A while back, I mentioned that Fritz had chewed up and snorted styrofoam crumbles which got lodged in his sinuses. I thought I'd take this TGIFritz installment to expound on that story.

We had recently thrown out a large piece of packing styrofoam.  You know, the kind that crumbles into tiny Nerds sized bits? If I've learned one thing about Fritz it's that he cannot resist any visible items in the trash bins.  Even if the only thing that is visible is the little red tie from the trash bag sticking out 1/100th of an inch, he will manage to get the entire trash bag with most of it's contents out onto the driveway.  Anyway, the styrofoam was tall enough to hold the trash bin lid open and intrigue the little trouble maker. He managed to pull the entire piece out of the bin and spend the day playing with it and chewing it up. When we came home it looked as though it had snowed tiny Nerds sized styrofoam bits all over our driveway.  Fritz greeted us with his normal kidney bean happy dance only this time he was snorting like Owen from Trains, Planes and Automobiles. You see, this styrofoam snow was about the same weight as a snowflake and would blow around if you blinked near it and Fritz had been chewing on and playing in it for several hours. He had gotten quite a bit of it stuck up his nose and every time he snorted it moved farther up into his sinuses and closer to his brain. We found out not too much later that he had also swallowed a good bit of styrofoam.  I won't go into too much detail, I'll just say that the land-mines in the yard were polka-dotted.  It took a few days of snorting, but finally the styrofoam came loose and made one more polka-dotted deposit in the back yard, and now I always make sure the trash bin lid is completely closed.