Re: Digging Dogs

> balloons in her
> favorite spots. After digging up a balloon and having it pop, she
> decided it was no longer any fun doing this. It took about five balloons
> in different locations to put a permanent end to it........"

Be careful that the dog is large and that no child gets near a popped
balloon.  They can easily block the windpipe if swallowed, and you've
got about four minutes to do an emergency tracheotomy or if it's lower,
get it out.  It's a fairly serious threat to anyone/thing that would put
the fragment in the mouth and swallow -- dogs and small children.  I
must warn you, because I know about this problem, though it is not
likely to happen.  I'd imagine an Irish setter's windpipe to be large
enough, but if a big enough fragment got caught on the way down, the
surface is so smooth and airtight that it will effectively suffocate the
dog.

-- 
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com)  Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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