PSA for dog owners – we narrowly avoided tragedy.

We were out today, and when we got home, Romeo walked up to me with a plastic bag on his head!

A couple of nights ago, I finished a bag of Cheez-Its in the bedroom and threw the bag in my bedroom trash can. Romeo got into the trash and tried to get the crumbs left in the bag. Somehow he got the bag stuck on his head.

You could tell he struggled to get the bag off because items in the living room were strewn about. When I took the bag off, he was drenched and the bag was filled with condensation. The remaining crumbs were mush. He made his way to the water bowl and drank for about 2 minutes and when he finally stopped and walked away, he was wobbly and not walking straight.

He’s curled up next to me sleeping now, but my heart is still racing thinking about what might have happened if we were gone a little while longer.

How often do we toss things in the trash without thinking?