My Dog ate a Sparkler Bomb!

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It's quite true. About two months ago, my step son was into making sparkler bombs, a dangerous exercise in my opinion, but his father let him. He would get all these sparklers & scrape off the explosive stuff. He would use, say, an empty toilet roll, and alfoil and creatye a fancy design. He would put the sparkler explosive bits and put it inside the contraption he made. This night, he had made two of these bombs. He put one on the rail & the other he set up and lit, with the usual dramatic results. Just at the end of the "explosion" I happened to look to the side, and saw that Max, our dalmation had knicked something off the rail and was chewing it. I shouted out that Max had the bomb. My stepson chased him around, calling out to drop it, which is kind of useless because Max thinks we are playing chasey & he wont obey any instructions to drop anything. So I rushed up, stuck my hand in his mouth and forcibly pulled the renmants of this bomb out of his mouth. It was obvious by then that he injested some of it. My ex hubby had to rush him off to the late night emergency vet, and they made him vomit it out. THere were no side effects. It sounds a funny story, but when I look back, I think how stupid and dangerous it was. Here is a photo of Max.