Saw a letter to the editor in FWW today from a vet, says they see several cases of dogs eating gorilla glue. Although the glue does not stick to their innards, it does swell up from all the moisture and harden. He said they removed a volleyball-size chunk of glue from a rotweiller.
“When asked if you can do something, tell’em “Why certainly I can”, then get busy and find a way to do it.” T. Roosevelt
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Our Boston Terrier licked all the squeeze-out off of several gorilla glue assemblies I had sitting on some horses. Didn't seem to do anything to him, but I was worried for a while. Obviously I've never tasted the stuff but he thought it was good enough to lick several feet of gluejoint.
I normally scrape the squeezeout off with a chisel or similar, haven't thought of getting a dog in to do it but maybe I should
JohnIf my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.
>Our Boston Terrier licked all the squeeze-out off of several gorilla glue assemblies I had sitting on some horses.First, I'm guessing gorilla glue doesn't have the same effect on horses as it does on dogs, huh?Second, your dog was lucky he didn't then reach around to lick his own.........:)
Wait! You can't lump terriers in with other dogs!Terriers get that special "dog on a mission" mindset that most other dogs never achieve (or degenerate into, depending on your point of view).<G> Longtime terrier owner, here. I even "came with one" sort of. My mom's dad raised rat terriers and a litter was born three days before me. I was given a female pup. She lived until we were 14 1/2. DW and I now have wheaten terriers. The bizarre part: DW's named Susie... and so was my boyhood dog.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
This terrier has done amazing things out of sheer willpower. He has invaded small countries, trafficked major quantities of narcotics across international borders, sold nuclear arms to rogue regimes, eaten salmon fillets defrosting on top of the stove, and made himself hideouts in the laundry hamper. I have an urgent telegram this morning from the North Koreans... apparently he was picked up there along with a shipment of missiles--they are unable to control him in any of their prisons, so they want me to take him back.
lolAnd then there were his youthful days!Gotta love 'em.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
~ Voltaire
wait.... I gotta go.... he's heading out of the driveway in my truck.
The dog?
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. --Otto von Bismarck
Not the brightest species on the planet.
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When was the last time that a dog started a war?
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. --Otto von Bismarck
I certainly didn't mean to suggest that we (humans) were the brightest.
I knew plenty of folks who ate glue as kids. Not certain a good number aren't sniffin' it nowadays.
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Dogs wear their politics, their religion, their hearts, their libido and their stomachs all on the same sleeve for all to see.They start wars all the time.Their problem, (and blessing), is that they only affect their own tiny little world. They can't organize and send off all the poor dogs' kids to fight and die, while the rich dogs' kids go to college or the coast guard.They don't have a long enough attention span to learn that they must hate dobermans, or dacshunds, or whatever, because dacshunds and dobermans are filthy, are not fit to be called dogs, and are trying to control the world's gold market.They have no ability to grasp the concept of killing masses of other dogs so they can have cheaper kibble or softer beds. They CAN however, grasp the concept of declaring war on the neighbor's cat. Or on the mailman.=0)
Get over it....... The angry going eat you up. ~Brownbagg '06
Luka and DanH, is it too much to ask that we don't wander too far off subject. Please don't inject political comments into non-political threads. Thank you
BruceT
Yes, it is.
Get over it....... The angry going eat you up. ~Brownbagg '06
Ouch.
That ruler to the knuckles looked like it hurt!
; )
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Please don't inject political comments into non-political threads
Yes please. Especially, please don't lump the Coasties in as some sort of cushy, safe, resume-padding life experience.
The Coasties have the most consistantly dangerous job there is--and don't have as huge and bloated a bureacrasy behind them to slow things down. If all you have is a 40 y/o HH-3 to take out into the howling black night to answer that distress call--then, that's what you take. No sending back to Type Commander for recommendations for modifying flight envelope in high double digit Beaufort conditions, either.
Oh, and you have to go even when there's 147 on board some rickety scow that would nave barely carried 37 new, and there's a huge likely hood they'll capsize as they all come to one side--still have to go.
Gotta go even when some doped-up Miami Vice wanna be gets nervous seeign that stripe down the launch even though all you are doing is running the mail ashore . . . Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Amen and Amen on the USCG reply-rant.
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This post is so you don't have a dead marker in your "unread posts to me" files...I deleted the first one because it still sounded political.But believe you me... It was full of pith, and contrition. By the end of it, you and I were both feeling patriotic, wanting to buy each other a beer, and begging the moderators not to move this "gorilla-snot-licking dogs, thread" to the tavern just because someone said something that sounded political...;o)
Get over it....... The angry going eat you up. ~Brownbagg '06
This post is so you don't have a dead marker in your "unread posts to me" files...
Thank you most kindly, Rez failed to do so in a different, long-ago, post, which has only recently stopped popping up.
I deleted the first one because it still sounded political.
Politics is part of life, life is part of politics--there is a "twain" between those which can be hard to seperate.
But believe you me... It was full of pith, and contrition. By the end of it, you and I were both feeling patriotic, wanting to buy each other a beer, and begging the moderators not to move this "gorilla-snot-licking dogs, thread" to the tavern just because someone said something that sounded political...
