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Posted: 8/10/2012 6:58:09 AM EDT

minus the metal latch. Its a small dinky 1/2'' wide leash but who knows how she ate it. How fucked am I at this point? It was some time overnight and I found the leftovers (metal latch only) in her kennel this morning. What are the odds she shredded it vs eating it all as one intestine blocking piece? I have a VM in to my vet to see what he wants me to do first, I didnt see any signs of it in her morning poop and she isnt showing any obvious signs of distress at this point.

FML, when it rains, it pours.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:03:10 AM EDT

[#1]

Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:03:22 AM EDT

[#2]

I know of a Dalmatian ate a pantyhose...got it so wrapped up in the dog's guts, that it couldn't be saved.Dead.
Good luck with this, really.
Freeze

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:04:49 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

My wifes been a vet tech for many years. She tells me all kinds of stuff that they pull out of dogs. I would have to disagree with your post.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:05:15 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

Wrong. This can kill your dog op. Get it into the vet ASAP for a xray to see if its blocking the intestines.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:05:47 AM EDT

[#5]

wife says take it to the vet. Asap. Also have a nother vet in the gahtf.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:06:07 AM EDT

[#6]

Vet.

Now.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:06:10 AM EDT

[#7]

Hydrogen peroxide. Teaspoon to tablespoon will make them puke it up. It will work.

***Do not accept this as medical advice***

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:06:15 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

Wrong. This can kill your dog op. Get it into the vet ASAP for a xray to see if its blocking the intestines.

I got a voicemail into the guy, hes in surgery.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:06:19 AM EDT

[#9]

If it gets stuck halfway out.. walk the dog. Take pics.

I'm guess it'll be fine. Mine do all kinds of dumb shit. Call your vet if you are concerned.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:06:58 AM EDT

[#10]

Five feet?? God DANG.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:07:39 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

Wrong. This can kill your dog op. Get it into the vet ASAP for a xray to see if its blocking the intestines.

I got a voicemail into the guy, hes in surgery.

Good. I will say a prayer for the the pup :( gl op.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:07:46 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Hydrogen peroxide. Teaspoon to tablespoon will make them puke it up. It will work.

***Do not accept this as medical advice***

I dont even know if its still in her stomach

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:08:00 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

When the lab poops it out, see if you can pull start him like a mower...

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:08:18 AM EDT

[#14]

A month back my Lab ate some steel wool that I used to clean the BBQ grill. Two days later it reappeared.

This to shall pass..

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:08:38 AM EDT

[#15]

Ok... I read something like this in a thread.

WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT YANK ON IT LIKE YOU WERE STARTING A LAWNMOWER.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:08:57 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

When the lab poops it out, see if you can pull start him like a mower...

You fuckin fuck.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:09:05 AM EDT

[#17]

My German Shorthair once ate 4 feet of "Christmas Wrapping Ribbon".
The stuff that costs 10 cents for 100 yards and gets all "curly" when you
wrap presents.

Bound up in her intestines and cost us 2,500 bucks to get her fixed up.
Watch her closely. If see starts eating grass and puking you're in trouble...

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:09:34 AM EDT

[#18]

My girlfriend's parents have a standard poodle that ate a tube sock, and passed it through.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:10:39 AM EDT

[#19]

Kids were playing waterballoons in the back porch this summer...Dog at the remains. Funny going on poop patrol and seeing bright red, green, blue and white dog shit

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:11:15 AM EDT

[#20]

Best wishes for your pooch.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:11:49 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Hydrogen peroxide. Teaspoon to tablespoon will make them puke it up. It will work.

***Do not accept this as medical advice***

I dont even know if its still in her stomach

How recent? If not very recent go to vet asap. These things go badly quite often.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:16:08 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
My girlfriend's parents have a standard poodle that ate a tube sock, and passed it through.

A friend of mine is a vet tech ,she told me about a golden retriever that ate a plastic grocery bag and didn't pass it... the outcome was not a good one.
Hope it all works out for your pup!

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:17:11 AM EDT

[#23]

LOL. I've got an 85lb lab/husky mix. She once ate a leather work glove. I only know this because I was missing a glove and the next day I went to pick up poop and found a very tightly twisted WHOLE work glove amongst her poop. She would also swallow the rocks. For whatever reason, she wouldn't digest those - they'd end up in a pile of puke on the carpet.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:17:12 AM EDT

[#24]

I'm on the phone with the vet now, I think I'll be heading up there to drop $200 on a few xrays in a sec.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:19:34 AM EDT

[#25]

My dog ate about 6' worth of paper towels once. When he crapped it out it was link a 6 foot string of sausage links. amazing what doesnt kill them.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:20:44 AM EDT

[#26]

Now she can walk herself!

Good luck, she's probably fine.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:22:08 AM EDT

[#27]

I am so thankful that our dog doesn't chew on anything except for treats, and her throwing rope...which if she was somehow able to eat, i'd be quite impressed.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:30:32 AM EDT

[#28]

My lab a Mardi Gras bead necklace, passed w/o issue. But we also lost a kitten to a loose thread off a blanket.

