simba Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 My dog just ate a whole roast chicken, bones and all, in less than ten minutes. What should I do? Everything was just gone except for the two onion halves and garlic clove it had been stuffed with. Not a bone or scrap is left. Edit: the vet's closed, the emergency vet is too far for me to get to at the moment (no car). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz P Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 Feed bread every few hours for the next day to provide padding for the sharp bones and monitor for vomiting, straining to defecate, blood in the stool (dark black color or bright red). Cross your fingers and line up a friend with a car who can drive you to an emergency vet in case your dog starts acting sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simba Posted July 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 Forgot to mention she had pancreatitis recently and was extremely sick, so she's not supposed to be eating anything but her own dog food, let alone a whole chicken. What a way to figure out that she can open the kitchen door.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urge to herd Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 Hope she's okay, Simba. Gad, these dogs can make you lose your hair AND your mind. Ruth and SuperGibbs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcnewe2 Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 darn dog. I wouldn't worry except the pancreatitis part. No more than watching poop for a couple days. It was New Years eve and we were celebrating with a roasted turkey. we finished dinner and went out for a bonfire to the barn. We had some friends over. I came in to see the pan all clean and no sign of the turkey carcass. I figured some kind soul had done the dishes and cleaned up the turkey. Nope, upon asking who was so helpful I got no response. We finally figured out an old dog had reached up to the back of the counter and took the whole thing off and demolished it. Then came back and cleaned up any leftover on the platter it looked as clean as if it had been washed and dried. It was a whole turkey and few guests. There were lots of leftovers. He didn't even act guilty! Had some soft poo for a day but lived to tell about it. I feed raw chicken and turkey all the time. it's the cooked bones that are the problem but lets hope he relished the bird and chewed for a long time! Hopefully it won't trigger anymore pancreatitis flair ups and he'll be fine! Yes the do some crazy things! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizabeth Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 As Liz P said feed him bread. Similar thing happened with my Grand pup that is what I told daughter to do, he was fine. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom of Mya Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 My daughter's Yorkie has pancreatitis, has had several flares and actually the vet told us not to feed him anything but cooked chicken (I usually boiled it) and rice for a while afterwards to even keep off of dog food, was best to settle his pancreatitis down, so the chicken part should not be a problem I would not think as far as the pancreatitis goes. She still supplements his dog food with some boiled chicken every day and it does not make his pancreatitis flare up. Sure hope everything is okay and it passes soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz P Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 Actually, the chicken part IS the problem. The dog ate a whole chicken, which is full of fat. For tummy upset you feed chicken breast with all the fat stripped off, cooked in water to try to draw off even more fat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simba Posted July 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 She seems fine at the moment, fingers crossed, so it's watchful waiting now for a few days. Her pancreas doesn't seem swollen, her large belly has gone down, she is showing no signs of pain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RemsMom Posted July 18, 2014 Report Share Posted July 18, 2014 I hope everything is going well with your dog. I talked to someone today and she said she had a dog eat a turkey at Thanksgiving. The dog was rushed to an emergency vet and after $500 the owner was told that the dog would be fine (and the dog was fine). I hope the same for your dog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Labs & Mia Posted July 23, 2014 Report Share Posted July 23, 2014 About 30 years ago my black lab/golden retriever mix chased a rabbit into the pool, (apparently from the water trail), then shared him with a collie/golden mix foster dog. I looked outside to check on them as they were finishing him off, nothing left but one foot! I freaked out, called our Vet. He laughed and told me to just keep an eye on them, they'd probably be fine. They were. I sure didn't need any coffee that morning, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentleLake Posted July 23, 2014 Report Share Posted July 23, 2014 One of my dogs got 5 baby rabbits, one each evening for 5 days. He's a raw fed dog, so I wasn't particularly concerned, just about the possibility of parasites, but not even that happened . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shazmnldb Posted July 26, 2014 Report Share Posted July 26, 2014 Our princess in 18 months old and we love her more and more every day. The little antics they get up to just like your dog's little prank are hilarious. It is like having a human toddler around the place. They are just so smart it amazes me every day. Not as funny as your prank but Lilli has this little game she plays when she wants attention, she will get any ball she can find (and she has plenty) and purposely push it under the sofa so we have to stop what we are doing, fish is out for her and then throw it. She will get more and more balls until we have spent at least half an hour digging them out from under the sofa. Then she's bored and off doing something else. Love them to bits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyQ Posted July 27, 2014 Report Share Posted July 27, 2014 Our princess in 18 months old and we love her more and more every day. The little antics they get up to just like your dog's little prank are hilarious. It is like having a human toddler around the place. They are just so smart it amazes me every day. Not as funny as your prank but Lilli has this little game she plays when she wants attention, she will get any ball she can find (and she has plenty) and purposely push it under the sofa so we have to stop what we are doing, fish is out for her and then throw it. She will get more and more balls until we have spent at least half an hour digging them out from under the sofa. Then she's bored and off doing something else. Love them to bits Was this meant to be posted here? http://www.bordercollie.org/boards/index.php?showtopic=36884 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chene Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Oh man, that made me giggle. Of all the topics to post in all the threads. Mischievous dogs, I guess. Anyways, I'll take the opportunity to ask how the dog in question (not sure of her name) is doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simba Posted July 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 It was so nearly perfectly relevant it made me wonder. She is doing very well, thank you. She's happy, active, so enthusiastic about her dinner she throws it all over the floor by accident. This is the same dog who lost 30lb over the last 4 or 5 years so I'm not sure of how I'm going to cope with all this new-found energy and mobility! Ah, the 'good' old days where she couldn't so much as get up stairs or onto a couch in less than half a creaky, slow hour. Edit: sorry about the gratuitous brag. It's just that it was like pulling teeth to get her there and offline I get mostly "feed her more" and "It makes me feel so sad to see her so skinny." I'm going to start carrying around one of those body condition charts and handing copies out to people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Coyote Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 It's so much better for them to stay skinnier as they age. My Ellie got too heavy in the last years and I tried to get her weight down but never managed to. She would have been so much better off if I had kept her thinner. I'm really paying a lot more attention to my current dogs' weight. I don't want them to be overweight when they are old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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