Pictures: Bit yukky! - What are these? Kidney stones?

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Hi all,

Sorry about the yuck factor this early on a Tuesday morning, but one of the dogs was sick this morning (bilious, not food related) and brought this up:

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Just wondering if anyone knows what it is? Defo. not a stone, it's fibrous and I could break it in two (with much disgust, after giving it a good wash!). I'm guessing some kind of 'kidney' stone, though don't understand why it would be vomited? She's fine, but I'm curious to identify it, as have seen one of the others produce the same in the past. Dog is a lurcher (Collie x greyhound/whippet/bedlington).

Sorry about the size of the photo! The offending item was about 4 cm long.
 
They haven't been eating horse/dog/cat poo have they? Its hard to tell from the pics but mine have been known to eat similar disgusting things and then bring them back up and they look similar to that.
 
Murphy, they occasionally eat horse poo (defo not dog/cat), but not often and I can't understand if that's what it is how hard it has become - it was really hard, like stones, but as I say, possible to break in half.

If anything, it seems quite keratin-like - fibrous like horse hoof. In fact that is what I would have said it is, but is completely the wrong shape - much thicker than any trimmed hoof.
 
Probably bits of well digested something,like leather maybe.There is no way something from the renal system can find it`s way into the gastric one!
 
Understood - that's why I put Kidney in inverted commas in my desciption :) Was the best way to explain what it looked like I reckoned :) (or what I thought a kidney stone would look like!)

Wonder if they all have a stash of something that they eat occasionally and I don't know about! Defo. not leather. They do eat soil on occasions - they seem to love our iron rich, red soil. Vet has said not a deficiency, but a behavioural thing - they just like the taste.
 
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erm they look like plain old stones to me
ets oh sorry you said not stones.....god knows then!
 
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Probably just eaten something that he shouldn't have! My young one hoiked up what I think was a bit of bone the other day, covered in yellow bile, on the living room carpet. Charming!!! But their stomach acids will frazzle a lot of things so you won't know what they once might have been.
 
Most likely CC - just interesting that I have seen the exact same thing in some of the others. As I say, they likely eat 'something' relatively regularly that causes this. The cat brings lots of rabbits, so could bit of partially digested bone perhaps? The mind boggles (and doesn't want to go there really!).

The yellow bile bit plays havoc with my cream bedroom carpet (what were we thinking......)
 
We once were a bit worried about who had chewed what,so all of them got a walnut size piece of washing soda ;the results were amazing.Stuff I had`nt even known were missing came to light.:D
 
Blimey East Kent, I can't even imagine what would turn up if we gave our tripe hounds that!

A bit like when we cleared our pond up, and discovered that a triffid of a lily (which we had to cut up to get out of the pond!) had 'eaten' 5 dog frisbees and numerous balls! They were bound into the plant, like it had been trying to suck the essence out of them! lol
 
Pootleperkin they look a bit like chesnuts from the horse's legs!! I have found big pieces of the gee gee's chesnuts laying around in the field when I have been too squeamish to pick them!
 
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