hello to everyone

Hi everyone,

I joined back in November last year to get positive encouragement from the forum community as my poor baby girl had gotten into rat bait and needed to go to the emergency room. The thread in question can be found here
https://staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t1183-im-worried-about-my-staffie

In short she has recovered 100% from the ordeal which required her to have a few bags of plasma, a blood transfusion, 24hr care over 4 days and 6wks of medication and a weekly check up to make sure her blood stats where going in the right direction.

Anyway enough of the bad, im sure everyone is dying to see and know more about the girl in question.
She is a pure bred English Staffie
Was born on 15th Aug 2007
Obviously female.
We named her Stollie after the vodka brand Stolichniya.

I purchased her from a pet store known for their wide range of puppies (name of store was puppyworld )
When I was looking at the staffies for sale, I was actually looking at all the others first as there was one particular pup that seemed quite aggressive and boisterous. I picked each one up and held them and then put them back as not one of them seemed right. I ended up holding on to the aggressive one and to my surprise, she was the only one who wagged her tail while I was holding her
This had done it, I had to have this puppy.

Now for the pic.


Looks a little guilty in this photo as she had just gone and hidden one of my shoes in the sand

Anyway hope you like her.
Look forward to being a little more active on the forum

Regards

I am so pleased she pulled through 100% it must have been a pretty scary time! She is a little fighter and very cute!! Looking forward to more pics and thanks for the update

You have no idea how upset I was about the whole situation. I was blaming myself and was anxious the whole time.
But as you hit the nail on the head, she is a little fighter.

The vet was saying that the amount of meds and plasma bags she had meant she ate quite a bit of the rat poison and under most circumstances given the time from when she ate it to when she got to hospital and the type of poison it was; she shouldn't have pulled through the way she did.
I was just so relieved when we got the phone call to come and pick her up from the hospital.

And thank you for the kind words

Thank you for opening up my eyes to the dangers of it, any idea where she picked it up from ?

yeah unfortuantly I do.

We live in a fairly old house on acreage and in our kitchen we know of a hole that we used to get rats though.

We placed the rat bait near this hole and placed up a baby-gate to the kitchen so she wouldnt get to it as we knew it was harmful.

Obviously during this period the gate must have been left open at some stage or wasn't closed properly and she had gotten in and ate them.
Being grain based I can see why she was attracted to them.

It was the stupidest thing on my part to have them in the first place and to have them at such an easy level to reach. But since then I have very much learnt my lesson and no longer have any poison on the property.

EDIT: I should point out thou it is no consolation, we had tried rat traps of different types with various foods to draw them out and they didnt work. We do know the rat bait had been affective in the past.

Well the main thing is she is now fighting fit I do like the name Stollie! My first was called Scrumpy after my fav cider

haha its funny how so many dogs these days get named after drinks

bundy is a classic around here in AUS derived from Bunderburg Rum

Where did Scrumpy come from? Cant recall any cider drink with a name similar to that.

Lol Scrumpy Jack, its a real cider from Somerset I think, its a proper English Cider

will have to get my brother-in-law to get me some next time he goes back to england

its rather potent!

So glad she's made a good recovery. She's a real cracker, isn't she?

NDIDDYSCHICK wrote:
Where did Scrumpy come from? Cant recall any cider drink with a name similar to that.

Scrumpy is often called 'rough' cider. You can get 2 types. One is the one you'll find in the supermarkets & is called Scrumpy Jack. It's quite strong. The other is quite cloudy, tasting very strongly of apples and has a kick like a mule that creeps up on you before you realise it! That one you tend to get in local shops & is locally made, normally in Somerset or Herefordshire. Bith are 'still' ciders.

janey wrote: its rather potent!

What an understatement!

Aww im so glad she is ok now she looks a healthy girl too

so glad she made a full recovery she a buet

Caryll wrote:

NDIDDYSCHICK wrote:
Where did Scrumpy come from? Cant recall any cider drink with a name similar to that.

Scrumpy is often called 'rough' cider. You can get 2 types. One is the one you'll find in the supermarkets & is called Scrumpy Jack. It's quite strong. The other is quite cloudy, tasting very strongly of apples and has a kick like a mule that creeps up on you before you realise it! That one you tend to get in local shops & is locally made, normally in Somerset or Herefordshire. Bith are 'still' ciders.

janey wrote: its rather potent!

What an understatement!

Glad she's ok too, and Cornish Scrumpy is the best!

Cornish-Muscle wrote:

Caryll wrote:

NDIDDYSCHICK wrote:
Where did Scrumpy come from? Cant recall any cider drink with a name similar to that.

Scrumpy is often called 'rough' cider. You can get 2 types. One is the one you'll find in the supermarkets & is called Scrumpy Jack. It's quite strong. The other is quite cloudy, tasting very strongly of apples and has a kick like a mule that creeps up on you before you realise it! That one you tend to get in local shops & is locally made, normally in Somerset or Herefordshire. Bith are 'still' ciders.

janey wrote: its rather potent!

What an understatement!

Glad she's ok too, and Cornish Scrumpy is the best!

I beg to differ.....somerset all the way

Shes gorgeous btw and im so glad shes okay now

janey wrote:Lol Scrumpy Jack, its a real cider from Somerset I think, its a proper English Cider

Hiya and welcome back to the forum

Hi and welcome back so glad Stollie made a fully recovery she is gorgeous

Hi & welcome back to the forum.
Great news about Stollie, she a little fighter

she looks like my Jessie, who is 11 now, such a beautiful girl..

the profile picture is not Jessie... It is Kobe, who is around 3 months old.