Beagle Pippa rushed to Vets Now after incident with toxic albuterol
A mischievous Beagle ended up in an oxygen tent after biting into her owner’s asthma inhaler.
Three-year-old Pippa regularly steals things from around the house and hides them in her basket. But she got more than she bargained for when she chewed on an albuterol inhaler she found lying under her owner’s bed.
The medicine inside, which is used to open up the lungs in humans, sent her heart and breathing into overdrive. Pippa had to be rushed to Vets Now in Lincoln and by the time she arrived her heart was beating at 240 bpm — around double the resting average.
