Re: (fwd) Re: Gardening alert for animals

Hi Sammy
Was very sorry to hear what you and your babies went through, but hopefully
by now everything is hunky dory.
Sammy, I read somewhere that if you are putting down blood & bone to mix it
with coffee grounds as animals cant stand the smell of it.
Good luck
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Havagoodun!
Dotti
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"What we learn with pleasure we never forget"


----- Original Message -----
From: Sammy's huwumin <jcosler@mindspring.com>
To: <veggie-list@eskimo.com>; <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 10:52 PM
Subject: (fwd) Re: Gardening alert for animals


> On Sunday morning I was gardening in my front yard.  My TTs were there
> on tie-out cables.  I wasn't using fertilizer, but was watering &
> planting some plants which had come from the nursery with white
> granules etc sprinkled on top.  My doggers drank from these pots.
> Couldn't have been more than a few tesaspoons worth.  I didn't think
> anything about it at the time -- now, after the scare of my life (&
> $$$ later).......
>
> I'm so careful & use only organic materials.  You just never know.
> Fortunately & thank god & allah & whomever, my severely ill one has
> his tail up today & has even wagged it a few times!  Thanks also to
> the wonderful treatment from our vet!!!!!
>
> To skip back, gardening was on Sunday.  Monday at about 1:30 am, my
> older dog started vomiting; just bile.  About 10 am he had a severely
> bloody whatever, instead of a stool!  This whole time he was
> salivating/drooling terribly.  We raced off to the vet who first
> tested for parvo.  Negative.  Then we came into the clinic.  Sammy's
> symptoms showed no signs of an infection.  His heartrate was slower;
> consistent with poisoning.  We'll never know what really happened, but
> the vet treated him for the fert. poisoning & Sammy is his old self!
> What a horrible day Monday was!  Tuesday, Magic started vomiting over
> & over.  Off to the vets.  No other symptoms, but she was treated as
> Sammy had been, tho not quite as aggressively.
>
> One of Sammy's pancreatic enzymes is slightly elevated; somehow
> connected.  Will have blood retested at end of week.
>
> In short, this is such an acute danger that I am posting it to all my
> dog & my gardening lists!  Please please be 1000% careful!  (100% just
> won't do it!)
>
> ( Sorry for the format of the original.)
>
>
> > Permission to Cross Post:
> >
> > I accidentally poisoned our Dane (Samantha) and want
> > to pass on the details
> > so others would not make the same mistake.
> >
> > On Tuesday I sprinkled bone meal and Ortho
> > "RosePride Systemic Rose &
> > Flower Care" around the cedar mulch surrounding the
> > roses in our rose
> > garden. Later the area around each rose was hosed
> > down to wash the products
> > into the mulch.
> >
> > On Wednesday, "Sam" took an afternoon stroll and
> > caught the scent of the
> > bone meal. Drawn to the scent she proceeded to lick
> > the bone meal residue
> > and also the Ortho product. Within 30 to 60 minutes
> > she had developed
> > diarrhea, muscle tremors, was very unsteady on her
> > feet, and was drooling
> > saliva from her mouth (she does not drool normally).
> >
> > I immediately called our vet (Bill Womack) who
> > luckily got us in right
> > away. The symptoms were worse and she was foaming
> > severely from the mouth
> > with continual "dry heaves". He said something must
> > be done immediately or
> > she would be dead within a few minutes as she was
> > getting ready to go into
> > seizures. Bill made an "educated decision" (there
> > was no time to do lab
> > tests) based on her severe symptoms and diagnosed
> > her as having
> > organophosphate poisoning (to check a product look
> > under the "Physician
> > Warning" portion of the label). He administered
> > Atropine IV and IM. Then
> > put her on an IV drip. We watched her and prayed a
> > lot through the next two
> >
> > days as Bill continued the Atropine and IV's. Friday
> > she got her appetite
> > back and that night the IV was removed and she was
> > allowed to come home.
> > She is not out of the woods yet, but each day she
> > gets a little more of her
> > strength back (she lost 15 to 20 pounds in a couple
> > hours). However we still don't know if she sustained any liver
> > or kidney damage.
> >
> > Once I realized what the cause of the poisoning was
> > I returned to the rose
> > bed and worked the bone meal and fertilizer into the
> > mulch turning over the
> > entire surface and washing everything down
> > thoroughly.
> > I suggest anyone with a dog not use bone meal in
> > conjunction with fertil
> > izer, but space their application so each has
> > adequate time to dissolve
> > before applying the other. Also work all products
> > into the soil when
> > working around pets so as not to tempt them to eat
> > something not designed
> > for their systems. I know this may sound simplistic,
> > but knowing the
> > attraction dogs have to bone meal I made the mistake
> > and almost lost a loved member of my family.
> >
> > I would appreciate you broadcasting this so more pet
> > owners are made aware of this potentially dangerous problem.
>
>
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