Sandrac
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After a lovely day at the beach we decided to pop into some friends on our way home.
They were plagued with rats some time ago as their pesky neighbours keep leaving loads of food on the ground for the birds. Anyway they put a big dish of rat bait down and forgot all about it as it was hidden away at the end of the garden.
Well, you guessed, we had only been there a few minutes when Minnie came running up with turquoise staining all around her mouth - major panic:shock:. Got hold of our emergency vet but we were over 40 minutes away, so he told us to get hold of a local vet.
Found a vet hospital just 10 minutes away and we rushed her there, complete with rat bait containers.
When we arrived they immediately phoned the poisons unit - who thankfully said that she should be OK, but to induce vomiting.
So Minnie was taken off into the treatment room but decided she was not going to play ball and refused to vomit even after she had been given max amount of their vomit inducing liquid and came out of the room full of the joys of spring. :sl*p:
It was then decided to just give her a Vitamin K jab just in case of any side effects, but Vet was confident that she would be just fine. He said she would have had to have eaten at least 5 kilos of it to have been a real problem. However he has given us a details of what to look out for - so we will spend the next 24 hours watching her like a hawk.
They were plagued with rats some time ago as their pesky neighbours keep leaving loads of food on the ground for the birds. Anyway they put a big dish of rat bait down and forgot all about it as it was hidden away at the end of the garden.
Well, you guessed, we had only been there a few minutes when Minnie came running up with turquoise staining all around her mouth - major panic:shock:. Got hold of our emergency vet but we were over 40 minutes away, so he told us to get hold of a local vet.
Found a vet hospital just 10 minutes away and we rushed her there, complete with rat bait containers.
When we arrived they immediately phoned the poisons unit - who thankfully said that she should be OK, but to induce vomiting.
So Minnie was taken off into the treatment room but decided she was not going to play ball and refused to vomit even after she had been given max amount of their vomit inducing liquid and came out of the room full of the joys of spring. :sl*p:
It was then decided to just give her a Vitamin K jab just in case of any side effects, but Vet was confident that she would be just fine. He said she would have had to have eaten at least 5 kilos of it to have been a real problem. However he has given us a details of what to look out for - so we will spend the next 24 hours watching her like a hawk.