Dog's should not eat stones!

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Magic_x_uk

Magic_x_uk

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My springer spaniel of 6½ years has been off his food since monday. Tuesday took him to the vets who felt something in his gut.

Took him in this morning for X-Ray's and then an operation to remove an obstruction in his lower intestine, they also removed a dying tooth too and had a scale and polish.

He is now back home and sleeping of the drugs. Wearing a fashionable bucket on his head.
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I have the stone about half the size of a golf ball.

Most expensive stone I have known £1300 :eek: but then money is certainly not the issue when a family pet is in trouble.

As of today I now have pet insurance. One of those things I was going to get round to any never did.

I hope he learns his lesson and does not eat stones anymore. But I doubt it!

When he is better I think I may send him out to work!

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oh dear!

dogs can be sods for eating things. my brothers dog recently had half a tennis ball removed. had the vets stumped as it didnt show on x-ray, so he just said 'we will have to open him up, and have a look' - a bit like snatch lol 'open him up? I's not exactly a pack of peanuts!'


luckily the insurance covered it.

btw, the stone ont he x-ray seems to form the dot at the bottom of a '?' lol
 
£1300 is ridiculous.

Vets are always stupidly expensive though. Seems the emotional meat hook of having an animal is enough to justify the crazy expenses...

Hope he gets well soon. :)
 
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£1300 is ridiculous.

Vets are always stupidly expensive though. Seems the emotional meat hook of having an animal is enough to justify the crazy expenses...

Hope he gets well soon. :)
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they are, but on the other hand, insurance seems really good value. it's something daft like £110/year to get all 3 of the snakes insured, dunno about the frogs. compare that to the bill from an exotics / reptile vet and it seems silly.

how much is dog insurance these days? I'd love to know some facts regarding the figures of insured vs none insured pets.
 
I now have insurance through the same company who insure my car and house. £140 for the year. Nothing really.

In answer to some other replies.

The tooth, I asked about when I was there as was concerned about that anyhow. So extraction at the same time was a sensible thing.

As for being able to pass it. No, not a chance. It was too large to go through the lower intestine channel. It was blocked and not going anywhere.

Also there is nothing to stop him doing exactly the same again. Unless he stops and thinks first!
 
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A springer! :D

I have a springer, a very loopy animal. He's always getting nasty-looking wounds because he jumps over barbed wire fences and snags his balls on it. He doesn't seem to care though. One time, he jumped out of a second story window onto a plastic chair on the patio. It didn't seem to affect him at all. Another time, he managed to impale himself on a fence pole. Luckily, it missed any organs.

Bloody animal, causing so much worry. :p
 
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Why do dogs eat rocks? I wouldn't go outside, see a rock and think to myself "Too hard to bite... probably not digestible... doesn't taste nice... let's eat it", so why would a dog?

*comparing myself to a dog here :D
 
Hope he gets well soon :)

Fun part is giving them there medication, we had to wrap antibiotics in pate or other meat, soon learnt to eat the meat and spit the tablet out :mad:
 
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