Stupid dog

[bubbaray]

I'm so @#$^ mad at our dog right now. So, we've had snow here. not unusual for some places in winter, but HIGHLY unusual for us, especially in the amount we got and the length of time it stayed. Anyway, long story short, snow fell off our neighbors roof (steep pitch) and took out part of our fence beside our house. In the process our garbage cans were knocked over. And/or DH left a bag of garbage beside the cans (I'm not sure and he won't give me a straight answer). In any event, a (closed) bag of garbage was left in the snow beside the house.

Dumb Dog got into the garbage. @#$%^ dog. He is such a freakin' garborator. AHHHH. So, he's been kinda sick (kinda odd poops and wanting to go outside a LOT) all week. Nothing that we thought we needed a vet for. We've been through @#$% dog eating random stuff (particularly anything rubber) before and he's had surgery for an intestinal obstruction in the past. @#$^^ dog.

So, I get a call from DH this morning. @W#$%^^ dog has **** ALLLLLL over our (formerly nice) living room and dining room carpet. @W#$^ dog. DH finally agreed to take him to the vet. Oh, and DH is screaming at me that he's never having another dog, blah blah blah. *I* know not all dogs are like this. DH does not (this is his first dog). Even our vet says our dog has an unusual desire to eat pretty much anything (hello, same breed as Marley, who is now famous for being a stupid dog). Oh, and I also got to listen to DH scream about how pet insurance is a total rip off and waste of money, blah blah blah.

I have no idea what is going to happen Monday. We both work FT and the dog is home alone during the day. We used to have a dog walker, but she left the neighborhood.

Stupid dog.

Thanks for letting me vent.

[trales]

Hugs.

Our lab has eaten 10lbs of dog food, nylons, underware, used maxi pads, used diapers and so on. He has even gotten giardia and rolled in a dead deer, I so feel your pain.

[bubbaray]

Thanks. DH is back from the vet, $100 lighter (and ins. probably won't pay, due to deductible). No obstruction, no fever. 5 days of meds to calm his GI tract.

Oh, and no food for 24 hrs. THAT should be fun. Not.

[elizabethkott]

Oh (((((hugs))))) Melissa.
My stupid dog poops in the attic.
And we just discovered she had been peeing up there, too.
Alllllllllllllll over the bed we have up there for guests.
You would think we didn't have someone here all day long to let her out or something. Stupid dog just likes to poop in the attic to get "even" with us whenever she feels slighted - like we go out to dinner and leave her, like we go to the grocery store and leave her... They say dogs aren't spiteful, but I know better.
Stupid dogs. If they weren't so damn loveable and cute...

[trales]

At least it was only $100. The 10lbs of dog food set us back $300 plus the cost of food, the giardia about $500. The nylons and maxi pads were free, I noticed them in the back yard when I was mowing.

The lab has been escaping our yard to go eat goat poop at the neighbor. Ewwww. I try not to think about it as he licks us.

[tylersmama]

Ugh. That sucks. I HATE cleaning up dog poop/vomit.

If it makes you feel any better, I just spent $300 at the vet because my dog was dehydrated and stressed out. We took him with us over the holidays on our visit to family because we were driving and thought he'd be happier with us than at the kennel. Apparently all the family gatherings (he's VERY shy and doesn't like strangers) and the fact that he didn't eat/drink much while we were gone got to him. I freaked out because he was acting like it was something neurological...unsteady, no energy, etc. Nope, just stressed out and dehydrated. So now my dog is on heartburn medication. Yup, I'm giving my neurotic dog Pepcid every day.

Sheesh, we could have spent the same amount of boarding as we did at the vet...

[ThreeofUs]

Totally feel your pain. I love dogs, but when they've done something like this, all I want is to have someone else deal with the dog and their mess.

[npace19147]

Yah, I feel your pain. One of our dogs had to have his stomach pumped after eating some of our medicine (dropped on the floor and he got it before I did).

The other one slipped on the stairs and pulled a muscle in his back, had to be carried up and down the stairs for a week. Did I mention we live in a townhouse in the city?

We routinely find wipes, paper towel, tin foil, hair bows, what-have-you out back.

Hope your dog feels better soon!

[vejemom]

Melissa, if you want to make your husband feel slightly better...BG: We have two dogs, a 250 lbs mastiff heretofore referred to as Canis Major, and an obnoxious little Frenchie whom I will call Canis Minor. I have attempted to buy pet insurance for Canis MAjor, but the company couldn't believe that routine care for him could cost so much. I got around this by working for a vet in part for the discount, but had quit about a month before the incident because I was 8 months along with DD#2. I was dreading the first non-routine vet visit...

I often buy beef marrow bones for them from the local beef farmer at the farmers' market. We're talking a cow femur, strong enough to withstand a chewing from Canis Major and emerge in one piece. One week, the farmer was out of marrow, but assured me that the beef stew bones he had stood up great to his dogs.

I got home, put the dogs in the backyard, and gave them their bones. Imagine my horror when I checked on them 20 minutes later and found only bone shards. And wouldn't you know, the next day, Canis Major started acting wonky.

Partial intestinal obstruction, I thought. (Partial because some things were, um, passing through) So I began the D-Day scale preparations required to take a 250 lbs dog to the vet. First, arrange for a babysitter. Second, remove car seats from the Honda Accord. Third, swath the back seat of said Honda in old blankets in a futile attempt to avoid drool on the upholstery. Finally, put training collar, backup collar and traffic lead on Canis Major and bundle him into the car, checking purse to make sure that I have plenty of drool rags handy. DId I mention that he balks getting into the car, so this involves my opening both car doors and "walking" through the back of the car so he'll follow me?

So we arrive at the vet in one piece and I help Canis Major disembark. The entire staff of the hair salon next door comes out to marvel at him. They offer to dye him red for Halloween. We make it into the vet's office, where she and I confer on strategy. We both agree that the lumens of his intestines are ginormous, and therefore unlikely to be totally blocked. She suggests a wait and see approach, but given the effort involved in getting Canis Major anywhere, concedes that we should just X-ray today. I suggest sedating him. His personality falls somewhere between Clifford and Scooby Doo, but if \he shakes his head in polite refusal, p[eople go flying across the room like ragdolls.

After a head count to make sure she had enough personnel to lift him, I sign the consents and go get a cup of coffee. An hour later I receive the good news that the X-rays were clear, and that Canis Major was recovered enough from the sedative to leave under his own power. I return to the clinic, where the techs cheerfully inform me that it took 6 people to lift him onto the X-ray table. I pay the $600 bill and collect a woozy Canis Major. "How much does he eat?" asks the lady waiting with the Chihuahua. The guy entering with the pit bull simpl turns and scurries down the sidewalk.

Canis Major snores and drools the whole way home. The blankets have slipped, so I spend 20 minutes out there with the Murphy's Oil Soap scrubbing the seats, doors and center console. It is DH's new car, and drool seems to have a corrosive effect.

DH calls it "the world's most expensive soup bone"

[bubbaray]

You guys are great -- I'm calming down.

Stupid Dog's (he'll be dear tomorrow, I'm a softie) intestinal obstruction 6 years ago nearly killed him. He was about 2 hrs away from death, apparently. Had emergency surgery, they didn't think he'd make it, blah blah blah.

$2,000 later and a week in the vet's for observation, he came home. Stupid Dog STILL eats anything rubber (hello? don't you remember?). Of course, we did not have pet ins. at the time.

Good thing they are cute, right?