by Ugly Nora » Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:17 am
Let me tell you something about my dog. Last week he somehow injured his front paw and a dime-sized piece of his pad was scraped off, so it was just exposed skin. The vet gave us some ointment to put on his foot 3 times a day even though we knew we would never be able to put it on him because he is super sensitive about his front paws, and even more so since it is injured. Well, I managed to get in on their only twice, once when he was sleeping and once when my girlfriend was playing with him. He actually snapped at me that time which is the first time he has ever done that in the 2+ years I've had him. He was at the point where anytime he saw me with the ointment tube in my hand, he would just run away.
Monday night, I was playing music in my studio and came back to my dog laying in my living room with the ointment bottle all chewed up and destroyed on the floor and not a sign of any of the ointment that was contained inside as if to suggest that he ingested it all. I called animal poison control (which cost me $65) and luckily it was not a life threatening incident, and the worst that would probably happen was he would vomit and have diarrhea for the next day or so.
So in conclusion, on the one hand, my dog is smart enough to seek out and neutralize a known threat to him; and on the other hand, he dumb enough to almost poison himself in the process.