Ditto

This is Ditto... My Aunt and Uncle's dog. Ditto is currently having some intestinal issues (it's pooch exit the body). The aunt and uncle had plans to go on a ride this weekend up to Laughlin (have you been?? I recommend you don't. Highly boring, and too much sequenced old ladies. Spend the extra money and go to Vegas...however I do have a good Laughlin story) and I was asked to stay last night for meds and in case exit the body did occur, Oma would never know Ditto was having issues (she's deaf remember, and even more so when she's sleeping). I'm such a good niece....so I came after work last night (usually I'm here Saturday nights anyways).

When I went to give Ditto her meds- she clamped her mouth shut, and to pry the jaws open took an act of god. Once finally open, I tossed in pill #1 and then she starts foaming at the mouth and projecting saliva with hard huffs through any tiny crevasse between her teeth. I loose my grip and the disintegrating pill flies out of her mouth. It took about 5 minutes for the pill to be remotely swallowed. Then I had to get pill #2, and the same thing occurs only this time she's so lubed up, I can barely grip her mouth to open and shove the pill in there and clamp it shut while she foams/huffs, and projects saliva. (Some of you may be thinking that I should have covered the pills in something so she would take them- the vet has her a bland diet and she wasn't supposed to eat anything yesterday, just water, so that means no turning the pill into a treat.)

I had no idea that a dog could spontaneously create so much saliva. The hands were beyond slimed, the floor was slimed... everything was slimed that was in a three-foot radius of the pill giving. It was fun.