10.25pm. I am sitting on the sofa watching tv (for a change), Bob is lying peacefully in his crate (door open) and I can hear Ebby playing happily upstairs. Everthing is hunky-dory.
All of a sudden I see Bob lurch out of his crate and get something, and go back in the crate, no not Ebbsbut one of her toy mice, I could just see it before it disappeared down his throat (Ebby must have thrown it over the stair-rail).
Lured Bob into the living-room so I could lock his crate to stop him getting back in, rummaged and found the peroxide and syringe (sp), fillled it, hoping I had got the dosage right. Let Bob out and fooled him into letting me dose him, opened the back door and sent him out. Waited and watched him through the little window by the door.
It is wet out there tonight and of course dark. I have the hall light on and the kitchen blinds open and with him having a fair bit of white fur I can see him pretty well.
Five minutes, no joy, so I fill the syringe again, knowing full well as I do so I am wasting my time, he will never let me give him another dose.
(Warning some yukkyness follows )
Go outside with the syringe and shine the torch around, nothing except for two small piles of poop he has done....eeeewww and it stunk out there! Tried to give him another dose but no way....then he vomited, twice, and yes, the mouse was out!
Clean up time, and boy was there a lot of clean-up to do! Cleaned up the poop...forgot to mention, it is wet and those horrible slimy slug things are out in force also.... wishing all the time the back light was working, hang on, maybe it is! Worth a try. Go inside, switch on, yeah, its working! Have light to clean up the vomit by, and there was a lot of it!
All done, go back in, there`s Bob, waggy tail, big grin, the lot! Like nothings happened. And there`s Ebbs, all sulks cos her mouse has gone.....Dogs!!! Cats!!!...words fail me!
This is the same type of mouse as Bob ate, only difference the colour, Bobs tasty treat was yellow with black spots!
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