It is 9pm. My Real Estate law exam is in 11 hours, and I am shoving hydrogen peroxide down my dog’s throat.
A few minutes after I let him out of the kennel I noticed he was chomping on something blue – a TomCat Poison mouse block!
I flip out, yank the rest of the poison from his mouth, and then call the vet. The vet told me to bring the dog to the pet hospital right away or induce vomiting with hydrogen peroxide.
I did not want to be at the animal hospital all night on the eve of an exam. I tried studying in the ER last semester, and it didn’t go well. So I ran to CVS, got a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and then shoved a table spoon into my very-confused dog’s throat.
I then got the idea to call the poison control number on the TomCat box.
The poison control operator took my information and said that I shouldn’t worry because my dog needed to eat 37 blocks to have problems.
Me: “37 blocks? Then how effective is it on mice?”
Poison control: “Oh, it’s a slow poison. They eat the block over the course of a few days and the anticoagulant causes massive internal bleeding. So if you dog has multiple exposures, then I would worry, but I wouldn’t worry about massive bleeding from a single block.”
Me: “…lovely.”
The fishy thing about Harley eating the block is that I placed the blocks in the kitchen cabinets, but Harley ate the block in the living room. He’s kenneled when I’m gone, so there is way for him to get to the blocks inside of the cabinets…
I think the mice are trying to kill my dog. It’s time to buy some traps. I declare war! …now back to Real Estate law…