He goes by many names; mainly Mr. Goosey Pants, Mr. Pants, DD, and on occasion, Riggatoni when he's really in trouble. Even though he regularly drives us all absolutely insane, we are in the middle of a scary situation and can't imagine him not coming home to continue to annoy us anymore.
Yesterday morning AD ate approximately 50 Advil tablets. That amounts to 10,000 milligrams of Ibuprofen pumping through his little doggie veins. When I found him he was still happily snarfing down the pills and within an hour he was unable to stand. Luckily I found him and brought him into the vet immediately who acted quickly and communicated the seriousness of the situation. They got him to throw up twice, but unfortunately the pills had already dissolved. They gave him several doses of charcoal to stop the absorption into his body and placed him on stomach protectants to try and prevent ulcers. The doctors are telling me the threat of kidney and liver failure are still very real, but I'm hoping that is just careful doctor talk. I am calling momentarily to get the results of his latest blood test so we will have a better idea of where we stand.
I wanted to send out a quick post and tell everyone to NEVER leave medication out, even though AD is generally an asshole I would have never expected him to grab a bottle of pills off the counter and decide it was a nice snack. I don't wish this on anyone, and if I can help prevent another beast from having to go through this I would be happy!
I'll post updates later, we are going to visit him tonight, but here is him in the car yesterday while we were moving him to the 24 hour vet....
