The Dangers of Fruits Containing Pits: Violets Story
Aug 12, 2017 15:18:51 GMT -5
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Post by ᔕTOᖇᗰᖴIEᖇᑕEᗪOG on Aug 12, 2017 15:18:51 GMT -5
(Moderators, it might be a lot to ask, but would you please pin this to the top of all the catagories. This NEEDS to be read by everyone with pets.)
Hey guys, im going to share a story that happened to me last night. None of this is made up, and the information that i give is all facts, according to Pet Poison Control center.
So last night everything was going as planned. It was 6 o clock and time for my dogs to eat. We have 2 dogs; a Shetland sheepdog and a Redbone Coonhound named Violet.
In the morning my mom had made me breakfast and had washed up about 7 cherries for me to eat, but being the heavy sleeper, overprocrastinator, and slow eater I am... I ran out of time... and the bowl of cherries was left on the table.
I come home from work and head upstairs to my room to chill out before my parents leave for their dinner plans and I have to feed the dogs. Low and behold like always the Sheltie barks to go out. I march downstairs fling open the door and let him out and back in, once he is done. I'm walking back upstairs when my gut screams at me to push the cherries back off the table. But again, being the lazy person I can be, I just push them away from the edge, and go back upstairs.
Around 6, I come back downstairs to notice the cherries are gone, with the bowl still in the same place on the table. My dad was downstairs so I ask him if he moved them, he says no and to ask my mom... once again no.... now I'm starting to worry.
We have two dogs and either one could have gotten them if not both of them.
I grab my phone and search up "are Cherries poisonous to dogs" my heart stops and I show my dad. The pits in cherries contain cyanide. The same poison given to soldiers in pills in case they are captured.
(My throat is closing just writing this...)
We instantly start searching for cherry pits. I find about 2 crunched up and laying on the floor in the spare room. To my "relief" I know that she at least didn't eat 2.
Our next step is to call the emergency vet. They tell us that it isn't a big deal and to just induce vomiting. We end up inducing both dogs and the shetlie throws up just stomach acid. Violet doesn't throw up at all. We give her a second dose of Peroxide, and walk her around. Nothing. I get the idea in my head to make her run, because peroxide as we all know foams and causes bubbles to tickle the stomach wall. She throws up, giving 3 pits... all whole. Relief floods over us all and we head back inside. But in my gut I feel like we should make her throw up again.
I have wanted to be a vet my whole life and I've grown to trust my gut with animals... I know you all are probably like "She's crazy she has no clue about what a vet does, she hasn't been to school." Maybe not, but I have done my own reading, vet camps, and talking to numerous vets. And I know i should have trusted my gut.
I spend the rest of the night reading on the internet about the toxicity of cherries and the life expectancy of pets that eat them. Big. Mistake.
Every other article was, she's going to be fine, she s going to die, and so on...
My family and I are Christian and I understand that some of you don't believe, but we do. So I spend the night with her, praying, crying... praying some more... and sobbing my eyes out. I even reach out to my friends to pray for her too.
We all wake up in the morning and she s doing fine... but I'm still paranoid, so we call poison control, and my family and I get the biggest eye opener of our lives.
So we called poison control and they told us that when a dog injests cherry pits whole they are fine, but if they ingest them broken apart. It releases the cyanide. The cyanide then travels through their system, bringing on bright red gums, hypertension or hypotension in their muscles and blood vessels (causing exploding vessels or constricting vessels), tremors, aggression or lethargy, heart failure, causing them to seizure and the dog is dead within ***2 hours***. Signs of the poisoning start showing up 16 minutes after ingestion. I found chewed up pits, she ate 6 pits whole... I have no other way to believe that she is alive other than God keeping his hand on her. You cannot tell me there is no God after my dog almost died, had she eaten those broken pits. It was way to close a call for me to not believe that. And I cannot tell you how humbling and haunting It is,
Thinking that I could be burying my dog right now instead of laying with her as I write this.
Please. Please. PLEASE! Be careful with your dogs... don't leave anything sitting around. It's worth it in the end to go the extra step to keep them safe... they don't know any better and will eat lethal things without knowing. I cannot stress this enough.
