toughCookie
04-13-2002, 03:20 AM
well things are okay now, but I had, I should say, Emma had a bad scare this morning!
Last night I kept getting woke up by a thumping noise, so I got up to see, and everything was fine... then this morning when I was here at the computer, I heard it again but different...Emma was playing with one of those over the door toys, that have the elastic with a squeaky toy.. well she has loved that, played with it all week, and when I heard the noise, I turned, there she was, I laughed at first, she looked like she was having tons of fun, then I suddenly realized she was jumping, and trying to free herself, from the string!!
I jumped up and grabbed the scissors , cut it, it was wrapped around her middle. I tried to unwind it off of her, but she was going wild, so i just cut the string, then she was running around the house with this squeaky toy and string wrapped around her back foot, and I kept hearing the squeak. It would have been funny if I wasn't so worried about her, and she did not want to be caught. finally after 10 minutes of chase and moving out the couch, I got her in a corner and had to grab her by the scruff, pulled her straight up, and cut the string.
her leg is okay, it wasn't that tight luckily. I threw all toys like that away. the horrible thought of that happening in the night, just makes me so scared, I guess those are not safe, I usually don't leave those kind of toys out when Im not home or at night,
but sometimes they get left out. I feel so bad endangering them like that, I am just glad I was there when it happend. it was pretty awful this morning, and I feel like such a bad "mom" for that happening. that minute when I realized she wasn't playing...:(
Last night I kept getting woke up by a thumping noise, so I got up to see, and everything was fine... then this morning when I was here at the computer, I heard it again but different...Emma was playing with one of those over the door toys, that have the elastic with a squeaky toy.. well she has loved that, played with it all week, and when I heard the noise, I turned, there she was, I laughed at first, she looked like she was having tons of fun, then I suddenly realized she was jumping, and trying to free herself, from the string!!
I jumped up and grabbed the scissors , cut it, it was wrapped around her middle. I tried to unwind it off of her, but she was going wild, so i just cut the string, then she was running around the house with this squeaky toy and string wrapped around her back foot, and I kept hearing the squeak. It would have been funny if I wasn't so worried about her, and she did not want to be caught. finally after 10 minutes of chase and moving out the couch, I got her in a corner and had to grab her by the scruff, pulled her straight up, and cut the string.
her leg is okay, it wasn't that tight luckily. I threw all toys like that away. the horrible thought of that happening in the night, just makes me so scared, I guess those are not safe, I usually don't leave those kind of toys out when Im not home or at night,
but sometimes they get left out. I feel so bad endangering them like that, I am just glad I was there when it happend. it was pretty awful this morning, and I feel like such a bad "mom" for that happening. that minute when I realized she wasn't playing...:(