Can anyone give me a website, or some solid info, on dogs killed this year by tennis balls in training. Choking, swalling.... that kind of thing. ?????
VC, Someone on our team has a siezsure every time one of the other people uses a tennis ball. Keep hollering about dogs choking and schitz like that. :rolleyes:
Ive never heard of a dog dying by dennis ball. Surely it would be quite difficult for a dog to swollow or choke to death on a tennis ball unless maybe it was left alone, if this was the case wouldnt the kong would be more deadly a training tool with its smaller dimentions.
I did read somewhere that the glue used on tennis balls causes problems for dogs - not sure thats it deadly to them.
JMO and i dont want to offend anyone whos dog has swallowed a tb and choked to death - but it would have to be a pretty dumb dog to swollow and choke on a tennis ball.
Tim, I worked at the UGA Vet School Surgery Department when I first got out of college and I can for sure attest to the large number of labrodors who had to have tennis ball "extractions" as they had swallowed them.
Sorry we did not have the internetto post this info back then. Computers were IBM selectric typwriters hooked up to a mainframe.
My husband had a dog GSD before we met that swallowed a tennis ball and ended up having surgery and died too.
I was wondering because of what Bob said. According to our team leader a dog dies from a tennis ball being chewed up and choked on almost every time I see him. I figure about 350 dogs have died in our area this year according to him <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
I just wanted to know if anyone could prove or disprove his findings in writing.
I've used tennis balls for about 12 years as a reward system and haven't had a problem yet. I don't let the dog play unsupervied, or lay around and chew on them until they bust it either.
I heard about the study on the teeth from chewing on tennis balls, but heck if we listened to all studies we might as well shoot ourselves right now and get the suffering over with.
I have seen some dogs with real tooth wear from the darned things and they don't last even one game of fetch with my dogs.....so, even supervised I don't mess with them.
I have seen some dogs with real tooth wear from the darned things and they don't last even one game of fetch with my dogs This because they are tennis balls not dog balls.
The design behind them was focused i beleive, soley on the game of tennis.
Our dogs, as versitile as they are, cannot play tennis, so with this in mind if you let your dog play with them - dont be alarmed with the the side effects.
People using tennis balls if your at all concerned with the possible side effects why not use a ball designed for a dog - sure the initail outlay maybe slightly higher, but the overall cost will be alot less - ie no dentist fees - no buying ball after ball due to chewing, and no vet fees.
If a ball does become lodged in your dogs throat and you cannot get at it with you hand - it may be worthwhile familiarising yourself with the following web page - CPR for dogs. Who knows when you might need it.
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