Recently I have been writing about
the blizzard of 65, 67 and 79
Yesterday we had our very own
indoor blizzard of 2008.
Saturday afternoon our family members
Were all out doing errands
While our year old puppies,
Max and Molly
were holding down the fort.
Someone,
(at this point no one is claiming responsibility)
Left the house that morning
And
failed to close the cabinet door
The one that holds multiple
individual packets
of
hot chocolate and oatmeal
cake mixes, brown sugar and the like
My daughter Sam was the first to arrive on the scene
It was the biggest brown out ever recorded
She was greeted by a solid sea of brown
From one end of the house to another
It was as if a combination
Blizzard and tornado
tore through our home
damage reigned supreme
visablity was nearly impossible
not all the brown powder had settled
the dogs blended into their uniquely strange environment
Max and Molly,
were completely brown
from head to paw
if they were bunnies
I’d be tempted to take a bite
Kate and I arrived shortly afterwards to find
Sam crying and unsuccessfully trying to keep the dogs from all things chocolate
But since every bit of furniture, floor and carpets were
Transformed into a big brown magic tarp
It was practically impossible
Knowing that chocolate was toxic to dogs
My daughters began to panic
While I tried to decide where to begin
keeping the crazed pups away from consuming anymore of the forbidden food was nearly impossible because it was everywhere
one daugher who will remain nameless,
had the not so brilliant idea to carry them upstairs to my bedroom
Of all places
tracking brown footprints with her chocolate covered uggs boots
all along the way
Spreading the dubious debris
to the second floor
another daughter started to vacuum
While I swept
we were both trying to wipe things up as we went along
Our brown blizzard
had many stages
First, like snow, it starts out like fresh powder
Great for skiing
Or slipping and sliding where we were concerned
Then the condition goes into another stage called crud
The entire house looked like crud
kind of like brown sugar
The packets were torn and shredded into tiny bits of paper
our floors
looked like egg shells in a mixing bowl of chocolate cake batter
As soon as we added water to the mix
we went from powder to crud to slush in seconds
I called my neighbor who was an expert in all things dogs
and thankfully Kerri came to our rescue,
assessed our messy situation and called her vet
Explained the gory details
(our vet was closed on weekends)
Another story
note to self
find another vet
We were then instructed to give the dogs
a ½ tablespoon
of hydrogen peroxide
To induce vomiting
then watch them closely
I asked what I was supposed to be watching for
But never quite received a clear answer
Anyway
We were told they would be having diarrhea and vomiting for awhile
If we were lucky
We were certainly
Lucky
We should have purchased a lottery ticket that evening
We were so lucky
Kerri,
our Good Samaritan wrote down her vets number
and
gave us the address of the animal hospital
Thank God for neighbors
I owe her big time
Another story
Sam was holding the puppies
while they were getting sick
note to sam
don’t hold sick puppies when they are tossing cookies
in my bed
Even without the hydrogen peroxide
Both dogs were trying to lick their paws
as if they were chocolate covered spoons from a brownie mix
We spotted foil in the contents of their continuous puke
disgusting doesnt describe it accurately
It was quite a horrendous site
The floor, the carpeting, the furniture, were completely coated in a thick layer of brown with chunks of paper and oatmeal
Almost every towel we owned was used
to catch the vomit and clean up
I did not know what to do
with all the soiled disgusting remains
but knew I needed to get rid of all of it temporarily
until I had a chance to sort through the damage and do the laundry
We had to keep it away from the dogs
who insisted... as sick as they were... to go back for seconds
So I simply opened the back door,
and tossed the entire smelly load
on our white snow covered deck
Brown chocolate covered Dog beds and chocolate covered blankets
And brown rugs, and brown pillows and brown towels
Sat on top of mounds of freshly fallen clean white snow
And slowly began
Bleeding brown streaks
Looking like a giant vanilla ice cream sundae
Covered with chocolate syrup
And the puke was the nutty topping
and what was once a red ball became the cherry
Sorry about that image
I had planned to get back to the pukey dessert as soon as I took care of a few other details, to take a picture
So I could actually see what they had ingested
But more important tasks
had to be attended to before I had a chance to snap a photo
Meanwhile
We had to get the peroxide into the dogs,
Which was no easy task
Sam was protesting
She did not want the dogs to throw up
She thought it was hurting them
As if we didn’t have enough problems
Kate and I had to
Calm Sam down,
who reminded me of that maid of Scarlet Ohara
in Gone with the Wind
who was hysterical and had to be slapped out of it
only I certainly wasnt about to hit my daugher
Although, I did consider throwing water on her
to get her to come to her senses
but I figured it would turn into instant pudding
and I had enough problems
we were already constantly cleaning as we went along
and
don’t forget we were on a heightened state of puke alert
when we found a little break in the action
It was time to give the chocolate pups a bath
And dry them
with the few remaining towels left over
Just after unplugging the blow dryer we used on Max and Molly
it began to rain
I did not dare take a look at the mess on the deck
but
I bet there was poodles of puke running off the perimeters of the chocolate mound of destruction
What a dog day afternoon
That’s another story
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