GRAPES OF WRATH!

[Chris & Boys]

Well, never a dull moment at our house. Last week we were on vacation with a friend of mine from Michigan and we had a great time. I was actually more relaxed than I had been in months. Yesterday I was getting a bunch of paperwork together for the boys returning to school that I needed to work on. I left the room, started organizing the papers in order of importance and noticed that the bowl of grapes that the boys were eating during lunch were gone. Wow, I couldn't believe they finished the whole bowl??!!?? Now wait a minute.......we must have had an intruder in our house......it has taken me 8 years to get them to remember to clear their own plate, I still haven't gotten them to clear other things off the table! So, I open the fridge to see if the grapes were somehow miraculously placed in the fridge, since I knew I didn't do it. Nope. The search begins...."Boys, do you have the grapes downstairs?"......"NO!"....hmmmmm. Yep, under the dining room table, one extremely empty bowl, not a grape in sight. Ugh! "BOYS! GET UP HERE!" We proceded to fix Fozzy Bear a cocktail of hydrogen peroxide and force it down his gizzard. Then the fun began. On the driveway poor Fozzmonster began heaving and barfing up a storm, 6 times!......what a joy! Got him in the car, oops, not so quick, one more, nope, two more times, OK, now we are off. Um, make that three more times. We got to the ER Vet and got a charcoal cocktail for the poor little guy and went home. So,four hours and $200 later, we hope we did the right thing. The vet said they could keep him and push fluids with an IV, but that wouldn't guarantee anything more than what they had already done. So, I have to take him in Tuesday and get his kidney function rechecked.

So much for getting that paperwork done.....

[Linda,Yankee & Finn]

I didn't realize that grapes for a dog were that serious of an issue. Thanks for sharing and I hope Fozzy is OK.

[Kevin Poole, Penny & Ozzy]

Grapes aren't good for them then? My mom used to give grapes to her toy poodle, we used to give them to our Collies, and Jeri used to give them to her Dobermans. Only one every now and then though, maybe that makes a difference.