Sockgate: “What has the vet found in my stomach today?”

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Hi all,

I’m new to the forum - brand new rider with second lesson tomorrow.

However, today I rushed my 9kg 8-month old cocker to the vet after her swallowed a rather large sock. After some investigations, it terms out he had in his stomach: 2 socks, a 2p size piece of rubber and a few elastic bands...!

To make me feel less like a dog parent failure, I’d love to hear what the vet has found in your dogs stomachs...:)

(To confirm, I’m pleased to say he’s fine and recovering after having said items fished out his stomach at the vets).
 
One of mine poo'ed out half a tin can. Ours have dry kibble, but mum lived next door and hers had canned dog food. Our dog retrieved the empty tin from the recycling and chewed it in half to swallow it...

No one knew until it made a re-appearance. I do not know to this day how she survived with innards intact. The vet does not know either, but we retrieved the other half of the can and none was missing. She was still eating and pooing, so no need for intervention.

If the can was not impregnated with poo I would not believe it had made the trip through her!

So, you are not a bad parent, I never even noticed half a can was missing until it was through!

We did ban mum from putting the recycling tins out in the yard!
 
Has anyone seen that film on Facebook of the vets in Australia removing a whole beach towel from a python? I hate snakes, but it is truly amazing!!!!

Luckily greyhounds don’t eat many strange things (touch wood frantically!) but users who have been here a while will recall the spaniel who ate razor blades.... aaaah can’t remember her user name now! Spaniel was called Otto ??
 
Red-1 said:
One of mine poo'ed out half a tin can. Ours have dry kibble, but mum lived next door and hers had canned dog food. Our dog retrieved the empty tin from the recycling and chewed it in half to swallow it...

No one knew until it made a re-appearance. I do not know to this day how she survived with innards intact. The vet does not know either, but we retrieved the other half of the can and none was missing. She was still eating and pooing, so no need for intervention.

If the can was not impregnated with poo I would not believe it had made the trip through her!

So, you are not a bad parent, I never even noticed half a can was missing until it was through!

We did ban mum from putting the recycling tins out in the yard!
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Wow!! That’s incredible - I’m so pleased all turned out ok!
 
My old dog had a pyometra and decided to mother (swallow) two pairs of balled-up tights from the wash basket. These then wound around her intestines.

She would have been 11 or 12 at the time. My Mum was out of the country and I was a teenager and my Nan was living in the house, so we relied on my uncle driving us to and from the vets while my Mum sobbed down the phone every night.
The dog was extremely large and podgy and refused to travel anywhere but the front seat of the car. Even if someone else was sitting there, she would climb over from the boot.

Emergency spay and surgery and she lived to 14. When she left, the receptionist was also in tears, as she had grown very attached.
The vet went to school with my Mum and kindly kept the tights in a see through bag, which he presented to her on her return, for a laugh.

It was quite the adventure.

My current older dog was training one night, during the exercise one of the trainers threw a ball for him. A ball with a rope, with a magnet sewn into the rope. We all use them. So me and the two trainers were chatting while the dog was in a down after winning the ball, and all I heard was, chomp chomp GULP and the rope was gone. Swallowing magnets is not good. One emergency trip to vet and the bokey jab later, well, of course I returned the rope to it's owner ?
I have exactly the same brand of ball and he has never, before or since, decided to to that to one of his own.
 
We keep finding things that we didn't know were lost when we clean the yard after our Labs have pooed - nothing catastrophic but bits of Kong Wubba toys, mostly. We found tiny bits of plastic tarpaulin when they w ere tiny. We put our haylage bales on it to save the yard surface.

The worst, as in most embarrassing, though, was having to take the Rotters aged about 3 to the emergency vet one Sunday tea-time in March, because we had found them digging under a shed where we had put some rat poison. The dogs shouldn't have been able to get near the shed but had managed to somehow. We didn't know if they had eaten any, or how much. Vet gave them emetic injections and then sent us out to walk around the neighbouring golf course for about 30 minutes in the dark. They both survived the experience, fortunately but the bank balance looked a bit sorry.
 
