Lacey Vessell

If I placed this in the wrong topic - moderators please correct.

I thought it would be interesting to find out from fellow forum members some of the strange things their dogs have ingested and the story behind it - as ingesting strange things is usually a health concern. I will start:

After comming home from "food" shopping, I found a bag with hygiene products and moved it to one of the bathrooms, placing it on the sink, to sort through and put away after I stored the perishables. I then let the dogs out back. I guess I did not close the back door properly because I noticed Jarko and Dunya were now in the living room, Jarko can open doors that are not latched properly - first thought was where is Coda. I called her name and she came down the hallway with one of those looks - you know the look - like she had been caught in the act of doing something she was not suppose to be doing. Went to investigate, and low and behold the bag that I had placed on the sink was now on the floor, as well as its contents. One of the contents was a box of tampons, Coda had ripped apart the cardboard box and obviously opened a few as there were several plastic wrappers on the floor. A quick count revealed that there were 3 missing - I searched around the house and could not find them. Yup, Coda ate them. All this in a matter of a few minutes. Called my friend who is knowledgeable about dogs and he told me not to worry that she would "pass them". I began wondering about this as most of us know - they expand. I told my friend Amanda, who promptly called the vet (something I should have done from the start). Vet advised us to give her a teaspoon of Hydrogen Peroxide which would cause her to "throw them up". I was worried that they might get stuck in her throat comming back up so off to the vet we went. When we got to the vet, I checked in with the receptionist. She announced to the waiting room full of clients "Oh, your dogs the one that ate the tampons". They lead Coda to the back and after several minutes called me back to show me what had been the contents of her stomach that were now on the examining table - yup, three expanded tampons. The vet calmly explained that had I waited, more likely then not they would not have "passed", and instead caused an infection which would have required surgery or worse might have killed her. Definitely a lesson learned for me - Coda goes to her crate whenever I cannot have both eyes on her.

Needless to say I heard alot of jokes about this incident such as: No worries about having a reward for obedience - better then a ball on a string and you can keep it in your pocket during a trial - how can the judge disqualify you?