Bone warningHi Everyone,I just wanted to post a horrible event that happened to my sweet puppy Lucy.She was happily chewing on her daily raw beef bone when she came running up to me and wanted me to pick her up, I knew from the look on her face something was terribly wrong, she had a piece of bone stuck, after several attempts to cough it up, and blood in her vomit, I new it was time to take her to the vet, when we got there she was breathing really funny and they took xrays, and sure enough, almost all the way down her eosophagus was thepiece of bone.
Amy the vet on duty said she wasn't sure she should try to get it out by endoscopy because she had only done it once and failed, so she rang a Melbourne specialist and he said because it had only just happened 1 hour ago it might come out easily so shd asked me what i wanted to do and that if we waited to see the specialist in Melbourne 3 hours away it might be to late, so after the specialist giving Amy the vet some pointers I agreed to let her have a go, well 2 hours later and me going crazy, she rang to say she had finally got it, it was a round part of the bone and she has no idea how it got that far, anyway Lucy had to stay overnight and then I was given 5 different medications and told not to feed her for another 24 hours and then only sloppy baby food, so we are at 2 weeks later and off all medication and on soaked dry food and doing great she has no damage to her eosophagus and is back to her cheeky self.
I know a lot of you feed raw bones to your dogs but please, please think twice, if I wasn't home when Lucy choked we would have lost her, because the eosophagus starts to swell after a few hours and then may perforate, so just think about how you would feel if you come home to that, I will never feed any type of bone again! But Lucy is ok and I am so thankful to have her in our life.
Amy the vet on duty said she wasn't sure she should try to get it out by endoscopy because she had only done it once and failed, so she rang a Melbourne specialist and he said because it had only just happened 1 hour ago it might come out easily so shd asked me what i wanted to do and that if we waited to see the specialist in Melbourne 3 hours away it might be to late, so after the specialist giving Amy the vet some pointers I agreed to let her have a go, well 2 hours later and me going crazy, she rang to say she had finally got it, it was a round part of the bone and she has no idea how it got that far, anyway Lucy had to stay overnight and then I was given 5 different medications and told not to feed her for another 24 hours and then only sloppy baby food, so we are at 2 weeks later and off all medication and on soaked dry food and doing great she has no damage to her eosophagus and is back to her cheeky self.
I know a lot of you feed raw bones to your dogs but please, please think twice, if I wasn't home when Lucy choked we would have lost her, because the eosophagus starts to swell after a few hours and then may perforate, so just think about how you would feel if you come home to that, I will never feed any type of bone again! But Lucy is ok and I am so thankful to have her in our life.