Hi Brooke,
You really did have a harrowing day! I hope that today is a better one...a calm one and a restful one.
I would have been terrified too...It is so hard to know what to do and then when you think you can help, and the dog won't cooperate...sheesh! You did some quick thinking and it turned out well...thank goodness.
I did a quick google search and found this:
Dogs ate cooked chicken bones
Q: I will continue my search elsewhere on the net since I note you prefer not to respond to emergengies! However - if you are online, I would be grateful if you could indicate whether I should wake up my vet (its the middle of the night here in the UK). I woke up to find my 2 7-year old dogs (12 kg and 9 kg respective weights) had, between them, eaten a small cooked chicken carcass, stripped of meat (prepared weight of bird about 3 lbs). Should they receive emergency treatment (e.g. to make them vomit?) Or should I just wait'n'see? They appear fine. In the absence of a response, I shall contact my vet at 1st light. Meanwhile, thanks for your excellent service.
A: You picked a time I was out of town, unfortunately. I hope the dogs are OK. Most of the time chicken bones seem to cause more problems when they reach the colon than anywhere else. We mostly see dogs that have eaten chicken bones and have a sort of concrete stool that they are having great difficulty passing. Stool softeners help sometimes, some dogs just go ahead and tough it out and strain until they pass the stool and other dogs we have to give enemas to or remove the stool manually. So far, in eighteen years of practice, I have not seen an intestinal or gastric perforation or other serious problem I could relate to chicken bones. Just the really hard stool problem.
Again, I hope this is a crisis past.
Mike Richards, DVM
You really did have a harrowing day! I hope that today is a better one...a calm one and a restful one.
I would have been terrified too...It is so hard to know what to do and then when you think you can help, and the dog won't cooperate...sheesh! You did some quick thinking and it turned out well...thank goodness.
I did a quick google search and found this:
Dogs ate cooked chicken bones
Q: I will continue my search elsewhere on the net since I note you prefer not to respond to emergengies! However - if you are online, I would be grateful if you could indicate whether I should wake up my vet (its the middle of the night here in the UK). I woke up to find my 2 7-year old dogs (12 kg and 9 kg respective weights) had, between them, eaten a small cooked chicken carcass, stripped of meat (prepared weight of bird about 3 lbs). Should they receive emergency treatment (e.g. to make them vomit?) Or should I just wait'n'see? They appear fine. In the absence of a response, I shall contact my vet at 1st light. Meanwhile, thanks for your excellent service.
A: You picked a time I was out of town, unfortunately. I hope the dogs are OK. Most of the time chicken bones seem to cause more problems when they reach the colon than anywhere else. We mostly see dogs that have eaten chicken bones and have a sort of concrete stool that they are having great difficulty passing. Stool softeners help sometimes, some dogs just go ahead and tough it out and strain until they pass the stool and other dogs we have to give enemas to or remove the stool manually. So far, in eighteen years of practice, I have not seen an intestinal or gastric perforation or other serious problem I could relate to chicken bones. Just the really hard stool problem.
Again, I hope this is a crisis past.
Mike Richards, DVM