My vet didn’t use the Bokey jab today... not completely sure why.

I’m just waiting for the “you LEFT me here... I *trusted* you!“ look when I pick him up tomorrow after having a tube stuck down his throat...

He’s meant to be being snipped next week too :oops:
 
Mine had to have the Bokey jab too, when the hayshed was unintentionally left open and the rats had, unbeknownst to me, eaten some poison from the properly enclosed dispenser, but also dragged some out and under the stack for later.

Dog was called out from said hay shed. I could see some blue remnant outside the enclosed dispenser and, although I did not think the dog had eaten any, the Bokey jab was given. Poor dog, nope, no blue in the dog. He had just wandered in for a look, not touched a thing, had come out to call then was unceremoniously bundled into the car, taken to the vet, made ill for no reason whatsoever...

Yes, I had the look of reproach.

But I could not take the risk.

So, in that case, absolutely NOTHING was found in the dog's stomach, but I still made him ill and got a vets bill!

DarcyPercy said:
Wow!! That’s incredible - I’m so pleased all turned out ok!
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TBH, I am pleased that I didn't know about it until it was all over! She was tough as old boots that dog.
 
Levrier said:
Luckily greyhounds don’t eat many strange things (touch wood frantically!)
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My darling girl had the bokey jab when I first got her as she swallowed half a tea towel. Bits of stuffed toy that I didn't know were missing came up along with the missing towel. She's also horked up half a sock (no one in the house knows who's sock it was, we've got no odd ones, and we never found the other half). She cost a grand at the vet before Christmas because she ate my slippers. Started throwing up everything she ate so I rushed her in convinced of a blockage. A full day spent at the vet, two ultrasounds, xrays, lots of prodding, they were sure no blockage and sent her home after antiemetics. A week and a half later she threw up big chunks of slipper. Last week I caught her chomping on another sock, that one seems to have passed without incident. This annoying little beast is of course surely a labrador.... Nope, greyhound ?
 
I had a labx who would eat anything, and also if she got out of the garden loved to roam, and check out the local bird tables. She once pooed out a metal takeaway container, thank god it was chewed. Each year despite threats, to the children she would manage to eat their advent calanders, including some of the foil. The most unusal thing she ate was 3lbs of green unripe tomatoes I had left on the lounge window sill to rippen.
She never seemed to suffer any side effects, apart from a subtantial poo, she was just contantly hungrey.
 
Working in a vets I think I have seen most things that come out of stomachs. Mostly socks, hair ties, stones and dog toys.

But by far the most disgusting I have ever had to deal with is used tampons or used babies nappies!

Had a rottie pup once come in after eating a phone charger. When he woke up after the surgery he then went on to eat his catheter and attempt to eat his bed and food bowl :eek: He came in again at Christmas with a stomach full of baubles.

Also once removed some lingerie, which turned out to NOT be the wifes......
 
Spot and Jake once got hold of rat poison, it was the pink cube variety and fortunately we were made aware immediately by the person who had laid it in the building without permission. Brave man. Both were rushed to the vet *Sunday OOH Obvs* and Spot vomited up 17 cubes, Jake 3. Many injections of Vitamin K later both were fine but for six weeks they were under constant surveillance for any sign of bleeding. The person responsible paid the bill, even when we told him the insurance would pay, he was so upset, he kept in touch daily for the first few weeks. Partly I suspect because if he found out they'd died he would have left the country before my husband could kill him!!
My parents flatcoat once ate a sleeve from a golfing umbrella complete with large wooden toggle, it came out the other end filled with poo. They had no idea she'd eaten it.
 
