Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

On Thursday, my husband and I had Dairy Queen for dinner. I got spicy chicken strips and a small Snickers blizzard, but after eating all three chicken strips I was too full to finish the fries or blizzard. I ate about half the blizzard, threw everything else away. My husband and I stepped out for about 15, maybe 20 minutes.

While we were out, my baby girl beagle Pixel got into the trash. We have the trash inside a cupboard, but she can open the cupboard. We set a suitcase against the cupboard door, which kept her out safely for weeks because she couldn't figure out how to move the suitcase. Well, in those 15-20 minutes, she figured it out, pulled the trash out, ate an entire basket of fries with honey mustard sauce and half a Snickers blizzard. She threw up twice Thursday night.

Friday, all seemed well. She ate, played, and ran around the house like normal, no vomiting. My husband left for the weekend, his little brother has joined the Army (so proud of him!) and he will be leaving for basic training on the 30th. I wanted my husband to see his brother again before he left, I sent him to his parents' house (~8 hours away) for the weekend while I stayed home and watched the dogs.

Saturday, all seemed well. She ate, played, and ran around the house like normal, no vomiting... until about an hour after her dinner. At roughly 8pm, she started throwing up, and she threw up over 9 times between 8pm and 12am. Some of those she forced by eating grass, but not all. Some of them were white or yellow foam, not all. Some were dry heaves, not all. I got her to bed around midnight and she was up three more times between midnight and 1am being sick. I got her into the bathroom all three times so it was on a hard floor, easy to clean, and I held and petted her while she was sick so she'd know she wasn't in trouble. Finally at around 1am she stopped throwing up and went to sleep, but she was shivering in her sleep so hard that the bed was shaking. I set her between my knees to help keep her warm and covered her with a blanket. She stopped shivering and slept through the night until about 7:30 this morning.

I fed her a little less than half her normal breakfast and lots of water. She went outside and did both potties (I was actually kind of surprised, I didn't think she had anything left in her stomach.) Now she only wants to sleep, she's curled up in the chair behind me napping.

I wanted to ask my neighbors for a ride to the closest vet last night, but since she didn't start showing signs of illness until after 8pm (and it didn't seem serious until well after then-- one or two throw-ups isn't a concern, it wasn't until about the third or fourth one that I started getting worried) there were no vet clinics open. My husband will be home with the car in a couple hours so we can get her to a vet then. It makes me so nervous when my darlings are sick, because they are young and healthy but there are always things that can go wrong, things I can't fix. And I know she doesn't understand why she is sick, what if she thinks she's somehow being punished for something? She's also dumb (I love her to pieces but it's true, she has no common sense) and I know she'd eat just about anything. I swear if I left a dish rag full of chemicals on the floor she'd eat it. There's nothing in the house that she ate (besides Dairy Queen) so what if she went outside and ate something that just isn't fixable? I wouldn't even be able to guess what that something would be, we keep the yard basically clean but with as windy as it's been lately anything light-ish weight could have blown in.

I keep wanting to blame the DQ trash but since that was a couple days ago I just don't know that it's the culprit. ;; What do. Cannot stand watching my babies suffer! My brother's dog Ava used to eat everything too, no common sense, and one day she ate something that ate her back and she died. It worries me for Pixel. At least she is currently napping comfortably, and her breakfast seems to be staying down ok. As long as she's resting and holding down food maybe I shouldn't yet panic.