My dog ate 40 or 50 Herbalife thermo bond Fiber Tablets.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

We called the ASPCA poison control hotline and they seem to think it won't be a problem except for maybe upset stomach or diarrhea. Which sucks cause we are treating her, successfully of late, for a diarrhea issue that landed her in the hospital for a night (and a $1000 bucks I didn't have) six weeks ago.

Trying not to be pissed at our house-guest/roommate who has been staying with us since January - he was unemployed and needed a place to stay. I'm not mad at him for leaving the pills where she could get at them. These things happen. I'm more pissed at his half-assed way he contacted us while we were at a movie.

He tex ted us "Call now dog". My boyfriend got the text during a bathroom break and texted back - "in a movie can't talk". There was no further texts. We assumed he was using the slang "dog" to be cute.

Anyway, we call on the way home and he tells us the news but says he's been watching her and she "seems OK". I wanted to reach through the phone and strangle him. I explained to him that neither of us has a degree in veterinary medicine and the pills very well MIGHT be toxic and, worse case scenario, shutting her kidneys down. He said he didn't want to "blow it out of proportion". Again I want to strangle him.

He still has this attitude of "well, I contacted you didn't I?"

The $65 bucks I paid to the ASPCA is worth the peace of mind - for now.

Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Has anyone had a similar experience with a pet ingesting a dietary fiber? I wouldn't be so worried but she ate a LOT of pills. The stuff seems pretty "natural" but it has a bunch of funky ingredients.

I sure would have liked to be able to induce vomiting - we didn't get the message for 3 - 4 hours after the ingestion so the recommendation by ASPCA was to not bother.

Wish me luck.

[applegrove]

1. vibes.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

3. Thank you!

[LibertyLover]

2. I'm sure that you do this already, but have plenty of fresh water

available for your pup to drink. That will help to flush her system. Keep an eye on her, but she should be ok.

My stepdaughter recently had a problem with ingestion of nasty stuff with her dogs. Her genius husband told her he had "put the rat poison away" (they live in an urban environment and have rats in the back alley). Unfortunately his version of "away" meant that he had left it on the floor in the basement. Yeah, both their dogs got into it and ate most of it. As my stepdaughter put it, she didn't know whether to kill him then or after a month when all the poop and vomitus from their eating the poison was finally over (he agreed that since his stupidity had caused the problem he would clean up - a promise that lasted about 3 days). His remarks on hearing what had happened and just before the emergency vet run during Hurricane Irene's hitting Maryland: "Gee I didn't know dogs would eat that stuff."? It had to be pointed out to IQ Man that normally poisons that you put out for rodents and bugs are, in fact, intended to taste good so that it will be eaten.

Keep us posted on how your dog does. Sending good vibes your way.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Thank you! She seems perfectly fine this morning.

I have a call in to our to our Vet to double check but our girl seems no worse for the wear.

We withheld breakfast. Probably going to not feed her till tonight.

This was just so nerve racking after what we went through 6 weeks ago.

She ended up in the hospital for diarrhea. She had been having diarrhea intermittently for a couple months brought on, I think, by a change in her dog food. She has always been VERY sensitive to any changes. The boyfriend got the idea she needed to be put on "senior" dog food so he gradually introduced the different food - that was the beginning of the diarrhea. Then, on the advice of the local organic food seller, he changed again to something called Blue Buffalo. Still no help. He finally, after my begging, changed her back to her regular food but she didn't improve.

We brought her in to the Vet to ge checked out and they said she was OK but needed an antibiotic to lower her high intestinal bacteria - a symptom which can be a result of diarrhea. No biggie, so we started her on the antibiotics.

The next day she crashed. Uncontrollable diarrhea and vomiting. We rushed her to the ER Vet. they kept her over night to administer IV fluids and IV antibiotics.

Fast forward 6 weeks and several different medicines and pro-biotics. The thing that did the trick was boiled hamburger and sweet potatoes. So we cook for her every day.

Now this.

I calmed down last night and apologized to our roommate for being so upset. It was just driving me crazy that he was so flippant about the whole thing. He just couldn't grasp the concept of how you can't just wait and watch with some substances because they can kill kidneys or the liver. "Waiting" until a pet shows symptoms can be too late. Neither of us were qualified to make that call. Either way, I would have liked the opportunity to induce vomiting.

We've never had to induce vomiting in our dog but we have a neighbor with a Beagle so we have plenty of experience. That dog has used more hydrogen peroxide than the entire Dallas Cheerleader's squad - rat poison, advil, fish food, used condoms, used feminine hygiene products, chocolate, a giant bowl of a 100 bound Lab's food, Mexican food enough to to serve 5 people, rocks, sticks etc. etc.

[LibertyLover]

5. My first greyhound was like your neighbor's beagle -

I'll never forget the time he ate an entire, save 2 cookies, package of Oreos or the time we took him to an SCA feast and he happily roamed the hall begging for food from everyone. Upset stomach doesn't begin to describe some of eruptions from his gastric regions. :rofl: I have heard of people having the same problem with Blue Buffalo - some dogs do well on it and others do not. We feed our grey and whippet the basic Iams. It's not the best food, but not the worst. Both are senior dogs, but our vet says not to bother switching them to a senior food because both are doing just fine as is. I agree - waiting for symptoms is bad. I am so glad to hear that she is doing fine!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

10. The thing is, the Beagle never seems to be bothered.

Except the one time he ate a whole bowl of food put out for the neighbor's visiting parent's dog. There was a huge bowl of food for a couple days meals for a 100 pound lab. He ate the whole thing.

He plopped on the back deck sofa and didn't move for hours. I think at one point his eyes rolled to the back of his head. He looked like a guy I once worked with who ate 5 double Whoppers with cheese on a $500 dollar bet.

My dog gets a dropped French fry and it's gas city.

Our Vet just called back and said not to worry. Whew.

[geardaddy]

6. Hope your puppy is all right and not too much in pain.

:hi:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. She seems fine. Our Vet just called back and said not to worry. Whew.

Thank You.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. delete dupe.

Thank You.

[Divameow77]

9. Recently my dog ate a few of my sons

Adderall and some children's vitamins. I gave her a teaspoon of salt and took her outside and she threw up about 3 times and I could see the pills had not yet dissolved. I was freaking out as Adderall is an amphetamine but it turned out okay. I don't think advise helps you since you weren't around immediately after but maybe for future reference...

[Hassin Bin Sober]

11. We have had plenty experience inducing vomiting in the neighbor's beagle.

I had the neighbor's hydrogen peroxide at the ready when we called poison control but they said not to bother at that point.

Yeah, Adderall would scare the shit out of me. Good thing you got it.