[guidedogchat] Re: Not for weak stomachs
- From: pam <pamyoung80@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:56:23 +0000
o god that made me cringe lol. poor niall and your poor sister having to take
the plastic bag out.
pam
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> On 6 Jan 2014, at 00:49, "Melanie Akpotu" <melaniemacneill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Hahaha, not nice. My Poodle sometimes gets a residue on his back end when
> his coat has grown and he needs trimming. As he is only small (between 6 and
> 7 kg), I just wipe off what I can with baby wipes, and then stick him in the
> bath. Of course I thoroughly disinfect the bath afterwards, but my bath is
> rarely used!! Sounds bad I know but we have a separate walk in shower. I am
> the only one who would use the bath, but due to the fact I have end stage
> renal failure, I have a tube fitted in my abdomen for dialysis 4 times a day
> at home, so I am not allowed to use the bath, as sitting in bath water, which
> is full of bacteria from the skin, may infect where the tube exits my
> abdomen. So I have to have showers all the time as the water flowing over
> the area is then fresh and clean. I love my showers but I don't half miss my
> baths!!
>
> Well, this is not for weak stomachs either!! My guide dog got a really bad
> stomach upset almost 2 years ago. He kept messing indoors and vomiting. It
> went on for 2 days but then eased off. I hadn't taken him to the vets,
> because it had improved on the second day so I thought he was going to be ok.
> Well he was!! I was relieved as I was travelling to Nigeria (that's where
> my husband comes from) the following day, and leaving Nyle with my older son
> at home. Then the day before I was due to travel, my family were here to see
> me before I left, and Nyle was outside on the patio. He started acting
> really weirdly and then my sister saw a whole carrier bag coming out his rear
> end!!! He was straining to pass it, so she had to put on rubber gloves and
> pull it out!!! That's the only stupid food related thing I have ever known
> him to commit!! He must have eaten it when on a free run about 5 days
> previously and it must have sat in there all that time. I dread to imagine
> and don't even want to, what had been the contents of said bag before it was
> consumed in its entirety by him.
>
> I said he was doing it on purpose, as 3 months prior to that, the week before
> I was due to travel to Nigeria again, he suddenly out the blue, had a fit.
> The vet said it may never happen again, and he was fine by the time I left.
> But it did happen again 4 months later and then again and again and again,
> much closer together each time, hence him now being on medication for the
> rest of his life. Still, he is fine and none the worse for his adventures!!
>
> Mel.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Nadine Lattimore
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 9:33 PM
> To: guidedogchat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [guidedogchat] Not for weak stomachs
>
> As subject suggests please do not keep reading if easily upset.
>
> Not a great conversation, however follows on from previous
> conversation of eating random things, spending.
>
> When Quartz pretends to be a cow few times a year, he produces what I
> refer to as cling-ons or star trek as a code name (ref klingon). An
> incomplete evacuation causing me to have to don a bag or glove if
> available and tug.
>
> A traumatic experience for all involved!
> None the less has to be done.
>
> Any thoughts or similar experiences?
> Nadine Lattimore
>
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