UPDATE>>>Holy Smokes...Polly Wolly Doodle scared me

Polly was napping near me on the couch today and suddenly had to throw up! Ugh, I keep a rug on there for the girls to lay on and that is exactly where she emptied the contents of her little tummy with the weirdest looking thing I ever saw. With the help of SEVERAL sheets of paper towels and vinyl gloves I investigated what it could possibly be. Turns out to be the entire head of a stuffed toy. I don't let my girls play with them for this very reason, they don't know how to play with them without chewing them up. The only place this could possibly come from is the toy box at the groomer's and it is two weeks tomorrow since the girls have been there. I talked to the Vet, she has been pooping as regular as ever, nothing about her appetite has been different (she does not eat big or in a hurry, you generally have to send her back to her bowl to finish but she has always been that way). How in the heck something like that could stay in her tummy for that long without going further and messing up her bowels is beyond me, but I am grateful it went no further and caused no problems.

In the morning she goes first to the vet, they will do x-ray and if needed will do a barium study, she said a barium study will show if any toy fur is catching the barium and they we will go from there.. I will be talking to the groomer and offering to replace all the toys with others so this does not happen again. I love this groomer and she loves my girls, she babies them beyond belief and on grooming day I just ask if they want to see Joanne and they head for their leash hooks. She is going to feel horrible about this but I am not holding her responsible, I knew that type of toy was there.

Please wish Polly Wolly Doodle well tomorrow and hope with us that there is no other problem left from this. Please watch your own babies with this type of toy.

Vet has done a series of x-rays this morning, there is one small point she wants to take another of tomorrow morning to make sure it is moving, but is confident that Polly will have no ill effects from this incident. The groomer feels very bad that she missed this and immediately picked up all soft toys. I just dropped off a few more, safer, options for her to have in her toy box. Grateful that this was no worse than it was.

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