My boy Pippin ate a stick and is in misery. So am I. The little wanker

[roguevalley]

won't keep out of the garbage and now has a wicker basket stick in his belly. He ran around the house shrieking because he got it embedded in his lip and when we got to the vet, I thought it would be a foot race between us who would die first. They got him all sorted out and felt his gullet from stem to stern. Their x-ray machine conked out that morning so they can't take a piccie until Monday morning.

Right now, he's lying in his kennel bed moaning and giving me the gimlet eye. Frankly, I think the medicine they gave him to feel his gullet is wearing off. He is an interesting dog. He's slightly autistic and so when he has a spell of insecurity, he gets under covers and buries himself until the covers are so tight, they give him relief.

My other dogs, two of three, have had infections. They are in varying stages of recovery. They are also like Pippin constipated a bit.

That leaves on in good shape. I have the phone number of another vet handy in case Pippin has a problem.
This is worst than parenthood. :)

Thanks for listening.

RV, with four weiner boys in the snow in Alaska

[IndyOp]

1. Poor babies!

Hang in there - :hug:

It is worse than parenthood, they can't communicate and they don't grow up - they live their entire little lives eating anything that won't eat them first and then we *all* suffer.

:wrygrin:

:hi:

[Branjor]

3. Yes....

**It is worse than parenthood, they can't communicate and they don't grow up - they live their entire little lives eating anything that won't eat them first and then we *all* suffer.**

That is so true. That's why mine has inflammatory bowel disease :(

[Suziq]

2. Oh, Poor Baby

How is Pippin doing today?

Fellow doxie person :hi:

[IndyOp]

4. Has "this too" passed?

:shrug:

Hope Pip is feeling better - :-)

[roguevalley]

5. Hi. Update on my doxies

Pippin: $172 later, his stick must have passed. He's up, he's ready, he's my baby. :evilgrin: I could kill him.

Andrew: Had constipation after his infection so I gave him prunes and prune juice. Going like a trooper.

THese guys, they will kill you.

RV, feeling much better too. :)

[IndyOp]

6. Good grief - were the X-rays alone $172? (nt)

:(

[roguevalley]

7. The call out was 75. SIGH! Getting three of them over this, their

teeth cleaned and antibiotics has now come to a grand total of 1200$. :) Spendy little boo-boos.

[Suziq]

8. Oh Good!

Good news! So glad your doxie boys are doing better! :-)

Glad you are doing better as well. It is so tough when our fur babies are sick.

[Patiod]

9. Damned weiner dogs will eat ANYTHING

We had one little female who ate:
- a needle and thread
- knee-high stockings
- an entire pair of rabbit-fur earmuffs
- a studded leather collar
- baby birds, still in the shell (hours from hatching)
- lots and lots of driveway worms (after rain)
- spiders
- a bee
- half of a $250 cashere Land's End sweater
- several loafer tassells
- the crotch out of several pairs of dirty underwear

Only the bee and the collar did any noticable damage to the dog -- the bee inflicted its own punishment (there's nothing sadder than doxie who had eaten a bee: muzzle size = head size) and the vet induced vomiting to get the collar back up. Everything else passed.

Any pictures of weiners in the snow? Nothing funnier than letting out the dachshund in the snow - you have to laugh when you can only monitor its progress toward its evening "toilette" by watching a tail tip moving toward the telephone pole.