Chicago- family, fun, and emergency vet visits

Hanging out with the family at Bobby's birthday party.

Watching the guys play bean bags

Exhausted from a late night Friday

An entire lawn full of plush green grass...and she sleeps on the hard patio!

Another one of Emmy's usual "glamor shots"!

Tummy time! (below)

Exhausted from the weekend...boy does she look excited for what lies ahead today at the vet.

This weekend we went to Chicago to spend some time with Bill's family. Emmy and I headed out on Friday and met Bill, who was already there. We had great weather on Friday and Saturday, which Emmy loved because we were able to be outside a lot more. We brought Emmy's tie out and were able to hang out a lot in the backyard playing and relaxing. Friday night however, brought some issues as Emmy found a mushroon in the yard where an old tree stump is hidden underground. She got a piece of the mushroom apparently (Bill caught her in the area and rushed her away, but she must have snuck a piece of it without him seeing) which made her sick. We assumed mushrooms weren't good for dogs, but didn't realize the sickness they could cause until we looked online. In the process, Emmy vomited 3 time within 30 min. We of course were very concerned and didn't know how much mushroom she had injested, so we took her to an emergency vet close to Bill's parent's house. By the time we got there, Emmy was feeling better and we assume she had gotten it all out of her system. But, to be safe the vet gave her some activated charcoal to make sure that all the toxins were out of her body. She is now doing great...in fact she bounced back full swing the next day! We were definitely very scared Friday night though.

The rest of the weekend we spent still out in the yard (complete mushroom checks were done on the yard first) enjoying the sun. Saturday we also had a birthday party for Bill's brother Bob, so there was a bunch of family over in the afternoon. Emmy certainly loved the attention! We played lots of fetch and ran around with everyone. On Sunday afternoon we headed back to Michigan to recuperate from the long weekend- Emmy was exhausted!

Today Emmy is off to PAWS to get "fixed". We dropped her off this morning and will pick her up later this afternoon. We're assuming she'll be pretty sleepy and lethargic for the next few days because of that now!