Beware the Busy Buddy
March 13, 2008For those of you who also have THIS TOY for your dogs…
It can bounce very unpredictably. Tony spiked it onto the floor last night to try and dislodge a couple treats for Giggs and the damn thing ricocheted off the floor and bounced up at a weird angle and hit me smack in the eye! I was sitting at the table eating my (second) piece of cake when, WHAMMO!
I didn’t even have a chance to shut my eye so I saw it just as it made contact with my eyeball. The bottom opening hit me square on the eye and I even felt a bit of suction on my eyeball! It was pretty freaky! I immediately thought of squash players who don’t wear goggles and get their eyeball sucked out (or something like that).
Amazingly, I do not have a black eye. It’s just tender and achy when I look all the way in any direction and a bit sore behind the eye. My vision is fine and my contact lens even made it through unmarred. Better my eyeball than Giggs’ I figure.
OH YEAH! Last night I also sliced off the tip of my right thumb making coleslaw with my mandolin slicer :(
Don’t worry, it didn’t end up in the coleslaw.
Yikes! Sorry to hear about your eye - hope it feels better quickly!!
I laughed out loud about your last post - Clover does the same thing to us when we are brushing our teeth. She LOVES brushing her teeth, but I think it is only because of the chicken-flavoured tooth paste.
opps careful w mandolin..
my bf sliced a bit of his pinky finger (blood end up in the arrow root slices, gross!) whn using it too..scary tool but efficient in the kitchen..
luv, almond
Oh you poor girl! I’m so sorry this has happened to you! You should spike that toy and mandolin slicer right in the trash!!
I know exactly what you mean. We have a kong shaped like that which we toss down the hallway for Napoleon to dislodge the treat. It has sporadically bounced onto the kitchen counters at a right angle to where I am throwing it and also bounced directly back at we like a boomerang. Quite dangerous, but Napoleon loves it!
Gosh! Thats quite scary :| we’re glad that you are ok though and it didnt do any serious damage! Your poor thumb too! It must have just been one of those days!
xx
Glad you are ok, because that was a pretty funny story.
WOW, you’re like crazy clumsy right now! Could you be pregnant?
OMG NO!
Oh my GOD! I have one…I ought to pad my face before I give it to Winston! Also, hooray for the header!
At least it wasn’t salami that hit you in the face…wait…maybe salami would have been softer.
Okay, and the fact that you sliced part of your thumb off is crazy! How much thumb?! Like, enough that you’re going to miss it?! Two days ago a friend of Steve’s went to let his dogs out into his back yard and he saw a badger, so he got the bright idea to grab a camera and a stick, and photograph himself poking it. Not even one second after he poked it, the fucking thing LUNGED at him and bit off one of his pinky toes! DOWN TO THE KNUCKLE! IT ATE IT AND RAN AWAY! Can you imagine having to explain that for the rest of your life?!
“I lost my pinky toe to a badger accident.”
I am glad you are alright!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Holy crap about the badger!! Those things are NASTY! WHY would you poke one?!! The dogs knew enough to stsy away… hint, hint.
I remember as a little kid on the prairies, my parents showing us a picture of a badger and telling us to STAY AWAY if we ever saw one.
That sucks.
I only lost a enough skin off the tip to make it bleed. It’ll grow back eventually.
PS, y’all… The piece of skin from the thumb didn’t make it but ask her about the fingernail… haha!
OMG that sounds crazy. Especially the whole suction cup part. I’d be so worried it would bounce away with my eyeball still attached. Eeks.
Wow, I hope your eye and finger are ok. You are so courageous — Mommy got a paper cut yesterday and nearly screamed . . .