Oh silly Lucy! She's been very good all summer despite all my travels and leaving her behind. She's also gained 5lbs under my parents' care...
I spent the last couple of days driving to NCSU and UGA to visit and get an idea of what their clinical year programs are like since we start applying for 4th year schools this fall! Hard to believe that it's already time to do that, seems like just yesterday we were flying to the island to start the DVM program! Anyhow, this is important because along the way, we picked up some chocolate (M&Ms and Dove sea salt caramel dark chocolate) to get us through those 1300 miles we drove. We got in really late last night at 2am after 10.5 hours of driving back from UGA. Eager to get to bed, I dumped my stuff on the floor and left it at that. Today when we went to go to the store, I totally forgot I'd left all those goodies easily accessible in my bag.
Not even 10 minutes after we left, we remembered all those treats were sitting wide open on my floor where Lucy was napping. Given Lucy's naughty history, we decided we'd better turn around and take care of the snacks before she found them. Too late! When we got home, she had already helped herself to the bag of Dove, eating at least half the bag wrappers and all. Naughty, naughty. Since she's small and it's dark chocolate with foil wrappers, she of course needed an ER visit to make her vomit it back up.
We took her to the specialty hospital I just did an externship at a couple of weeks ago to say hi. A dose of apomorphine to make her vomit (smelled like chocolate! and she sure did have a full belly) along with some anzemet to counteract her nausea and she was home like new. Thankfully given the amount of chocolate, all we're expecting based on toxicity calculations is some diarrhea fallout from today's events. Maybe a little vomiting, but she had the anti-emetic making that pretty unlikely.
She acts just fine (and maybe even pleased with her thievery skills) around the house now. Playing with toys, growling at her housemates, and just generally being Lucy!
Glad it wasn't more serious, but gah! Animals certainly are expensive to love!
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