Russ
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Puffer Fish article from Japan
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18065372
I realize this is a Japan related story but these puffers are here or their relatives are. Here in the Punta Chivato area we've had 4 or 5 dogs die
after messing with puffers. So watch out for them and your animals.
[Edited on 5-18-2012 by Russ]
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Russ,
We try so hard to scour the beach daily, many times a day, but our dogs still manage to find them. Fortunately, knock on wood, we haven't had any
fatalities. Our neighbor wasn't so lucky.
A had a Bullmastif who ate one whole. She was some what of a pig, so she swallowed it without chewing, which is what I contribute to it not killing
her. She threw the entire dried fish up and was very sick for a few days.
Our coy-dog Mooney ate one last spring break. We knew right away what it was when she threw it up on the patio, nice chunks of fin and the boney head
- beak mouth. She was sleepy for a day and then back to normal. We think it's the coyote in her that saved her.
After Mooney's experience it was suggested that we keep a bottle of hydrogen peroxide and a turkey baster at hand for if, no, for WHEN they happen to
eat another one. It is supposed to make the dog throw up right away when squirted down their throat. I'm hoping we never have to try it, but it pays
to be ready.
Drat those puffers!
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Hydrogen peroxide?
Water is H20
Hydrogen peroxide is HOH..What is the magic of HOH
both are essentially water
SDM
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Hydrogen peroxide? Water is H20 Hydrogen peroxide is HOH..What is the magic of HOH both are essentially water SDM
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Hydrogen Peroxide is H2 O2, or H-O-O-H.
Hydrogen Peroxide
I would suggest you don't try to "drink it like water"
It does make a dog barf up everything pretty quickly.
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Hydrogen peroxide? Water is H20 Hydrogen peroxide is HOH..What is the magic of HOH both are essentially water SDM
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Hydrogen Peroxide is H2 O2, or H-O-O-H.
Hydrogen Peroxide
I would suggest you don't try to "drink it like water"
It does make a dog barf up everything pretty quickly. |
Do not give the dog too much. Just a little will make them barf up whatever foul thing they have eaten.
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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BILLY MAYS is rolling over in his grave!
OXY CLEAN is a powdered form of hydrogen peroxide. Dilute half a cup of the liquid into your next load of dirties and presto! O3 is ozone, and trust
me, it isn't oxygen.
FUGU, the exquisitely prepared flesh of the puffer is prized by the Japanese. Takes me back to the days of Tomi Immamura, representative of the
Japanese government who used to travel to Fort Bragg, CA. for sea urchin eggs. Another prized delicacy. Told all of us stories about he and the
Japanese prime minister. We all laughed behind his back --- until the day he whipped out a photograph of himself and the prime minister hugging each
other.
FUGU. Immmura ("You not call Jap!"), insisted I go with him to San Francisco dressed in a suit. Around a thousand Japanese awaited Fugu, arranged on
gigantic silver platters in forms to delight the eye. Swans, dolphins, elephants, rhinos. Platters so big four men had to carry one. I knew what this
stuff was and I was terrified. I picked at my wafer thin piece sitting alongside the rice, and pushed it around. I sipped my Sapporo beer, but my
neighbors were watching me like a hawk.
Finally I HAD TO, or embarrass myself and Tomi. It didn't have a lot of taste. I forced myself to swallow. The "what if's?") started in. ...it didn't
start to poison for hours after eating? ...the Japanese had developed some kind of tolerance to the poison? I had no appetite. I felt like I had eaten
a gigantic thanksgiving dinner. Two tiny bites of raw puffer fish was incredibly filling.
My lips and cheeks started to tingle, followed by tongue, throat, even my eyelids. Numb tingle, zots of like electric shock. I chug-a-lugged Sapporo
after Sapporo.
"You see?" Immamura declared on the drive back. "This is why Fugu was flown especially for us from Japan".
I walk around a dead puffer on a beach like it was a mine.
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I had it as a stew on 2 different occasions in S. korea and didn't feel a thing. Of course I washed it down with a liter of Soju both times which may
be why I'm still alive.
Bob Durrell
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