Following up after eating slippers.

[tsharlo1]

Frisco is a very rambunctious 6 month old Bernese Mountain Dog. He has limited access to the house when I am home and is an x-pen with a top on it when I’m not home and sleeps in a crate at night. Today we had a good sniff walk on a new trail and after we got home he jumped the fence the first time ever and had the zoomies around the yard. Shortly after I went upstairs (he doesn’t have access upstairs) and I thought he was resting after his nice walk and shenanigans jumping the fence and running about. I heard him drinking a lot of water and came down to find he had gotten through the barrier to the bedroom and chewed my slippers. I called the vet and they wanted me to take him in to induce vomiting. They didn’t want me to induce vomiting with hydrogen peroxide because the slippers had a foam base. They used drops in his eyes to induce vomiting. It was successful and he vomited everything and then vomited bile.
Does this all sound like the best way for me to handle it? I didn’t really want to wait and chance the need for obstruction surgery. Anything else I should do following the vomiting? Of course, I guess I need to reinforce the barriers because even though they were ok before he now knows he can push through.
I am concerned about how he jumped the fence because he likely landed on bricks. …certainly not good for his joints and growing bones.
I would appreciate any comments following the vomiting as well as concerns about landing on bricks when he jumped the fence.
Frisco is a fun pup and can be very sweet but he is a challenge!
Yes, Frisco does a lot of sniffing on walks, with a snuffle mat, finding treats in kongs hidden around and we have started nosework classes too.
Thank you!
Debbie

 

[Dr. Christina]

Sounds like a good choice for Frisco. And a good vet to think about the effect of h2o2 on foam, which I would not have considered.

Often healthy animals will pass amazingly huge amounts of what seems quite dangerous (1 # fundraising chocolate bar including wrapping eaten by a 10# poodle caused no problems). I have fed cotton (soaked in milk) when something had been eaten that had sharp edges. However, even with homeopathy, we sometimes need surgery. A vomiting/not eating cat was fine after remedy #1 - eating, pooping, no V. A few days later v/not eat again - rem #2 - fine. few days later v/xeat - go to vet for xray. 10 days later finally went for Barium Xray. BEAM had been great after each remedy and no overall deterioration. Blockage, surgery - piece of corn cob in intestines. Probably the vital force was able to move it back into the stomach so cat felt great, then it would stick in intestines - back and forth with the remedies. The surgeon was amazed that there was no infection, no inflammation and the whole abdomen was clean.

As always there is no one right answer and decisions depend on experience. Could he has passed the slipper - I would think not.

Occasional trauma with jumping on hard surface should not be worrisome. Check out all the Tellington T - touch exercises for strength and balance and engaging the mind. And OptimumPetVitality has good exercises, too.

Several webinars ago, elizabeth Johnson spoke about how knowing what chinese element was predominant in your dog can help plan for future ailments, so you may want to listen, then get her book.

Dr. Christina