Toy Warning

[MurphysMinder]

The following was sent to me and I thought it was worthing passing on.

WARNING FOR ALL DOG OWNERS - RE CHILDRENS TOYS FOR DOGS


Last night at agility class, a vet, who is a fellow agility student was telling us about a case she had this week. The dog ate a child's teddy bear and was very sick. When she opened the dog up to remove what she thought was an intesti...nal obstruction she found a huge gelatin type mess inside and the dogs intestines were black and the tissue dead. The dog will die no surgery can fix him up there was no living intestine left from stomach to colon.

This was not an obstruction .... so she called the manufacturer of the Teddy Bear on a quest to find out what the gel was and what killed the dog. Turns out the stuffing in children's toys contains ingredients for flame retardants and mite control! It is designed to be come a gel. It is highly toxic. Now you would think a child's toy would be safe because it is for children, but they don't expect a child to eat the stuffing of the toys... huummmm that seems a bit scary too. But we all know dogs demolish stuffed toys.

So do not give or buy your dog any children's stuffed animals... some people get them at goodwill etc. The vet will be posting a warning and story and I will send any other facts as needed and as I learn more. Maybe some children's toys do not have this ingredient, but better to be safe then sorry. So meanwhile, make sure all your dog toys are for dogs.

Please pass this on... it is a horrible death she described and one that can be avoided.

 

[CorvusCorax]

I have a phobia of letting dogs near kid's toys/human playthings, you know yourself how much damage a simple pair of tights did to our D......a timely message to be vigilant

 

[FinnishLapphund]

That is horrible and I can only imagine how that poor dog owner might be feeling now, having lost their dog and in that way.


Personally I don't like that so many of the things that often surrounds us in our daily life, contains flame retardants and other rubbish. Yes fire is dangerous, yes people dies because of fires but when there was a fire in the house that I once lived in, the fact that it didn't burnt down had nothing to do with flame retardants, without it had to do with when the fire was detected and that it started in a room that had walls of bricks and concrete.
Besides, the fire wouldn't have started at all, if only somebody hadn't been careless when handling our central heater and perhaps, if fewer things had contained flame retardants, this person would have found it a little bit easier to remember to act carefully. Because perhaps the use of flame retardants in both this or that, lulls some people into a false feeling of safety?


Actually I don't feel it sounds child safe at all to think about, that stuffed toys could contain such stuff. Most stuffed toys that I've seen the inside of, have had something resembling white cotton candy on the inside, who can say, that no child would ever try and put something like that in its mouth?

Thank you so much for that you're spreading the word of warning, MurphysMinder.