[nagdu] Benny's problem

[Nicole Torcolini]

Okay, that would explain why he had soft stool. There was a foreign body,
and his system was trying to get rid of it. It also sounds like you might
want to consider doing some more training with him on not picking up random
things from the floor.
Yes, twist ties are definitely annoying and can escape. It does not help
that they are on the top in the bag boxes, so you might drop the entire
sheet of them when you open the box. Also, if you are like me and use more
bags than twist ties, then you will have an extremely superfluous stock pile
of them that, no matter where you try to shove them, keep jumping out when
you do not want them.

Nicole, Lexia, and the twist tie stockpile

-----Original Message-----
From: nagdu [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tami Jarvis via
nagdu
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:10 AM
To: Tracy Carcione; NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog
Users
Subject: Re: [nagdu] Benny's problem

Tracy,

Yikes! Well, now you know. Glad he passed the twist tie safely. I swear
those things drop out of nowhere onto the floor, at least around here. I
truly do not know where they come from. Scary things when you have dogs.

Here's to a continued recovery!

Tami

On 07/24/2014 06:04 AM, Tracy Carcione via nagdu wrote:
> Last night, Ben passed a twist tie.  Luckily, it was all crumpled up 
> in a circle, so it didn't have sharp points sticking out.  It could 
> have killed him.  We try to be very careful with twist ties, since 
> he's tried to eat them before, but one of us must have dropped the 
> darned thing without noticing.
> I'm betting it was at least part of the cause of his bowel problems.  
> I gotta think it was an irritant.  Things seem a bit better this morning.
> He's got a complicated feeding just now.  Rice, boiled chicken, clay, 
> probiotics, and a little canned venison-sweet potato and a 
> herring-based kibble, both of which the pet store dog nutrition guy 
> said are bland and easily digested.  He thought that Ben may have 
> become sensitive to the proteins in Cannidae after eating it for 
> years.  We had no idea about the twist tie when we talked.
> I'll keep him on the bland diet for a while, and gradually cut out the 
> chicken and rice.  Once he's better, I'll try reintroducing a little 
> of the Cannidae, and go on with it or cut it out, depending on results.
> But I feel like we're finally headed in the right direction.
> Tracy
>
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