Tuesdays With Tag - Public Service Announcement #4...

Hi, Everybody.

It's time for another Public Service Announcement!

It's been a rough week in Corgi Nation (that's how the corgi owners refer to

our whole corgi-lovin' group on FB). Two corgis, that I know of in this week

alone, went to the Rainbow Bridge. The worst part is that it didn't have to happen.

If you haven't already figured it out from readin' my blog posts, corgis are fast,

intelligent, inquisitive, driven and...blessed (or cursed, as the case may be) with

a humongous food fixation. We'll do anything for even the tiniest treat. A few of

my brethren (or sistren - hee hee) will do the most embarrassin' things for the

mere chance to score a piece of food. That can be a good thing or a bad thing.

I want you to know why this food fixation thing is a bad thing for us.

The two corgis that died this week, died because they got into stuff they 

never should have been able to get into...medicine and food. Mom was so

upset that she sat me down for a serious conversation about the whole thing.

Because of our anatomy - primarily our short legs - corgis are unable to get stuff

off our heads. We can't reach to paw things away that might get stuck. Take a 

potato chip bag, for instance. We stick our heads into the bag to get a tasty treat

and then, we can't pull the bag off our heads. If we can't get the bag off, we end

up suffocatin' and then dyin'. Mom and I can't tell you how many of these sad

stories we've read about in the last six months - but even one is too many! 

The other little dog that died this week, broke into a bottle of Aleve. From what

Mom can discern, the bottle was sittin' right there on the coffee table in his house.
Poor guy overdosed and the vet was unable to save him. Mom was so sad she cried.

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These deaths were senseless and could have been easily prevented. Your pets are

curious, just like little kids. Your responsibility as pet owners is to protect them.

Sometimes you protect us from ourselves. We just don't know any better. It might

smell good, then it tastes food, and the next thing ya know, we're in deep trouble.

Please close pantry doors, or at the very least, put the food up so we can't reach it.

Keep your medicines in the medicine cabinet, or somewhere else that's out of reach.

I'm not a garbage dog, but I hear some dogs are. You have ta keep that stuff away

from your pets, too. There are plastic bags and other harmful things like bones, 

in there. Did ya know that if dogs eat chicken bones they could puncture their

intestines and cause perry-tone-eye-tus? (Mom says I spelled that wrong. It's 

"peritonitis".) By the time the vet can tell you what's wrong, it's usually too late.

Please take a look around your place and see if you can do a better job of

safeguardin' for your pets. Help keep this from happenin' in your house. 

Just say "NO" to losin' another beloved pet early because of carelessness.

Long live corgis and all our furry friends!

'til next time...

"More Waggin' and Less Barkin'!"