Such a scary time and now Bert hates me :(

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I'm absolutely gutted right now.
Bertie is a bit of a funny one, He's nervous but has always come to me if anything went wrong or he was scared.

This morning, thank god it was bank holiday and we happened to both (Myself and Mr P) be home. Id finished work, we were having a coffee and the dogs were playing. Bertie had a new toy he was chewing on. I buy the benebone (this one was not benebone branded) type toys and had found a new shaped on on Amazon. It was oval with two bone ends sticking up.

Anyway, all hell broke loose, he was literally screaming. It was awful- called him to me and was horrified to see his bottom jaw was firmly wedged in the O part. He was panicking and the other dogs were all a bit scared by what was going on. Shouted Mr P to come down quick and get the others out the way.
We got it off and he is fine, but for the fact he apparently thinks it was me that hurt him :(
He is slightly better now but still not happy. At first he would cower and wee if i went anywhere near him, literally like I've beaten him. Running way from me weeing at he ran (He is totally house trained it was fear wee)
Now he will come if i call him but hesitantly and he's doing a squinty, mouth stretched face and still thinking I'm about to punch him.

Its so awful. I have emailed Amazon and the company saying what happened, Great toys but in hindsight what a stupid lethal shape. He could have broken his jaw, imagine if we had both been out.
 
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When Cooper was a puppy he was playing with floyd and somehow managed to get his lower jaw side teeth wedged into his upper lip. He was screaming blue murder, floydy was terrified thinking hed hurt him somehow and I was beside myself. I ran to the car and threw both dogs in to go to the emergency vet. I couldn't think straight for the screaming and had a quick look to see if I could do anything to make him happier and make it safer for me to drive. Saw the teeth situation and decided to get it off before we set off. He went nuts but once he actually let me put my finger in, the teeth just slid out and there was no real damage. It took a long time for him to forgive me and its only now he's nearly 2 that he will come to me for help, and that only started when he had an enormous thorn in his paw and couldn't get it out, he again thrashed about, but I pulled it out and the relief must have been instant, and that was the turning point. So you arent the only one whose had something like this happen.

Labs are more sensible than whippets though so he will come round quickly. Do something fun like clicker training or just a fun game tomorrow. Today he's obviously very shaken and upset still so just leave him to settle on his own for now.
 
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Good thing that you were both on hand, I'm sure Bertie will forgive you, I wouldn't try and "push him" into accepting you again, as I'm Dun has said do something fun with him and the others and perhaps try a special treat that he loves.
 
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Just try and be normal and forget it happened and almost ignore him if you can, the more stressy and upset and guilty you are about it, the less likely he will want to be around you, all he will get are stress signals.

I stood on my old's dogs foot by accident (I tripped over him) a few weeks ago and he was roaring and tried to bite me when I tried to look at it and he was on three legs. Five minutes later and he was fine.

Both of mine will still come to me for help with sore feet or if they've got something stuck in their mouths, resilience/the ability to recover from stress quickly is very important for me in a dog, mainly because I am a clumsy oaf.
 
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CorvusCorax said:
Just try and be normal and forget it happened and almost ignore him if you can, the more stressy and upset and guilty you are about it, the less likely he will want to be around you, all he will get are stress signals.

I stood on my old's dogs foot by accident (I tripped over him) a few weeks ago and he was roaring and tried to bite me when I tried to look at it and he was on three legs. Five minutes later and he was fine.

Both of mine will still come to me for help with sore feet or if they've got something stuck in their mouths, resilience/the ability to recover from stress quickly is very important for me in a dog, mainly because I am a clumsy oaf.
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Scout is eating a lot of long grass at the moment so produces a lot of plaits at the other end. These can give him trouble. He now presents me with his arse to fix the situation.
We’re all good for something. 😄.

Hope Bert bounces back (sounds like he has).
 
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Clodagh said:
Scout is eating a lot of long grass at the moment so produces a lot of plaits at the other end. These can give him trouble. He now presents me with his arse to fix the situation.
We’re all good for something. 😄.

Hope Bert bounces back (sounds like he has).
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Yes! I get that too at the moment! He’s very happy for me to save his butt end 🤦‍♀️ really lovely!
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What a scary thing to happen, I hope you are ok. Dogs forgive and forget very easily. Try and act normally, he will come round.
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He has. Thank god, it took a fair time and he’s just such a funny little personality I was really worried.

Do different to Cec. He got a bit of bone stuck across the roof of his mouth and was really grateful when I got it out. He’s very much a “save me human” type
 
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🤢🤮

Actually, I get this as well, but leave him to scrape it out on his own 😄

A few years ago at some horsetrials, I saw a Pointer drag something along the ground from its rear end that was about two foot long. It looked eiher like digested cloth or intestines of some sort. It took a while to get rid of. The owner was vaguely interested but didn't pick it up!! Gross, not forgotten it.
 
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I once read a book that reminds me of this kind of situation.
It was called don’t ear the daisies.

You can’t forsee every potential disaster.
I buy these toys because they do appear as claimed indestructible, therefore no bits to chew off and choke on..
 
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