So we moved into the new spot a couple weeks back, and my wife said she had been smelling natural gas. I never smelled it, not even a whiff, so we blamed it on her heightened sense of smell, She prego, and smells odd stuff all the time. We also have not had any gas appliances in the home for 8 years, so I told her she just did not know what it smelled like. She has had a head ache for the previous week or so that just would not go away. We made sure she was plenty hydrated, and gave her the prper headache meds, but it would not go away.
Well Saturday night I am sitting at the computer, and I caught a whiff. We called the Gas CO, who was at our door within an hour. He found the leak, not in the fireplace, but in the keyvalve next to the fireplace. With the new Stone fireplace it is buried back in the wall about 12 inches, so the contractor is coming in from the outside for the fix. As soon as the Gas guy turned off our gas, he headache began subsiding, and with in a few hours she was feeling much better.
Now my two dogs are a different story. Both Small dogs, a pug and a maltese, we really lethargic. The maltese began some horrible runny poops a day or so before we shut the gas off, and then on Saturday it was relly bad, the pug also had the runs, and was vomiting also. So we set them up to sleep outside, and kept them to just water for 24 hours. I was hoping the gas was their issue, becaue that is getting fixed. Problem is they have been away from the gas since Saturday night , the pug seems fine, but the considerably smaller maltese is still poopin the squirts, and is acting sick as well.
We have given the dog a small squirt of Pepto, to help its belly, so well see how that works. Short of an expensive vet visit, do any of you have experience dealing with this? If so , any tips or suggestions?
Well Saturday night I am sitting at the computer, and I caught a whiff. We called the Gas CO, who was at our door within an hour. He found the leak, not in the fireplace, but in the keyvalve next to the fireplace. With the new Stone fireplace it is buried back in the wall about 12 inches, so the contractor is coming in from the outside for the fix. As soon as the Gas guy turned off our gas, he headache began subsiding, and with in a few hours she was feeling much better.
Now my two dogs are a different story. Both Small dogs, a pug and a maltese, we really lethargic. The maltese began some horrible runny poops a day or so before we shut the gas off, and then on Saturday it was relly bad, the pug also had the runs, and was vomiting also. So we set them up to sleep outside, and kept them to just water for 24 hours. I was hoping the gas was their issue, becaue that is getting fixed. Problem is they have been away from the gas since Saturday night , the pug seems fine, but the considerably smaller maltese is still poopin the squirts, and is acting sick as well.
We have given the dog a small squirt of Pepto, to help its belly, so well see how that works. Short of an expensive vet visit, do any of you have experience dealing with this? If so , any tips or suggestions?