We've been fortunate.
J and I have only done it once since we've been together. Our Colleen had hemangiosarcoma when she was 10. :-(
We had a scare with our Sophie earlier in the week. She pulled a wrapped up loaf of raisin bread off the counter (that I had foolishly left too easy for her to reach) and ate about 1/4 pound of it. She showed no signs of distress when we got home about 9 hours later (she did it just as we left for work apparently) - she was happy to see us and didn't act at all guilty, but we called the vet to find out whether we should not feed her dinner. We reached them just before they closed. The vet said eating the bread wasn't the problem, but an indeterminate number of dogs will have severe kidney damage from eating as little as 1-2 raisins.
:-(
So we had to take her to an emergency vet and decide whether to give her IV fluids for 48 hours to try to flush everything out. We decided to do it, and fortunately all the subsequent tests indicate no damage, but unfortunately that doesn't mean that she isn't sensitive to them. (One of the vets told a story about a dog who has eaten raisins on multiple separate occasions and each time they went the IV fluids route...) It was an expensive lesson for me. I probably won't be getting raisin bread again anytime soon!
It's hard to have them leave us. The pain is less sharp over time, but it doesn't really go away...
Sincere condolences to you (and to Box).
Cheers,
Scott.
We had a scare with our Sophie earlier in the week. She pulled a wrapped up loaf of raisin bread off the counter (that I had foolishly left too easy for her to reach) and ate about 1/4 pound of it. She showed no signs of distress when we got home about 9 hours later (she did it just as we left for work apparently) - she was happy to see us and didn't act at all guilty, but we called the vet to find out whether we should not feed her dinner. We reached them just before they closed. The vet said eating the bread wasn't the problem, but an indeterminate number of dogs will have severe kidney damage from eating as little as 1-2 raisins.
:-(
So we had to take her to an emergency vet and decide whether to give her IV fluids for 48 hours to try to flush everything out. We decided to do it, and fortunately all the subsequent tests indicate no damage, but unfortunately that doesn't mean that she isn't sensitive to them. (One of the vets told a story about a dog who has eaten raisins on multiple separate occasions and each time they went the IV fluids route...) It was an expensive lesson for me. I probably won't be getting raisin bread again anytime soon!
It's hard to have them leave us. The pain is less sharp over time, but it doesn't really go away...
Sincere condolences to you (and to Box).
Cheers,
Scott.