how many dogs have obstruction surgery?

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stillsteamn

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I have been lucky a few times in the past where my GSP ate something he was not supposed to, and may have caused a bout of diarrhea or vomiting but it passed through or came back up without major incident. He's now 10 years old. This time not so lucky, he's going into surgery for an intenstinal blockage. Stupid dogs eating things they should not, despite trying to keep the house dog-proofed. How many of you with hunting dogs have had this happen to you? Right now I'm thinking this will be my last dog.
 
We'll I've yet to have had the unfortunate pleasure of bringing a dog in to remove a blockage , I do however have a 9 month old GSP that could be the first dog that I really have to watch.
We try and keep the place puppy proof but he's extremely clever and will pick up on any mistake you make. So far it's been just the occasional kleenex or paper towel and outside the occasional stick but nothing serious like a plastic bag etc..

MY 8 year old was never like that and I could literally leave a full dinner plate on the coffee table and leave the room only to return to an UNTOUCHED plate. Amazing... but true.
 
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Ive been lucky so far in that none of my dogs have ever been that type. Good luck with things. It wont be your last dog and you know it....
 
It was a puffball cat toy about the size of a pingpong ball with a little rattle ball inside. Something brought into the house when my daughter's cat came to stay for a while. I should have known to get rid of that immediately. Surgery was last night and so far it sounds like recovery should be good. Dog is probably feeling better but now I'm feeling poor$.
 
Glad your pup is on the road to recovery. My choco lab has swallowed several articles of clothing when she was a pup but fortunately she always seemed to regurgitate them back up.......usually in the house too. So far that has been the worst of it.
 
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Riley had a blockage when we was younger and the surgery was successful. He just ended up with quite the scar.

We had a rescue that had came in and had been a stray for a while and had eaten a nylon stocking. That dog wasnt so fortunate.
 
I have 2 vet practices in NM, between the 2 we probably do an obstruction/exploratory surgery monthly. Labrador retrievers are over-represented in the patient load living the lab motto of "eat everything you can and try to vomit it up later". Labs remind me of when they catch a big shark and they find a tire, some cans and a boat oar inside its stomach. My favorite obstruction surgery was a lab I was removing some type of household appliance from its gut and incidentally the dog had $1.52 in change in its stomach. The coins weren't causing the obstruction but I removed them, washed them, put them in a baggy and told the owners they owed $1500 minus the $1.52......they didn't really appreciate my humor.
 
Gracie was a hand full when she a pup. She listens great when I am around, but it was while I was at work she did her damage. She once broke into my house (yes broke - went through a screen) and ate an entire bag of hamburger buns. Luckily she didn't eat the bag, just sort of chewed it. She also ate a pack of gum...

Now she is a little older and I think smarter (I think :rolleyes:). A few weeks ago I was cleaning up a junk drawer from my room and dropped a few pills. I don't know what they were, prob advil or tylenol or flu medicine who knows. I didn't see them hit the ground and left the room. When I came back Grace was standing at full point looking at the (3) pills...perks of having a pointer I reckon
 
Happens quite a bit. Why I keep pups away from rocks, gravel etc. Corn cobs, everything. pine cones are bad. I practice no free running a lot, keep them focused on training. And for the most part them temptations go away as the dog matures to a young adult about a year old. I don't let them run the house while gone either. I have not had to go in yet, but came close. My old bag swallowed some AA batteries once and a beer bottle cap. She hurled both up.:D
 
My current setter was less than a year old and ate carpeting. I've used carpet remnants for lining dog crates the two previous dogs and never had an issue. Surgery removed a golf ball-sized bundle of fibers that would not pass, which had attached a 15" long strand that had passed into the intestines. Pup recovered with no ill effects. However, the little $h!t will not leave throw rugs, blankets, etc., alone. As a new puppy we bought him a dog bed and had to take it away because he won't just lay on it, but wrestles it. If left to his own devices, I'm sure he'd chew that, too.
 
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