Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Curiosity gets the best of puppies




I work at a veterinarian hospital, and on a weekly basis we always get frantic phone calls from owners whose pets have eaten something they where not supposed to. It is hard to say why animals eat the things that they do.
Puppies especially are known to eat, socks, under garments, earrings, necklaces, and most recently CD's.
Kittens are likely to chew on string, toys, and buttons


Obviously upon discovering these things are missing and are in your pets stomach it can cause panic, but relax, your not alone, this happens to people all the time. Sometimes depending on what the animal ate, they may need surgery, but in most cases one must just wait to see if it will pass on its own.

Sometimes if you make your pet vomit it can danger them even more. If someone’s pet ate a CD, making him vomit could cause a lot of damage to their lining of their stomach and esophagus.

When I brought my first puppy home, I tired everything to “puppy proof”, my house, but some how he had gotten his mouth on my boyfriends X box controller, He ate two of the knobs off of the controller, and my boyfriend was not to happy about it. I knew that he must of swallowed the plastic because there was none on the floor, but thank goodness it passed on its own. The picture to the right is of him :-)

I created this blog so we can all share our similar stories about our crazy pets eating anything and everything they can get their mouth on. Feel free to post your pets pictures of their experience.