During a visit to our vet today, he asked me if I had heard of Gorilla Glue. Yeah, I had, and he showed me a grapefruit size ball of GG foam he had removed from a dogs stomache earlier in the day. Seems the dog had lapped up some of the GG which resulted in it foaming up to make the ball inside the dog. Believe me, this is *not* an urban legend. Whether GG has some desireable taste (like antifreeze) that dogs or other animals are attracted to can’t say. But at any rate, I plan to keep mine well out of my dog’s reach!!
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From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
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Dennis,
Yes, that's a bad pet story. But why focus on the fact that Gorilla Glue caused this problem? It's common sense that we shouldn't let children or pets near ANY of the concoctions we use in this craft (or keep in our garages or workshops). Ingestion of any number of products can be harmful, even fatal. The particular problem that Gorilla Glue caused is actually beside the point.
Most of the stuff we use is NASTY! Correction. ALL of the stuff we use is nasty!
Why not make a resolution to keep EVERYTHING in your shop out of your dog's reach?
Rich
Edited 12/31/2004 9:26 pm ET by Rich14
Rich -I apologize to the group if my post appeared as a slam on GG. The point was, as you made it better, to keep this and other like stuff out of the reach of critters and people that might be harmed by it. *Any* poly type glue that reacts like GG along with the other stuff (all of it) should be treated the same.I was just shocked to see the result of the 'incident'. Fortunately the dog survived and is recovering well............
From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
Whaaaaaat? Gorilla glue is harmful to dogs? I just gave my dog her own bottle for Christmas, since she enjoys mine so much! Gotta go find the dog, happy new year!
Go ahead!!!! Make Jokes!!! lol
I had a scare a couple of years ago. I was using GG in the basement and finished off the bottle and forgot it there. One of my dogs grabbed the bottle and deciding it would make a good chew toy.
The dog walks into the kitchen with just a couple of small patches of the foam in the fur on his face. I realize what happened and found the empty in the living room - right in the middle of the newish (< one year old) berber carpet.
I was thankful the container was empty and the dog was ok - just looked a little funny for awhile. It's been 3 years and the Gorilla Glue is still skuck on the carpet. It serves as a reminder to clean up after myself every time I see it.
Rich Knab
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.
I'm sure the vast number of dogdom members are quite frustrated with the disappearance of Hide Glue and that pasty stuff we used in grade school from the civilized world. They used to love to chew up books just to get at the glue!
Good on ya for bringing this up, Dennis. Old glues were relatively benign, but the new stuff is far from.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
Jamie -That white pasty stuff we used in grade school is called poi. If you've never tasted poi then you probably won't appreciate that comment.The thing I forgot to ask Doc Lance (our Vet) was whether the polyurethane glues have something in them that tastes good to critters. I know antifreeze is particularly palatable to most animals and should *not* be left standing around open where they can help themselves.And to think that I made it past age 60 without the benefit of OSHA, MSDS sheets or warning labels on my underware............
From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
Why do you keep putting asterisks in your post when you are not using footnotes?
Wayne,Dennis is showing his age. For us oldtimers who used the Internet before Al Gore invented it -- err before HTML anyway -- the use of asterisks around a word were the way to express bold/italics in an e-mail or news group posting. *That's* why Dennis is using asterisks.
Wayne -As a dedicated non Microsloth user, eg Internet Explorer, I don't have formatting tools in my web browser with which to create italics or other text modifiers to express emphasis. Plus, as noted, I 'grew up' in the on line world of BBS technology where all we had were ascii characters with which to otherwise embellish the written word. I >could< I suppose chose another character in order to lessen your confusion (grin)....HHMmmmmmm ..... just realized there's no tilde on this laptop keyboard. Guess they don't market Toshiba computers in Mexico. (hehe)...........
From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
When you click on reply, you should see the Italics, Bold, Underline, etc above the text area. Most forums like this one are designed using IE. Firefox still works here and on others that I go to.
You have MSDS for your underwear?
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Greetings HiFi -I'll make sure that when I'm replying to you I <bold> don't <bold> use any odd characters (just kidding).....No MSDS for underwear, just for the underarms............
From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
Thanks for the explanation. I've never, ever seen it before and I'm well into middle age!
I use the asterisk technique when filling in a text box, say, during customer complaint session on-line. Also when responding to someone who sent me a message in plain text. For instance, "Thank you **so much**."forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>)
Jamie -I find one footnote but not the other (double **)(grin)...........
From Beautiful Skagit Co. Wa.
Dennis
hey Dennis,
I been a member here for a spell and a beginner woodworker but by profession I am a veterinarian. This si the first such posting and I am frankly a bit surprised there are not more household pet related stories and reports.
Pets are notoriously cureous, eat/taste about anything, smaller ones migrate around your feet and can be a nuisance in any wood shop.
So good common sense and precautions are the order for the day! I too have had 1 lapse. My 8 month old lab about 1 year ago had a 4 inch piece of wood stuck in her throat while she decided to "munch" on some pine scraps right in front of me!! Fortunately I was right there but it could have been
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