Hopefully, this will reach one of you and save you and your family a lot of pain and worry...
Love,
Storm
Hey guys, im going to share a story that happened to me last night. None of this is made up, and the information that i give is all facts, according to Pet Poison Control center.
So last night everything was going as planned. It was 6 o clock and time for my dogs to eat. We have 2 dogs; a Shetland sheepdog and a Redbone Coonhound named Violet.
In the morning my mom had made me breakfast and had washed up about 7 cherries for me to eat, but being the heavy sleeper, overprocrastinator, and slow eater I am... I ran out of time... and the bowl of cherries was left on the table.
I come home from work and head upstairs to my room to chill out before my parents leave for their dinner plans and I have to feed the dogs. Low and behold like always the Sheltie barks to go out. I march downstairs fling open the door and let him out and back in, once he is done. I'm walking back upstairs when my gut screams at me to push the cherries back off the table. But again, being the lazy person I can be, I just push them away from the edge, and go back upstairs.
Around 6, I come back downstairs to notice the cherries are gone, with the bowl still in the same place on the table. My dad was downstairs so I ask him if he moved them, he says no and to ask my mom... once again no.... now I'm starting to worry.
We have two dogs and either one could have gotten them if not both of them.
I grab my phone and search up "are Cherries poisonous to dogs" my heart stops and I show my dad. The pits in cherries contain cyanide. The same poison given to soldiers in pills in case they are captured.
(My throat is closing just writing this...)
We instantly start searching for cherry pits. I find about 2 crunched up and laying on the floor in the spare room. To my "relief" I know that she at least didn't eat 2.
Our next step is to call the emergency vet. They tell us that it isn't a big deal and to just induce vomiting. We end up inducing both dogs and the shetlie throws up just stomach acid. Violet doesn't throw up at all. We give her a second dose of Peroxide, and walk her around. Nothing. I get the idea in my head to make her run, because peroxide as we all know foams and causes bubbles to tickle the stomach wall. She throws up, giving 3 pits... all whole. Relief floods over us all and we head back inside. But in my gut I feel like we should make her throw up again.
I have wanted to be a vet my whole life and I've grown to trust my gut with animals... I know you all are probably like "She's crazy she has no clue about what a vet does, she hasn't been to school." Maybe not, but I have done my own reading, vet camps, and talking to numerous vets. And I know i should have trusted my gut.
I spend the rest of the night reading on the internet about the toxicity of cherries and the life expectancy of pets that eat them. Big. Mistake.
Every other article was, she's going to be fine, she s going to die, and so on...
My family and I are Christian and I understand that some of you don't believe, but we do. So I spend the night with her, praying, crying... praying some more... and sobbing my eyes out. I even reach out to my friends to pray for her too.
We all wake up in the morning and she s doing fine... but I'm still paranoid, so we call poison control, and my family and I get the biggest eye opener of our lives.
So we called poison control and they told us that when a dog injests cherry pits whole they are fine, but if they ingest them broken apart. It releases the cyanide. The cyanide then travels through their system, bringing on bright red gums, hypertension or hypotension in their muscles and blood vessels (causing exploding vessels or constricting vessels), tremors, aggression or lethargy, heart failure, causing them to seizure and the dog is dead within ***2 hours***. Signs of the poisoning start showing up 16 minutes after ingestion. I found chewed up pits, she ate 6 pits whole... I have no other way to believe that she is alive other than God keeping his hand on her. You cannot tell me there is no God after my dog almost died, had she eaten those broken pits. It was way to close a call for me to not believe that. And I cannot tell you how humbling and haunting It is,
Thinking that I could be burying my dog right now instead of laying with her as I write this.
Please. Please. PLEASE! Be careful with your dogs... don't leave anything sitting around. It's worth it in the end to go the extra step to keep them safe... they don't know any better and will eat lethal things without knowing. I cannot stress this enough.
Hopefully, this will reach one of you and save you and your family a lot of pain and worry...
Love,
Storm