SCARY...

we were sitting on the couch tonight. i had just fed the dogs. we started to smell a very toxic gas smell. almost like electric/acid smell. then it got stronger. stronger. stronger...
we noticed our yellow lab on the landing on the stairs. when i got up there her mouth was foaming and she was choking.
the smell was coming from her. hubby2be dragged her outside and started washing her mouth out with the hose. I couldn't find any chemicals or open packaging. Hubby2be noticed the smell was coming from the backyard in the back. (we live in a townhouse). So he walked over to the fence and found a large rat trap the pest-control guy had put in. We didn't know it was there. It says it's "pet & kid" proof (whatever)...
Hubby2be called poison control. They needed to know what poison it was. As soon as he went close to the trap, he could hardly breathe. He got it. they told us to induce vomitting. She threw up 7 times almost right after giving her the peroxide. Her puke smelled like this acid/electrical gas.
The fire department came and removed the trap, in hazmat suits and oxygen. As soon as they picked it up, it smelled so strong. Hubby2be has been researching it for the last 15 mins, and found out that the poison in the trap can make this poisonous gas. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS WAS IN OUR BACKYARD!???
We're thinking now, she caught a rat or mouse running out of this "trap" (cause she's got a hunting drive in her) and maybe tried to eat it but since her puke did not have any animals in it, she likely let it go once she tasted the nasty poison and ran back into the house...

this shows you how easy and how dangerous using these types of chemical poison traps can be. period. Hubby2be is president and property manager of our townhouses, he said tomorrow all these traps will be removed. I suggest people stay away from these things and stick with traditional traps. this thing has been off gassing because of the hot weather we've been having, causing it to make this poison gas. which means we've been slowly breathing this in for the past few days...

please pray for pinot, our yellow lab, that she will be okay. poisoning can take up to a week to show...