What is that smell?!?!? Where'd you go??
I had a dentist appointment today and Chris needed to go in to Tuscaloosa to have discussions/training with his new people. Since Jordan is in Tupelo with the Grandparents we didn't have to get up early to get him to daycare so we could get to work and leave at such a time as to make it back to the daycare before they close. I made sure that Darcy had plenty of outside time before leaving, I put her favorite chew bone, her favorite squeek toy, and her favorite stuffed critter in her crate and the last thing we did before walking out of the house was put her in it. The crate is plenty big enough for Darcy to move all around in, it is nearly twice as long as she is and plenty wide, she can lay flat on her side with her legs stretched out....the crate is big enough for the extreme few times we have to leave her in it for extended times. (Besides, she sleeps in it every night.)
By the time we drive our 90 minutes to work, put in our 8.5 hours and drive 90 minutes back home, we've been gone nearly 12 hours. We walked in the front door and were hit by a wall of nasty. Darcy, the poor puppy, had had a few bouts of diarrehea while we were gone. Apparently not too terribly long after we had left as it had dried in a few spots but some of it was pretty fresh, too. It had splashed up on the walls, and she had pawed her blanket and gotten it all over the carpet remnant that the crate sits on. Nasty stuff. I managed to get Darcy outside and went back in to move the crate outside, I looked around for Chris and he was gone....missing....in the bathroom gagging....I got to clean it all up all by myself. I think I may need to remove the baseboards as I believe some of it managed to get between the baseboard and the wall. Chris says to wait as the whole house smells bad, it may just be remnants of what was trapped in the air.
Why is it that whenever something fairly nasty like doggie diarrehea, children puking, dirty baby diapers, or anything along those lines, my husband disappears. He reappears a little while later (after the mess has been cleaned up) and proclaims "Thank you so much for taking care of that." Well, what the h*ll!! It's not like I have a choice!!! If I didn't do it I'd have double duty, cleaning up his puke and the offending item, too. It gets old.
I let Darcy in, she doesn't smell like she needs a bath, but she just may get one next time I have a spare 30 minutes....She drank some water, not a lot, but she didn't eat. I put her back out. I don't know what we will do with her tonight as I need to wait until daylight to scrub her crate clean.
I'm trying to think what might have happened to upset her stomach...we got back early enough yesterday that any car sickness would have been gone...and she ate and drank normal yesterday and this morning. I don't know. I imagine if she is still showing signs of not being well tomorrow will have to call the vet and take her in. I just hate to do that as she is so prone to car sickness. I'm not so sure I could handle puke and poop.
Poor Darcy.
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yugh. Teulu did this one day, and of course, it was on the night before I was supposed to show my apartment to potential renters.
He has similar car sick tendencies and a wierdly sensitive stomach, of which the only good thing about was that I was feeding him lamb and rice foods when the big dog food recall came about....
I am happy to report that Darcy is feeling better this morning. She has eaten breakfast and is roaming about the house like normal.
I did not get her crate cleaned up last night before bed, so we let her sleep in the bedroom with us. She did quite well, no accidents didn't disturb Chris, and woke me about 5:30-ish letting me know that she needed to go outside. I did wake up about 3:00 or so and found her laying on the bed at my feet (not at all on Chris's side of the bed, just mine....). I felt bad kicking her off, but I needed to stretch my legs and I couldn't do that while she was laying on my feet. I'm hoping yesterday's incident is a blessing in disquise and I can take her crate apart. Only putting it together on those days that we both have to go to Tuscaloosa (about once a month).
We can't leave her outside on those days as she is on a chain and can get wrapped around a tree or tangled in the wisteria and not have access to water. That could be a potentially life threatening thing in Alabama in the summer.
When this house gets sold and we buy in Tuscaloosa we will have a fenced in yard, one that we can leave her out in when we are gone. One that she (and Baron) can run and play in w/o fear of them running away or getting lost chasing a squirrel or a deer.
you might consider leaving the bottom part of the crate out with a (new ha ha) carpet piece there for Darcy to lay in during the day. Frankly, these things happen. Teulu has had a few such incidents in his crate and he has no problem going back into it, and even seems to like the fact that it's really really clean.
I think too people tend to forget that while a crate IS confining, dogs are den animals, and like the security of the crate, and also they tend to forget that while Darcy was unable to get into trouble say by chewing on electrical cords, or doing otherwise unusual things that dogs do.
glad she's feeling better.