Monday, July 21, 2008

This is a copy & paste from Mommy's blog, it happened last Monday.

Monday was pretty interesting. It was just about 8 o'clock & we were getting ready to watch King Kong on tv; it was starting to rain so hubby ran the dog out. A minute later I hear him talking very loudly downstairs so I ask what's wrong. "I think he ate a frog" I grab a towel & a bowl of water remembering some frogs/toads have a liquid they emit in order to protect themselves. The poor dog is frothing at the mouth, we're trying to make him throw up & get the saliva off his skin & out of his mouth. He finally throws up & here's me digging through it to find what he ate, all I find is his dinner from 2 hours earlier. By now it's pouring, hubby goes outside to find whatever it was since we thought it could be a Cane toad (they are very toxic) Hubby found the poor thing; it could only move the top legs not the bottom. It was not visibly injured or mangled thankfully & he is now in semi hibernation in my freezer. Please do not criticize me, this is the humane way to kill it, I checked many websites. The dog has no other symptoms & he was thoroughly rinsed & washed inside & out so we think he just got a little taste. Needless to say our movie night never happened since by the time all of this was over it was close to 10 PM.

I am learning new words because of this. While we walk & I snuffle around on the ground mommy says stuff like 'rock' 'leaf', etc. cause there are so many things that look like frogs until you get right up on them! I'm also not allowed to get too close to the creek anymore, even in the daytime. Mommy is afraid that if I get to liking frogs I won't be able to resist toads.

2 comments:

-J. said...

Don't worry too much, it happens... my Ginger got to a bird in Central Park last week, quick as a flash.

-J. said...

What's your other blog?