Yuck - he ate lots of grass clippings

[mtoy]

My *genius* husband cut the lawn yesterday and didn't bag the clippings. Link chowed on them he let him out this morning (another *genius* thing to do) and has been vomiting ever since. He's emptied his tummy, it's down to an occasional bile upchuck whenever we give him a small amount of water. Stinky bile, eeew. And, we have him confined to the kitchen so he's upset and yelping about that too. Lots of fun here!:SHOCKED:

[CorgiMum]

Dylan had a nibble at a small pile of grass that was missed by the mover picking it up when he was a pup. I think to the dogs, the chewed up grass looks like something from the cows.

What scared me was the thought that the lawn may still have had fertilizers etc in it.

[corgimom]

Mtoy,

Cody likes the lawn clippings also - he will sometimes stop to try and eat the clumps even when we are on our walks. I have to pull him away and say "leave it" - not sure what the attraction is.

[LaRositaMonita]

Poor little boy! What do you think are the chances that he'll at least have learned his lesson? :(

[mtoy]

Luckily we keep our backyard totally chemical free. If we had put anything on it at all I would be crazy with worry. He's sleeping now, and so far has kept the last water sip down for maybe 45 minutes.

[CorgiMum]

Luckily we keep our backyard totally chemical free. If we had put anything on it at all I would be crazy with worry. He's sleeping now, and so far has kept the last water sip down for maybe 45 minutes.

He's probably over the worst of it then. They do give us worries don't they?:EEK:

[Dillydoodle]

Sure hope he is feeling better. Dillon also goes after grass clumps on our walks. We always bag and dispose of the grass clippings, but sadly not everyone else on the street does... and any that might be in the street on the walks is fair game for Dillon. I am constantly telling him to leave it and giving him a leash correction but he cant resist a fresh grass clumps- I never allow it becuase of the chemicals and such that other people use on their lawns.

Emilie

[MVons]

When we had a lawn (no grass only weeds and welcome native flowers in the mountains), we never bagged the clippings because we kept a chemical free lawn. The clippings are natural fertilizer for the lawn. What I found that worked was to rake the clippings. It spread it out and the clumps we removed.

Ah memories of Pepper with green paws and the vomit before we learned to rake. When I was too weak in spirit to deny Pepper her dinner in the evening, I gave her 1/2 of pepto-bismal which coated the stomach before dinner. Just beware, the poop can be black after pepto-bismal. But that was ONLY if she was vomit free for 6 hours. If not, too bad, no dinner, lesson to not eat the stuff. The books say to keep a dog off food for 24 hours to allow the system to recover. But I'm a softy. I do try to do the boiled hamburger for a first meal if I have it in the house.

With that much wrenching, you'd be best to not feed until tomorrow morning. Good luck with the whining, and those eyes watching you eat your dinner.

Merrie

*** Pepper loved the Shaklee alfalfa, so it must be the chlorophyll in grass that they love.

[Hayashi_eri]

:CONFUSED: Grass chowing Corgi...Buta loves to roll in them when she discovers there are some dead slugs or snails in them:EEK:

[mtoy]

When we had a lawn (no grass only weeds and welcome native flowers in the mountains), we never bagged the clippings because we kept a chemical free lawn. The clippings are natural fertilizer for the lawn. What I found that worked was to rake the clippings. It spread it out and the clumps we removed.

Ah memories of Pepper with green paws and the vomit before we learned to rake. When I was too weak in spirit to deny Pepper her dinner in the evening, I gave her 1/2 of pepto-bismal which coated the stomach before dinner. Just beware, the poop can be black after pepto-bismal. But that was ONLY if she was vomit free for 6 hours. If not, too bad, no dinner, lesson to not eat the stuff. The books say to keep a dog off food for 24 hours to allow the system to recover. But I'm a softy. I do try to do the boiled hamburger for a first meal if I have it in the house.

With that much wrenching, you'd be best to not feed until tomorrow morning. Good luck with the whining, and those eyes watching you eat your dinner.

Merrie

*** Pepper loved the Shaklee alfalfa, so it must be the chlorophyll in grass that they love.


Yesterday my son and I went out and raked the clips, it does help a lot. That will satisfy DH, he likes to fertilize by leaving them in place.

I ended up being a softy on the food too. I started him on a bit of kefir last night, it stayed down just fine. This morning was his regular breakfast of more kefir and kibble. He's back to normal now.

Yes, those eyes watching you eat dinner....:ARG:

[MVons]

I did a search on Kefir and it is incredible. Perfect for this situation, even better than yogurt. Good to know.

Glad Link is back to normal, and gone are those penetrating eyes.

Merrie

[mtoy]

Kefir really is incredible, I wish I had known about it years ago. It has cured my nausea when I have used it too. It's now a staple for pets and humans in our fridge. Unsweetened, plain, low fat, that is (but I like to add a spoonful of jam to mine).