Yesterday, while playing around with Nande in the back yard and also checking on the progress of my little vegetable patch. The sugar snap peas are really starting to grow well and I'll need a larger frame for them to grow up into soon, the corn is starting to take off as well but is having some bug issues are something because some of the leaves are a bit ragged. Anyway, Nande kept digging at one corner of the little area and I assumed that she was trying to dig out the stake that was holding up that side of the lattice that keeps her out of the vegie patch.
But when I went to check out what she was digging on, I found the leathery end of an old rawhide bone that had been buried in the yard for at least a couple of years. It was nasty, covered in dirt, soft and just slightly moldy in a few spots. In other words, it was like puppy crack. Nande got ahold of it and ran away from me whenever I'd come near her for fear I was taking away her prize.
I knew it wasn't the best thing for her to nosh on but I also thought it was a good time to let her learn a little more about being selective in what she eats (yeah, I know, its not working and will likely never work). Because it was so old and soft, she pretty well chewed through it in about fifteen minutes and ate the whole thing.
Fast forward several hours. I took Nande out to go potty as I was getting ready for bed and P had been asleep for a little while already. She's really pretty excellent at peeing where she's supposed to now and she did her business and then came back up onto the lawn and laid down. She was absent mindedly eating grass and generally just looked somewhat unhappy with the state of affairs.
And before I knew it, she'd deposited a rather large portion of the contents of her stomach (which was most of her dinner and the nasty rawhide coils of that bone) on the lawn. A minute later she tossed the rest of her stomach's contents up leaving two large piles of dog puke on the lawn. And, because she's a nasty dog, she immediately wanted to eat it right back up. Yeah, nasty. I took her back into the house, gave her a little food to fill her stomach up again and went out to dispose of the thick messes. Luckily, they were firm enough to be scooped onto my shovel easily enough and then deposited into the trash can out by the fence. I'd forgotten that there no bags of trash in there so now we've got a puke lined trash can which, I'm sure, will get ripe in the next few days in the sun. Oh well.
Nande slept pretty well the rest of the night going from about 11:30 until just before 5 this morning without needing to go out and potty. And she was pretty thirsty by that time as well.
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