A Lesson Learned and Must Share Advice

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Our little peanut (will be 1 this month), 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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[Judith and Griffin]

Oh my. And wow.  Thank  you so much for sharing!

Ugh!

And oh the variety of advice from vets...  Ours wants pups to come in for eye drops that make them puke (and then eye can be washed out so effect stops immed, which is nice) and I'll bet she'd have done surgery for the chicken instead of a loaf of bread and wait.  Not sure if I want to switch vets or not...

[Adrianne Matzkin]

Not sure I am liking the money aspect of your vet. If you can talk to them and then try a home remedy then the only thing I can think of is that he has college payments to make. It doesn't sound like he has the best interest of the dog in mind. I know that we all feel better to be sick at home, not in a vet/doctors office which brings anxiety to the front door.