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I have a 10 month old English Bulldog. She is 55 lbs. On Friday afternoon I gave her a dog treat that I thought was something she could just chew up and swallow. It was a gift from Christmas that a family member gave to us. I was stupid and didn't check the package for rawhide. I would have NEVER given it to her had I known it had rawhide in it. She chewed off the outer layers and got to the rawhide piece. The rawhide piece was wrapped around some type of filling. She chewed on it for an hour or so because it was very soft and slimy. I would say the rawhide was 4" x 4" when unrolled and flattened out. I saw her chewing on it with a small piece of it hanging out of her mouth. I attempted to get it out of her mouth but she had all of it already down her throat. I couldn't get a good grip on it and she swallowed the whole thing. This was Friday at 11am....It is currently Monday at 1pm....she has shown no signs of any ill effects from it but she hasn't pooped it out yet. ( No diarrhea, no throwing up, no lethargy, etc) She seems fine....she is eating her regular food and she is pooping her food out just fine. I've been checking every poop to see if it has come out. I know that rawhide doesn't digest fully but will her stomach acids break it down further? How long will it take to pass? I've read so many bad stories about blockage to intestines. Is there a doctor in the house??? I need some advise....I don't know why these are even sold as dog treats....if they can't digest and pass something after 3 days it can't be good. Any advise would be helpful.....thanks guys/gals. I was going to post this on another board somewhere but I trust this crowd for good advise. Thanks...below is the "treat" she was given.

So called treat
 
page looks fine to me with no issues......

I have no idea about the rawhide, bi I give my labs rawhide chew all the time, but it is not something they can swallow
 
OK r8rphan....I'm ready for your valuable input into this matter now....although I'm not sure I actually want it.....jeez
 
i wouldn't sweat it too much man, lots of dogs eat a boatload of rawhide. it will eventually breakdown, i wouldn't expect it to come out in one big piece. my dog used to eat whole rawhide bones (over the course of a few days), she's not that interested in them anymore, but she's fine and that was over a year ago.
 
I had a lab/shepard mix that I used to give 4" rawhide treats to all the time.. 'never' had an issue.. The only times I ever had blockage issues with her was when she's get a hold of a rubber toy and eat those...

I wouldn't really know about it until the blockage cleared.. and that was an explosive mess...

If your dog has been pooping regularly since eating it, then she is likely just fine... If for some reason it is still in her, then it will eventually dissolve.. There's no problem as long as the dog is still regular..

As far as giving them to my current dogs.. no way.. They are weims, and they have a genetic disposition to the intestines becoming twisted.. Got to feed them in smaller portions as it is.. Don't want to give them anything that might cause even greater potential for problems than exist already...

I imagine that those treats are safe for many breeds.. I'd check with your vet to see if it's okay to give them to your dog.. They're very good for the teeth/gums/breath...

I'll tell you one thing though.. I've been making my own dog treats from spent brewing grains.. and the dogs absolutely 'love' them.. There's a thread or two on here if you're interested in that.. search for dog treats...
 
Mine has eaten rawhide and much, much worse. She is almost 10 and healthy. Your dog will probably be ok. Call the vet and see what they say to be sure.
 
The one thing I love about veterinary care verses human medical care is that veterinary offices don't seem to mind offering help over the phone.
I've called the vet many times saying so-and-so has gotten in to such-and-such. Normally they say just keep an eye on them and bring them in if they start to act funny.
I say RDWHAHB
As a side note, I think we have become overwhelmed with pampering a pet's health. I was at SWMBO's family's house over the holidays. They have several cats (ugh) and a new 7 month old 'kitten'. They ran out of 'kitten food' and refused to feed it cat food for one meal. Instead, they ran out to the store and got kitten food and came back. Their reasoning behind it was that kitten food contained very vital fat and nutrients and cat food wasn't good for her yet.

My argument was not only that she was close enough to a cat's age, but that kittens survived for many thousands of years before specialized kitten food. They looked at me like I was chewing through one of their cat's heads. BTW, the whole week 'vacation' was long and filled with tedious stories like that.

[Office Space] PS- What is this I hear about you having trouble with posting URL links? Didn't you get the memo? [/Office Space]
 
Thanks everyone...Google can be good and bad....there's so much info out there.....I feel better now
 
I wouldn't worry dogs are amazingly resilient. If it's not digesting it would come back up.

I inherited a Costco bag of rawhides and was giving one every other day to each of my dogs.

The only damage they caused was a build up on their teeth and I know they would swallow a chunk here or there. Now that they are all gone they get nylabones and antlers.

Cheers
 
I am a retired veterinarian and if the dog is not vomiting by this time its intestinal tract has handled the rawhide and the pet should do fine. It may still develope diarrhea from the intestinal tract being irritated by the rawhide, but I doubt it. English Bulldogs will eat almost anything that won't eat them first and I could write a book on what I have surgically removed from the stomachs of bulldogs.
 
Thanks Powercat....coming from a retired vet I feel assured that she will be good. Again thanks for the quick responses.....this forum is good for so many different things....
 
Dogs can handle an incredible amount of weird stuff in their digestive system...you would not believe the things my dog has passed through his system, he likes to get into bathroom garbage cans...latex is not digestible, nuff said.

