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 Joyce (Casey & Cody's mom) on May 13, 2013 at 9:05am

I know how terribly scary this is! Years ago, my husband was playing with our GSP and tossing a stick for her. This was her favorite game. He threw the stick pretty hard and one end stuck in the ground. She was running very fast with mouth open anticipating catching the stick when she ran into it and had a huge laceration in the top of her mouth and throat. We, too had to go to the doggie ER. This required several stitches. We felt like such HORRIBLE people. Never again have we tossed anything other than ropes or balls. Hugs and kisses to Charlie making a speedy recovery.

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Permalink Reply by Kyoko on May 13, 2013 at 9:34am

Oh, God... This must have been so scary...!! This could very well happened to her, too...I just never thought soemthing like this could happen... while I knew it can... ( Doesn't it make sense...)

Thank you so much... She looks much better and behaving like her ownself now.