an emergency vet visit for my dog. Heres what happened. Me and my wife were cleaning up after dinner last night. My dog comes in the kitchen gaging and coughing and licking at nothing. He coughs and spits out blood. My wife freaks!!!! So we jump in the truck and rush to the after hours vet clinic downtown all the while he's gaging and coughing and whining. They take him in and sedate him to look and see what was going on with him. Low and behold the cat had knocked over a thing of tooth picks while we were cleaning up and he though they would make a great little after meal snack. He had three buried in his wind pipe. So after a 20 minute drive, an endoscope removal of objects, injections and anti-inflammatory we got home at 1:30 and I have to be up at 5:30 so needless to say I am running on coffee and fumes right now.

Moral of the story. Dogs are like kids they'll put anything in their mouths