UPDATE>>>Holy Smokes...Polly Wolly Doodle scared me

[Judy, Meg & Polly Wolly Doodle]

Polly was napping near me on the couch today and suddenly had to throw up!  Ugh, I keep a rug on there for the girls to lay on and that is exactly where she emptied the contents of her little tummy with the weirdest looking thing I ever saw.  With the help of SEVERAL sheets of paper towels and vinyl gloves I investigated what it could possibly be.  Turns out to be the entire head of a stuffed toy.  I don't let my girls play with them for this very reason, they don't know how to play with them without chewing them up.  The only place this could possibly come from is the toy box at the groomer's and it is two weeks tomorrow since the girls have been there.  I talked to the Vet, she has been pooping as regular as ever, nothing about her appetite has been different (she does not eat big or in a hurry, you generally have to send her back to her bowl to finish but she has always been that way).  How in the heck something like that could stay in her tummy for that long without going further and messing up her bowels is beyond me, but I am grateful it went no further and caused no problems. 

In the morning she goes first to the vet, they will do x-ray and if needed will do a barium study, she said a barium study will show if any toy fur is catching the barium and they we will go from there..  I will be talking to the groomer and offering to replace all the toys with others so this does not happen again.  I love this groomer and she loves my girls, she babies them beyond belief and on grooming day I just ask if they want to see Joanne and they head for their leash hooks.  She is going to feel horrible about this but I am not holding her responsible, I knew that type of toy was there.

Please wish Polly Wolly Doodle well tomorrow and hope with us that there is no other problem left from this.  Please watch your own babies with this type of toy.

Vet has done a series of x-rays this morning, there is one small point she wants to take another of tomorrow morning to make sure it is moving, but is confident that Polly will have no ill effects from this incident.  The groomer feels very bad that she missed this and immediately picked up all soft toys.  I just dropped off a few more, safer, options for her to have in her toy box. Grateful that this was no worse than it was.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

I do hope that Polly gets a clean bill of health and there are no other problems stemming from this.

I learned the hard way that foreign, indigestible objects can sit in a dog's digestive tract a long time without any signs or symptoms. JD once had a large, pointed shard from a bone sitting in there for almost three weeks. I had taken the bone away from his as soon as I saw it splinter, but clearly not fast enough.  No symptoms, no sign of anything wrong until he vomited three weeks later and I found the shard. Unfortunately, we do think that this might have been the trigger for his IBD,  but we'll never know for sure. 

I realize that you & the girls love the groomer and this was totally an accident, but what bothers me is that she didn't realize that it happened. When your dogs are left in someone else's care, there should be a certain amount of supervision, IMO. Maybe you could ask her to put all the stuffed toys out of the dogs' reach when your girls are there. 

Please update us after the vet visit. 

[Judy, Meg & Polly Wolly Doodle]

Thanks for the input Karen.  I will be talking to the groomer first thing tomorrow and like I mentioned I intend to offer to replace those toys with others.  She doesn't keep a ton of toys there so I can afford that and I think I know her well enough that she will first offer to make sure they can't get those toys again and I know she will feel bad.  We love her and want to maintain the relationship, she is the best and I don't expect any push back from her at all.

We actually have this same issue at my daughter's house with soft toys, her dog does not really play so he has a box full of unused toys, soft and otherwise.  I have to go through and pick them all up when we are there.  Lucky people that have dogs that don't eat soft toys, Polly can manage to chew threw most anything, we have to be very picky with her toys.

[Gail and Bailey]

Hoping for a clean bill of health for Polly tomorrow!

[F, Calla & Luca]

I hope you are done with this problem.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

I hope the tests don't show any further problems.

[Joani, Skadi & Elli]

Wow that is scary.  My friends dog ate a hand towel one time because it was smelling so good with food bits from using it for cooking that day.  They didn't miss the towel.  The dog started having problems and eventually had to have the towel surgically removed.  This poor dog never recovered it's health after that and only lived 6 months.  Yes this was a very large dog.  Such a sad sad thing to happen.  

Take care of Polly Wolly Doodle and thank you once again for alerting us of the dangers we can run into every day.

[Nancy and Georgia Brown]

That is very scary. I hope she is okay.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Our old Lab, Honey, once swallowed a sock. I was almost sure I saw her swallow it, but I started to doubt myself because it never reappeared. She was eating and pooping normally and the vet told me to continue to watch her, which I did, but nothing ever happened. Almost 10 days later, I woke up to her retching in the living room and sure enough, she vomited the sock. How it stayed in there so long with no side effects, I do not know, but it did. Good luck with Polly and I hope everything turns out fine. 

[Amy and Annabelle]

I hope all the tests come back fine. That is scary. Annabelle just destroyed my purse a couple of days ago. I gave her some peroxide to throw it up. I hear you on the gloves and a half a roll of paper towels to clean it up. She puked 3 times. I am taking Annabelle to a new groomer in a couple of weeks, so I will be sure to check out the toy situation. She would for sure devour most any toy there. Anything she plays with has to be mother approved.

[BG and Gavin]

So scary. Glad Polly is doing okay.

[Becka]

I'm so glad to hear this positive update for Polly!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Glad to hear the positive update!