Ant Traps and Fish Heads

Kandi tells me that Kenny and Josh also have blogs. Come on Kandi, everybody's doing it. It's so easy! I loved reading Kenny's, especially the day care chronicles. Somehow I still don't have the address for Josh's, but can't wait to read it when I do. One more day till I can add pictures. You know, patience has never been my strength.

I am exhausted today. While I was at the grocery, last night, one of the dogs chewed up an ant trap. I set them down and gave them quite a talking to, trying to discover the culprit, but finally settled on just being worried about all three of them. Truly, I was more worried about Molly and George (Mike's dog), because Maggie is getting so old that she really doesn't get in to anything anymore. Far away are the days of Maggie chewing a couch and a dresser for an afternoon snack. But I digress. I searched the internet using such keywords as "dog" and "ant trap." And while I discovered that many people put ant traps down because their dog's food attracts ants, I found relatively few sites that mentioned dogs actually EATING said ant traps. I did find one, but it spoke of ant traps in general. It said that the most likely effects would be vomiting, but to watch for blockage. Mmmm. Fun.

Still not completely satisfied, I called the Animal Poison Control Hotline. Yes, Virginia, there is an Animal Poison Control Hotline. I told the lady the whole story, and then she told me that there was a $50 consultation fee. I wondered, quietly, if there is a consultation fee for the HUMAN Poison Control Hotline. I suppose it would go something like this:

"Yes, my child just ingested 80 sleeping pills."
"Well, Ma'am as soon as you give us your credit card number, we will be glad to tell you what to do."

Somehow I think not. The injustices of it all! So, I looked at the dogs, who were happily chasing a fly around the house, (except for Maggie who was, as usual, sleeping), and I paused to think. During that pause, the woman told me that she could, in fact, tell me if it was life threatening for FREE. Yippee. I figure, if it was life threatening, I would have to pay somebody a heck of a lot more than $50 as I searched for a vet in Florida at 10:00 at night and if it was not life threatening, then I have tile floors and a fenced in side yard. Of course it wasn't life threatening. It is for killing ants. . . not dogs.

Well, somewhere during the night, I decided Molly was the culprit because she drank an entire bowl, full of water. However, she didn't drink it all at once. Rather, I would fall asleep and Molly would jump up, "slurp, slurp, slurp" and then come back to bed where she had to turn around four times and dig her feet to find a comfortable spot. Slowly, sleep would find me again and the whole process would repeat.

Today, she sleeps contentedly and I push aside the desire to wait until her lids just close before standing beside her and clapping my hands loudly. I am so kind.

My feelings about the beach today? Sometimes someone else says it better, and how often is it that a Dr. Demento song is so applicable?

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After that, I bet you can't wait until I can post pictures!