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| From: | Callie (71.0.67.205)
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| Subject: | Well -- she picked the appropriate lable |
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Date: | December 25, 2008 at 9:40 pm PST |
Yesterday, I thot I'd be cute. David bought himself and I a little black "bag" for "Coal" for next to the stockings. On the other hand, when I was at the "last call" at the grocery store of course they had a new gigundo display for stocking stuffers and they had Hershey Kisses -- in 'white' foil for "Nice" and in black foil for "Naughty". Just 7.6 oz. of milk chocolate.
So I got him a package of "Naughty" ones for HIS "coal" bag.
Got home -- set the stuff down and let the 16 thundering feets (Billy, Luna, Kee, Tink) make their way to the back door. (well, Kee's aren't exactly thundering -- she's pretty slow) -- but that "slow down" gave SOMEBUDDY the opportunity to race back to where I'd put the sacks down (we have a weird set up -- we have a door going in/out of the bedroom which is how we enter/exit the house ... long story but it generally works well) but by the time I got slow-poke Kee Shu and everbuddy to the door all were present and accounted for .. I thot.
While they were out I went back to the bedroom and noticed one of the bags had fallen to the floor but I thot I accounted for everything.
Should I have used the word "assumed" -- GRRRR -- DUMB MOVE CALLIE!!! I schlepped everything to the kitchen and thot it was all under control. They were being good (I thot) and I was finishing wrapping, etc. and when DAvid came in it was late afternoon and all was ... well pretty darned quiet. But David comes in and says, holding a cellphane bag aloft "What's THIS?"
O .... M .... G ....
An EMPTY Hershey's "Naughty" bag.The one that USED to hold 7.6 oz of milk chocolate? Alll gone. black foil and all. (either I missed the bag or it had already gotten "re-located" near the crates and out of my sight when I came back in -- I really don't think it got eaten that early).
Great. Who did this? I'll be honest -- I thot Luna - she's usually the counter-surfer/stealer of the bunch. Nobuddy is throwing up -- no one is acting sick.
And because of that foil ... metal ... potentially sharp - I did NOT want to induce vomiting.
Now I joke all the time that I have taught my dogs to "chew all good" -- particularly treats. And the little stinkers have learned that it makes something linger if it tastes yummy. So yeah, I've created a Frankenstein -- but I figured since nobuddy took any time to try to 'Open' the kisses, they just plain ATE them foil and all -- I kinda wondered what size the pieces would be as they ... er ... exited.
*sigh*
Unless she "shared" it wasn't Luna. It was the Fairy Dust Princess. Yep -- Stinker-bell!!
Imagine this folks -- poop laced with glittery tiny black pieces of foil?? Yeah -- she chewed them WELL.
Now we actually knew who it was long long before the poop story. We had theatre tickets early in the evening and we did go do that and I knew they'd be contained so if anyone was sick I'd know "who" the culprit was? No ... didn't show up then.
We didn't go to church. We were tired and figured we'd do an early night (anything before 3 is early for us for Christmas Even/Morning and even so it was about 3:00. But we'd both noticed Tink was an absolute pistol last night.
I mean -- if there was anything 'bad' she could do, she did it. If there was trouble to get into .. she DID. If there was another dog to annoy -- yep, she was ON it!!
When at 3:00 a.m. -- was SHE ready to sleep? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo -- she hasn't been crated at night since about the 3rd night after we brought her home. But by golly -- she was like a speed demon.
HIGH ON SUGAR AND CAFFEINE!!!! Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
There ARE dents in my walls from where she was bouncing off them. It took me til almost 11:00 a.m. to get her calmed down (thank you Hylands Calms and Oat Seed tincture!!). I didn't want to use anything during the night because I knew she'd just have to get it out of her system. But hoooo boy. Pug + sugar rush = NO fun for Mom & Dad
The only bad part of all of this was she wasn't "miserable" -- she was just plain "speed dog" -- WIRED. Completely nutso and crazed from sugar. But did she notice? Not really -- but BORED? Oh yah!!!
After David finally put her in the crate -- she rattled, she rustled, she BARKED, she was, in short, completely ape-sh*t!!!
David didn't really even realize what the problem was -- he kept saying "Boy she hasn't been this much of a 'puppy' since .. well ... ever!!" and Finally I said to him "Well, that's what a sugar/caffeine rush will do for a 9 month old pup!!"
I usually don't worry over milk chocolate - usually the sugar and stuff they cut the chocolate with makes them sick if anything but I've never seen a dog THIS wired before.
Now, we're not totally out of the woods obstruction-wise -- I'll have to watch for nausea or for her to stop 'pooping' straight thru tomorrow.
She was cuddled up next to David and panting so I took her temp and it's 102.2 (normal) so must be the two of them were sharing body heat (it's HOT HOT HOT here)
Usually it's Easter that's the big "risk" for chocolate. But heck -- at least she picked em -- the SMALL bag appropriately labelled "Naughty".
What ... she can READ now???
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