Last night we had a scare with Zoe! Mike got home from work and he goes to the back room where the dogs are and see's that one of the dogs had thrown up. I started to look around and found shreds of a yellow box all over the floor...she had eaten RAT POISON!! Thankfully she had thrown it up so we didn't have to make her throw up. I had thankfully remembered that one of his friends wife worked at the emergency vet here so we got a hold of her and asked her what we should do and she told us to take her into the hospital. They took FOREVER even though we were the only ones in there! They had to take her temp in her butt! I felt so bad for her :( she was really good through it all though. The doctor came in and explained what the rat poison does and then gave us a prescription for some Vitamin K that we have to give her for the next two weeks! She is the biggest pain the butt to give pills too and these are way to big to hide in a treat so we just have to sit and make sure she eats it.
What the Vitamin K does is helps her blog start to clot again because rat poison makes rats (and other animals if they eat it!) blood then out and not be able to clot...it basically takes away their vitamin K. So we are gonna give her the Vitamin K, take her back to our regular vet to have them test her blood and make sure it clots ok with out the synthetic vitamin K and if it doesn't then she will have to be on the vitamin K for a little bit longer!!
I am just glad she is ok! I wish she wouldn't have ate it at all but it coulda been on a day when the regular vet was open so it didn't cost so much!! Silly dogs!
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