Tucker did sniff-taste-chew-ptui on grapes 3 or 4 times in a row until she actually broke the skin.

My eyes flew open at this, amych. Please, no grapes!

sniff-taste-chew-ptui!, repeated 3 times, was comedy gold.

I can see that.

Dammit to fuck and back.

Joe's car STILL isn't fixed. And the labor is pretty much free, so it's hard to be pissed off at awesome friend Bob who is doing the work, but it was supposed to have been done a flipping week ago. And I have to be in tomorrow at 7:00 am, which is damned near impossible considering that Em has to be at school by 8:00 am, Joe to class by 9:00 am and then Em picked up at 3:20 pm. And of course, I just now (within the past 15 minutes) found this out and it's 11:00 pm and it's too damn fucking late to call anyone to help.

I'm pissed and angry and frustrated.

I think I'm heading into work now, to do what I was going to do at 7:00 am and then I'll go back after I get Em and Joe to school.

Bonny, Tucker's been dead since before the grape issue became well-known, weighed nigh on 100 pounds, and never had more than one grape at a sitting -- I'm aware of the issue and thank you for the reminder, but there's no need for alarm in this case.

Oh goodness. I'm sorry for over-reacting and not knowing the history. I had a client have to rush her pup to the vet after folks, unaware of the issue, fed her grapes at a party. I'm a bit knee-jerky. Or, at least, jerky.

I'm still amazed that they haven't isolated what made grapes suddenly become toxic. Though, the Snopes article helped clear up something for me. I thought it had only been about 5 years since the onset of the problem, but Snopes suggests it's been since 1989. How can that be?

Anyway, my knee is safely tucked back where it belongs.

I wonder if it's always been a problem, it's just better recordkeeping/databases that have made veterinarians more aware of the problem. The info age has brought many things into higher profile than they were before.

WHY IS MY CHILD SINGING JUSTIN BIEBER???

Play her some new Hanson instead!

I've been watching that Hanson video over and over! It makes me happy.

No offense taken -- much better to get the word out, and anyway you weren't around when my girl still was, so. (FWIW, I interpret the Snopes article as saying that the problem was first identified in 1989, which doesn't mean that grapes suddenly became toxic then, at all. And which makes much more sense that way.)

Our cat sniffs but won't taste people food, which is odd because she licks curtains, tables, and chairs. But I even tried giving her tuna and she did not seem to care.