Last week, Kona and I were grocery shopping. I'm in the freezer section, cooler doors open, looking for something (I forget what) when I hear a man's voice say, "Hey! Your dog has a chicken bone in it's mouth!"
I immediately look at Kona and I see her chewing something.... crunchy.
So there I am, in the middle of the aisle in the grocery store, on my knees prying open Kona's mouth, get her mouth open, reach in and pull out the end of a chicken drumstick. Splintered. So I go back in and begin pulling shards of chicken bone out of her mouth, her throat, I mean my hand was down as far as I could reach, up to my wrist in her mouth, still pulling out shards of bone and tossing them on the floor all the while saying something like:
"What are you doing, this could kill you! You could choke too death! And I need you, girl! What would I do without you?"
And more splinters of chicken bones tossed on the floor and my hand and wrist are covered with chicken fat and dog saliva. And a crowd of people gathered around -- I don't know if just to watch or because we were blocking the aisle....
Anyway, finally I dislodged what I could. Thankfully, Kona is not the type of dog who would bite me even with my hand in her mouth. My old dog, Boomer, would've probably bitten my hand off... Kona is gentle... and
Thank God for the guy who told me about the bone. Or I never would have known what she was eating.
When I got up off the floor, only one guy was left watching me. I thanked him. And fled, leaving the chicken bone and splinters where they landed on the floor because I didn't want Kona to go for them again. Checked out of the store quickly, drove home as fast as I could, called my vet (Hillary) left a message, googled "what to do if dog eats chicken bone" -- found a website that said feed the dog bread, and heck I just left the grocery store and didn't buy bread, but had some flour tortillas and so feed her a bunch of tortillas and her usual dog food and some water, she ate and drank everything and thankfully Hillary called back --- and also thankfully, Kona wasn't throwing up and was eating but spent the next 72 hours on "poop watch". Fun! I mean I pick poop daily, twice a day actually, but not used to "examining it"... yikes
Thankfully, she's okay.
Ah, the life of a Service Dog and her handler!
BTW: what kind of idiot eats a chicken drumstick in the grocery store and just tosses the bone on the floor?
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Was it a cooked chicken leg? The aroma of those makes it awfully tempting to eat right then and there, but in answer to your question: a slob.
Yes, the deli sells fried chicken... figured that was where it came from
Poor dogs in Mexico they will eat anything! I'm glad Kaona is fine and I guess next time you walk into that grocery store you have to look around for any food on the floor, is sad that people are so careless these days. I wanted to ask you for advise, my husband bday is coming up, he is turning 50 and he has never been in Florida, he grew up in GA but I guess he never adventured to Florida, so I'd been thinking to take him there, any nice beaches that you recommend? My son is older so I think I can handle looking after Michael and my son. He also would like to go to California and visit Pasadena, he went to College there but the flight tickets are crazy, so it will be cheaper just to drive to Florida. Thank you for any suggestions that you may have ;)
love,
Yadira
That sure sounds stressful. Our cats have swallowed stuff they shouldn't have, which has cost us thousands of dollars in Vet bills. :( Did you tell the person at check-out about the bones on the floor so that someone could go and clean it up and another service dog wouldn't run into the same issue? Glad Kona is OK.
Lynne in CT
Lynne, I should have told someone, didn't think, just fled.... oops
Yadria, all the beaches are beautiful in Florida!!!. Depending on what you want to other than visit the beach -- you know like visit nearby attractions or museums. I've always loved Daytona Beach, just because of the boardwalk there. Also that's on the "space coast" so you might get see rocket launches!
PS: Yadira, I would recommend looking at the space coast (east coast) as we here on the west coast have been having a lot of red tide issues.... not pleasant (dead fish washing ashore, and people can't go in the water...)
Obviously, a “Florida man”! (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)
LOL Stephany!
Thank you Diane for the reply, sure we don’t want to be close to dead fish and the smell. Hope you are having a better weekend, I’d been sick for a week and now my son has the flu.
Love,
Yadira
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