Rawhide is fine as mentioned previously. My dog threw up a bottle cap a week ago a few days after getting into the garbage at a friends house...gross. Why would he think to eat the damn thing.
 
Our dogs get rawhides once in a while. The only problem that I've ever had was the nasty gas that our yellow lab gets from them. Phew!

She once ate the sash off my wife's red silky bathrobe. I found it embedded in a clump of stool in the yard while I was mowing. It was completely intact. She swallowed the whole long length of it. Surprisingly, the wife didn't want it back!
 
My dog used to chew on/eat rawhide, with no probs as long as it went down. No probs pooping. This was years ago, before I realized rawhide wasn't probably a good thing to give her. The only problem was sometimes she'd be sort of gagging a bit; sometimes a flat slimy chunk would get caught mid-swallow. I'd have to reach in and pluck it out. Whenever I'd give her any treat I'd keep an eye on her. She was a german shepard/collie mix FWIW.
 
maxamuus said:
Perhaps you should update your browser. Netscape is so last decade. :cross:
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Unfortunately, that would cost me $800 or more... My computer is too old for current OS.. and I am running the most current browser for the OS I have.. I bought this Mac in 2003...

I would have bought a new one by now, but this dang beer hobby I started up to save money is eating up all my money!
:mug:

I'm hoping to be able to get either a Mac Mini or iPad in the next month or so.. Not gonna decide on which though until I see what the new iPads can do....
 
My red heeler eats the beef and pork bones that we give him, instead of gnawing on them like a normal dog. Anything chewable goes down the hatch. We give him a rawhide every once in a while... he always just eats the whole thing.
 
Homercidal said:
Our dogs get rawhides once in a while. The only problem that I've ever had was the nasty gas that our yellow lab gets from them. Phew!

She once ate the sash off my wife's red silky bathrobe. I found it embedded in a clump of stool in the yard while I was mowing. It was completely intact. She swallowed the whole long length of it. Surprisingly, the wife didn't want it back!
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"Dog on a string!" (kind of like "soap on a rope") is what we call ours when she eats someting like that (wow though, that is a lot) and the string is hanging out of her but. Drives the hell out of her until she can get it out. :cross:

....no problem with ours eating rawhide.
 
ColoradoXJ13 said:
Dogs can handle an incredible amount of weird stuff in their digestive system...you would not believe the things my dog has passed through his system, he likes to get into bathroom garbage cans...latex is not digestible, nuff said.
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what are they thinking when they eat some of the things they eat. my dog got into the bathroom garbage and decided my wifes tampons are tasty treets. they ended up getting tangled up in his intestines and he almost died. we had the emergency surgery done and he pulled through fine but that little fiasco cost me 5k.
 
superjunior said:
what are they thinking when they eat some of the things they eat. my dog got into the bathroom garbage and decided my wifes tampons are tasty treets. they ended up getting tangled up in his intestines and he almost died. we had the emergency surgery done and he pulled through fine but that little fiasco cost me 5k.
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Nice!

Why am I not hungry any more?
:(
 
Dogs aren't supposed to eat rawhide?

My dog didn't get the memo. She eats Dingos and thick rawhide strips all the time with no irritation.

RLYDEHR

(Relax let your dog enjoy her rawhide)
 
When I used to play paintball we watched a field owners 3 rottie's eat a steel belted radial tire . . . We tried to get them to stop but yeah . . . they weren,t real cool with that idea. Sam(owner) told us it was best to just let them have their snack be the tire and not our faces
 
Since your dog seems to be the type to gulp things down in one piece, you probably don't want to give it anymore rawhide.
 
buckeyebrewer said:
I have a 10 month old English Bulldog. She is 55 lbs. On Friday afternoon I gave her a dog treat that I thought was something she could just chew up and swallow. It was a gift from Christmas that a family member gave to us. I was stupid and didn't check the package for rawhide. I would have NEVER given it to her had I known it had rawhide in it. She chewed off the outer layers and got to the rawhide piece. The rawhide piece was wrapped around some type of filling. She chewed on it for an hour or so because it was very soft and slimy. I would say the rawhide was 4" x 4" when unrolled and flattened out. I saw her chewing on it with a small piece of it hanging out of her mouth. I attempted to get it out of her mouth but she had all of it already down her throat. I couldn't get a good grip on it and she swallowed the whole thing. This was Friday at 11am....It is currently Monday at 1pm....she has shown no signs of any ill effects from it but she hasn't pooped it out yet. ( No diarrhea, no throwing up, no lethargy, etc) She seems fine....she is eating her regular food and she is pooping her food out just fine. I've been checking every poop to see if it has come out. I know that rawhide doesn't digest fully but will her stomach acids break it down further? How long will it take to pass? I've read so many bad stories about blockage to intestines. Is there a doctor in the house??? I need some advise....I don't know why these are even sold as dog treats....if they can't digest and pass something after 3 days it can't be good. Any advise would be helpful.....thanks guys/gals. I was going to post this on another board somewhere but I trust this crowd for good advise. Thanks...below is the "treat" she was given.

So called treat
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Hello. Just had the same thing happened to my 3 yr old English bulldog. How did your dog make out?
 

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