Today at the beach Colby ate part of a sea urchin shell. I saw her air scent, then bolt off along the beach at full speed to find something good to eat. They often find crab legs or clams the sea gulls have opened and enjoy a nice sushi meal during our beach walks. This time it was sea urchin shell. And she wasn't giving it up! It wasn't a large peice, so I let her eat what she had. Notice I said "let her eat what she had"........would I REALLY have been able to get it away from her? That tiny MinPin can swallow something so fast when she knows someone else wants it. Wondering if she would be poisoned or sick? Maybe she has eaten sea urchin shells before? They always eat stuff at the beach. It's what they do. Dogs eat stuff, they love the dried crab legs and insides of the scallop shells the seagulls have been working on. When out and about on our beach outings, it's time spent foraging and racing, it's what they do. They eat stuff and race around, but I did wonder if that sea urchin shell was going to be OK going through that tiny MinPin body. We found a tiny dead minnow and fed it to Spur because Douce didn't want it, but Spur swallowed it down.
After dinner tonight she barfed up EVERYTHING including all the tiny bits of sea urchin shell. Ick! Just so you know, because Muffin Heads, I know you want to know.............I had to scoop up the icky urchin spine filled throw up with a spatula, there was THAT much (all from an 11lbs dog)! See, for dinner tonight I gave them an extra heaping of yogurt, some organic pumpkin that was on sale at Hannafords, and an egg yoke. They get egg yokes a couple times a week. Plus, her dinner, plus all the Charlee Bears she got for wicked, super fast, killer, highly trained and awesome recalls today at the beach..............except for the time she was eating the sea urchin shell. No recall then - bitch!
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She had a sore belly for a bit. A famodatine later and a snuggle by the warm woodstove and her belly seems fine. Empty, but fine.
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