My 10 month old 60lb mixed breed inhaled,no chewing a large pork chop t-bone, next morning normal bowel movement and has not had a normal since, just diarhea since, seems very happy and energetic, eating and drinking fine. Should I take to vet or let nature run it’s course?
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Take your dog to the vet.
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Take your dog to the vet. Intenstinal blockage is a very serious matter. I don’t really see how a pointy, large object like a large pork bone has any hope of “nature running its course” without ripping a hole in your dog in the process.
Wouldn’t you want medical care if you had a T-bone stuck somewhere in your digestive tract and had diarrhea as a result?
Vet. Now.
Vet, for God’s sake!
Get your dog to a vet ASAP! Like NOW! A bone that big can’t come out on it’s own. I had a dog die from complications due to a blockage. It was heartbreaking. I didn’t know he had eaten something that wasn’t food. You do. Go now.
This is a good reminder of why I will never give my Lab a meat bone. My other dogs were fine with bones; this one seems ready to eat anything, including on two occasions my socks (one of which passed without surgical intervention, the other not).
Yes, take your dog to the vet.
Nature running its course = peritonitis and death.
How much would something like this cost you at the vet? We are talking surgery, yes?
Yes, vet visit, pronto.
Are you sure it was swallowed whole? Dogs can digest softer bone, it takes a while though. Cooked bones get brittle and sharp (I’m assuming this was a cooked bone), so you really need to get in for an Xray and exam. Better safe than a dead dog.
Gonna vary by region. Rural western PA I’d guess around 5 to 800. I have a friend in California who spent three grand to have a corn cob removed from his mutt’s small intestine, though it was at an emergency clinic.
When my dog had mast cell cancer, two surgeries, hospitalization, chemo, came to $3500 total. A guy I talked with in NY spent triple that.
First post, huh. Why am I not surprised.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen you surprised, Muffin. Care to explain this little observation?
ETA: September is fuck wif Muffin month. And I’m mellowing.
No, not really.
Posting from a bar, where a very drunk dude just said to me, “Hey! I’ll buy you a drink if you buy me one first!”
I took him up on it just to see if he can finish the one I bought. Doesn’t look likely.
/high jack.
Buy him a porterhouse.
Dogfish head makes a Madagascar vanilla bean porter that is to die for.