....looking down at your phone when you walk your dog?
If so, I would like to make a request, namely to leave your phone in your pocket while you are walking <3
There are several reasons - but most importantly, you need to be alert when walking your dog - be prepared for what you may encounter, so you can help your dog and maybe save your dog's life!
Many will probably say....”Calm down Lotte – you're a bit nervous now – I have total control over my dog when I go for a walk, even though I watch YouTube while I walk”. But then I want to tell you 2 little stories from real life that COULD have cost my dog his life.
The first episode happened a few years ago - we were out walking, and she's out in her usual long Flexline (a beagle MUST be allowed to sniff – that's 90% of the walk) 😊. I see that she "sniffs" something, and that it was something delicious that needed to be swallowed quickly (same way when she finds a cat hm-hm arrghhhh). Well, I registered it and guessed that it was goose poop (there were geese in the area). We finish the walk, and when we get home, she can't walk/stand – she's sailing off and her head is spinning.
I call the vet immediately and go to the animal hospital urgently – and here they can determine that it is poisoning, and they keep her overnight. I rush home and go down to the place where she took something – and it wasn't many seconds before I found some bags of mouse poison that had been laid out.
Emma was ok again – and we have finally put it behind us – after 7 years (although it still lingers in my memory when she is out in the tall grass and I can't see what she is doing) 😊
Until a few months ago – when I was out at a school. We had finished a search, and I ran out into the schoolyard and sat down with her and kissed and praised her for a fantastic job the dog had done <3 I had her on a leash, but suddenly she moved 2 meters closer to the house wall (as if she had gotten a piece of cheese) 😊…..and HAPS – together sinking way like with cats hmm hmm and I thought, hmmmm maybe you should just look at what it was, as there was a locked poison box right next to it. They are safe as they are, but I wanted to lie down and look to be sure.
I opened her mouth and saw a lot of pink crap (crumb-like) – and I panicked a bit, because I knew it wasn't good. There's usually nothing pink on the ground that's good to eat – and near a poison box.
I get help to call an on-call vet – who says I have to come right away. I get in the car and drive a little too fast – to the nearest on-call vet (30 km away).
She gets an emetic immediately and she throws up for 20 minutes – and eventually no more pink comes up. She gets a vitamin K injection, and we get vitamin K to take home for 5 days, as well as a bottle of activated charcoal that she should take in the evening (as a precaution – in case something had reached her intestines). Fortunately, we arrived so quickly that we were able to get everything up with emetic, so time is a crucial factor.
She is completely fine again – BUT it could have been very different both times – IF I hadn’t seen what happened to my dog. She could have possibly died from the rat poison 3-4 days later – without knowing why because I didn’t see what she was doing!
And in these uncertain times, it is even more important that you see what your dogs are doing – so you can react NOW and get to the vet, because TIME is of the essence!
And completely personally and at my own expense – I don't think I can be familiar with my dog walking with her head down on the phone – she should have a dog handler present who walks actively, who is mentally involved and who can interact with the dog – it's more fun for both parties 😊 <3
A little about the blogger.
Her name is Lotte, she is in her early 50s. She works as a project coordinator and spends most of her free time training with her dog Emma, who is a 10-year-old beagle. They have trained and competed in Schweiss tracks for several years. Agility without much success (you can't tempt them with treats) and now they train Nose Work 2-3 times a week if they can get to it. They compete at NW3 level, and they have a party together when they apply <3 – because the most important thing for this dog handler is that the DOG has fun, and that you learn the most from the mistakes you make. So instead of being angry/disappointed about a test that didn't go as planned, learn from it! - in most cases it's not the dog that makes the mistake <3
Do you do that too?
....looking down at your phone when you walk your dog?
If so, I would like to make a request, namely to leave your phone in your pocket while you are walking <3
There are several reasons - but most importantly, you need to be alert when walking your dog - be prepared for what you may encounter, so you can help your dog and maybe save your dog's life!
Many will probably say....”Calm down Lotte – you're a bit nervous now – I have total control over my dog when I go for a walk, even though I watch YouTube while I walk”. But then I want to tell you 2 little stories from real life that COULD have cost my dog his life.
The first episode happened a few years ago - we were out walking, and she's out in her usual long Flexline (a beagle MUST be allowed to sniff – that's 90% of the walk) 😊. I see that she "sniffs" something, and that it was something delicious that needed to be swallowed quickly (same way when she finds a cat hm-hm arrghhhh). Well, I registered it and guessed that it was goose poop (there were geese in the area). We finish the walk, and when we get home, she can't walk/stand – she's sailing off and her head is spinning.
I call the vet immediately and go to the animal hospital urgently – and here they can determine that it is poisoning, and they keep her overnight. I rush home and go down to the place where she took something – and it wasn't many seconds before I found some bags of mouse poison that had been laid out.
Emma was ok again – and we have finally put it behind us – after 7 years (although it still lingers in my memory when she is out in the tall grass and I can't see what she is doing) 😊
Until a few months ago – when I was out at a school. We had finished a search, and I ran out into the schoolyard and sat down with her and kissed and praised her for a fantastic job the dog had done <3 I had her on a leash, but suddenly she moved 2 meters closer to the house wall (as if she had gotten a piece of cheese) 😊…..and HAPS – together sinking way like with cats hmm hmm and I thought, hmmmm maybe you should just look at what it was, as there was a locked poison box right next to it. They are safe as they are, but I wanted to lie down and look to be sure.
I opened her mouth and saw a lot of pink crap (crumb-like) – and I panicked a bit, because I knew it wasn't good. There's usually nothing pink on the ground that's good to eat – and near a poison box.
I get help to call an on-call vet – who says I have to come right away. I get in the car and drive a little too fast – to the nearest on-call vet (30 km away).
She gets an emetic immediately and she throws up for 20 minutes – and eventually no more pink comes up. She gets a vitamin K injection, and we get vitamin K to take home for 5 days, as well as a bottle of activated charcoal that she should take in the evening (as a precaution – in case something had reached her intestines). Fortunately, we arrived so quickly that we were able to get everything up with emetic, so time is a crucial factor.
She is completely fine again – BUT it could have been very different both times – IF I hadn’t seen what happened to my dog. She could have possibly died from the rat poison 3-4 days later – without knowing why because I didn’t see what she was doing!
And in these uncertain times, it is even more important that you see what your dogs are doing – so you can react NOW and get to the vet, because TIME is of the essence!
And completely personally and at my own expense – I don't think I can be familiar with my dog walking with her head down on the phone – she should have a dog handler present who walks actively, who is mentally involved and who can interact with the dog – it's more fun for both parties 😊 <3
A little about the blogger.
Her name is Lotte, she is in her early 50s. She works as a project coordinator and spends most of her free time training with her dog Emma, who is a 10-year-old beagle. They have trained and competed in Schweiss tracks for several years. Agility without much success (you can't tempt them with treats) and now they train Nose Work 2-3 times a week if they can get to it. They compete at NW3 level, and they have a party together when they apply <3 – because the most important thing for this dog handler is that the DOG has fun, and that you learn the most from the mistakes you make. So instead of being angry/disappointed about a test that didn't go as planned, learn from it! - in most cases it's not the dog that makes the mistake <3