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. 

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[Adrianne Matzkin]

Like the UGGly story!!!!  WOL!!!

Niña will be a year this month. Suzanne fostered her for the DRC in February and joined the illustrious group Foster Failure when she adopted her. Now that Suzanne got her healthy (she weighed 28 lbs when she first came here) at her last weigh in at the vet she was 43ish lbs. 

I do NOT want anyone to use her weight as a guideline for the hydrogen peroxide!!  Please call your vet for medical advice!

[Pat and Traveler]

Good advice, Adrianne!  So glad the pup is okay.  She was a busy little girl.  Yikes!

[Carol and Banjo]

thanks for sharing your uggly experience.......glad all turned out ok. Naughty Nina!

[Itims]

Like Adrienne says, for something hard/sharp - you want to give your dog a lot of soft fiber to push it through her system. You DO NOT want it to come up but push out. 

Biba picked up a pieces of glass twice - once outside and once 1 second after I broke something. Both times I only suspected that she might have swallowed it. Both times, I gave her 3-4 slices of wheat bread with peanut butter + her  normal food with extra pumpkin. The first time we did x-rays but all the food that we had stuffed in her made it hard to see anything. Both times, she was fine. No blood, some diarrhea (maybe from over-feeding and/or the bread). 

So peroxide for soft food or fabric - things that won't hurt her coming up. And bananas, bread, soft high fiber stuff for hard things that need cushioning as they go out. 

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Itims - so sorry about Biba eating glass! That must have been so scary!!! Did you vet want you to give the bread before the xrays? 

I can't imagine what makes a dog think that eating glass is tasty? I can understand why an Ugg because it smells like Suzanne but why glass? In so many ways a dogs behavior I can understand but what they eat not so much! Anyone have any insight to that?

[Itims]

I'm embarrassed to admit that I freaked out and fixing it myself was my first thought rather than calling the vet. So I checked her mouth for blood or anything embedded and then googled the issue and gave her the bread AND then called the vet. Thankfully, the hospital backed up my solution. The xrays were a waste and they should have told us that. The second time was outside in a dog potty park place with pieces of a beer bottle (humans, so bad!). I again suspected she might have picked up something (the glass was almost invisible to me in the grass). So I repeated the drill. No xrays and everything was fine. 

No idea why any living creature would attempt to eat glass. At the hospital, the ER vet said she removed multiple corn cob skewers from a dog a day before!

[Colleen, Jake & Baxter]

I (unfortunately) know all about puppies eating inappropriate items.  Glad to know that she is feeling alright after her "culinary adventure".

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

So happy she's okay.  Great reminder to us all.  I always have a syringe for the dogs as Tacky goes on stints where I have to get water to him that way.

[Donna K & Quincy]

Well we can say this much for Nina, she has expensive taste in footwear but lousy taste in what is edible. Glad she is ok and thanks for the good advice. When Quincy was a pup he ate a glove ( the non-latex surgical type) he stole it right off someone's hand. He was at work with DH when this happened and he didn't see fit to tell me about it till hours later.  Thankfully he pooped it out the same day and if you have never seen poop giving you the finger, it is an interesting sight.

[Kyoko]

I'm gladc that everything came out!! Got love those puppies!!

[Lori, Rooney & Zuzu]

We have had to do this with our Golden Retriever a few times over the years. We do use a syringe and it is very effective even though it always makes us feel terrible for him. But after he had to have surgery to have two socks and a dishtowel removed our vet recommended we learn this home remedy so that perhaps we could get any swallowed items to come up before they are digested. 

So glad she is okay!!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Glad it turned out okay! Darwin ate an entire chicken carcass once and our vet said the same thing - bread. Oh the things dogs do.. :-)