Dog ate chicken skeleton

[KnottedYet]

My dog is very smart.

Ooooh, VERY smart.

He figured out how to get into the garbage can, even though I'd put a child-proof lock on it. (not a doggie proof lock, apparently)

He ate a whole chicken skeleton, minus one leg and one wing that I took to work for lunch.

Since I came home and discovered his little culinary adventure, I've stuffed him to the gills with high-bulk goodies to help move things along.

Any other advice for dogs who've eaten splintery bird bones?

[Roadtrip]

Was the chicken bones cooked or had you deboned the bird, then cooked the pieces? The cooking process makes the bones brittle and increases the chances of cutting or piercing the intestine. Just keep a close eye on your pup for signs that there is a blockage or other problems and get him to the vet asap if anything is not right... bloody stool.. not going (obstruction).. not interested in food.

Hope he is OK!!
Shannon

[KnottedYet]

It was a rotisserie chicken. Nicely cooked. Crispy crunchy splintery bones.

More's the pity.

He truly can't eat another bite. I've plied him with all kinds of treats to try to whoosh stuff through his guts and out the other end. Doggie is full, and I'm low on dog food now.

After he has digested a little I will take him for a good walk and hope he does a lot of business.

Out, dammed bones, out!

[Roadtrip]

hehe.. yea.. full tummy means he won't eat until some comes out the other side. I bet he was in heaven tho.. thinking NOM NOM NOM.. then you went and gave him treats. LOL.

My dogie once ate whole coffee beans. I was making coffee and spilled a scoop onto the floor and he was RIGHT there snapping them up as fast as he could until I could get myself between him and the mess. Even with a stern NO he still managed to eat more then I would have like.

He also started raiding the trash and got an awful (I mean REALLY awful) case of the dogie do-do and had an accident in the house while I was at work. I cleaned the mess up. He just looked at me so pathetic and sad I couldn't be mad at him. VERY next day he does the SAME thing, but to a lesser degree, so he was perfect example that dogs just aren't that dang smart!!!

[FunSize]

I know one trick for making dogs throw things back up if that's every an option. A vet actually recommended it.

We did this for a big 100 lb newfoundland after she ate something she shouldn't have. We gave her a big tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide every 5 minutes until she threw up. We didn't go beyond 5 spoonfuls though. luckily she threw up at 5. But she just kind of gurgled and burped for the first 4.

I know that if dogs eat something dangerous like a hook or sharp bones you probably shouldn't make them throw up. But remember the peroxide if the doggies get into other things that they shouldn't that can come back out the way they went in.

[NbyNW]

I wonder if something would work as a doggy laxative?

Last year our dog ate a whole mess of blackberries at the park. Very same night, he produced same mess of blackberries.

Knott, I hope your guy is okay.

[badger]

He also started raiding the trash and got an awful (I mean REALLY awful) case of the dogie do-do and had an accident in the house while I was at work. I cleaned the mess up. He just looked at me so pathetic and sad I couldn't be mad at him. VERY next day he does the SAME thing, but to a lesser degree, so he was perfect example that dogs just aren't that dang smart!!!

I could've written that myself! I have SO many stories!

my dog would have literally toppled you over to get at a moldy bun. It really didn't help that he had colitis, so when he was indescrete (which was far more often than I liked!) he inevitably had accidents at home. And these are the projectile kind that smelled worse than hell itself. I'd be literally gagging while I'm cleaning up. I know he couldn't help it and the pitiful looks he gave me...

I used hydrogen peroxide on him a couple of times before I discovered activated charcoal. Whenever I wasn't quick enough to divert him from eating god-knows-what, I gave him a capsule of charcoal and he never had any explosions. Whenever his tummy was gurgling, the charcoal settled it.

If it were my dog that ate the chicken carcass, I would've had to stay home from work and sit outside with him all day...

[lph]

What is it with the snatching meat thing? Our cat is an avid hunter and is quite, uh, "sharing" with the mice and occasional bird she brings home. Never growls over or hoards anything.

But yesterday we gave her the remains of some lamb chops we had had for dinner, thinking she would enjoy licking out the marrow and gnawing on the large bones. She went insane, and disappeared wild-eyed into the livingroom under the table to eat in peace, "grumbling" as she went.

So what does this mean - she's really meant to hunt lamb?

[Trek420]

He figured out how to get into the garbage can, even though I'd put a child-proof lock on it. (not a doggie proof lock, apparently)

Nothing is doggie proof if there is chicken involved. He is soooo smart, he's a good boy. I hope he is ok.

[DMC]

Nothing is doggie proof if there is chicken involved. He is soooo smart, he's a good boy. I hope he is ok.

My Nico can spot street chicken* a half mile away and has gotten quite clever at snatching it up before we can stop her. If she's got her jaws locked and I can't fish it out of her mouth with my fingers, my last resort is to pick her up by her mid section, and wheeze her tummy like a bag pipe until she opens her mouth to howl at me to stop.

Sometimes she gets away with it, and I just keep an eye on her until she poops the next day. Luckily, the bones are always salty enough to make her drink a ton of water after, so I think that must help push the bone through without too much trouble.



*I don't know if other cities are like this, but NYC is booby trapped with half eaten chicken carcasses and stripped bones on every block. You have to watch your doggie like a hawk.

[tulip]

Castor oil is a better choice than petroleum jelly. Petroleum jelly is not a food, and is not intended to be ingested. It's filled with all sorts of nasty stuff. It comes from petroleum after all!

I feed my dog raw chicken, bones and all, and he's fine, but raw bones are pliable. He's a very good scavenger from his street days, and he's always getting a hold of discarded (cooked) chicken bones on our walks. No way he'll drop them, either, once he's got them. So far so good. But he hasn't, to my knowledge, taken on an entire carcass, although if given the opportunity I'm sure he wouldn't pass it up.

Best wishes to a quick resolution of the situation, preferably outside in some wooded area where you don't have to pick it up!

[sundial]

Knot, your doggie just got a thorough teeth brushing by chomping on the bones. The upside to this is the marrow is very good for the dog. The downside is the bone splinters could irritate the gut and cause unpleasantries. Keep an eye on the stool: if you see mucous on the poo, or an extra dark stool with a really foul odor (possible blood in the stool), or several days of pudding poop, it's time to call your vet. If your doggie is doing #2 frequently in a day, withhold food and give Pedialyte and call the vet before he gets too dehydrated or develops pancreatitis. Immodium can be given to the dog but ask your vet for the correct dosage.

My australian shepherd waited for me to leave for an errand before she picked up a package of frozen chicken breasts, carried it into the living room, unwrapped it, and proceeded to consume the whole thing leaving a nice clean styrofoam container that was still half wrapped. She did this within 30 minutes.

[lunacycles]

at least she unwrapped it! I hear raw chicken (aka the BARF diet) is no issue as the bones are tender/flexy. Cooked chicken creates rigid bone shards, so you need to be careful...and the advice here sounds good.