Thank you Karen for sharing this near tragedy...it sounds like such an innocent
and easy mistake to make. It serves as a warning to me at least of what the guys
can and would do. Thank God Dorothy is OK.
Nancy and Whiskers

--- In pogona@yahoogroups.com, "Karen Fauls-Traynor, Chittenango" <ktraynor@...>
wrote:
>
> I fed my beardies some supers earlier and then let them both loose to roam
around for awhile.
> When I found Dorothy, she was sound asleep in a dim corner of the dining room.
As I picked her
> up, I felt something fluffy under her belly and thought to  myself, "wow,
that's a big dust bunny--how
> did I miss that when I vacuumed?"
> Well, it wasn't a dust bunny.  We went to a county fair yesterday and bought
a bag of remnants
> of alpaca wool for craft projects.  Evidently one was on the floor--and
Dorothy tried to eat it!
> Thank GOODNESS it was way too big--but I pulled about 3" out of her
gullet--the rest was sticking
> out of her mouth and underneath her.
> A good lesson to me to watch her more closely when she's loose. I can only
image the impaction that
> would have caused had she been able to swallow it.
> Karen
>
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