Pins And Needles and UFO's - A Lesson For Dog Owners

What? What is this? Hold on now, this is an informative post, not like the usual homemaking/collecting/girly type post, but one that any of you who own a dog should read. This week has been a little trying. You see, my little Scotty Dog, Mr. D. (D for EVERYTHING is D-Licious) has been a sick little wee one. Each morning he has vomitted, however he didn't really show distress because he ate and did his number two just fine. But we took him to the vet and after an xray of his tummy, we found a UFO - unidentifed forgeign object in his stomach. The pic above is not him, but a dog that swallowed a KNIFE! Go to:http://www.dogguide.net/blog/2007/12/the-most-shocking-things-ever-found-inside-of-a-dogs-stomach/ for some interesting reading and more photos. Below is the knife taken from a dog's stomach. Perhaps it was a circus dog, who knows, but our guy has what appears to be a little metal twist tie in him. Just big enough to have to go in and remove, non-surgically we hope.


Our vet was telling us about the different things that have been removed from her patient's stomachs.... a little pink toy purse, a film canister, a necklace...just to name a few. So, if you have dogs, you may want to read up on the symtoms that come with swallowing a UFO and the treatment for removing them.

Here Doogs is sniffing a little gift of doggies treats. These he CAN have!

"See, Doogs, this is WHAT you CAN eat!" Now the pins and needles bit of this post is a two fer - one for being on pins and needles over my sick pooch and then having accomplished a bit of sewing, not as much as I had wanted - but finished these two springtime pillows. Both are available on eBay, under Cottage*Dreams.

I just wanted to tell everyone thank you for your wonderful comments that were left on my last post. You are all so very sweet! Now I am off to do more cleaning and to get things ready to launch on my ETSY, which is coming along. Mary, over at Isabella's Closet, made me my sweet banner for the ETSY and the one that you see at the top of my blog. Mary does such wonderful work ~ thank you, Mary!