She was so hungry on her diet that she ate a bar of soap

05/02/2009 by Arielle.

I have written about Amber Rose before. She is a huge gorgeous chocolate Newfoundland who suffers from epilepsy. She is on 3 different forms of medication to control her seizures. The side effects of the medication are quite cruelly - weight gain!

Amber is therefore constantly on diet as her enormous weight causes her backlegs to buckle. I know just how she feels feeling constantly hungry when on diet; but today her owners brought her in as she found a whole bar of soap in its cardboard box and she chewed it up with delight and ate it.

She appeared calm and happy and the smell of clean soap in the consulting room made such a good change from the usual nasty smells we extract from clients’ pets! I have not had a case like this before and disappeared upstairs to look up the dangers of soap ingestion in the poisons book.

I was warned not to make her vomit as the soap could bubble and froth and she would then breath it in - a bigger danger. The treatment was simple - feed her milk to neutralise the soap. The owner was relieved and I imagine once she was home, Amber would have been thrilled with that treatment!

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