Will all depend if the lab broke the leash into small sections chewing on it, or if it swallowed a longer peice.

Watch the dog if it starts eating grass or puking - that'll be your sign that its stuck.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:47:51 AM EDT

[#29]

I'd get the x-ray to be safe.

My dag ate his own shit yesterday while I was at work, then puked it back up right on the living room rug.

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:54:07 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
If it gets stuck halfway out.. walk the dog. Take pics.

I'm guess it'll be fine. Mine do all kinds of dumb shit. Call your vet if you are concerned.

ROFL!!

Posted: 8/10/2012 7:58:48 AM EDT

[#31]

My neighbor lost their border collie about a year ago to the exact same scenario.

Get to a vet!!

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:02:55 AM EDT

[#32]

Mine eats rocks all the time and poops them out. Toys, water ballons, socks , shoes she shits em all out.

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:02:57 AM EDT

[#33]

A buddy of mine's lab ate a fucking recliner, killed it deader than shit. Call the vet.
My labs destroyed all sorts of shit, never ingested it though.

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:03:07 AM EDT

[#34]

My boxer shreds and eats those indestructible fire hose toys.

It's always awesome to see what a 15 dollar turd looks like

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Posted: 8/10/2012 8:05:43 AM EDT

[#35]

Ive seen a small shit dog eat condoms.

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:05:56 AM EDT

[#36]

IBTFFPT

In Before The Five Foot Poop Thread

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:09:50 AM EDT

[#37]

I kept a friends lab mix in my garage overnight. It ate the rubber weather stripping off the bottom of my two-car garage door. He was shitting that stuff for a week

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:15:47 AM EDT

[#38]

good luck OP

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:24:03 AM EDT

[#39]

Mine swallowed a tennis ball, surgically removed. One of many WTF Labrador moments in life.

She also chewed up a rope toy and shit out string. A leash will be a blockage requiring surgery.

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:32:11 AM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

Maybe, if he chewed it up in to tiny pieces, but I doubt that, more likely he gobbled it down. Vet plus x-rays is the only way to know it whether it'll create a blockage.

Take the dog to the vet, and stop leaving stuff around that's meant not to be chewed on by the pooch.

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:45:35 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
I'm on the phone with the vet now, I think I'll be heading up there to drop $200 on a few xrays in a sec.

Thank you...Take care of your Dawg.....

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:50:52 AM EDT

[#42]

First calm yourself because you know nothing at this point as to if the dog ate it.
Second, nothing is going to hurt for a day or so. Signs of distress would be apparent- loss of apetite, labored breathing, etc.
Third- you will probably hear some whining and have to step on the said leash while dog trots off.
Fourth, and most important, try to make sure this doesn't happen in front of your neighbor while she and you both try to ignore it like it is natural.

Posted: 8/10/2012 8:58:53 AM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Not a vet, but she'll poop it out and be fine IMO.

Maybe, if he chewed it up in to tiny pieces, but I doubt that, more likely he gobbled it down. Vet plus x-rays is the only way to know it whether it'll create a blockage.

Take the dog to the vet, and stop leaving stuff around that's meant not to be chewed on by the pooch.

My three year old son likes to give her things through the slat in her crate.

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:00:20 AM EDT

[#44]

Shes at the vet now. I should know something by 3pm or so.

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:04:08 AM EDT

[#45]

Hope everything is OK with your dog. If the vet says its all good expect to find it in the yard in 3 days.

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:04:12 AM EDT

[#46]

Animals swallowing lengths of string or leashes is serious. Pay ZERO heed to those saying it'll poop it out. It might... but it's far more likely to either stick in the stomach and block or destroy their intestines as they try to pass it.

The only answer for stuff like this is get it to a vet ASAP. They can scope it and pull it out the easy way before surgery is required.

Good luck.

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:07:39 AM EDT

[#47]

Dont worry, she'll either crap it out or throw it up.
My dumb dog lives to eat Clorox wipes.

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:10:59 AM EDT

[#48]

One of my friends was a vet assistant and has told me all kinds of horror stories. It amazes me at how some dogs can eat inedible things, crap them out, and be fine. Another dog will eat a little piece of plastic and die.

An xray will give you piece of mind. Hope all goes well.

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:17:16 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
Hydrogen peroxide. Teaspoon to tablespoon will make them puke it up. It will work.

***Do not accept this as medical advice***

this works. but you have to either catch the dog eating something or within minutes. if they dont puke it up
off to the vet.
also take note that this works much better if your dog is active. we gave ours a few tablespoons without effect
started throwing the tennis ball and she didnt even make it halfway back...gave us the "you did this" look and puked projectile style.

note... this will also work on cat but takes much longer. we were in the emergency vets exam room when it worked its magic...everywhere
should have told the tech...ehh were good now nevermind. nope cost me lots of $

Posted: 8/10/2012 9:18:06 AM EDT

[#50]

I hope everything works out for your pal...

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