Stuffed Gus, Literally!

[Deirdre]

My poor ravenous Gus went a little too far this time. He's always been able to "puke up" whole socks & ropes about 3-5 weeks after swollowing "his" prize! Life changed a long time ago, there are NO prizes in this house! Except at Christmas, 12 family members, 5 dogs and dog presents. Tried my hardest to watch MR ravenous Gus, I FAILED.
Last week normal morning, me coffee, dogs in and out, Gus heads for my room went to check on him he's just lying there and looks at me in bewlderment. I looked over him and there was 2 huge piles of puke fully formed EVO kibble (herring & salmond yuk!) from 5:00 p.m. the night before. I thought somethings wrong he's not eating it. Off to the vet we went. Vet is 40 mins away.
Vet didn't think it was necessary to take x-rays as my lovely people person Gus was HAPPY. "No food for 24 hours and if he pukes call him immediately." We get back home Gus drinks some water and walks in and pukes water and stuffing, back to the vet we go. X-rays showed about 2 feet of poop in his intestines and some stuffing in his stomach. He had to get one of the toys from Christmas, Where has it been all this time? I sware he has a Horder Pocket in his body.
Enima time for Gus! He did a liitle poop and the vet said I should be able to make it back home. My 40 min trip turned into 26 mins 45 sec. Got home nothing all night all day or the next night
Thank You Costco for having those wonderful throw away poop picking up gloves! The last of the stuffing left Gus' body Sat. night.
Sorry about being so descriptive with this I just want to let "all" know what stuffing can do. The toys that were brought for Christmas were the extra tough I think fire hose outside. When I took one away from my Bear the stuffing was long strings of stuffing that he was pulling out, kind of stiff like interfacing. I just aged myself!

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

I am certainly glad he is okay! We can't keep plush toys around any longer because Peri tries to eat it. Good to know this can be so dangerous.....

[cheryl & oliver]

Glad to hear that Gus is ok. My friends dog ate the stuffing out of one of those stuffed toys, and he died...I am so nervous with that stuff, after hearing about friends dog, I do not buy toys with stuffing, because my galoot will eat the toy in record time...

[BetteB]

Lona -- that is amazing -- and gross!! haha!

[Lona and Bogart]

My daughter's dog pooped one of her thongs! Intact!!!

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

So glad to hear that Gus is ok! Whew, how scary that must have been. I like Gaston-Cramer's mom destuff Lucy and Sophie's toys. I try to buy ones that are only stuffing free, but if I cave and buy a stuffed one, as soon as I see any stuffing coming out I just slit it and destuff! They don't seem to mind them that way. However, my girls have never been ones to eat anything like socks or shoes or anything like that ..... they just like $500 braided rugs and they don't eat them they just chew on the edges!

[Carole (*Koda*Monty*Bindi)]

I'm so glad he's ok! Gaston-Cramer's favorite toy in the whole wide world is/was "Monkey" who can be seen when he was first purchased in my profile photo. GC and Monkey are/were best of buds. "Monkey" would spring a hole and I would lovingly patch him up much to my husband's dismay as I won't even sew a button for him! LOL
In time the holes got greater and it was constantly looking like it snowed inside the house! I was forever picking up stuffing! About a month ago I de-stuffed Monkey and Gaston-Cramer was heartbroken! He would look longingly at Monkey as if to say "What happened to you Bud?". Just this past week he caved and started to love on his Monkey again and all is well in the world. Gratefully, GC never ate the stuffing but it sure was a mess!
So glad all is well with Gus too!

[Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey]

Poor Gus! I am glad everything turned out alright in the end. I have to keep an eye on Harlow as she is a sock stealer. I can't tell you the number of times on weekend poop scoop patrol I have found bits and pieces of socks.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Thank you for sharing this. It always helps to have these reminders. I took away all of Guinness's stuffed toys, but just this weekend my brother was over and he brought Guinness a "present". I took my eyes off of him for a few minutes and he had managed to partially destroy it. I need to tell myself "no stuffed toys EVER".

[Kathy Spyker]

OMGosh, poor Gus. I wonder if his belly felt bad all that time it was in their!!! I know it was alot of running back and forth and worry for you but I'm glad everything turned out OK in the end. =)