Comments on: Pet holiday headaches and happy endings

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 03:09:28 +0000

I’ve read that the best treatment for broken or sharp ornaments consumed is to soak cotton balls in milk and feed that to the dog to pass….

Comment by Barbara A. Albright

That is also true, according to the late and much missed emergency and critical specialist Dr. Roger Gfeller, who was always one of my favorite interviews.

You know, though, again, if it were me, I’d work on: 1) Prevention; and 2) Working with my veterinarian through the health emergency, if I saw a broken ornament become an edible play toy.

A lot of things are truly not home-remedy issues.

By: Anne T

Anne T — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:33:12 +0000

I really like Clue’s holiday happy ending story! That’s just the best!
My favorite dog stories are still “I has Sweet Potato” and “Dogs in Elk” but apparently there is one circulating amongst minpin people about a Minpin, a Collie and a live nativity scene including a calf, 4 sheep and a donkey, which ended up with the writer’s son surreptitiously under cover of darkness tying the calf to their neighbor’s Squad car. I don’t know where it came from, so I can’t get permission to cross post. Just use your imaginations: 4 sheep and a collie, a minpin and a calf, assorted adults in clothing they aren’t used to, an agitated donkey, and the guilty dogs living next door to a cop. lol

By: Barbara A. Albright

Barbara A. Albright — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:31:55 +0000

I’ve read that the best treatment for broken or sharp ornaments consumed is to soak cotton balls in milk and feed that to the dog to pass….

By: Janeen

Janeen — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:11:31 +0000

The first year we had Zorro he was 8 months old at Christmas and stood about 28 inches at the withers. That year we had a very simple tree - decorated only with white lights, gold-painted pine cones and red papier-mache apples. We left the Zorrinator alone with the tree for just an hour but when we returned we saw that he had very carefully removed every apple he could reach (i.e. all but the topmost ones) and carefully set them on the floor next to the tree. He didn’t touch any of the other ornaments and didn’t damage the tiny (1-2 inch diameter) apples he pulled off.

Apparently papier mache apples offended his sense of style. We never used them after that, and he never touched anything on the tree again.

By: JenniferJ

JenniferJ — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:58:20 +0000

Not winter holiday related, but on April Fools day one year my then four year old girl Rags ate an entire shank bone a family member given her. The receptionists at my vet thought it was a joke until they saw the x-ray.

I was presented with an angry, slighty dopey. dog, a 500.00 bill and a bag of meticulously cleaned bone shards.

She ate a 5 lb bag of uncooked white rice, Hinode medium grain, on Thanksgiving once too…

No Christmas trees at my place but my parents shi-tzu once ate a box of Hanukkah candles.

By: Kim Thornton

Kim Thornton — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:27:56 +0000

That is the best kind of holiday story!

By: Cait

Cait — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:23:58 +0000

My favorite holiday story is Joanne’s (Rufflyspeaking.wordpress.com)- her beautiful Cardi girl Clue (who just finished her championship at Thanksgiving at the Springfield cluster) had been missing for over a week after escaping from a boarding kennel.(As if that wasn’t enough, she was at the boarding kennel because of a housefire, which has caused their house to be basically a 90% loss.) She was found today and is home safe and sound!