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Heart stopping frightening moments

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
Deb and I were out and about for a while, running errands and visiting her sister. We got home around 9:30pm and got the dogs out of their kennel. I came into the office/sim room and began doing some repair work on Deb's sister's computer (it's dead...can't be fixed)...and Deb called in to the room telling me that Hazel, our 8-pound Chihuahua girl, was acting weird. I go in and Hazel is walking sideways, loosing her balance, seems disoriented. I asked Deb if she had fallen or anything. No. I asked Deb if Hazel had gotten into anything...people food, plants. Not that Deb knew. This carried on for several minutes, with Hazel being focused and seemingly fine one moment and staggering around sideways the next. If I called her name, she would focus on me and make a bee line to me...but would then go stumbling away sideways. Between Deb asking me what was wrong with Hazel (to which I hollered back "I don't know, I'm not a vet!"), Roseanne playing on Netflix with way more volume than was necessary, and my sheer panic of losing my Baby Gurl, I was scared to death. I grabbed the phone and tried to contact our vet...kept getting a busy signal.

At some point in our panic...Hazel stumbled into the office/sim room and up into the doggie bed next to the closet door. And there she threw up...a lot. Big chunks of carrots, pieces of onion (which can be fatal to dogs), rice, peas....basically every ingredient in the stir fried rice Deb had for lunch. Somehow Hazel had gotten into it and gorged herself on it....and luckily it did not kill her. Once she threw up, she returned to her normal self...though her breath was a bit worse off.

I will have to keep an eye on her tonight and tomorrow morning to make sure that she does not manifest any signs of toxic reaction to the onion and be prepared to rush her little butt to the vet...even if it costs us the entire balance of our checking account.

I have never seen a dog act so out of it...well, that's not true...Spud, the dog in my avatar, died of seizures 4 years ago last month....and what Hazel was doing was very similar to what Spud was doing in the early stages of his Cluster Seizures. The similarities were enough that I thought I was watching my sweet Hazel die right before my eyes.

OBIO
 
Scary...

but 8-pound Chihuahua?!? Is she Preg or a long hair? That seems a little over.

← Has Chihuahuas.... want to buy one or 3?:jump:
 
Not preg or long hair...very muscular! Hazel isn't built like a normal Chihuahua...she looks like a Lab/Boxer mix that has been shrunk. Very deep chest, broad shoulders, very well developed shoulder and thigh muscles. A real power house of a dog for being 8 pounds...when she plays tug or war with Brutus..our 12 pound Chihuahua/Jack Russell Terrier mix...she easily pulls him across the floor...all four of his feet will be skidding across the carpet. She is one solid chunk of dog.

OBIO
 
An "Amazon" Chihuahua. Have 2 of those. Lilly and Boomber. Boomber was Bull 2 *dad is Bull, Mom is Lilly* as a pup. That got shorten to B2 then I started calling him Boomer *some time Bomb-Bomb.*
 
That's the trouble with pets, they can't talk. I just watch for any persistent or acute change in behavior, or a warm nose. Had to watch one of our old cats limp around for a time until I figured she had a stroke. Took her in and found she probably had, plus had a hemothorax which meant say goodbye right then and there. Another of our old cats I think had a mild heart attack (had a known heart problem) and was cowering and shivering in a corner. When I took her in she was out back with the vet when I heard a short cat shriek. A tech comes out and says she had a heart attack and do I want CPR to be done. I said no and found myself going home empty carrier in hand again, we had lost the other one about 2 months before. It was a rough summer for the kids. Hope Hazel recovers.
 
After Hazel did the "technocolor burp" and expunged her system of the Veggie Fried Rice, she was fine. Today, she was her usual hyper, active, loving, snuggly self. Right now, she is curled up against Deb, sound asleep in our bed. Earlier, Deb and I were watching a movie in the bedroom and I was laying on my belly with my head toward the foot of the bed. Hazel was curled up in the circle of my arms sound asleep.

OBIO
 
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