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wacky tobacy hazard
Topic Started: Aug 18 2010, 05:59 PM (141 Views)
Delphi51
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Our 5 pound Yorkshire Terrior was playing in the grass by the beach at our favourite lake before going on a walk with us and the 2 other dogs we are looking after. All of a sudden he had trouble walking - back legs not working so well. Soon he couldn't walk at all and when my wife picked him up his eyes were rolling around aimlessly. His had some short episodes of what we thought were convulsions. There was an animal hospital an hour away in Chetwynd, but the vets were away so we drove another hour to Dawson Creek. By this time he was noticeably better and wide awake. He walked a few steps for the vet, then the back end collapsed. The vet examined his eyes and said the pupils were wide open, temperature a bit low, heart rate low. He told us it was a classic case of a dog who had swallowed marijuana, and that he had seen quite a few cases. Looks like Pippy found a bad butt on the beach. Apparently dogs like the sweet taste of the stuff. He should be fully recovered in a day or two. But it was pretty scary and he still looks terrible after 8 hours.
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I'm seeing a reality show: Pooches On Pot!!

Mebbe it's time for bed....
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Sorry Delphi to hear about the scary experience with your wee Yorkie. I am glad to hear that Pippy will be recovered in a day or two.

When you mentioned Chetwynd, it brought to mind my very first cyber friend who lived in Chetwynd and was a retired Mountie. I met him through Net Friends, and with my name being Pat, I think he thought he was contacting a male. We became good friends and wrote daily, and he and his wife were such a help through email and long distance when my husband was near the end.

Take care,
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With your Yorkie nosing out a juicy butt on the lake beach, bought mind the latest dangers on some of the sea beaches here. The symptoms appear to be similar to the initial marijuana poisoning but get worse rapidly ...... and some children were affected last year on another local beach.

In some local rivers there have been algal blooms especially in summer when the water flow is at its lowest ...... dogs, nosing about near the water's edge, have either breathed in a noxious gas, or licked the affected water, and died soon after. This appears to be something new, probably as a result of local climate changes, as kids we used to spend hours in and out of the water right through summer and had none of these problems at all.

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People are being warned to supervise dogs and children on an eastern beach after toxic sea slugs were discovered there for the first time.
Warnings signs will be put up this afternoon on Kohimarama Beach after a slug containing tetrodotoxin was found by a woman walking her dog.
The poison is the same as that found in the vomit of two dogs that died last winter after visiting North Shore beaches.

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So glad your little stoner is recovering......How scary that must have been!!
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Thanks for the empathy. Pippy is fine now, running around as only an 8 month old puppy can.

That mountain lake is still free of the blue-green algae that is infecting so many of our lakes now as the summers are so warm. My wife and I were there for 5 days and we were in the lake every day swimming and paddling around in our inflatible kayaks.
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Inflatable kayaks? Never heard of them. Where would one buy one? Are they specifically designed solely for calm water?
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Oh, thanks for asking b-J. Here we are at the lake with them . . .
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They are quite a lot of fun! Definitely just for calm water; even a little wind makes it awkward to go where you want to. We usually get a little wet, so it has to be warm, too. They are quite comfortable and an hour disappears quite quickly while we sit in the middle of the lake or cruise the shoreline. We bought them at Canadian Tire, a big box store something like Walmart or Camping World.

That lake is perfectly heart shaped; it was a nice place to spend our 35th anniversary.
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Looks like a lot of fun Delphi. I had not seen those before. Are they expensive? We have a fun kayak we use at the lake...it is like the ones at resorts that you play in the surf with.
They are very costly. Ours is yellow and we call it the banana boat banana77
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Thanx Delphi, but I think Puget Sound would be a bit too rough for those!!
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