The Large Frozen Strawberry

Lucy is usually respective towards food that falls on the kitchen floor, staring at it, then back at me to see it's okay. But yesterday afternoon, I was making a fruit smoothy, and my husband was power-washing the deck outside which meant that I couldn't hear anything else. While making my smoothy, it seems a stray frozen strawberry hit the floor. Since it was so noisy, I didn't hear the thud. Otherwise, I would have grabbed it before Lucy could make her move.

Needless to say, seeing that I didn't notice the lost frozen strawberry, Lucy made her move. She doesn't savor food, she devours it. She swallowed a large frozen strawberry whole.

After I made my shake, I sat down and noticed Lucy by my side on the kitchen floor throwing up. I was concerned and then I saw the fully formed large red frozen strawberry. *sigh* Poor thing wasn't able to chew it down and thankfully she didn't choke on it either. I had just fed her dinner too so her entire dinner was up and out on the floor. I cleaned up the mess and tried to comfort her.

To see if she were sick, or if it were really just the large frozen strawberry, I waved her favorite dog toy at her. Her squeeky stuffed duck toy made her tail wag and she played immediately.

Even though, I was pretty sure she wasn't sick to her stomach, I went ahead and made her some plain rice to give her later.

Still concerned, I watched her closely on our evening walk. But Lucy, our lovable durable Lucy was her usual curious self on our walk. I was grateful for that.