Green Dog

Walked out the back door to great the great slobber dog, a torn up carton of organic tomato fertilizer, and about 3 cups of fertilizer on the ground. Hmmm. Do I have a problem or not? So without freaking out, a unique event for me, write it down, I gathered up the carton remains, watered in the rest of the fertilizer, stepped in some dog shit, hosed that off, and got Oz back in the house. 

After a phone call or two and some web searches we decide, what the hell? The vet is closed. The MSDS on the fertilizer is vague at best and most of the ingredients are stuff that's in his dog food. 

The exception is pot ash, which is also in most dog foods and some people food, but not his. Pot ash is a good source of sulfur and potassium. I think plants need way more than critters with legs. 

So ... we fed him dinner, a few pieces of bread and we wait. So far so good.

For those of you who are cringing at us for not running him over to VCA in Oakland, let me lay it out for you.

1. $500.00
2. The after hours vet barely graduated and is Googling the answers anyway
3. Oz would very likely try to eat some poor unsuspecting Lasa Apso resulting in I can't even begin to imagine how big a collective vet bill. 
4. If #3, assume a restraining order on Oz from our good friends at the Alameda County Animal Control or worse an order to have him put down ... :-(

Vet visits at this point need to be VERY controlled, well planned, and to a big dog ver like ours.

When you have a big a$$ dog like a Rotweiler you gotta make choices and balance the possible outcomes.