After your heart has sunk. And you have reached into his reluctant mouth and carefully lifted the offending little brick of poison over his teeth and out of his mouth. 
We were visiting a friend and it was one of those moments when you are chatting and not watching the dogs as closely as you should. Before I realised he had gone, Blue appeared back at my feet with a small block of blue rat poison about the size of an old fashioned matchbox. In his mouth. He wasn’t happy about giving it up either.
We drove immediately to the closest vet and though he was not in, (when are they) His assistant said “He has to puke”. She is not one to mince words. She gave me a bottle of hydrogen peroxide with instructions to feed him something he will eat straight away (not dry food), then squirt an ounce of the hydrogen peroxide into his mouth. Well, I fed him bread and an egg, which he gobbled up then I opened his mouth and squirted the nasty stuff in. After a minute of waiting under the tree, watching me watch him, he vomited, copiously, more than once but I was grateful to find no blue poison in the contents of his stomach at all. Though how that little dog could keep so much food in his belly, I have no idea.
He was feeling quite poorly after that mean vomit trick and had to have a wee lie down in his favourite sunday-on-tuesday hammock. Poor Blue the Savage. That was a close call, if he’d had a few seconds more, to actually lie down and start to chew on the stuff, this would have been a different post. TonTon’s father died after eating rat poison, it is the scourge of many a farm dog but Blue shows no signs of actually ingesting the poison.
So how about we have a bit of fun to celebrate. I have set up a piglet poll. Can you guess how many piglets our beautiful Charlotte will have. 
She heard there was going to be a photo opportunity and put on her make up! Once we get closer to her date she may have to stop playing in the mud though. Vote if you have a moment. She is due on June 17, and this is her first litter. And as Marie said, she is a big girl. Naturally I am hoping for a smallish number.
And now for someone a little more graceful.
The Duke of Kupa dressed to the nines. And look below, Tui is laying another egg.
Sssh, no loud noises, back away very slowly. Do not disturb the sitting hen.
your tip toeing friend, celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
107 responses to “What to do when your puppy brings you rat poison”
I’m glad Blue is okay.
So glad you noticed the poison in time. I say 17 piglets 🙂
Hope you have your gumboots ready!! c
hip waders 🙂
wise, very wise!
Whew! I am so glad Puppy is none the worse for wear. Frightening!!!!!
These babies just pick up anything! morning natalia.. c
Oh I’m SO relieved Blue is ok. I read the preview on the email feed and was almost scared to click through! Kupa is showing up so magnificently. And I’m voting for 11 piglets. 🙂
If the news is really bad I will tell you IN the headline, so don’t be afraid. Thank you for voting, this is fun! c
Good morning Celi; i am so glad that blue is OK. your Charlotte is a big girl but that makes no difference in how many piglets she will have. birds are a funny lot they can stop or prolong (how ever you want to say it ) birthing or laying strange how they can do that well gotta go.
have a blessed day mike
fourteen piglets
Poor little pup! Those peacocks are divine….I say 9 piglets.
Nine! morning Jayde and welcome to the Lounge of Comments!.. c
Thank goodness he didn’t eat the poison, but will he ever eat bread and egg again? I had a very greedy little pony that once ate rat poison, which strangely didn’t make him as ill as when he got in with the bullocks and scoffed all their barley straw.
What a very close call – so pleased it was a happy ending for the little man!
One of my Spaniel pups ate rat poison many moons ago. The vet put drops directly into her eyes which induced the same results (both ends) immediately, not sure might have been VIt K concentrate. A good thing to feed Blue for a couple of days is cooked pumpkin or butternut – Vit K in natural form and will give him a boost. So glad he is fine and still with us! Oh and surprised so few people have voted for 14+ – what with offer to come and help. I have gone for 11-12 🙂 Laura
I shall add that to his rations, good point, he is a good little eater of his vegetables!.. c
PS What size litter did the Shush sisters come from? Laura
I think an average litter is 11 so I will go with that. What a great picture of Blue napping!
I think there were about 8 in the Shush Sisters litter.. though i never thought to ask!.. c
Glad he’s ok! What a scare. As for Charlotte, I say 8 piggies.
Eight! Excellent.. it will be interesting to see. Good morning Julie and welcome to the Comments Lounge! c
Thank goodness that you caught that in time, Blue is a very lucky pup..
Oh Blue…..I would have been very blue if it had not been caught in time!!!! Glad you were on the job, C!!!! And I was so happy to see Charlotte in full makeup!!! Lovely!
Morning, c. Morning, Blue. I am very happy that all is well. We nearly lost Molly when she was a puppy to a chicken bone. On bin day, the magpies go through the rubbish, picking out bones etc., but they usually drop their treasure inflight. A bone landed in our garden, and Molly had it before I could yell stop. She quickly dropped it when I told her to, and traded her bone for my chewie. Scary moments.
Do the same you would do for kids. Give them the medicine that make them spit it out of their system and hope it did not effect their body. I hope the dog is okay?
he is a box of birds this morning, we are about to launch ourselves out on a long walk!
That is good. I’m glad all ended well.
Whew! That was close. Blue, sweetie, some things are not meant for little dogs to eat.
I’ll go with 12+. It was very nice of her to put on her makeup for us!