Puppy Swallowed Forein Object (warning-pictures of vomit)

This post is an effort to help anyone who may at some point in their lives go through a situation that requires an emergency reaction on a holiday weekend when their vet is closed.

Our Chihuahua "saucy" somehow got a hold of a stuffed animal and bit of the eye of the doll. The eye consisted of an oval eye and a ribbed screw end, which held it in the stuffed animal, seen below.



The eye was just a bit smaller than a chap stick cap. Saucy is only 4 mos old, small, weighing in at 4.8lbs. Given his small size, this was an emergency that we didn't want to wait to see if there was intestinal blockage.



The emergency vet explained how to induce vomiting, as long as the foreign object was not sharp. It wasn't......

Given Saucy's weight, we were told to put 3% hydrogen peroxide (normal stuff bought at the store, Brown bottle) into anything that would allow us to get it into Saucy's mouth. 5ml per 10lb dog, we administered 2.5ml. allowing vomiting to occur within 5 minutes. We were told after five minutes goes by, and Saucy doesn't vomit, re-administer the same ml. Still nothing..... we had one last chance, the vet allowed doing this 3 times total. It worked!
Not to be disgusting, but there it is in the vomit.



If Saucy wasn't able to bring this back up, it would be multiple trips to the vet for xrays, spanning up to 4 days each, watching via xray where it is traveling in the intestines. If it didn't come out with a bowel, it would be surgery time.

 

Ya had to look huh, even with a warning on the title. Hey, its for educational reasons......strictly academic.

 

How did you find out he swallowed it?

And PS, thats the least icky dog vomit I've ever seen LOL.

 

Yes, pets become our "kids".

 

Yorkie? Fill the bath just above his rear end, the water will stop any spray. I preferred a paper towel to catch, but the lil dogs get tricky...

 

Thrilled he's all gooder now Well Seasoned , WTG.

 

Been there done that, but with the rottie, bigger butt to work with. Yorkies are so dang little.

 

That's a good idea...... good luck!

 

Well, I was sitting on the couch and looked down and went over to get it,but then he started running with it. (It's a game called naughty puppy runner..... grab something naughty and run because I can't catch his little azz!)

Dawn came over to help grab him, and she did. But as she went to open his mouth to get the plastic eye, he swallowed it!

 

The butts/glands I worked with were much larger too, thankfully less airborn than the lil ones

 

scary stuff! But all is back to normal. Here he is earlier chewing a stick in a leaf pile.....