The Labraventures of Carbón, Spanish (ex-) foster dog extraordinaire

HAH

HAH

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Location
Devon, UK
Oi vey, WHAT a rollercoaster Emily! Muchos well done on your vet visit, and I hope you don't have too much of a shiner from Carbon's quite understandable headbutt :shock: Poor fella, a bit of notice is the least one can expect...
Love your photos, what a super gang to catch up with; beautiful girls, and Senor Carbon shines through :love:

You have an excellent eye for the architecture too (whatever Carbon says) x
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
snowbunny said:
:cwl:

Oh, I love the old girl, what a sweetie! And amazing how settled they look all together in the car. Mine would not behave like that! :D

How is his foot now?
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That's Panci...she's 13 and if I remember right she is Joy's mum as Joy is Koa's mum. When I last visited two years ago, Koa was 6 weeks old. :)

His foot is much better, thanks. In fact, I think today he can finally go without the boot especially as we are just going for a ride in the car and a gentle short walk around. The boot has been fabulous, though...I would not have felt right walking him so much in town without it. Very useful to keep a couple in the emergency dog kit!
 
Joy

Joy

Location
East Sussex
Gosh the worm episode turned out to be a bit more traumatic than I was expecting! But you seem to be coping with your usual aplomb🧘‍♀️And Carbon seems to take it all in his stride too.
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Joy said:
Gosh the worm episode turned out to be a bit more traumatic than I was expecting!
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Thank you for the perfect intro. :highfive:

I actually thought I was done for the day, but we had such an exciting evening that I had to update on Carbon's veterinary adventure. Bearing in mind that I'd asked the vet if Carbon needed to be kept calm for the next few days and he said no, about three hours after giving him his de-worming medication I thought it would be nice to take a short drive to a small village that had been recommended by my Airbnb hostess. An easy thirty minutes in the car, a walk around the Roman thermal springs and the village and we're done for the evening, right?

All was right until about two minutes before we arrived at the village. Carbon stood up in the back of the car - something he rarely does - and I hear the sound of splashing. As I was trying to turn my head but still not run the car into a tree, he lurched forward, hung his head over my shoulder and continued to vomit into the front seat. I got the car parked as quickly as I could, rushed to open the back door and get him unhooked from his seatbelt. Out he flops onto the dirt and vomits yet again. It's gobs of water, plus his breakfast and his small lunch I gave him with his tablets. Then he limped over to a nearby tree and had a simultaneous wee and poo. Then vomited water again.

Oh. My. Goodness. Poor dog! And poor car! And my poor messenger bag as he'd also vomited right into that! :doh:

I won't go into the cleaning details, but let me just say that I have a TON of large towels in the car and the only one that he didn't hit was the one I was sitting on in the driver's seat. But it got cleaned as best as I could until I could get back to our place and run a very large, very hot load of laundry.

The little thermal spring village turned out to be very quiet and lovely. I just let Carbon sniff and amble to his heart's content. Strangely enough, he seemed perfectly fine despite erupting like Mount Vesuvius from every orifice not 20 minutes prior. That is one tough dog.

Needless to say, he's not getting his dinner tonight. To add insult to injury, he also had to have his very first bath - doctor's orders. He's gone to bed now and I'm pretty sure he's not speaking to me. Hopefully all will be forgiven tomorrow!

I was going to go to the Arezzo antiques market in the morning, but I think we'll play it by ear. I want to wait and see how our patient is doing!

"This is NOT fun anymore, foster lady!"
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SwampDonkey

SwampDonkey

Moo always used to puke on drontal. I know a few different dogs do. You will need to get some different worming tablets they've not gone through his system if hes puked them up. Did you see them in his sick or your bag? Sorry...you know I would look I've even been known to have a quick sort through
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Jacqui-S said:
Thinks it's 2 hours max for humans. I think dog transit times must be quicker.
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Thanks - good to know. I keep thinking that he wouldn't have had that reaction unless it had gone into his system. Still, not sure it will be good to give him a second dose as prescribed. :confused:

SwampDonkey said:
Did you see them in his sick or your bag?
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I didn't, but some of his food was about the same color as the tablets, so it would have been easy to miss.

Jacqui-S said:
Saying it again....not sure you have uneventful trip in your repertoire x
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Truer words! But maybe Carbon and I could manage a COUPLE boring days? :unsure:
 
Jacqui-S

Jacqui-S

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Location
Fife, Scotland
Jelinga said:
I looked up in Google and it suggested getting in touch with Bayer if the dog has a bad reaction. It was thought that 4 hours it might be possible that the tablet had left the stomach and gone into the intestine.
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oh that's much longer than I thought.

Lilly has also been sick with Drontal before :(
 
Emily_Babbelhund

Emily_Babbelhund

Mama Red HOT Pepper
Location
Regensburg, Germany
Joy said:
I hope you have an uneventful night.
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He seems fine now, if quiet...but he's always quiet in the evening. Fingers crossed!

If I give him the second dose tomorrow as instructed, then I'll make sure we're in for the evening and he stays quiet. It could have been nausea plus the bumpy Italian roads that did him in, poor pup.
 
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