Scary

K looked over at Mandy last night, as she was getting just one more thing before sitting down on the couch for a casual dinner. K realized that the dog had gotten into the pile of pills she'd prepared, to take with dinner. Some of those pills could easily kill an 11 pound dog. K couldn't remember which pills she'd laid down, or which ones she'd already taken, so the situation quickly spun up into an emergency. We weren't yet fully prepared for a dog health emergency, so we wasted some time calling around to various poison centers for people and dogs, and a couple of emergency vet facilities. We finally got her to VRCC in Englewood, after what seemed like an eternity to me, but was really about an hour. They gave her a medication that caused her to empty her stomach, but they didn't find any pills. Still, they gave her some activated charcoal to soak up anything bad, and kept her overnight to watch for possible symptoms. They were ready for almost anything, with a catheter and various resuscitation equipment. She hadn't shown any symptoms by this morning, when we picked her up, so it's looking like she may not have actually eaten any pills. We had quite a scare of almost losing our "companion dog", who has rapidly become a new family member, and I really hope we don't repeat the experience.