Don't let 'em run loose.
Posted on 10/17/2021 1:51:55 PM PDT by Rebelbase
20 lb. Feist was out in a hayfield rooting around and hunting for about an hour. When I let her inside she was shaking, unsure walking (stumbling around) and had bugged out eyes and dilated pupils. She had a couple of spasms where she got up and tried to run only to bang into the couch. She peed, pooped and puked.
The puke look like it had some kind of small animal guts in it, most likely a mole, vole or mouse.
This is the 2nd time this has happened in the past 3 weeks after she has spent a long time hunting and rooting around.
The first time it did not last long before she could walk straight and was back to normal. This time it was much worse along with the expulsions which did not happen the first time.
We are out in the sticks well off the main road so a man made poison is not probable, besides, the event passes quickly and this is the 2nd time it's happened.
Yard critters around here are field rats, chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, moles, voles, toads, and blue tail salamanders (skinks).
She's recovered enough now that she is no longer shaking and is laying in her bed.
Has anyone here ever seen this before or have an idea of what she could have gotten into?
Our Chihuahua once had odd neurological fits that lasted for about 5-10 minutes and we FINALLY isolated the culprit to PRESERVATIVES in the store bought packaged cooked CHICKEN strips we fed her.
Check it out on U-Yube
Search 5 gallon bucket mouse trap.
Works great once you get it fine tuned and you probably have all you need around your place now.
So now we know how much to burn or smoke and rub on the dog's butt.
You're super helpful, I'll bet you're employed in a helpful occupation.
My friend makes her own dog food, has for years and she puts onions and garlic in it. She feeds garlic to her animals for control of fleas and ticks.
Had a dog eat a chocolate bar once. Shot a syringe of H2O2 down her throat. Up came bar.
Works well.
Not that it would apply to this particular situation, but the mix is 1/2 hydrogen peroxide to 1/2 water. Once had a dog that used to eat all kinds of stuff she shouldnt have, and this worked like a charm to bringing stomach contents up in short order.
“Add anti freeze to the water in winter”
But DON’T let the dog near the wayer with anti-freeze! Certain painful death.
I give my animals liquid silver biotics and also the silver ASAP gel. All by American Labs.
Before I got this dog I never knew what killers they were and their insane obsession with eating. She is by far the highest prey-drive dog I’ve ever owned.
This little gal had lived feral for the first year of her life. When we first got her she would smell grubs in the front yard and dig 6-8” down to eat them. I had 15 holes in the front lawn at one time.
She caught a chipmunk once and in just a few seconds she had swallowed it to the point only the end of the tail was sticking out of her mouth.
She is also insane about digging out mole and vole trails.
She is desensitized to squirrels and chipmunks because she sits in a bay window at times during the day and has seen them from 5’ away eating bird feed for years. But when a field rat shows up she goes nuts.
I agree with several others here, if you live in Florida, the Cane Toad is a potential threat to house pets. That invasive anphibian excretes a very toxic substance that would affect a pet, even if it just licked the toad. If the toad was consumed, that could be very concerning. Take him to the vet of course.
Toad licking? Bufo frog? Essentially on an acid trip.
Seen it more than once.
I would ask the vet, if I bring in the stool sample, can you determine if the kill had been poisoned, ie, a mouse having ingested warfarin (a blood thinner used as rat poison) but likely barely alive and so making an inviting quick kill to a Feist (great dogs!).
If the vet says yes, handle with care! Gloves for sure and maybe even an old Fauxi mask from 2020.
Also just track dog next time and see where he goes.
To end on a lighter note, here is Old Abe's poetry ode to the Feist.
Years ago a race horse farm here in Kentucky was losing one or two colts a year for a couple of years. Big news for over a year. Had toxicology done on one and it was arsenic. FBI got involved questioning anybody and everybody. Come to find out the horses were eating wild cherries in a back pasture and getting high doses of arsenic in their systems. They cut down and burned down to the ground all the cherry trees and a large area around it. No more losing colts. BTW cherries contain small amounts of arsenic and large quantities of cherries were being eaten by the mares, also the ground around an old cherry tree is 5x or more above EPA contamination levels for arsenic.
My dog would get into the box of See’s candies or Andie’s Mints if they were left out. She would patiently open the tinfoil wrapper on the mints.
Once had a pup that dropped a mouse tail on my daughters lap. At first she thought it was a broken hair tie.
The deafening scream came when she figured out what it was!!
Don't let 'em run loose.
As usual you are the biggest prick on a thread.
What a story! I nearly lost a goat to an azalea bush when we first moved here - we didn’t realize there was one in the pasture.
thank you ! I have some on hand just in case.....
Had a golden that got periodic seizures when it was older.
Always was suspicious of Frontline Plus.
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