August 02, 2007
Over the past week, Ruby (see pics) has been really stinky. The gas emitted from her hind side has been so bad that I wished for immediate death. One recent evening, the smell lingered in the house and I tried circulating air to clear it out, but she kept producing so much gas on a constant basis that it was like trying to hold water in one's hands. The problem was getting so bad that I had to remove her from whatever room I was going to be in so that I could be productive.
I changed her food three weeks ago, so I theorized that was the problem and thus changed her food again to Eukanuba for dogs with sensitive stomachs. Note that the bag for this particular type of dog food has a Boston Terrier on the package. Then, yesterday evening, I was outside in the back yard and discovered Miss Stinks eating a rotten corn cob from the compost bin. She is not interested in eating raw veggies that I have tried to give her in the past, but she finds rotten husks and vegetable peelings to be quite delicious. (By the way, dogs and onions don't mix. They are harmful for dogs.)
She should be stinking a lot less in the next few days. And corn really does make good methane gas.
Last night I asked Ruby, "Which end is your face?" Hahahahaha.
Posted by megabeth at August 2, 2007 08:20 AM
I'm very sorry to hear of Ruby's gastrointestinal problems, but it's one of those "let he or she who is without sin" kind of things. I'd keep her out of my suitcase -- but that's just me. The photos are great. It seems like just yesterday that Ruby was a puppy. Sigh. (It will reach 95 today on the Canadian border. A visitor might wonder if it ever gets cold here.)
Posted by: chris robinson at August 2, 2007 09:42 AM
We must have traded weather patterns because it hasn't been hot here until a couple of days ago. But you can have your weather pattern back in November.
Posted by: megabeth at August 2, 2007 11:05 AM
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Posted by: Terry's former spammers at August 2, 2007 12:34 PM
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Posted by: megabeth at August 2, 2007 03:14 PM
Sorry to hear that Rubies is playing the part of the stinkbomb in the school play. At least she hasn't decided that rolling around in the compost pile is a worthwhile way to spend an afternoon.
I guess I was lucky that my pugs never suffered from excess pungency. They were fed Eukanuba lite & Pedigree canned food. And they begged their way into a goodly share of human food too. Bad owner! Bad!
Posted by: BlogDog at August 2, 2007 10:23 PM
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Posted by: Terry's former spammers at August 5, 2007 07:35 PM
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