Friday, April 6, 2007

Eros

Poor Eros, he is only 17 months old, and he has already had two visits with the vet to induce vomiting for foreign body ingestion............... Interestingly, neither of these episodes were related to my own negligence,

Both incidents happened while he was at work with me, in a veterinary clinic!
The first incident involved the thorough shredding of a coworker's coat and package of new cigarettes and subsequent ingestion of said coat and unknown quantity of cigarettes.............. With the help of some apomorphine, we got the coat and tobacco out pretty much right away.
Today, I arrived at work with a 6 foot X 1 inch leather leash......... at the end of my shift, it was a 14 inch X 1 inch leather leash..............The rest was missing, supposedly in his stomach. We decided to make him vomit to see if we could get some of it out. Approximately 1/3 of the leash came out, but the rest is still in there we are presuming.................

Both incidents were innocent mistakes, how could my coworkers know that my dog likes to ingest weird objects? Poor guy, I feel so bad for him, I just hope the rest of the leash passes without incident, he did break it up into small pieces.................