A Lesson Learned and Must Share Some Advice

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Our little peanut, Niña, was a bored, naughty girl this yesterday morning! After we had a romp in the yard, I needed to work. Our fence is over 10 years old and Niña would find new ways of getting out to explore the neighborhood and search for the delicacy cicadas to nibble on. I knew that once I started working I would not keep an eye on her so for her safety (HA!) I put her in Suzanne's room and closed the door. I did not think to put her in her crate. Suzanne came down an hour later modeling her 'new' Uggs.

We went upstairs looking for the remnants of the Uggs. The suede that made up the big hole was no anywhere to be found. That's when we saw pieces of a bra all over the floor. We were able to put the bra 'back together' with no pieces missing.

We called our vet.  He told us to give her 1/2 of a cup of hydrogen peroxide (which she drank out of a bowl) and if that didn't work we would repeat is a total of the 3 times. If that didn't work we were going for xrays. The first 1/2 cup did the trick. Within 10 minutes the entire piece of missing Ugg was out, including app a million cicadas! It took only a couple of hours for Niña to be back to her puppy self. 

Here is my advice (after making sure nothing wonderful is left on the floor for a bored doodle to nibble on) - I suggest that you call your vet during office hours, ask how much peroxide your doodle would need and how to do it if GF they eat something they shouldn't so you can be prepared in advance. Get a new bottle of peroxide and a syringe, in case your doodle won't drink it.

This is for SOFT objects!!! A friend told me her doodle ate a chicken carcass. You would NOT have them vomit that up. Her vet suggested that she give him a loaf of bread to 'mold' around the bones and watch him carefully and make sure it all came out the other end. 

This is NOT to be done without speaking to your vet!!! I am just suggesting that you have hydrogen peroxide and a baby medicine dropper in your emergency kit. 

I need suggestions on how to tag this discussion so it could be found in a search. Thanks

[F, Calla & Luca]

Ugh to the Ugg remodeling. That was not nice. gotta love crates for pups.

[Adrienne]

Thanks for sharing.  You may want to add this to the Puppy Madness, Training and Waiting for a New Pup groups.  Maybe add tags:  bored, hydrogen peroxide, vomit, emergency, swallow soft objects.  I am not great with tagging...

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Great idea Adrienne!!! DONE!

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

I'm so glad everything turned out okay.  We haven't seen any cicadas yet, but they are expected....I'm sure my guys will think they are delicious.  This is a good reminder, thanks.

[F, Calla & Luca]

The cicadas are spotty. Happily I have none right here, at least as of now but I have been places where they are deafening and all over the sidewalk, trees etc.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

That little stinker :) I am so glad everything came up and thanks for the advice!

[Anne & Mr. Haley]

Oh no!  Glad you were able to get it up and she is ok.

[Traci -Bexter & Maggie]

Oh, wow.  I'm glad she's ok.  Thanks for this information.  I hopefully will not need it, but you never know.  My dog just had a sock surgically removed.  He loves soft things!

[Lori, Quincy & Frankie]

That's quite a lot of Ugg missing for a little pup to chew through!  glad she is ok.  

[KLN]

Oh my! It is never boring around here! But you are right, this is something we should all have on hand with the golden retriever in them! I've heard of goldens eating entire tennis balls before...

[KLN]

And I'm so glad she was ok!!

[Jennifer Szulinski]

What an UGGly story and thanks for sharing.  Just curious, how many weeks is Nina and how much does she weigh?