# Dog Eats T-bone whole **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392 "2012-09-21T13:56:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ANGELOMORACE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@ANGELOMORACE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ANGELOMORACE)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/1 "2012-09-21T13:56:51Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/2 "2012-09-21T13:58:45Z")
Reported for forum change. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/3 "2012-09-21T14:00:08Z")
Take your dog to the vet. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/4 "2012-09-21T14:01:15Z")
Moved to In My Humble Opinion from About This Message Board. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/5 "2012-09-21T14:08:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/6 "2012-09-21T14:09:19Z")
Wouldn’t you want medical care if you had a T-bone stuck somewhere in your digestive tract and had diarrhea as a result? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/7 "2012-09-21T14:27:13Z")
Vet. Now. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/8 "2012-09-21T14:34:45Z")
Vet, for God’s sake! ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/9 "2012-09-21T15:08:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/10 "2012-09-21T15:24:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/11 "2012-09-21T17:39:24Z")
> [@ANGELOMORACE](#): > > let nature run it’s course? Nature running its course = peritonitis and death. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/12 "2012-09-21T19:29:36Z")
How much would something like this cost you at the vet? We are talking surgery, yes? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/13 "2012-09-21T20:08:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/14 "2012-09-22T02:15:16Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > How much would something like this cost you at the vet? We are talking surgery, yes? 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. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/15 "2012-09-22T03:36:45Z")
First post, huh. Why am I not surprised. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/16 "2012-09-22T03:41:24Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/17 "2012-09-22T03:54:47Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Care to explain this little observation? No, not really. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/18 "2012-09-22T04:03:17Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/19 "2012-09-22T04:20:05Z")
Buy him a porterhouse. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392/20 "2012-09-22T04:47:04Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Buy him a porterhouse. Dogfish head makes a Madagascar vanilla bean porter that is to die for. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dog-eats-t-bone-whole/635392.md?page=2)