Poison!

Sweet Pea's update this week lacks a weight, because we were all too traumatized to take her to Petsmart.

Sunday afternoon she got into some rat poison at a neighbor's. We called the Emergency Vet, who referred us to the ASPCA Poison Control line. They walked us through the process (induce vomiting with Hydrogen Peroxide 3%) and we called our vet this AM for a 30-day Vitamin K1 prescription.

The type of rat poison she ingested is an anti-coagulent, which means she could literally bleed to death if enough of it got into her system. The Vitamin K1 helps restore the blood's clotting ability. She'll have a blood test in 30 days to be sure she's clotting again. In the meantime, I'm not going to encourage roughhousing, so her weight loss may slow this month. That's OK with us.

Hang in there, Sweet Pea. We love you!