I am glad Gerry is ok. This reminds me of a funny story from when Cadence was a puppy. We used to keep our bathroom trash can (a little white one with a lid that swung back and forth) right down next to the toilet. I use foundation and always put my triangle foam make up applicators inside the trash. Well one weekend Cadence started looking very uncomfortable. She was pacing around and would sit down and get back up and had a worried look on her face. I told my husband (who was my boyfriend at the time) that something was going on with her because she looked like a mother dog about ready to give birth and she looked like she was about to blow. I kept an eye on her and suddenly the heaving started. I rushed her to the bathroom over the tile and suddenly out came 9….YES 9! cosmetic applicators! They were not digested, were really puffy, and were greenish in color. She looked way comfortable after they were out and started wagging her tail again. Then in the following days, she pooped out 1 or 2 applicators per poop. God only knows how many she ate. After that we started keeping the trash can under the cabinet. I was reading online about why a dog would even find something like that palatable and as a food source. I guess some of the ingredients that are in foundation are tasty and smell good to dogs. Who would have known! Now I am like a mother with a baby and look over my house each day before I leave for work, looking for things that might be tempting to her, closing doors, and putting away anything that could present a hazard. You become like a mom with a human baby. But I do keep a bottle of hydrogen peroxide in the cabinet just in case. She got up on the counter late this summer also and ate 3/4 of a large onion and we thought we were going to have to use it. My hubby read online that she didn't eat enough to be toxic and we didn't want to make her throw up unnecessarily due to all she had been through already with her cancer and amputation. Luckily there were no adverse affects. I have heard of dogs eating socks and underwear, feminine hygiene products and all kinds of weird things. Who knows what is going through their mind as they are consuming them. It would be interesting to hear from some other members what wacky things their dogs have ingested. 

Cadence's Mom