Jack needs prayers--badly...

I actually haven't seen the underwear yet.  I know it's mine though because DH only does boxers.  I don't think I'll be keeping them though....

I'm just about to go visit Jack.  Yesterday I saw him before I went to work and he was a little tipsy but as soon as I greeted him his tail started thumping..... 

Well give him some skritches from us when you see him! 

Please, please, please let him know that we're ALL pulling for him & sending him love, good healing vibes & a ton of kisses.

I'm also wondering what kind of undies.  We can think of these sort of things now that the immediate danger has passed.

I just saw this thread!  I am so happy that Jack pulled through ok.  He is such a cutie, I'm glad things are looking good.

I bet it is time like this that you wish they would do association:

 eating purloined undies = vet visit.

You know that he won't but you wish that he would!

Either way I am glad Jack is doing better. And you are not a failure to your dog, you did what needed to be done and that was that.

So glad that it sounds like Jack is on the mend!

You are a good doggy mom, instead of waiting several days about the vomiting you were aware enough to get to the vet!  Many folks might have let it go another day or two and had a much harder outcome. 

Give Jack some skritches from us, and does this maybe mean new pictures once he's feeling better

I hope Jack comes home pretty soon. I have been thinking about him all day. Is so good to know he is doing well!

I am really glad to hear Jack's doing okay.

I've been fortunate in that Shadow never has chewed on my clothing or shoes. Jade, OTOH, thinks the laces on my slippers are an evil to be defeated.

 Also, just wanted to say - you haven't failed him!  The ONLY way you could have actively prevented this was by locking him in a bare cell.  He's a lab, therefore he will find SOMETHING odd to eat at some point!

Well, I passed along everyone's good wishes when I went to see him today.  He seemed like he was doing really well.  He has lost a bit of weight, but is in good spirits--he was full-body wagging all over the place when they got him out for me.  He has to have a cone because he kept pestering his stitches, and he didn't seem thrilled about it.  The vet started giving him little bits of canned food mixed with water, which he gobbled up the best he could with he cone on.  He got tired kind of fast though, and after about a half hour curled up by my feet.  The vet said this was normal though--plus the girls at the vet's said that whenever they took him out earlier in the day he was a crazy dog--bouncing off the walls.  

I'm so glad that he's doing okay, eating and perky, even with the dreaded cone on. It must be such a relief to see he's recovering okay and in only a couple days, he'll be home where you can pamper him like crazy. I know that whatever it cost, it was worth it, but if you wouldn't mind sharing, I'm always curious how much stuff like this costs.

Don't let the cone upset you.  Although they are not the most comfortable thing for the dogs they are necessary.  My girlfriend felt sorry for her dog and took the cone off when she was around to watch him and put it on at night and when she wasn't home.  Don't you know that she went in the shower and when she came out the dog ripped out all his stitches!!  What a mess she had and the dogs recovery was twice as long.  My Riv had a cone on that was HUGE!  I left it on even in the crate but he learned to manuver with it.  The worst thing is when they misjudge and hit the side of the wall and get hocked up.  So..   glad Jack is doing well!!

lovemyswissy is SO right -- help him *learn* to navigate stairs (you gotta pick your head up like this) - but after a day or so he will join the "BASH it or RAM it ... it'll move!!" club of e-collar wearers!!!  Muffin got so adept at his that he'd run full tilt at something to simply dip his head at the last moment to hit it at exactly the right angle to make it 'fold' so he could get thru.  Used to crack us up!!

 We have not gotten the bill yet but we are guessing it is going to run us from $750-$850.  The vet quoted us $750-$1500, depending on what had to be done during the surgery.  His was the least severe of the types of bowel obstruction surgeries so I'm guessing it will be in the lower range.  We have already spent $240 at the e-vet though (it's $108 just to walk in the place ).  If he has no complications (we hope and pray) this will likely be cheaper than the elbow stuff, which, including the first trip down to Purdue University and the arthroscopic surgery a week  later ran us about $1300--and that's not including the physical therapy.  I really need to pull my head out of my rear and get pet insurance.....

Yeah, Jack is no stranger to the Cone of Doom.  When he kept whacking his tail on stuff and making it bleed he had to wear a cone because he was chewing and licking it, which was not helping the healing process.

The vet was telling me about some of her other bowel obstruction cases--she had a boxer that ate 6 ft of rope, which caused his intestines to flip over themselves.  He had to have so much dead bowel removed that he nearly did not make it and was at the vet's for a week.  They also had a dog eat pantyhose--it was stretched from his mouth to his rectum when he was brought in... 

oh my.

just catching the end of this one here, but... I'm glad he made it through! Here's hoping for a speedy recovery