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Prayer sent. My dog back in the early 2000s swallowed a hunk of rubber from a chew toy and had the same thing happen. Thousands of dollars in surgery to remove it from his duodenum. He came through fine.

It was cooked sweet corn that we had already eaten off of. We gave the chickens the leftover cobs to peck on the remaining kernels.

Vet said corn cobs and socks can do a dog in. My vet buddy warned me to take action at the first sign of the dog being ill. Glad I listened!

Read on the internet where a dog went 4 months after eating cob and all was well until it finally got a blockage. owners went a few days to observe the dog and things went from bad to worse in a hurry.

i am treating cobs like rat poison for now on!

I've been putting up the late Winter crop of Meat rabbits. The carcasses bag up and pack WAY smaller with the ribcages,forward spine, and necks omitted, ditto the tails,...and their gazillion small bones. These get parboiled a bit and become dog food,...
The place where I hang and butcher is kept sano and skookum with regular application of clean crushed "bedding sand". Mixed in with my native silty clay, and soaked in fresh rabbit blood, it apparently is perceived as dog ice cream by my Queensland and Aussie Shepherd mutt.

...they drop turds that, once sun baked, look like black concrete or Tufa rock with brilliant bright white flecks throughout. I varnished a couple and laid em' on a friend's swap meet table with alla' the other interesting rocks,...it was fun to have a cold one and watch folks picking em' up and puzzling over em' / earnestly discussing the morphology.

My "Herding Breeds'...they do pretty well rustling and chowing down on the wild rabbits and rats around here,...so their scat can (and does) also look pretty much like wolf or coyote, too.

GTC

Oh, glad your pup's on the mend !

GTC

Well damn , don't leave us hanging. What was the consensus of the rockologists ?

Mike

One fella asked if they'd been found in an old ruins. Thought they were coproliths.

The varnish was pretty fragile, and once the things crumbled a bit they started to smell like what they actually are.

I'm inspired to maybe use acra-glas or some other clear resin.

Raining too much to get anything very "sun baked" at this time,...
.7" overnight.

GTC

Still hoping we can bring her home tomorrow.

Sure glad things went well.

She looks like a real beauty and a fun companion.

Thank you sir for being a great "doggie dad".

Geno

I like good news.

I had a beagle that ate a whole porkchop bone once. It made it all the way through him until it got hung up in his ass. He was walking around with the end of the bone sticking out and the T part hung up inside his bunghole. It was pretty funny.

I love good news.

Have a Boston that sneaked a cob out of the garbage and ate it. He passed his.

Glad it sounds like things are good,
Labs do eat some weird stuff,makes you wonder.
Ours have eaten just about anything you can imagine,
Christmas lights,racoon limbs,socks,my wifes undies,the list goes on.
glad yours is ok,and good to know about corn cobs

Buds old pointer started to act down. Then he started to ger distended. Brian self diagnosed it as stomach cancer and said he would take him out back and put him down when he came home from work. His Daughter took the Dog to the vet in the afternoon. Corn cobs it was and the vet got them out without surgery. His Daughter said if you get bad sick around here drive yourself to the hospital before Dad finds out.

Dog had a few more years to go.

We all laughed when we threw some corn cobs to my Drahthaar pup a few years ago. Chomp Chomp swallow and repeat.

No one was laughing the next morning at the vet clinic as he was telling us about the operation he was going to perform RIGHT NOW,

It's a physiological impossibility for a dog to "digest" a corn cob, wrong chemistry.

Daughter and son in law were taking a deposit to the bank from his business with her Lab in the back seat with the money in an envelope. When they got to the bank the money and the envelope were both gone. She used a big syringe to pump hydrogen peroxide down the dogs throat and she coughed up 700 dollars and the envelope. They were able to piece it back together and didn't lose any.

I'm glad things worked out for you and the dog! A guy in our gun club lost a Brittany to a corn cob and my neighbor lost a basset hound to a peach pit that he raided from the garbage.

We used to grow sweet corn and when we went out to pick it, we would give the lab a runt ear for herself. Uncooked and un buttered. Just off the stalk. She only ate the kernels and never the cob. She was a great dog.

kwg

Thanks for posting this. Our old female lab likes the occasional cob we toss her. The lab/setter mix won't touch them.

I will no longer be feeding corn cobs that is for sure. Thanks again!