A naughty pooch nearly died after it wolfed down festive homemade salt dough decorations - it stole off the Christmas tree. Staffie-cross Teisha, aged eight, needed emergency treatment after she snatched six of the festive decs off the tree.
Worried owner Jane Gardiner, from Livingston, West Lothian, noticed something was wrong when Teisha got bloated and started drinking loads of water. Mum-of-two Jane and husband Dave got Teisha as a rescue five years ago and have to be extra cautious as she’s prone to eating anything left around.
But Jane said some of the salt dough decorations - made from flour, salt and water - were hanging too low down on the tree last year and Teisha was able to nick them. She rushed the pooch to vets where medics said she could have died from the dangerously high level of sodium in her blood.
