Supersize Your Dog

As a veterinary technician in a small town, I worked for a veterinarian who had been in practice for fifty years and had seen just about everything. One day I received a call from a very concerned dog owner. The owner’s husband had been gardening and was using a common chemical fertilizer. When he left the yard for a moment, their Yorkshire Terrier found the bucket and started lapping it up like water. The wife discovered him doing this and panicked. Though the dog seemed to be acting okay, she was anxious to hear the doc’s opinion on what she should do next. Ingestion of any chemical by an animal is dangerous, and with small breeds it can be even more so. I concealed my own concern and told her I would ask the doctor immediately. Placing her on hold, I called out to the doc: “What should this woman do about her Yorkie that just ingested some chemical fertilizer?”
“That depends,” he replied. “How big does she want him to get?”

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