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06-11-2008, 06:47 PM
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His name is Baxter. He was a rescue. He is a pain in the ass.  We love him.
He does dangerous and bad things. He has only nearly died one time so far. Baking chocolate, four days in the animal hospital, $1000 in vet bills. But, it's only been a year so there are lots more stunts for him to pull. 
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06-11-2008, 06:49 PM
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What does reggie think of him?
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06-11-2008, 06:52 PM
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Quote: amykhar said
 What does reggie think of him? | Well, he's french, Reggie is, so............
At first it was *hate*. He's warmed up to great disdain.
edit - any French folks on the board now?
[waves hi]
[looks around nervously]
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06-11-2008, 07:18 PM
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What a cutie! How much chocolate did he eat? When Harley was a puppy (2 months old, weighed 6 lbs) she nosed her way into a kitchen cupboard and ate 12 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips. I spent a very long night locked in the bathroom with her, forcing ipecac and hydogen peroxide down her. She vomited most of it, but neither one of us has forgotten that one, and my bathroom was beyond a disaster zone.
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06-11-2008, 07:30 PM
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Quote: conradd said
What a cutie! How much chocolate did he eat? When Harley was a puppy (2 months old, weighed 6 lbs) she nosed her way into a kitchen cupboard and ate 12 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips. I spent a very long night locked in the bathroom with her, forcing ipecac and hydogen peroxide down her. She vomited most of it, but neither one of us has forgotten that one, and my bathroom was beyond a disaster zone. | Gah! Poor Harley and Deb. I got a visual. 
Baxie did it up big. The 14 year old had gotten my ziploc with all of my baking chocolate in it out of the cupboard. Also had semi sweets and the kid was snacking on them. Baxter is a *thief*, a mastermind criminal with a plan, ready to swipe whatever he wants if a head gets turned.
He swiped the bag and ate, I don't remember the quantity now, but one of those giant bars of baking chocolate. He's 10 pounds.
Baking chocolate is the worst because it has many times the amount of theobromine than milk chocolate, say, does. Fortunately, Baxter also likes to flip paper wrappers in the air and when he had finished eating his stolen food, he came in to taunt us with the wrapper.
We started with, what does Baxter have now, and then all just stared at each other when we realized what he had eaten and how bad this was.
Rushed him to the ER, they were waiting for us at the door (we'd called ahead) and they grabbed him and rushed him right into the room to pump his stomach. It was so fast, they got most of it...but his pancreas was still in shut down for about 48 hours. (Fat ingestion, believe it or not, not the theobromine)
We were very lucky. It would have killed him.
Bad Baxie! But we loves him.
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06-11-2008, 09:38 PM
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Awww, that shot makes me think of Benji! 
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06-11-2008, 10:47 PM
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Oh man. I think I have more sympathy for you - and your checking account - than Baxter. Glad he pulled through.
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06-12-2008, 05:10 AM
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Quote: conradd said
Oh man. I think I have more sympathy for you - and your checking account - than Baxter. Glad he pulled through. | He's a special dog. (I know, all EA pets are special.) Smart as a whip, way too smart, completely emotionally defective.
Maltese/Yorkie, one of the fashionable designer breeds being created nowadays (also called a Yorktese). A woman with nine cats had decided she wanted a fashion dog. Paid $1500 for him and his life started being flown across the country to her.  Not a fan of dogs being stuffed into cargo sections and flown across the country for designer reasons, you know?
Anyway, being a cat lady (not that there's anything wrong with that) she got it in her head to treat the new puppy like a cat. Litter box trained him. [boggles] Which you know, doesn't *work* for dogs. After he got a urinary track infection for litter stuck up his male parts, she gave him up.
He ended up on a horse farm, friends of ours, while looking for placement...whereupon he kept busting loose to go play with the horses. Who liked him  , but were sure to kill him accidently in short order.
We'd talked about getting a labradoodle forever, so we were in the market for a second dog, but didn't count on teh Baxter. Whatadog. Took him on a weekend trial, trial period being 20 minutes. That's how long it took to go, yeah, he's one of us.
His propensity for mischief is mind boggling, hence the standard "What does Baxter have now".....
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06-12-2008, 08:46 AM
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OMG he is cute! I would love to see Reggie sneer gallicly at him, too.  |
06-12-2008, 10:45 AM
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He is ADORABLE-he ended up where he was meant to be lucky dog and lucky duck
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06-13-2008, 11:25 AM
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Awwwww! Cute! |
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he is really so cute . | |
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