Rosebud Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 :-? :oops: First of all I want to apologize for not letting everybody know about this while it was happening but I honestly haven't had time to do long posts. This past thursday Rocket kept me up till 3:00 am, well until I finally just left the door open so he could go out when he wanted to. He had the squirts. Friday morning he felt better so we went to the lake, Friday night he still had a little bit of a tummy ache and Saturday morning his stool was firming back up. But........... Saturday night he had an accident ALL OVER the CAMPER, the brand new CAMPER, I was up at 3:00 am cleaning the carpet, I was so upset that Rocket was still sick, it started to really worry me. He would just lay around and pout, by the time I got him home sunday afternoon he had traces of blood in his poop. I kept in touch with the dr. at the animal hospital, mines on vacation in Arizona. Anyways, Sunday morning he had a bowl of oatmeal, yogurt, pedialite & pepto-bismal. I then took him completely off food and water for the night. He had the same thing this morning with 1/2 cup of soft kibble and then for dinner he got a whole cup of soft kibble added. Now for the good news HE'S BETTER. He actually started fussing at Sally-Rose because she wouldn't let him say hello to me when I got home from work. He never does that. He is so happy that his tummy doesn't hurt anymore and that his butt isn't dirty. You should have seen him he was pouting about his butt being dirty not that he couldn't have anything to drink. I figured out the culpret, :o HE ATE ANOTHER FROG! and tonight when I let him out after dinner he started chasing another one. Again I'm sorry for not keeping everyone updated but I didn't have time on Friday. :angel: Quote
Angelboddy Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 I'm am just so glad that rocket feels better. Thanks for writing us to let us know what happend. I always say "better late then never" I guess you are going to have to be keeping a closer eye on him with those darn frogs. Quote
Malamum Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 oh dear....... I can imagine how worrying it must have been for you. I'm just glad he is ok now. Give him a big cuddle. Quote
behle Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 I'm happy to hear Rocket is better. So sorry he has developed a taste for frogs! :-? Pesky boy! What is he thinking? I feel for you....What an awful mess to have to clean up... :o in your BRAND NEW CAMPER! I would have been beside myself with frustration.... Anyway, glad this crisis is over! :) Quote
PamelaJ Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 so glad to hear he is better...wonder what it is about frogs that makes him sick? they're supposed to taste like chicken, no? Quote
Rowie-the-Pooh Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 No need to apologize! :D I'm just glad poor Rocket is feeling better! Poor baby! :cry: That is really strange, because yesterday, I got some kind of food poisoning, and in the morning had diehorrea(or you can say loose stools! :oops: ) and I called my mom to pick me up from school. I was really sick and still am! I know how poor Rocket felt! :roll: Glad he's all better! :D Quote
Rosebud Posted June 17, 2003 Author Posted June 17, 2003 :) Thanks you guys. Mei-Mei - He did not learn his lesson, he was after another one last night. I hate to have to do it but I think that I'm going to have to put some poison out to kill the bugs, get a bugless light blub for the back porch and run the frogs out of the back-yard. Problem is I want the frogs in my vegetable garden so that I don't have to put insect poison on the food that I will eventually eat; but if Rocket is going to eat the frogs then I guess I will have to use chemicals instead of my frogs and the good insects. Pamela - I don't this for a fact, but I have been told that frogs are poisoness to dogs, depends on which frog, some just make them sick others can kill them. I have researced it, it's just what I've heard. behle - Actually I was in shock most of the day, walking around in a daze, I never got upset with Rocket; I was upset with myself for not waking up. :angel: Quote
mouseatthebusstop Posted June 17, 2003 Posted June 17, 2003 I am sorry to haer about that. I hope Rocket is better soon :) Quote
courtnek Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 some frogs do have poison sacs in them, but I dont know exactly what kind. It's better not to let him eat them.... and I may be confusing them with toads as well, so dont take this at face value. still, reptiles carry diseases they are immune to, like salmonella, best to not let him eat them.... you could try praying mantis'....but I'm not a gardner.... glad he's better. Quote
