No more fetch with a stick!!

Charlie LOVES to play fetch more than anything in the whole wide world. She can play fetch for over and over and over for a long time until she is truly exhausted... We go to the local county park and play fetch every day.... But today, when she caught the stick, it broke in pieces. I saw Charlie cough and hacked, then she came to me distressed. I thought the piece of stick got stuck in her throat or something!!! She looked as she was ready to go home. I did the quick check on her and we got ready to go back home. At the water fountain, she did not drink the water as she normally do. I again examined he mouth and saw a little cut on her tongue, and small patch of blood in the back of her throat... :-(

After we got home, she looked like she wanted to drink her water, but she didn't. so I gave her some milk and she drunk that. When I fed Pinot, she came and ate her food... But then, she went inside of Pinot's puppy pen to rest... :-( never done this before...

If she does not acting right within a couple of hours, we are going to the emergency vet...

I should have known better than playing fetch with a stick!!

Update

We just got back from the emergency vet. Small laceration in the throat is no longer bleeding, and the fact she drunk milk and ate food is a good thing, and she kept them down is a good thing. So the doctor did not feel a need to sedate her to do the x ray or further examinations. She was scared to death at the emergency vet, tighten up so much and she was shaking like a leaf.....:-(

So, I am just going to observe her and make sure she does not cough, hack vomit or refuse eating, etc... Thank you all for the support!! I really appreciated them... It was just so scary... I just never thought something like this would happen, even though I knew it can...

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Permalink Reply by Traz, Karen & Dale on May 11, 2013 at 5:44pm

I think a lot of people let their dogs play with sticks and other objects, our family included, and we don't give them a second thought until sometime happens. There is no way that you would have known the stick would break. It's good that you are watching Charlie to see if he starts acting normal. I hope he is ok. Please post update when you know. Take care.