I am sure hubby is feeling bad but I hope he also forgives himself. He really could not have known this would happen. Vibes to all of you for your Pup to pull through this and for your HB to forgive himself.
If he needs a comparison to realise that he is a great person for feeling bad and being there to make him understand that it is not a burden he should carry let me tell you about my neighbour. Louise went to Bali for a week, a gift from her daughter and son in law. She came back to find her dogs unwell. Whilst she was away her Cousin and his family who have migrated from NZ are staying and were expected to care for the dogs. Louise had some concerns before leaving but was sure common humanity would make them do the right thing. Most of it went well but when she saw the dogs on her return and asked why they did not look well (whilst grabbing her coat and bag for a vet run) the Cousins wife (who hates animals) informed her that they had laid dishes of crumbled rat poison around the house on the floor and the dogs had run in and eaten it, this quoted by cousins wife who was laughing about the incident “you should have seen it, they gobbled it down, licked their lips and came back for more”
Frankly, I am with Louise in thinking this was not an accident and for C.O.L. if a dog in your care ate rat poison wouldn’t you stop it and take it to a vet ? They didn’t. They could have come next door and told me and I would have taken them to the vet but NO, they thought they’d just wait and see, animals are disposable and vets are a wasted expense. I personally would have kicked their arses to the kerb then and there but Louise is tolerating them as hopefully they will have a home of their own in another month but I suspect it was touch and go. If the dogs had died they probably would have lied about what happened. Grrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!
If the dogs had died the Cousin and Co would be sleeping in the park. But the audacity, to lay poison in someone else’s home (especially when we don’t have rats/It’s a duplex and we Mortein TossNTear the roof cavity twice a year), especially where their pets could get to it then to stand by and watch and laugh whilst they ate it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So compared to this your HB should not feel guilt, he is doing his best to correct an error that he could not have foreseen.