Almost made our first call to Poison Control

I thought we were going to have to make our first call to Poison Control tonight.....

Julia had removed the cushions from the couch so she could jump on it. I heard her crunch on something and looked to see what she found under those cushions to eat. That is when I spotted one of those Silica packets you get in stuff broken open and the crystals everywhere!! ACK!!!! I immediately have her spit out whatever she had in her mouth in my hand. Luckily, she listened to me. I don't think she actually ate any, but I could not be completely sure. I yell for Jerrod's help, explain to him what happened and he hopped on the internet to see just how dangerous it was and what, if anything, we needed to do with Julia. I thought of calling poison control immediately, but since I knew Julia did not eat much, if any, I thought I would give Jerrod 5 minutes of research first. In the meantime, I removed Julia and vacuumed up the remaining crystals.

According to what Jerrod found, Julia would be fine. Especially since Julia told us she did not actually eat any of it. I tend to believe her because she was spitting it out before I even realized what she was eating. The only real warning Jerrod did find was that sometimes the Silica is covered in an insecticide or fungicide. Since I am someone who taught Pesticide classes, I knew that it could not have been an extremely toxic pesticide, because you need a license for those and they would not be allowed to be in packaging sold to the general public.

So she will be just fine, but we are keeping an extra close eye on her anyway.

I can only imagine that the packet must have come out of some Christmas present and slipped between the couch cushions without us realizing it. I guess I need to vacuum under the cushions more often!