My big, beautiful, mal-mix, Kayleigh is currently at the vet and could use some good thoughts, prayers, whatever! Kayleigh is our shop dog. She hates all my other dogs and thinks my cats are snacks. This limits her in the house time, but she's very social with people. So we built her a pen attached to the shop, where Stuart spends most of his time. Kayleigh often sleeps in the shop. When we moved her over there, we very carefully went through the shop and removed hazards. Anti-freeze, oil, ect are all stored in a different building that no dog is allowed in. Pointy tools and other potential chewies are out of reach. Stuart is obsessive about his tools! I sincerely believed that there was nothing in the shop that could harm Kayleigh. She's not a chewer. Other than a couple porcupines, she's never chewed anything she shouldn't!
Last night she found a container of toothpicks. I don't know where they came from or what they were doing in the shop, but she found them and chewed up the container. Much like with the porcupines, Kayleigh did not stop chewing when she got poked! When I went to let her out this morning, her face, paws and chest were bloody. She had vomitted a large amount of blood and toothpick shards in several spots in the shop. She was lethargic and her breathing seemed off to me.
I dropped her off at the vet with instructions to do whatever they had to in order to figure out if she has internal damage. I know some of the blood is coming from her mouth, but there's way too much of it! I haven't heard from the vet yet this morning and the longer I wait, the more worried I am getting. I am friends with one of the vets outside of her professional life. As I was leaving this morning, she pulled me aside and said "this could be bad and the bill could be huge." And I really don't care, I just want Kayleigh home and ok.
I think my dog yard is cursed lately!
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