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An important reminder now that the holiday season is approaching; raisins and grapes can kill dogs.

‘This is not to say you need live in fear of your dog keeling over dead if he swallows a grape or two. However, if he downs a handful of grapes or even a smaller amount of raisins, get him to your veterinarian right away. Aggressive treatment with intravenous fluids and close monitoring are his best chance for survival.’

At this time of the year there are often a lot of cakes, biscuits, puddings, deserts and so on around that contain grapes and/or raisins. Do not allow your dog to eat any of these things as grapes and raisins are highly toxic to dogs and can easily kill them.

There are more details here on this old post of mine: Raisin the alarm, do not poison your dogs.

Take heed as dogs will eat foods containing these things given a chance.  Make sure that it is a chance they do not get.

I received an unusual text message this morning from the Portuguese Government.

Swine Flu Text Message

Roughly translated it says;

“Autumn officially begins today, and thus Swine Flu will probably return, and most of you will die. If you begin to feel unwell, please file your tax return immediately. “

No, actually it says;

“With symptoms of flu, please stay in your house and telephone 808242424 or contact your doctor. Strengthen your hygiene measures. Avoid infecting others. Consult www.dgs.pt”.

The tax return part probably comes later.

You know when instinct shouts that something is seriously not right?

Thirty minutes ago my instinct really screamed at me and, sure enough, things really were not right as the scorpion shown above was heading extremely rapidly towards my left foot – which was at the time completely unprotected against attack.

Seriously dangerous? I have no idea, but it is quite clearly a scorpion and that was enough for me to decide to apply a little ‘maximum prejudice’ to it.

You know, despite usually being the type to rubbish concepts that, superficially at least, sound as silly as this one does;

‘Throwing “swine flu parties” in an attempt to get immunity against the virus while it is a fairly mild form is not a good idea, doctors say. Reports have emerged of people intentionally mixing with friends who have flu.’

I’m willing to bet that, as risky as it sounds, going out and deliberately ‘catching’ this flu at at this point in the development of the virus is probably a good idea.

Personally, I’m willing to take the risk. How about you?

A spokesman for the coroner’s office said Jackson had taken “some prescription medication“.

Some?

Right.