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Help! Ari ate cooked chicken bones!!

Posted : 9/12/2012 6:28:23 PM

In her 4.5 years on this planet this has never happened. But, she swiped the chicken leg bones the second I turned my back and gulped it down with a few crunches. I know not to induce vomiting, but is there anything I should do aside from monitoring her? I'm really really freaked out. I'm having flashbacks to when she was 5 months old and needed emergency exploratory surgery.

She's not choking right now and is acting fine, but then again this incident did just occur.

DougB

Posted : 9/12/2012 6:48:45 PM

First-don't panic. Dogs do this, frequently with no bad results-except for their desire to repeat the experience. Piper has done this several times. I've given her some bread a few times, but when she hits the garbage in the middle of the night, I don't know until morning. So far, nothing bad has happened. Call the vet , get some professional advice. More advice will follow.

Freedom

Posted : 9/12/2012 7:37:16 PM

You can call a vet (or ER vet if it is after hours where you are), for ideas. Mostly I've read just give some sliced bread. Break it up. It will bind around the bones and help to prevent any perforations.

JackieG

Posted : 9/12/2012 8:13:52 PM

Mine have eaten the occasional cooked chicken bone without harm . Hopefully, Ari will be the same. Gabby grabbed one off the ground the other night and crunched it up and swallowed before I could get a word out of my mouth.

rufftie

Posted : 9/13/2012 6:08:17 AM

this too shall pass Wink .

my dogs have frequently eaten bones with no ill effects.

JackieG

Posted : 9/13/2012 6:47:44 AM

How is Ari this morning?

the_gopher

Posted : 9/13/2012 7:43:31 AM

She seemed fine this morning. Normal bowel movement though no hint of bone in it (yup I looked and got some strange stares from neighbors). She was her usual crazy self. So hopefully the bone will continue to move along safely. I'm pretty sure she swallowed it mostly whole with just a crunch or two.

sharismom

Posted : 9/13/2012 7:59:49 AM

Hopefully all will be okay. Ari, don't scare your mom like that!

JackieG

Posted : 9/13/2012 8:56:10 AM

I'm sure she'll be fine and hopefully you didn't get gray hair worrying about her all night. Now that she's successfully snatched food, nothing is safe. Belle is our food thief and we've learned to never leave anything within her considerable reach.

the_gopher

Posted : 9/13/2012 12:14:08 PM

Jackie, I'll definitely be changing what we do around her now. At 4 1/2 years old I didn't expect her to do this!!! Little bugger has shaved enough years off my life back when she was a pup (not sure I shared here, but she once jumped off a 10 foot cliff into the river. Thankfully at a deep part of said river and didn't land on any downed trees that often end up in it).

They do enjoy keeping us hopping.

I'll feel better when I can get home after work and check on her. For good measure I put her on the canned diet we use anytime her stomach acts up.

dia & boone

Posted : 9/13/2012 1:05:09 PM

My BFs Rottweiler got into the fridge one night, and ate 1 and half roasted chickens. He was fine.

JackieG

Posted : 9/13/2012 1:54:47 PM

dia & boone
My BFs Rottweiler got into the fridge one night, and ate 1 and half roasted chickens. He was fine.

LOL and full. :)

tacran

Posted : 9/13/2012 2:22:44 PM

Phew! I'm glad Ari is okay! I would've been a wreck. Ari, you can't help yourself to everything you think is edible --- you'll scare your Mom eating that stuff!

As for the Rottie who knows how to open the refrigerator --- he must've been pretty darn hungry! Surprise

the_gopher

Posted : 9/14/2012 2:51:56 PM

Oh lordy, I'm glad Ari doesn't know how to open up the refrigerator!!!

So far so good, though she was gassy last night and she's not usually gassy. I really appreciated the toot she let out right in my face! She's her usually crazy self, so if she was feeling ill I would know it immediately. I'm still feeding her a bland diet, because I'm neurotic and a worrier. Besides, she loves the darned bland canned food so she's not complaining!

I think in her 4.5 years she's successfully shaved off 10 years of mine, with her shenanigans. She's lucky she's cute :)

greykatie

Posted : 9/14/2012 4:08:20 PM

They are all really lucky they are cute, I don't know how I would deal with anything that our pups have put us through if it weren't because they are so freaking adorable. I'm glad your Ari is okay - I'd be real careful having food around her now. For us that was kind of futile because two of the little buggers managed to get in the kitchen cupboard one night. Gave us a huge fright, thinking they had gotten the chocolate, but they hadn't. Anyway, the kitchen is now off limits for the dogs.