Thursday, June 16, 2011

Coloring Outside the Lines




The mystery of the bright red poop has been solved. Last month, Linda found some poop from Chimmie that was bright red. I mean red as Radical Red. So red, that it could not have been blood because it would have been Brick Red. It would come and go. Sometimes the poo would be normal, then the next week it was reddish again. Today, Linda finally figured out what was going on. She took a break from building the new deck steps to scoop the back yard. Sure enough, there was a pile of bright Radical Red poop.... then a Cerulean poop... and a Carnation Pink poop.... WHAT THE HECK! Suddenly, she had a light bulb moment. Earlier in the week she found this chewed up crayon on the downstairs carpet. Chim found a box of 64-Crayola crayons and had been eating them one by one! She checked with Crayola, and the crayons are non-toxic. If he did not chew it and gulped it whole, then it could become lodged in his intestines but he has been acting fine. She found the stash on the floor in a storage closet and cleaned them up.