OK, I had (note "had") a beautiful glass-blown miniature piano - you've seen them - tiny, and very fragile - at my desk at work. Since we are moving to a new building, I took the glass piano home (for safe-keeping) and set it on my real piano (a 90-year-old Voss upright piano).
I was playing my piano last night, and must have gotten a little carried-away. The glass piano fell off the top of my real piano and broke into a thousand pieces right on the keyboard.
I sat still for a moment, in shock, then realized glass had shattered everywhere - the keyboard, the piano bench and underneath the piano. Ozzy was laying in his favorite spot, just behind the piano bench, but when I realized what had happened, I must have made a sound that scared Ozzy. Scared, he ran right where the glass had shattered on the floor.
I panicked even more, and gently coaxed him out from under the piano. I made him roll onto his back, and checked his paws and body. He did not seem to have any glass on him, so I put him in the kennel and carefully vacuumed up the glass. I checked him again, and everything seems fine.
I'm just wondering, if there is anything else I should look for? Ozzy seems fine, and I'm angry with myself for not noticing that the glass piano was about to fall off the top of my piano. It was a beautiful piece, but I guess I should be glad that neither I nor Ozzy was hurt.
Oh no !! So sorry that your keepsake was broken....but also glad that no one was hurt - glass shards are so dangerous.
And they do shatter far away - so just keep a look out for any that were missed during clean up. You might want to vacuum all over again today. Check Ozzy over too during the day to make sure he doesn't pick up any lone pieces.
Sorry !
If he's not telling you he has a problem then he's most likely ok.
Personally , I'd check between his paws real well and maybe even give him a bath or a good rinse off. Just in case.
Quote from: JetEd73 on August 07, 2008, 07:31:28 AM
If he's not telling you he has a problem then he's most likely ok.
Personally , I'd check between his paws real well and maybe even give him a bath or a good rinse off. Just in case.
Take a sticky lint roller to his paws and also the entire floor to get those little unseen splinters. Keep changing the tape so it's really sticky. Sorry, mom that you lost your beloved ornament and the worry about Oscar, but he's prolly ok.
Sister's house was robbed a few months back broke a window & the glass on a gun cabinet insurance told her was almost impossible to get all the glass out of carpet so they replaced all the carpet??? I would just keep going over it & over it going different directions if it happened on carpet.