Help! My doodle ate several cooked rib bones

[Michelle Crews]

My 11 mos, 30lb mini doodle snuck 2 rib bones and 2 pork chop bones and ate them before anyone knew what happened. It's been about 12hrs ago and he seems fine, but obviously his mom is very concerned. Any advice? Trip to the vet? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks

[Judy, Meg & Polly Wolly Doodle]

Call your vet first thing this morning.  They will probably have you watch him closely for the next couple days or they may want to do an x-ray.  If he is not in distress yet he is probably going to be all right. 

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

When my Guinness was much younger he ate some chicken bones. I called the vet right away and she said to feed him some bread and watch him closely and to bring him in to their clinic or to the emergency vet after hours if he seemed in any discomfort.

[Nicole and Teddy]

Teddy got into chicken bones once and I followed Jane's suggestion to give him some bread. We watched him closely over the next few days and he eventually eliminated them. I checked his stool frequently and was surprised that the bones took so long to pass (maybe a few days?). It was very nerve-wracking though! Best of luck!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

It can take weeks for an indigestible object to pass, and sometimes they don't at all. Jackdoodle once walked around with a bone shard in his GI tract for a few weeks. No sign of anything wrong. It's very scary.