arasara
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It’s taken me all day to muster up the courage to post about my awful experience this morning.
I’ve had two of what I consider to be near death experiences with Kosmo now and I don’t know what to do to correct it from happening. It starts out as Kos is eating something and then all of a sudden he tries to swallow and somehow it gets stuck in his windpipe and he gasping and choking and making an awful noise!!
The first time this happened was a few weeks ago with the chicken jerky thing. It scared me to death and I posted about it. Since that time I’ve been watching him eat everything ~ whether it’s a piece of kibble or a charlee bear.
This morning I was making my lunch and getting my food ready. I was putting some baked Doritos in a plastic bag when one fell on the floor. Of course my little Mr. Hoover was standing next to me on the floor, and of course I accidentally dropped a Dorito. Mr. Smarty Pants quickly picked up the chip and ran off with it as he knew he wasn’t supposed to have it and I would make him drop it. So as he’s running apparently it goes down the wrong direction or something and all of a sudden he stopped dead in his tracks and his whole body hunched over and he started making this awful terrible gasping sound. I FREAKED out as soon as I seen/heard it and I ran over to him as fast as I could. The only thing going through my mind was “Oh my GOD” and “stay calm so you don’t freak him out..” I immediately dropped to the ground to feel his hunched over body stiff as a board. His teeth were completely clinched. I mustered up the strength to open his mouth and shoved my finger down. I felt the chip and tried to dislodge the offending object, but the first try did nothing. Panicking I tried again and finally was able to dislodge the object. Thank GOD it worked out OK. This reduced me to tears and I’ve a hard time functioning today because of my emotional roller coaster this morning. I cannot thank whoever was watching us enough for helping me to dislodge the chip and keep it together while I was on the floor with him.
I don’t know how to teach him to chew his food completely before he swallows it. I have tried everything I can think of. He eats pretty all the time and will lick your fingers for 5 minutes until you give it up. As soon as your hands are off, he thinks it’s his and takes a swallow without even thinking about tasting the food. I don’t know what to do because these episodes are very taxing on me emotionally. I am so happy to have Kosmo in my life I couldn’t bear anything happening to him, especially if it was me who caused it!!!
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I’ve had two of what I consider to be near death experiences with Kosmo now and I don’t know what to do to correct it from happening. It starts out as Kos is eating something and then all of a sudden he tries to swallow and somehow it gets stuck in his windpipe and he gasping and choking and making an awful noise!!
The first time this happened was a few weeks ago with the chicken jerky thing. It scared me to death and I posted about it. Since that time I’ve been watching him eat everything ~ whether it’s a piece of kibble or a charlee bear.
This morning I was making my lunch and getting my food ready. I was putting some baked Doritos in a plastic bag when one fell on the floor. Of course my little Mr. Hoover was standing next to me on the floor, and of course I accidentally dropped a Dorito. Mr. Smarty Pants quickly picked up the chip and ran off with it as he knew he wasn’t supposed to have it and I would make him drop it. So as he’s running apparently it goes down the wrong direction or something and all of a sudden he stopped dead in his tracks and his whole body hunched over and he started making this awful terrible gasping sound. I FREAKED out as soon as I seen/heard it and I ran over to him as fast as I could. The only thing going through my mind was “Oh my GOD” and “stay calm so you don’t freak him out..” I immediately dropped to the ground to feel his hunched over body stiff as a board. His teeth were completely clinched. I mustered up the strength to open his mouth and shoved my finger down. I felt the chip and tried to dislodge the offending object, but the first try did nothing. Panicking I tried again and finally was able to dislodge the object. Thank GOD it worked out OK. This reduced me to tears and I’ve a hard time functioning today because of my emotional roller coaster this morning. I cannot thank whoever was watching us enough for helping me to dislodge the chip and keep it together while I was on the floor with him.
I don’t know how to teach him to chew his food completely before he swallows it. I have tried everything I can think of. He eats pretty all the time and will lick your fingers for 5 minutes until you give it up. As soon as your hands are off, he thinks it’s his and takes a swallow without even thinking about tasting the food. I don’t know what to do because these episodes are very taxing on me emotionally. I am so happy to have Kosmo in my life I couldn’t bear anything happening to him, especially if it was me who caused it!!!
Any advice is greatly appreciated.