Don't you hate it when you're taking your puppy for a walk and training them on commands (such as "leave it") and random strangers interfere with you? Well hoo-boy lemme tell you a story.
Olive (14 wk, female, GR) and I (single guy with a good job ladies!) went for an evening walk yesterday and we were wrapping up just a couple blocks from home when she spotted an almost fully deflated balloon on the grass. She got near it and I said "leave it" and she paused and looked back to me for a moment and then came towards me. I rewarded. Yay!
As we are about to continue, some dude says "oh let her play with it! she'll love it, she's fine!", and I once again said no it's too dangerous, she's a puppy, etc, etc. We're waiting to cross the street and the guy THROWS the deflated balloon right in front of her and she grabs it quickly and held on to it before I could even react.
Now I drop down to her level and repeatedly command her to "drop it" and she will not let it go this time. I try prying her jaws open but she's holding tight (more than she's done in the past), and I'm guessing it's because this softly deflated balloon is quite similar to the feeling of a dead water fowl.
Curse you perfect breed behaviour!
By the time I get her jaws open the balloon is gone - swallowed and she's not even phased. F*%k!
I call the vet and they advise bringing her in to try to get her to vomit it back up since it happened less than 20 mins before. I'm frantic at this point, texting vet friends, checking online, etc. All (or most) info is pointing towards inducing vomiting. So I take her to the emergency vet (I don't have a car so I use a car share, basically ran to the car, throw her in the back and drive off), and of course she doesn't understand what's going on and she's never ridden in the back of a car solo so she pees a bit...which I cleaned up (don't worry car share fans).
Anyway, they induce vomiting and she brings up the balloon (thank goodness), and she's gonna be OK. Whew. Final bill, $499.10. All because I wasn't assertive and alert enough with a random douche on the street. Fml.
Still with me?
Fast forward to this morning...I awoke to find her crunching on something. I look around and see her gnawing on my glasses. Double f%#k!
Legit cursing the heavens and myself at this point. I fell asleep with her on the sofa (we were so out of it last night and she was feeling down so I cuddled with her to sleep). Not something we do normally.
Anyway, she crunched on the lenses and though I managed to find a bunch of pieces, I think for sure she swallowed a few pieces of poly-carb lens. Guh. This is about 10-11 hours ago now.
I called the vet and they said, understandably, that vomiting was no longer an option and that I should watch her for signs of distress and check her poop for lens bits. And to call again if she stops eating/drinking, or starts vomiting or having diarrhea.
So we're on hour 11 post-lens crunch, and she seems OK, and I needed to get this all out into the world. Man, puppies are something else.
[Update] I found a few pieces of lens in her poop this morning! For you poop fans out there, this was a human-sized poop I looked through haha, and so I'm guessing adding a little extra food yesterday helped...and now she's napping.
[Update 2] Just an FYI for the folks mentioning confronting this person or finding them, or other related questions (I think one guy called me a pussy? lolol); the area I was walking through is a relatively densely populated residential area with lots of condo towers. I live right next to a massive park and beach, but nearby there is also lots of dense residential. So it's unlikely I will be able to find this person because I don't know which tower they come from, or even whether they were just visiting. And even if I did, they all have locked lobby doors so it's not like I'd be able to walk in and confront anyone. I don't really even remember his face! So I'm basically just taking the lessons from this and moving forward, while being more vigilant about quickly removing the pup from the situation (because now I'm primed to expect idiocy from people), and being more firm when I say no to others.
Olive:
Olive (14 wk, female, GR) and I (single guy with a good job ladies!) went for an evening walk yesterday and we were wrapping up just a couple blocks from home when she spotted an almost fully deflated balloon on the grass. She got near it and I said "leave it" and she paused and looked back to me for a moment and then came towards me. I rewarded. Yay!
As we are about to continue, some dude says "oh let her play with it! she'll love it, she's fine!", and I once again said no it's too dangerous, she's a puppy, etc, etc. We're waiting to cross the street and the guy THROWS the deflated balloon right in front of her and she grabs it quickly and held on to it before I could even react.
Now I drop down to her level and repeatedly command her to "drop it" and she will not let it go this time. I try prying her jaws open but she's holding tight (more than she's done in the past), and I'm guessing it's because this softly deflated balloon is quite similar to the feeling of a dead water fowl.
Curse you perfect breed behaviour!
By the time I get her jaws open the balloon is gone - swallowed and she's not even phased. F*%k!
I call the vet and they advise bringing her in to try to get her to vomit it back up since it happened less than 20 mins before. I'm frantic at this point, texting vet friends, checking online, etc. All (or most) info is pointing towards inducing vomiting. So I take her to the emergency vet (I don't have a car so I use a car share, basically ran to the car, throw her in the back and drive off), and of course she doesn't understand what's going on and she's never ridden in the back of a car solo so she pees a bit...which I cleaned up (don't worry car share fans).
Anyway, they induce vomiting and she brings up the balloon (thank goodness), and she's gonna be OK. Whew. Final bill, $499.10. All because I wasn't assertive and alert enough with a random douche on the street. Fml.
Still with me?
Fast forward to this morning...I awoke to find her crunching on something. I look around and see her gnawing on my glasses. Double f%#k!
Legit cursing the heavens and myself at this point. I fell asleep with her on the sofa (we were so out of it last night and she was feeling down so I cuddled with her to sleep). Not something we do normally.
Anyway, she crunched on the lenses and though I managed to find a bunch of pieces, I think for sure she swallowed a few pieces of poly-carb lens. Guh. This is about 10-11 hours ago now.
I called the vet and they said, understandably, that vomiting was no longer an option and that I should watch her for signs of distress and check her poop for lens bits. And to call again if she stops eating/drinking, or starts vomiting or having diarrhea.
So we're on hour 11 post-lens crunch, and she seems OK, and I needed to get this all out into the world. Man, puppies are something else.
[Update] I found a few pieces of lens in her poop this morning! For you poop fans out there, this was a human-sized poop I looked through haha, and so I'm guessing adding a little extra food yesterday helped...and now she's napping.
[Update 2] Just an FYI for the folks mentioning confronting this person or finding them, or other related questions (I think one guy called me a pussy? lolol); the area I was walking through is a relatively densely populated residential area with lots of condo towers. I live right next to a massive park and beach, but nearby there is also lots of dense residential. So it's unlikely I will be able to find this person because I don't know which tower they come from, or even whether they were just visiting. And even if I did, they all have locked lobby doors so it's not like I'd be able to walk in and confront anyone. I don't really even remember his face! So I'm basically just taking the lessons from this and moving forward, while being more vigilant about quickly removing the pup from the situation (because now I'm primed to expect idiocy from people), and being more firm when I say no to others.
Olive:
