My Lab - Scary but Funny

[bigbad243]

So my lab started acting really weird about a week ago. She wouldn't want to get up and just overall was not her normal energetic self. Took her to the vet, they couldn't see anything. Had to go to College Station for a ring dunk and she seemed to be getting better. Saturday she just hit a wall and was really sick. She would not move at all and threw up a ton. Took her over to the A&M small animal hospital ($$$$$) and they could not figure it out either, nothing on xray, bloodwork, or sonogram. Finally Sunday evening I took her home and didn't hold out much hope. Monday a.m. took her bright and early back to her vet. We took more xrays and sent them over to a specialist who was able to find the smallest little abnormal arean in her intestines. They did surgery to see what it was and found a full stuffed animal in there she had eaten! They said much longer and she was a gone. She still has a slight infection in her intestine but is on heavy meds for that. She is eating and about 75% back to normal. So glad she is ok. She is the best dog, not to mention a part of our family. Anyone else have this happen with their dog?

[elkbowhunter]

wow!!! so glad you took her in!! a whole stuffed animal..its amazing what dogs eat. got PHOTOS?

[huntnfishtex]

Wow! Glad she's ok.

[jpbruni]

Wow! Glad she is OK. They will eat just about anything.

I had a mystery illness like that once with Diego. X-rays showed a huge mass in his abdomen. Everyone thought it was a tumor and gave him not much hope. He was in the same shape your dog was in.

Took him to another vet and he gave him a molotov cocktail of antibiotics and he made it. It was some kind of weird infection.

J.P.

[bigbad243]

The stuffed animal wounldn't be suited for this website. It was nasty. It was about 6" long and about 3" fat with legs and arms and a head. We still don't know what stuffed animal it was of our kids or if it was even theirs. She has eaten stuff like this before but this one got all tandeled up in itself and caused the blockage.

[AJMag]

My german sheppard has consumed and passed a number of whole socks. Once I came home and let her outside, she immediately threw up a large green mass. Upon a closer look it turned out to be a toy for birds(had a parrot at the time). It was a toy that dangles from the cage with a few strands of rope and objects like wood chunks for the bird to play with, it was a good sized set up. She swallowed the thing whole and threw it up whole. Blew my mind. And she never skipped a beat! Still couldn't figure out where that toy was for her to get it.

[k9trainer]

I had an american bulldog in for training a few years ago, the girl that owned her was drop dead beautiful. That dog passed 3 thongs in 5 days. I called to see if the girl wanted to come up and identify the bodies but she denied and was pretty embarassed when she came to pick her up.

[Lokmdwn]

So my lab started acting really weird about a week ago. She wouldn't want to get up and just overall was not her normal energetic self. Took her to the vet, they couldn't see anything. Had to go to College Station for a ring dunk and she seemed to be getting better. Saturday she just hit a wall and was really sick. She would not move at all and threw up a ton. Took her over to the A&M small animal hospital ($$$$$) and they could not figure it out either, nothing on xray, bloodwork, or sonogram. Finally Sunday evening I took her home and didn't hold out much hope. Monday a.m. took her bright and early back to her vet. We took more xrays and sent them over to a specialist who was able to find the smallest little abnormal arean in her intestines. They did surgery to see what it was and found a full stuffed animal in there she had eaten! They said much longer and she was a gone. She still has a slight infection in her intestine but is on heavy meds for that. She is eating and about 75% back to normal. So glad she is ok. She is the best dog, not to mention a part of our family. Anyone else have this happen with their dog?

My lab ate a plastic bottle a few years ago, $2900 later and she was fine. This was of course on a weekend and my wife took her to the Emergency animal clinic.

[prkchp]

I had am american bulldog in for training a few years ago, the girl that owned her was drop dead beautiful. That dog passed 3 thongs in 5 days. I called to see if the girl wanted to identify the bodies but she denied and was pretty embarassed when she came to pick her up.

Lmao......that would have been worth seeing right there!

[Texastaxi]

Our first Maltese ate 7 tampons out of the trash can. We knew what he had eaten but the first vet we took him to kept him overnight and then sent him home. We could tell he wasn't any better so we took him to a different vet. That one did xrays and insisted that she needed to operate on him if we wanted him to live. The tampons had done their thing and expanded in his guts. One operation and several thousand dollars later he was as good as new!

The one we have now ate some not too long ago. Luckily this time I caught it right away and under the guidance of agvet02, we got him fixed up at an emergency vets office before they made it past his stomach.

[Johnny Dangerr]

My vet and his buddys have a contest every year on the stuff they pull out of dogs.

2 years back one of them pulled something that looks like a pink flashlight out of a dog..

[gargetter]

Y'all got some $$EXPENSIVE$$ dogs there!!!!

[bigbad243]

Now I do...

[MTaylor]

My Jack Russell consumed a entire bottle of red wing boot oil. When we found her it was shooting out the other end. All the way to the vet she would stand up in my truck and shoot oil all over the seat. Got her stomach pumped and she never missed a beat. Good times

[WCI]

Buckie, my chocolate lab, has eaten all sorts of interesting things. He once drank a gallon of so of outboard motor oil.. well he chewed a hole in the shed wall, walked right in and had a drink. I did not know what was wrong but he was acting dizzy etc. so I took him to the vet and would you believe after a monster crap on the examing room table he was just fine. We went back home and I found the quicksilver bottle on the floor with the cap chewed off. He is so afraid of gray bottles now..
He also got some sort of phosphate posioning from the golf course from swimming in the ponds. He is fine now just loves to dig.. Maybe I can put some gray bottles in the holes to scare him..