Hey !!!

I can remember getting the scale wrong on the Terracotta Army....And watching Stonehenge being built.
(Ask me which figures I made a couple of months ago, and I'd have to check in 'the book'.)

Cheers - Phil

In fact, they've recently matched up the DNA of the bloodstain on the third trilith. Guess who?

Can't be Phil, he's got green stuff in his veins

Stomach churning half an hour, last night.....When the 'pup' was sick and then had some sort of fit.

He seems fine now, thank goodness.
Almost certainly a big blooper on my part, as I gave the dogs my leftovers of 'spagbog'..... which I'd covered in garlic granules....Idiot, Phil.

Be keeping a close eye on him today.

Cheers - Phil

Hope he recovers.....

But dogs have to learn Phil.
They will just scoff anything on sight and then worry what it will do to them later - it is instinct.

I remember (as a lad) my aunt had a Boxer like that, she ran off into the woods when out on a walk - after 10 minutes we went looking for her and found her another 5 minutes later scoffing at the carcass of a very well rotted badger. The stink was horrific - but she looked very pleased with herself, & oh yes, she'd also rolled in it for good measure!

We managed to drag her off it - without getting covered in the rotting slime. But then there was the task of how we got her home in the car!!! Thankfully we were not that far away, so I had to lean out of the back window holder her lead, whilst my aunt drove at a snails pace along the road.
When we finally got home, the dog was then tethered to a stake in the middle of the lawn and then blasted with the garden hose - which she thought was a great hoot.

After she had dried off and a few hours later when my aunt had relented and forgiven her, she was allowed into the house.
In the middle of our supper - she got up from her bed - walked into the middle of the kitchen and proceeded to erupt at both ends simultaneously - talk about projectile vomit and defecation! It was like a shot gun ... and the smell was unbelievable. My little sister, seated at the kitchen table eating her supper, immediately threw-up onto the floor and the Boxer swiftly moved in to hoover it up!!!

It's one of the reasons I dont have dogs  

As we say...

Quote from: Big Insect on 11 June 2021, 08:22:34 AM
But dogs have to learn Phil.

But did it learn? Or did it roll in the next dead badger it happened across?

Edit: And just for laughs, Dog vs. Cat Diary

Yes, Garlic is NO. But our dog seems to like trampling though Wild Garlic plant... worrying... but no ill effect as far as can tell.

Perhaps the boxer was the inspiration for the badgers and burrows thread

Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 11 June 2021, 07:40:24 AM
Hope he recovers.....

All seems absolutely fine...thanks, Ian.

Mark...re the rotting carcass....Our first dog did something similar with a decomposing hedgehog he found in the garden, back in Notts. The stink was unbelievable .....we just turned a hose on him.

HH....I should have thought before I gave him the leftovers......I know any types of 'onions' are dangerous for dogs...We're particularly careful if we fry onions, making sure the dogs don't get any.

Cheers - Phil.

Phil: Good to hear he's better. 

With regards to my dog, A GSD, 'Trampling' Wild Garlic... at leas the does not EAT the stuff... wonder about paws, though, but seems ok.

Sometimes wonder about the early 'decline' of a previous GSD
At THAT time, Ma used to eat Grapes.. possibly, she might have let him have the odd one.... hope not, but too late to know, now. 

I know that, when I was a child, she used to share her Chocolate Buttons with a Siamese Cat... BUT he lived to 10-12 and not 'too' bad for a 'breed'.

Until just a few years ago, plant/food Toxicity was something that we were rather ignorant about. If someone has kids... maybe some  lessons?

Chocolate, and any of the garlic/onion tribe, are major no-nos for kitties. Even tiny doses are like lead or arsenic - they build up.

This all DOES make you think.....

A lot of things (food) that various pets (particularly cats and dogs) will scoff to their hearts content are simply, 'not good for them'.....To the point of poisoning/killing them.

We've discovered 'all sorts stuff' about NOT giving pets various types of food.

Our first dog was (from his previous owners 'instructions') VERY fond of grapes.........That's another big no-no.

Plant toxicity, HH ?

Oh...Yes....One of our first sheep spent a morning munching on rhododendrum (how do you spell that?) leaves, through a fence.....I didn't know sheep could throw up.
She did survive, though at the time, the vet didn't have much hope......But that was after two complete pots of charcoal tablets.

Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: Techno II on 12 June 2021, 10:10:07 AM
This all DOES make you think.....

A lot of things (food) that various pets (particularly cats and dogs) will scoff to their hearts content are simply, 'not good for them'.....To the point of poisoning/killing them.

<SNIP>

Cheers - Phil.

True of human animals too