I'm so relieved to know that Frankie is home and doing so great!  What a relief for you!

LOL  Obviously Frankie's "voice" was not affected!!!!!!!!!!!!  You tell 'em, Frankie...too funny.  Brought happy tears to my eyes to see him looking (and sounding) so good!

Trini and Sketchie

Well I am back from work travel and so glad to read this !!! YAY Frankie! You are indeed "one tough dude"!!! 

So Jerry pointed me in the direction of this post and I just HAD to share my own story. I haven't had time to read all of the posts because I am on my lunch at work, but hopefully I'll be able to read them soon.

So I am currently dealing with a(n approximately) 13 year old Russian Wolfhound/Husky mix (as seen in my profile pic) who developed a mass on his foot in September. We took him in at the end of October and it turned out to be a mass cell tumor. This stupid tumor is in such an awkward spot! It is about 1.5 inches long and about an inch wide and it is on the outside edge of his right front ankle. Part of the tumor wraps underneath of his dewpad. The general opinion is that the tumor is impossible ro remove without reconstructive surgery because there isn't enough flesh on his ankle to get the surgery site to close and heal. So on Wednesday we opted to have a biopsy done on Kitna's mass to determine the grade (this is in addition to the staging that we had done about two weeks ago). Well, Kitna got sent home with 500 mg of Rimadyl and I gave him 50 mg that evening when I got him home.

The next day I had school and my husband works evenings so I left for work around 7:30am and my husband was home with them until about 2pm. He volunteered to take Kitna back to the vet that day because they wanted to check on the incision site the day after surgery and I couldn't take them because I have class right after work. So he crated our other dog and left around 8am and returned around 9:30 - 10 am. The dogs were out and about between 9:30am ish and 2pm. Well, I got home at 8pm, after 8.5 hours of work and about 3.5 hours of school, let the dogs out to potty, and went to grab Kitna's Rimadyl, which I had left on the kitchen counter with my personal meds. 

The bottle was gone.

At first I thought maybe I had misplaced it because both dogs were perfectly fine and happy. Snickers even gave me a happy dance when I got home. (She tucks her tail, prances, and bounces in circles lol) So I looked and looked and looked and I finally found the remains of the "childproof" pill bottle on the side of our bed with a big tooth hole in the lid. Both dogs counter surf, but only one of them has the jaw strength to chew open that hard plastic bottle. Snickers. So I called the emergency vet and told them that my 60# dog had consumed 450mg of Rimadyl between 6 and 10 hours ago, they recommended that we bring her in and I asked them what would an overdose of rimadyl do, what signs should I look for that are indicative of an overdose? She said that overdosing on Rimadyl is like overdosing on advil; it causes liver failure. So I packed up both dogs and we sped to the emergency vets where they made Snickers throw up all that yummy medicine and then fed her activated charcoal (which she happily lapped up, btw) to help her pass the rest of it.

The total came to $210, which really isn't that bad for a trip to the emergency vets. If it had gone over $1000 we would have been in trouble. Apparently Snickers consumed just below the toxic amount of Rimadyl for a dog of her weight. so we lucked out on that!

When Snickers was brought in from the back she was happy and bouncy and was rubbing against everything. You'd have no idea that she had just been fed activated charcoal and been made to throw up. Snickers is crazy.

This is what she choose to do right after we got home:

I'm so glad I'm not the only person with a naughty dog. 😉