
Then they swiped the first thing they could reach while on their fuzzy tippy-toes, and tore it to smithereens……………..
The container was the aforementioned Hurricane Box full of supplies………………
The zip-lock bag they selected was full of 9-volt and AAA batteries.
Aauuuugggggghhhhhhh!!! WHY!!!??????!!!
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So, we see the hounds happily larking in the backyard, while slinging chewed up packaging & plastic & batteries EVERYWHERE!!!
Human panic ensues….
We collected the hounds, checked all their mouths & throats, scoured the backyard, collected all the torn up plastic & cardboard we could find, and we picked up as many of the assorted/dented/demolished batteries that we could locate.
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Ingested batteries are NOT a good thing.
I don’t recommend it at all.
We had no idea who might have swallowed a AAA or a 9-volt.
There was a really good potential that one of the Wolfhound dumb dumbs had…
Aauuuuuugggggghhhhhhhh!!!
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Because this debacle had only just happened, we opted for the “make them all throw-up” option. Times seven.
I bet you’re not surprised…………..we know how to do that.
We know how to do that quickly, too.
********************A drench of 3% hydrogen peroxide********************
********************1 ml per pound/not to exceed 45 ml********************
********************Wait 15 minutes/if no regurgitation/repeat************
And that’s exactly what my older daughter and I did………..
………….while still in our jammies, barefoot, and in the backyard…….
Even before our first cup of tea.
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Ah, I love the smell of puking Wolfhounds in the morning…
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But good news…
After stirring all of the assorted vomitus with sticks………….we found that there were NO batteries ingested and subsequently hurled.
There was a lot of packaging & plastic but thankfully NO corroding batteries of either the 9-volt or AAA variety.
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Life is good.
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Just another Monday morning on our oasis in the swamp…
Time for tea…
