So my son (15 yrs old) was keeping an eye on Leo yesterday while I slept, and he got some dry kibble caught in his throat. According to my son he starting gagging, and couldn't breathe. Luckily he was able to dislodge the food in his throat by giving him a few hard pats on the back, and all was well. No permanent damage done. Thank God he was actually paying attention. Whew!
Well, that had to be scary, for everyone! Glad it worked out.
Our only scare happened with Bailey, our Mal, when she was about 1 year old. We were playing fetch with a hard rubber ball and it lodged deep in her mouth while she was bringing it back. It was just the right size where her jaws were open as far as they would go and her teeth were preventing it from coming out. Really took some effort getting her to relax and trust me while I massage her jaw and slowly worked the ball out. I'll never forget the look of alarm in her eyes while I worked on her. What really hit home was about a year later we had a Dayton Police Officer lose his working dog in the same way. They were playing with a ball and the dog let it get too far into its mouth to the point where he suffocated. Very scary and sad. No more hard rubber balls in our house.
I have had a few occasions with young dogs trying to swallow chicken backs whole. Silly pups. Had to pull them out of the back of their throats. Sometimes high food drive dogs just dig in forget to chew & gulp.
I have always made it a rule to NEVER walk away from a dog when I feed it. I always keep an eye on them until they are done with their meal. If I hadn't been vigilent I would have lost 2 of my dogs thru the years.
I never use too small or hard balls with my dogs. My dogs don't even like the hard ones. I prefer the orby balls on a rope.
I had one incident where my previouse dog picked
up a frog
started foaming at the mouth
luckily a ran over to the hose and was abale to flush
her mouth out
Didnt sleep well that night
had to keep checking on her
When Roger was 8 months old, we were outside playing fetch, in the dark, flood lights on. I tossed the ball way down back, he ran to get it, and on return he had something much larger, neon pink, which deflated while carrying it. Part of this thing was wrapped around his tooth, a thick elastic band in his mouth. It was a large rubber punching balloon- guessing it had blown into our yard from somewhere yonder.
My dogs are never left outside unattended. This was a good reminder that anything can happen, even in the most secure yards.
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