What happened to your poor dog?
Knight swallowed a hard piece of plastic that was part of a *dental frisbee* !
Only thing we can figure is husband was bbqing steaks on the grill while tossing that frisbee thus the smell of steak ended up on the frisbee. Husband said the stupid dental frisbee broke on them while playing and he threw it away. It was a hard plastic yellow ring with sort of jaggy dental edges around it for helpin dogs get tartar off their teeth. Husband thought he had the entire ring when he threw it away. About 3 mos. ago.
Even when the vet mentioned it was a yellow 1 inch hard plastic item stuck in Knight's intestines we could not even remember any such toy. They saved the piece so we could try to id it after his surgery and once we saw it *again post operation* we remembered that dental frisbee we threw away ! Most of the dogs' toys are fluffy items or the regular flyin frisbee plastics. Only thing we can figure is Knight buried that piece of toy for future ...chewing and eating. We know Knight is smart enough to remember where he hides things, cuz before he was even ours, he was our daughter's dog. On one visit here he hid one of his toys, 12 mos. later entering our home as *our* dog, he retrieved a toy he hid somewhere on our property 12 mos earlier.
Last week Knight began throwing up, whatever was stuck in him he was not passing out either way. So last Fri. we called the vet. They are an emergency 24.7 pet hospital. They took Knight in xrayed him seen this 1 inch chunk of whatever stuck in his intestines and they operated on him to remove it.
Lots of stitches and a dog cone around his neck they let him come home to us this tues. on very restrictive movement, mostly sleeping in the kennel here at home, and lamb and rice food and lots of pills. Knight HATES lamb and rice getting him to eat at all was a challenge. He barely ate like 1/4 a can of that gastro intestinal special canned dog food they gave us.
He did manage to bark wag his tail just glad to be home but he was still feelin like hell.
Then yesterday I wake up to take him out to pee, on a leash. As I approached the kennel, a pool of blood was all under him. Three of his sutres he had managed to pop open we figure he accidently hit it with one of his back paws.
He is BACK in ER as of yesterday. All we know at this point is he made it thru the night last night, they have him on IVs and will keep him till Nov. 2. They also found some seepage or leakage from the intestinal stitchin he had inside him, and the 3 outside stitches he broke open. IE they had to GO BACK IN to resew him up inside and out. They *stapled* him this time
When I called this morning to see if Knight even made it thru last night, the doctor told me Knight had survived this *surgery #2* and that Knight now hates them, he used to like going in there, but this morning.. he growled at them ! I said I guess I will take his growling at yall, as a good sign ??? Means he still has some feisty fight left in him despite all this hell he been going thru. We may loose him yet but not for lack caring and of $$$$$$$$ all this is costing us trying to save him.
We also worrying about King too, cuz the two are very close, so every time he hears a dog bark outdoors, who's bark remotely sounds like Knight, King races to the window lookin for Knight.