Saturday, January 16, 2010

Max's Emergency Vet Visit

Last weekend the amazing bread maker my mom got me for Christmas fell off the counter (because I left it too close to the edge). The dough landed on the ground, so we threw the dough in the garbage. We put the dogs in the kennel and went shopping. We got back to find the dogs had gotten out of their kennel for the first time ever and had gotten into the garbage and ate the dough. We didn't think much about it until Max didn't sleep all night, was stumbling all over, couldn't stand up, and had diarrhea all over the rug. It was Sunday and 6 am when we looked up online what happens (the yeast ferments in their stomach into alcohol and rises which can cause blockage and cause them to get drunk) when they eat dough and read that they could die, so we called an emergency vet clinic and they told us to get him in right away because he could indeed die. He was on an IV and had activated coal to detox. It ended up costing us $1000!

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