I need dog help *UPDATE*

Re: I need dog help *UPDATE*

• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  She's protesting now but I just washed my couches.

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• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  We done the kong but I just worry if too much would course more harm than good?

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• Dawn5481 member

  September 2014

  Vet tech here.....She'll be fine in the crate as long as it's big enough for her to stand up and turn around and you walk her multiple times during the day. Don't be surprised if you see her start straining or if she cries when she poops. Wood chips are a bitch to pass. If she's not improving and if she stops eating or gets lethargic, I'd take her back in. Usually they pass the wood chips without issue, but occasionally they can perforate the intestine or do other damage. I wouldn't give her anything out of the ordinary as far as food or treats. A bland diet like chicken and rice wouldn't be a bad idea for the next several days. What meds did they give you?

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• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  Dawn5481 said:

  Vet tech here.....She'll be fine in the crate as long as it's big enough for her to stand up and turn around and you walk her multiple times during the day. Don't be surprised if you see her start straining or if she cries when she poops. Wood chips are a bitch to pass. If she's not improving and if she stops eating or gets lethargic, I'd take her back in. Usually they pass the wood chips without issue, but occasionally they can perforate the intestine or do other damage. I wouldn't give her anything out of the ordinary as far as food or treats. A bland diet like chicken and rice wouldn't be a bad idea for the next several days. What meds did they give you?

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  She was crying last night while pushing. It was the most awful cries I've heard come from an animal. She is on a rice/ground beef diet. She won't eat chicken.
  
  She's on metronidazole and famotidine

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• Dawn5481 member

  September 2014

  Poor girl. If only dogs understood the consequences of their actions ahead of time. I could tell you 100 stories of stupid crap we've pulled out of animals. Those are good drugs though. You should start seeing improvement within 48 hours.

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• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  Dawn5481 said:

  Poor girl. If only dogs understood the consequences of their actions ahead of time. I could tell you 100 stories of stupid crap we've pulled out of animals. Those are good drugs though. You should start seeing improvement within 48 hours.

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  And don't you know she keeps going back for more??????

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• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  @Dawn5481‌ she had a thicker poop an hour or so ago but about 10 mins ago it was bloody and liquid. Since she did have a thicker poop, does that maybe mean she is making progress? Maybe?

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• Dawn5481 member

  September 2014 edited September 2014

  NotSharknado said:

  Poor girl. If only dogs understood the consequences of their actions ahead of time. I could tell you 100 stories of stupid crap we've pulled out of animals. Those are good drugs though. You should start seeing improvement within 48 hours.

  ----- And don't you know she keeps going back for more??????

  
  I knew a dog that had a tennis ball removed from its stomach. Swallowed that thing whole like a freakin anaconda. Surgeon kept it and gave it to the owner at discharge (in some kind of container obviously). On the drive home, that asshole actually got ahold of it and ate the damn thing again! Still not as good as the dumb dog that ate a bottle of gorilla glue.

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• Dawn5481 member

  September 2014

  NotSharknado said:

  @Dawn5481‌ she had a thicker poop an hour or so ago but about 10 mins ago it was bloody and liquid. Since she did have a thicker poop, does that maybe mean she is making progress? Maybe?

  
  Her intestines are gonna be pissed for a few days. It's good that it's starting to form up. Just make sure she continues to eat and stays acting like her normal self, and doesn't start with black, tarry stools. That could be a sign of a gastric ulcer or some other bleeding in the stomach. Red blood usually means the lower half of her GI tract is angry (colitis).

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• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  cmeon_the_water said:

  I agree that it's fine to keep her in the crate- aside from saving your house and sanity, it keeps her a little calmer. It wasn't cocoa mulch, right? That stuff is really awful for pets and a bigger emergency than wood chips in most cases. Wood can cause blockages, though, so do keep that eye on her.
  
  She really won't touch chicken? Poor, silly Daisy.
  
  Belly upsets are the worst. Mulch eating is not rare at all- it's super appealing to some dogs, and I bet she's teething like crazy right now (we found like 8 teeth in one day last week)! If she has something she likes to carry around (a favorite toy/ball/softie) you can try letting her take that outside. Labs are sooooo mouthy, stuffing something in there can keep them out of trouble. But, ultimately, it's supervision ("leave it" works well here), leash (this is generally us- I only have one set of eyes- ha), prevention (you would not be the first to have to remove mulch from their yard because their dog eats it).
  
  I hope she's back to her normal pooping self tomorrow, sometimes it's that fast!
  

  
  
  
  
  We have red wood chips under our bench swing in the yard and she actually vomited in front of the vet and saw the wood chips. She hasn't been off leash since Saturday but what's funny is she's not really in the yard by herself. For one, she doesn't like being back there by herself so she had to of consumed a shit ton of it in a very short period of time. She does enjoy the neighbors mulch but I don't know what type it is. They have two dogs and are pretty up to date with pet safety, though.
  
  
  As far as teething I think she's almost done. The molars are almost through. Daisy, of course, must have eaten all of her teeth because we weren't lucky enough to find any. I was hoping to be able to keep one.
  
  And yes, she's quite picky about food. It took a lot of convincing to get her to eat the rice/ground beef.
  

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• NotSharknado member

  September 2014

  CK2MD said:

  
  

  NotSharknado said: And yes, she's quite picky about food. It took a lot of convincing to get her to eat the rice/ground beef.

  
  

  Too bad she's not picky about wood chips... That fact that she is eating anything is a good sign. We always knew our golden retriever was in trouble when she wouldn't eat her food. She ate more things than I can count: tile grout (which of course hardened in her GI tract), underwear, carpet, a razor blade, books, two bars of soap, a rope, and gym towels. She had to have two surgeries to remove foreign body obstructions plus one surgery after she tore open her sutures from a previous surgery. Oh, and I would totally have put her in the crate in your situation. I feel for you and hope your pup's on the mend. 

  
  

  
  
  
  So do they eventually grow out of this stage? I'd eventually would like to not have to watch her every second.
  
  

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