CorvusCorax said:
30 minutes? Jeez mine was hurling within 30 seconds!!
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Mine too. I was still in the car park when they phoned to say there was no poison, just some sweet corn. After they’d done that they phoned the poisons people who said the amount she’d eaten wouldn’t have caused a problem anyway. £80 later and I’ve never used poison since.

The funniest one was when my old collie ate one of the plastic wrappers for raw food, like a tube. We didn’t know until he had a poo and it came out perfectly wrapped, like a make your own poo bag ?
 
Is the bokey jab the one in the eye? A friend in Oz has a spaniel with a penchant for used sanitary products and knickers and has had this a few times. Thankfully I've never had to watch, I think I'd boke in sympathy!
 
Levrier said:
Has anyone seen that film on Facebook of the vets in Australia removing a whole beach towel from a python? I hate snakes, but it is truly amazing!!!!

Luckily greyhounds don’t eat many strange things (touch wood frantically!) but users who have been here a while will recall the spaniel who ate razor blades.... aaaah can’t remember her user name now! Spaniel was called Otto ??
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god yes! Horrendous poor but stupid snake!
 
Umbongo said:
Working in a vets I think I have seen most things that come out of stomachs. Mostly socks, hair ties, stones and dog toys.

But by far the most disgusting I have ever had to deal with is used tampons or used babies nappies!

Had a rottie pup once come in after eating a phone charger. When he woke up after the surgery he then went on to eat his catheter and attempt to eat his bed and food bowl :eek: He came in again at Christmas with a stomach full of baubles.

Also once removed some lingerie, which turned out to NOT be the wifes......
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Oh. Dear. God. ?????
 
We’ve had two emergency trips to the vets because of things being eaten which shouldn’t have been...

The first was three years ago - my husband had taken him for a walk when it was almost dark - saw him disappear into the bushes and start eating something ‘pale’ but it was gone before my husband could get to him. A few minutes later dog started frothing at the mouth, retching and looking generally very unwell. He went straight to the vet and got there just before they closed (it was Friday night, of course ?) - they sedated and x-rated him and could see a ‘foreign body’ at the bottom of his oesophagus. It was too big to go down into his stomach and too big to be vomited back up and the whole area was inflamed because of all the retching. They didn’t have the equipment to retrieve whatever it was without causing more damage so I had to race across London with a barely conscious but still frothing dog in the car to the RVC hospital in Potters Bar. Thankfully they managed to remove the object without needing to open him up and he was right as rain the next morning. It turned out to be an apple core ...

The second time was last summer (again on my husband’s watch) - Fitz NEVER eats poo of any kind .... apart from one morning, when for some unknown reason he decided to snack on human poo which had been left by a druggie - it still contained so much marijuana that Fitz very quickly started acting like he was really drunk. Again, rushed to the vet and given injection to make him sick and up it all came - the poor vet certainly earned her fee that time ?.

I’d like to think he’s learned his lesson but he’ll still eat apples if he finds them on the ground .. hasn’t eaten poo since though ?
 
Levrier said:
Has anyone seen that film on Facebook of the vets in Australia removing a whole beach towel from a python? I hate snakes, but it is truly amazing!!!!

Luckily greyhounds don’t eat many strange things (touch wood frantically!) but users who have been here a while will recall the spaniel who ate razor blades.... aaaah can’t remember her user name now! Spaniel was called Otto ??
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I remember the razor blades, often tell people about it.
 
A computer mouse ball. Vets didn't believe it when they saw the scan - they thought they must have left a 2p coin underneath her. It had completely blocked her digestive system (they're very heavy) so she had to have 2 ops - 1 to remove the ball and 1 to remove the enormous quantities of grass she had eaten when feeling very unwell. Poor thing. I think they still use it as a training example at the vets.
 
jack russell as a puppy ate a tube of superglue over night, woke up in the morning her mouth was half glued shut with the tube of glue glued to her face, straight to vets who were worried she may have glued her insides together, from memory they made her sick but that was all, she is now 13 and no worse for it
 
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