What is Wrong With the Dog?!?!?!??!???

Oh my GOD......never give a dog a lamb bone. This is a lesson I wish we hadn't learned the HARD, nasty way.....

This past weekend was Easter. It was also Greek Easter. So, we packed up Nick and the dog and headed up to visit my parents. As usual, we had a wonderful time and lots of great food. Nick tried some mashed potatoes and really liked them.

Well, since it was Greek Easter, we had lamb. And the lamb came with a bone. My dad and Andy decided it would be a good idea to give this bone to Ginger.....yes, in theory this sounds like an okay plan. Obviously, you wouldn't give chicken bones to a dog, but what's wrong with a little lamb bone, right....?

Ginger was thrilled with her bone and quickly devoured the entire thing. Yes, the entire thing....not sure how she did this, but there was no bone to be found.

That night, the trouble started....she seemed to have a little diarrhea.....okay, gross, but she was doing it outside....so, we put her away for the night and went to bed.

The next morning.....and here is where my story gets NASTY, so stop reading if you don't want all the gory details......well, the next morning we discovered that Ginger and her bowels had been rather busy all night! Thank goodness she's in an UNfinished part of the basement with cement floors.

I'm not sure if there was a jagged part of the bone that caused a little internal damage, because there was blood mixed in with all the brown stuff. I was wondering if she was going to die or something! It was pretty bad.

By the time Andy got home from work, she and her bowels were feeling fine and on their way to being normal. I refused to clean up the nasty mess, so Andy got out the bleach and a scrub brush and got busy. I had to clean up after that dog went through her second [and LAST] heat, because Andy was in China. That time, she had dripped all over the cement floor, so I was scrubbing with bleach on my knees for hours. Andy got a little luckier, although there was the brown stuff mixed in.....gross, gross, gross!

Needless to say.....knick knack, paddy-whack.....never give your dog a lamb bone! Hell, for that matter, we'll never be giving her any bones PERIOD unless they come from the pet store and are filled with something safe like peanut butter......