But of course, I would expect nothing less. Especially as we all set into celebrating our gratitude for our blessings with mete and just contrition (even if an extraterrestrial visitor might assume the reverse from too many traveler's actions & attitudes).
That, and I've Coasties in my "shop" at the p/t job now; my Marines are still adjusting a bit.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
"Yes please. Especially, please don't lump the Coasties in as some sort of cushy, safe, resume-padding life experience. "What???? Where'd this Coast Guard rant come from?BruceT
What???? Where'd this Coast Guard rant come from?
See the fourth line in:
http://forums.prospero.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=81848.8
All better now, though. No sending the 5'-2" cox'n off to make him cry or nutt'in (she's mean, she is; sump'in about being a surf boat instructor or the like . . . )Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
81848.41 in reply to 81848.25 "What???? Where'd this Coast Guard rant come from?See the fourth line in: http://forums.prospero.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=81848.8"Ah, now I see it - I skip the posts that drag politics into a thread, so I missed the Coast Guard reference. I am still confused as to why it was addressed to me.When I was in the Navy in the early 70's, we jokingly referred to the Coasties as "The Knee-Deep Navy" but those of us who served in VN knew that you guys pulled riverine duty, one of the most dangerous jobs in Nam.Happy Thanksgiving. We still have a lot to be thankful for.
BruceT
Edited 11/23/2006 11:09 am ET by BruceT999
I am still confused as to why it was addressed to me.
I "pointed" this back to you as you asked the question--not because you raised the issue. Luka & I worked out the rest; after all he's been through floods & such, it did not seem apt that he get scolded by any BMC of any dimension.
you guys
Just don'y lump me in amongst that plural, the device above my stripes has always been a star; I've never been employed by DoT. I have been to Little Creek, though, and more than once.
Thanks given and distributed . . . Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
"What???? Where'd this Coast Guard rant come from?See the fourth line in: http://forums.prospero.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=81848.8"Ah, now I see it. I quit reading after the 2nd line.When I was in the Navy in the early 70's we jokingly referred to the CG as the "Knee-Deep Navy", but those of us who served in Nam knew that the Coasties' riverine duty was one of the most dangerous jobs in that war.Happy Thanksgiving. We all have much to be thankful for.
BruceT
The Coasties have the most consistantly dangerous job there is
You got that right!
Hey, the Coasties are the only ones who were on top of things post-Katrina, and they got little recognition for it. Without them all those people would still be waiting on top of their roofs.
Billy
"Without them all those people would still be waiting on top of their roofs."Unfortunately, that is probably literally true for a large portion of those who were stranded on their roofs in the first place...Ut oh, I made a socio-political comment, didn't I ? Quick !! Someone break Bruce's ruler for me !!;o)
Get over it....... The angry going eat you up. ~Brownbagg '06
Luka, I'm rollin' on the floor laughing. I knew some of those folks and you're right!
Billy
I could see maybe a piece the size of a golf ball but a piece the size of a volleyball, come on, how fast/slow do you think we are? We might have been born at night, but not last night!
Problem is that Gorilla Glue is a polyurethane based glue & it expands greatly in water & then hardens to cause an obstruction.Bobbi
Ok Bozo, here's the letter ...
Keep polyurethane glue, such as Gorilla Glue, well away from dogs. At our animal hospital, we have had three cases in the past year in which dogs have ingested this type of glue. The glue does not adhere to the tissue in the stomach, but it does expand, cure, and become rock hard. We removed a volleyball-sized ball of polyurethane glue from a Rottweiler. We have never had a case of a dog eating any other type of glue.
-- Andrew Taylor, Bolton Veterinary Hospital, Bolton, Connecticut
I remember my Golden liked to chew things, and I can imagine him finding a bottle of glue within his reach, and start chewing on it. Poke a hole in the bottle with his tooth, and out comes a large quantity of uncured glue.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
Gorilla glue is nothing but gorilla snot, which is why dogs can't get enough of it! It tastes great!
> It tastes great!But it's more filling.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. --Otto von Bismarck
Thank you for the public service.
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Through the years working in different houses I've had owner's dogs chew sandpaper because maybe it had animal glue on the sheets.
Don't know why a dog would be attracted to Gorilla glue. Does it have glycol in it, dogs love anti-freeze.
And it's lethal.
A good seasonal reminder, they will lick up flushed anti-freeze.
I'm trying to imagine how much squeeze out it would take to make a "volleyball size chunk"??!!
The first time I used gorilla glue, I really overdid it and had quite a bit of squeezeout (no dogs in the shop so that wasn't a problem - lol). After that first experience, however, I've never had much more than a few pencil diameter "gobs" to deal with.
I gotta wonder if that volleyball size chunk didn't build up over several glue ups and collected because the dog couldn't pass the stuff. I also gotta wonder where the dogs owner was. I can't imagine not noticing the pooch slobbering all over some glue ups.
I'm thinking it would take a coupla ounces, though it's hard to say how it might expand in a stomach vs in air.And keep in mind that the lump wouldn't all be glue -- it would include whatever else was in the stomach.
People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt. --Otto von Bismarck
mabe it ate a bottle of the stuff..
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Naw, the only soccer the docs have seen is tabletop...;o)
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Edited 11/22/2006 6:23 pm by Luka