Marble Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 i am so glad to hear he's doing better, if it makes you feel any better lady has gotten sprayed but skunks like three times in the last several months, you'd think she'd learn, but no........:) Quote
Daisysmom Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 No Rocket, no, no (Very glad he is better!! This started to sound like what Daisy used to go through...... wouldn't wish that on anyone!!!) Quote
courtnek Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 i am so glad to hear he's doing better, if it makes you feel any better lady has gotten sprayed but skunks like three times in the last several months, you'd think she'd learn, but no........ my malamute mix got skunked twice in two weeks - I was really PO'd, and actually considered shooting the skunk....(i target shoot for sport) It got old staying up till all hours of the night, washing the dog in tomato juice.... I opened the back door one night, and there she was, in my yard AGAIN, waiting for the dog, so I thought...then I realized that there was a ripped open garbage bag in the yard...my son had been leaving the garbage in the yard rather than putting it in the garbage bin...and the skunk was nursing and trying to feed her pups. I COULD NOT shoot her, knowing that she was only trying to survive.....and keep her kids alive.... Suddenly I felt sorry for the skunk, not my dog, He was a victim of circumstances, SHE was trying to survive, and keep her kids alive... I made sure from that point that my son put the garbage in the bins, but I would make a point of leaving food for her outside the yard where she could easily get it. At some point they moved on, and I never saw her again. My friends said I was nuts. But I couldnt bring myself to take her life, knowing she had pups, and knowing that she was just trying to keep them fed.... ok, so I;m an animal lover.....So SUE ME!! :D Quote
JackieMaya Posted June 18, 2003 Posted June 18, 2003 I'm so glad that Rocket is better! That had to be quite a scare for you. I always feel so awful when my babies are sick or hurt. Geez, I hope Jackie and Maya don't start eating frogs! They like to eat bugs. The Golden I used to have, "Cracker," used to like to chase frogs, but he wouldn't eat them. You would see him with his nose to the ground, then his head would pop up and then back down to the ground. It was hysterical watching him chase frogs around the yard. Quote
Rosebud Posted June 21, 2003 Author Posted June 21, 2003 :D Update on Rocket. He is back to his normal self and somewhat patiently waiting their trip to the park tommorrow morning. Now if I can just teach him that it's the frogs that made him sick. :angel: Quote
PamelaJ Posted June 21, 2003 Posted June 21, 2003 oh wow...i did not realise that frogs were poisonous...too bad your baby likes the taste of them...glad to hear he is doing better... we are taking our dogs to the beach soon...they are not water dogs so will probably only wade...is there anything at the beach i need to look out for? it's so hard to protect them sometimes when they are into EVERYTHING.... Saxo likes to pick up trash when we go for our walks and lug them home to the garden...we are constantly taking things out of his mouth :roll: :roll: Quote
Daisysmom Posted June 21, 2003 Posted June 21, 2003 Glad he is better!!! (not all frogs are poisonous) Quote
courtnek Posted June 21, 2003 Posted June 21, 2003 we are taking our dogs to the beach soon...they are not water dogs so will probably only wade...is there anything at the beach i need to look out for? it's so hard to protect them sometimes when they are into EVERYTHING.... I dont know if they reside in your country, but here we have things called Man-O-Wars; it's a form of a jellyfish. They are much smaller than jellyfish, usually blue and have 6-7 foot tentacles with poisonous stingers on them. They get washed up on shore, and you usually see them in the morning before the sun gets too hot. They look like little blue balloons with strings on them. If you have them there - KEEP THE DOGS AWAY !! They will sting anything that comes near them when they are stuck on the beach. I got stung by one in Florida as a child, and was sick as death for three days (so much for the vacation). Quote
Malamum Posted June 22, 2003 Posted June 22, 2003 ohh we have those, but we call them blue bottles. If I even see one washed up on the beach there is no way you will get me in the water - never been stung by one and I don't plan to be :D Quote
JackieMaya Posted July 10, 2003 Posted July 10, 2003 Maya and Jackie both decided that frogs are just plain icky! There was one hopping around the other day, and they both ran over to check it out. They each smelled it and walked away. They didn't even try to pick it up. Now they don't even pay attention if they see a frog. But they LOVE to eat bugs! Quote
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