WARNING! Wait until after lunch to read this! YUCK!
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and queasy stomach haters….I am definitely one of those. I can gag in a nanosecond.
It’s even hard to write this but it is a heath warning……
Emma was throwing up today which is very unusual. When I went to clean it up, it looked greenish (stomach turning). You should see my face right now.
Anyway, I was worried about Shimlette young Emmers. I made her lay in the office bed so I could watch her and moments later she hurled green again. All of her breakfast was now gone.
(old picture but this is what she looked liked)
Now I was really worried, of course. Chaps looked worried as well.
So, we went the rest of the day and she was fine until she threw up her dinner. So, I cleaned that green up and gave her a pepcide tablet that Chaps had been prescribed for his tummy ache awhile back.
Grandma was convinced she ate something from the back yard. Anyway, I was walking through my office and saw something that looked like this laying on the floor. It was kind of slimy, like it had been in her stomach. (gagging)
Mind you I had thoroughly cleaned up all of the hurls. But this was laying there, away from the clean up areas…I picked it up in a napkin and the thing was oozing green!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE CULPRIT!
It was so strange that it was the only thing I missed in my cleaning efforts.
Beware dear reader of these things. They can make your hound really sick. I think it was a butterfly worm. Are there such things?
Grandma was so freaked out. She HATES worms. I mean REALLY hates worms. She told Emma that if she started sprouting butterfly wings she would run out of the house screaming…..
More looking out for worms later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
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I have to watch Slinky when I take her out, she loves to digest grass, green leaves, weeds, etc. and she alway waits until we come inside to vomit.
I hope little Emma’s tummy is all better.
Give her patty a kiss from us.
Riley likes to chew on sticks and leaves, so I too will keep a watch on what the hounds eat while outside. Why is it they wait to come inside to hearl? Sh… I think they know they get sympathy this way:0
Hope your feeling better soon Emma.
Cat,
That looks like a caterpillar to me. They aren’t usually poisonous, but those hairs are probably the problem. They must be really irritating in Emma’s tummy.
Poor Emma. Not enough treats, trying to survive by living off the land!
Give her a hug for me. Hope her tummy settles down quick. Then I’m sure she’ll need a treat or two to recover.
Oh my – how gross is that – I cannot stand to clean up throw up – I will hurl too! It is amazing that Emma can find something like that through smell I guess – oh well back to being grossed out. Glad she is OK and that maybe Chaps will learn not to eat hairy things that crawl around outside!
Poor Emma!!!!:(((( How awful for her, and you to have to see it and clean it up! I hope she’s on the mend??!
Mary, Harley, Biggs and Leo
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Well, at least the “culprit” is gone now. Thank doG! Poor Emma. I’m sure she’ll be just fine!
It makes me wish we could all afford kennel assistants to deal with this “finer’ side of basset ownership! What we do for our bassets! Ick times three , Cat you were very brave! (I think I would join your mom and run out of the house screaming!)
That must have scared you Cat. Lisa is also very afraid of worms.
Emmers, you would make a barootiful butterhound though. Hope your tummy is all better.