Dog gets into string.....

[Bubba]

Anyone have a dog get into string? Should i feed him or starve him? Thanks for any input.

[Husky]

Good question.

The lumen (cross section ) of a dogs intestines is rather large, so many (most ) objects pass through without problems---BUT---string might get tangles and caught up in the gut, a situation that can be life-threatening.

You need professional Vetrinary advice. Since its the holiday, check the yellow pages and see if you have a vertinary emergency service.They are usually very helpfull to call and can give you a best assesment of what should be done.

Good luck with the pup, hope everything turns out well.

[bubba]

Got it out - if anyone needs to get a dog to throw up, pour a good 3-4 tablespoons of salt down their throat and stand back. About 2-3 minutes later, they will throw up. Hope this helps, it helped me.

[Husky]

Glad to hear it. Are you sure its ALL out?

You can also give them syrup of Ipecac (spelling) to promote regurgitation.

Its amazing how much stuff the little guy's can get into!

[SnellTier]

My dog ate parts of a buddy's cigar which my buddy had carelessly tossed onto my lawn. The vet recommended a teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide to make the dog vomit it up. Yup ... sure as heck ... a few minutes later out it came. Good trick, if you catch the problem soon enough.

FYI.

[John]

Hydrogen Peroxide orally will get them to vomit also.Depending on size anywhere from 1/2 oz to 2 oz will do. Obviously do it out of doors. Husky is right sting/lineaar foreign body can be life threating. Watch your dog closely for vomiting/depression/abdominal discomfort. Call your Veterinarian if he shows these signs.Usually its the cats getting in to tinsel this time of year! Merry Christmas All!!!

[psilvers]

We just lost our cat because she got hold of some yarn my daughter was playing with. This cat had an OBSESSION with string. We took her to the vet, and he was going to operate on her, but she died the next day.

I know this is difficult - but keep string, yarn, etc. away from pets. It is really dangerous, especially for cats!

Pete

[troutaholic]

Guys,

I know that there are people that do not appreciate posts that are not related to fishing, but I was never one of them.....and NOW, I am grateful that there are threads such as this!!

Last night, we put the netting from the Christmas ham in the garbage. I woke up in the middle of the night to check on the coffee pot - wasn't sure if I had unplugged it or not. I learned several things:

A) I did remember to unplug the pot

B) Always shut the door to keep the dog out of garbage

C) Our peroxide is probably too old to be effective

D) The tablespoons of salt down the throat is tremendously effective!! Seconds instead of minutes!!!


A HUGE thank you for providing me with the information that I needed to help my Springer Spaniel out of potential harm. She doesn't know what happened, but she sure wallked clear of the garbage area when we came back in!!! Perhaps an excellent training method(lol).....

[Big Sky]

Bubba,
Glad to hear you got your string out. I had posted a while back of the same symptoms our 9 month old yellow lab went through. Unbeknownst to us she had swallowed some rope from all things, a dog rope toy while being baby sat at a relatives. Unfortunately for us, the barium test did not show this and by waiting too long the rope had done too much damage to her intestines that surgery could not save her life. I cringe every time I see rope toys in stores or when our new pup gets anywhere near rope or string. I suggest nobody ever buy them and wonder why they're even sold. We learned the hard way and I hope you and anybody that has a dog pays close attention to what their dog swallows. Rope and string are the worst for pets!

[vetspet(ind)]

i think we have removed three strings from cats in the last two months at our clinic...much more common in cats than dogs....gotta look under their tongues to see it as a loop will pass below the tongue and the two ends go down the esophagus....the intestines will grab hold and it starts to dig in to the point where cutting the string will not generally cause it to come out..and may tear up the intestines...luckily we got all three cats thru the episodes...had one cat once that was on its third string over only a few yrs duration...an expensive cat but it made it thru all three surgeries...nylafloss is a product supposed to floss the dogs teeth as the dog chews on it...a local vet reported that his tech's dog obstructed on this stuff...so i'm like the previous post...nothing they can chew up is safe...steve heckler

[Ike trauma]

Here's a new classic Holiday story for you dog owners.

Last friday I finally threw out the pumpkin pie leftover from Thanksgiving dinner, about 7/8 of a pie to be exact. The lab, who's never been in the garbage I might add, decided that was too good to pass up and snarfed the whole ##### thing, mold and all. No pie tin however, it was in glass....

Saturday rolls around, I get home from ice fishing to find here nearly dead. Listless, glassy eyed, hind legs not responding, shaking, dehydrated the whole works. I know what the issue was so off to the ER vet we went. Seems pumpkin pie mix is bad stuff for dogs, a diuretic and expands in the gut. Needless to say, she got blood work, x-rays (with laughs over amount of sh&t in her intestines) and the dreaded doggie enema. better her than me. All to the tune of 500.00. Merry Chrismas Elsie.

Keep the dogs outta the pie boys!

[walli llama]

you guys are scaring the ##### out me! my dog just got a new chew toy for christmas which just happens to be a rope with a big knot on each end and a tennis ball in the middle. she loves it! are you saying that i should take it away?? she's not going to be happy...

[Big Sky]

Walli Llama,
Not trying to scare you as the other lab at this house always played with rope toys or just plain rope and never had a problem. We paid close to $5k for surgery only to have a dead dog. Personally, any rope toy is not worth the risk in my opinion. Who knows what will happen if your not watching them. I think there are plenty of safe toys that your dog will enjoy. Take it for what it's worth.

[Cheesehead Guest]

We had a dog that ate quite a bit of aluminum foil that my wife used for oven baked chicken. The vet told us to put codliver oil in his food, and to watch him for the next few days. Everythinf turned out allright, but we called him the " Silver Bullet " for a while.