Hottentot |
09-15-11 08:48 AM |
Thanks for all the kind words, guys. :salute:
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Originally Posted by Betonov
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Strange, I aslo have a retriever (Labrador) and I'm surprised that this happened. Bad luck yes.
And don't tell me about their apetite. The list of things mine ate includes a plastic model of the Graff Spee and a cell phone
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In retrospect, the vet visit may not have been necessary: the bone parts were stuck, but they were not (fortunately for the dog and my wallet) removed by surgical means. They are slowly coming out naturally, or at least that's what we hope at the moment. A dog can have things like this happen without the owner even noticing it, because it is not always dangerous.
But when my dog is pooping blood, I'm not going to wait and see if it's going away on it's own. I know where the my own abilities end, and that's a 100% sure sign.
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Originally Posted by Penguin
In my layman's knowledge I only heard of chicken bones being dangerous because of splintering, didn't know that pig bones are also dangerous.
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Basically any bone can be dangerous, but it depends. Most bones come out without trouble, like I explained above. Boiled chicken bones are bad, because they are prone for splintering, but just as they don't necessarily splinter and cause trouble, likewise any bone can splinter and be a nasty problem. That's why I don't like taking risks with them.
Edit: And it of course also depends on what your dog can digest, that's highly individual thing. Some of the dogs I have met could probably have eaten steel and pooped chains without any problems whatsoever.
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