Originally Posted by
GingerbeardJ
Long read just a heads up. Scary experience we encountered last night.
I'm sure we have a lot of pet owners on the site and you can all probably relate that they are truly "apart" of your families. So I thought I'd share my horrible experience we went through last night.
We have an 8 month old German shepherd female named Kaia. she's amazing got her when she was 8 weeks old I could almost fit her in my palm!
Well starting Wednesday night she started acting funny, wasn't her wild crazy self. She seemed a little lethargic compared to normal but nothing to extreme. At around 9 at night she started to dry heave with no success of regurgitating anything up. She would whine and get very scared it seemed right before this would happen every time. She did this a few times through out the night till she finally threw up a tiny chunk of what looked like the outside of a tennis ball. And she happened to tear one up the night before (we forgot to pick it up when we left for the gym). So I figured she was trying to pass this. She threw up another little piece once more later on at night but that was it.
Thursday both my wife and I had to work so we put her in the kennel and left some water for knowing she had not been feeling well. I was worried about her so I went home around 1 to check on her and she was doing okay. No vomit or anything. Went back to work got home at 5:30 and the kennel was full of vomit(which you could tell was just water and stomach acid) and she was pushed as far back away from it as she could. Cleaned her up gave her a bath cleaned the kennel and house. Still hadn't ate since Wednesday after noon so going past 24 hours.
This is where it really gets scary. Later in the night she drank some water and within 20 mins of drinking it threw it all up violently. It reminded me of a drunk person when they puke and it just doesn't stop. So I said that's it we're going to an emergency vet. Took her in got her xrayed and you could see there was something blocking her stomach and possibly blocking the small intestine. So we had two options, surgery or iv fluids to help push it and maybe it would pass through. So we went with the fluids first to see if that would work, because we really didn't want to put her through surgery and this was a much much cheaper option. We had to leave her at the emergency vet last night which was one of the hardest things, seeing he in the kennel and just getting so excited to see you and you can only tell her good bye and walk away for the night. (Can't imagine how kids are gonna be lol). So we got a call at about 3 am saying the radiologist had looked at the xrays and said she needed to be operated on right away.
She went into surgery this morning at 7 am and was out at 11:30 am. They eneded up finding some green tennis balls (the outer part of it) and she has a rope toy as well, she must have chewed a strand of that off because that was tying everything together blocking the stomach and small intestine. She is in recovery now and the wife and I are going to go see her tonight at 9:30. One of the scariest moments to go through not knowing if she's gonna make it out not.
Learned a very expensive lesson on rope toys and tennis balls. She is a little monster who chews and swallows everything! Just thought I'd share my experience with your guys and gals.
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