Yoghurt pot has two lids.
Remove both, carefully.
The inner lid is plastic too. If dropped accidentally on the floor, a greed-crazed black labrador could swoop on it, and in a millisecond, swallow it whole.
(Not this particular lid, obviously. Another one, similarly indigestible.)
Slack owner, used to black labradors who eat garbage, fails to worry about this, and then forgets all about it.
In the days that follow, dreadful labrador stomach turmoil is blamed on blackberries and windfall apples that litter the road. But no.....
Guess how long it would take for that plastic yoghurt pot lid to reappear (unscathed)?
A whole week.
I will spare you the details, but it was perfectly recognisable.
Now guess how much of a lesson black labrador learned from this week of dreadful stomach turmoil?
Exactly. Nothing at all. Next yoghurt pot that was opened, there she was, sitting expectantly, hoping for a (ahem) re-run. Slack owner has learned lesson though, and removes and discards plastic lid with extra care....
Yeo! Rachel! (Yogurts - geddit?)
ReplyDeleteUmbrella handles take their time too. Just so you know..
ReplyDeleteLabs rule.
ReplyDeleteYou could write a scientific paper on this for a veterinary journal. Is there nothing that dog won't eat?
ReplyDeleteP.S. This might interest the yogurt company, to know their lid can emerge intact after one week in a dog's alimentary canal. Flossie could become famous!
ReplyDeleteJohn: no. She eats everything and anything. Period.
ReplyDeleteI always lick those - I shall to be extra careful in future not to swallow the lid!
ReplyDeleteYou could probably also write a feature on cleaning up after dogs who have eaten such things!
ReplyDeleteI had to laugh out loud. I can't tell you how many times the kids, cats, dogs, or goats ingested something that came out in the same condition it went in.
ReplyDeleteOh Flossie! Outch!!!
ReplyDeleteWhomever 'John' is, he's got a point Rachel!
Bit of a goat in you Flossie perhaps?
Hugs, you are still beautiful!
A big hello to all,
What a star! A whole lid and no expensive trip to the vet. I'm in awe of Flossie's alimentary capabilities (but also glad I didn't have to deal with it!)
ReplyDeleteI hope Flossie is better now - no point in hoping she's learnt her lesson.
ReplyDeleteI recognise this scenario. Our first Labrador used to chew up her woven leather collars which would reappear weeks later completely undigested. (Where did she keep them?) Similarly, water chestnuts were consumed with great delight and regurgitated a few days later, perfectly recognisable, and apparently reusable. These things never caused gastric upsets but the rat poison she ingested nearly killed her. My husband got up every three hours to feed her teaspoons of bland food until she recovered. Our vet was amazed.
At the weekend Labrador Jenna broke into our granddaughter's sealed stack of chocolate biscuits and ate the lot (25) She was fine. The Labrador boys, on the other hand, are not at all greedy.
Reminds me of the Dalmatian we had before Boo who also used to swallow anything and everything. He once sicked up a pair of rolled up children's gloves. To this day we have no idea where he got them.
ReplyDeleteNika sens an "Oh Yeah' along to Flossie.
ReplyDeletexo jane
Oh My Lordy..you have my sympathy
ReplyDeleteOh crumbs... A recognisable scenario. Our Lurcher raided the presents under the tree and found our personalised mugs filled with Quality Street, all 5 of them. For the next week anyone walking him had the pleasure of Christmas poos, all sparkly with colourful and indigestible tinfoil. What a good thing the cocoa content is so low in Quality Street!
ReplyDeleteYou may not wish to read on... I had a 'wonderful' episode with one of my cats, who ate some not quite well enough discarded knitting wool recently, then trailed poo around the house after him, which I stepped in with bare feet when I got out of bed. Lesson most definitely learned. For me, of course.
ReplyDeleteOh my, poor Flossie! I just adopted a rescue black lab six weeks ago....is this what I get to look forward to?
ReplyDeleteOh my.....
(Glad FLossie is feeling better!)