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Well Jen I am just glad she is OK.  Hopefully maybe you can catch her next time or maybe use a muzzle for safety purposes.  Usually in my past dog experiences those that are sneaky like that stay sneaky and you have to stay ahead of them at all times; not a good scenario if someone else lets her out without checking.  My friends girl stole 5 lbs of pizza dough raw,  Jackie shared her experience about her sneaky bitch that stole a "whole" turkey and ate it (a 12 lb'r) ate the whole thing raw.  Thank god it was raw.  She didn't feed her for 3 days, she was fine though.   If you have counter surfer's boy they are trouble and usually remain that way for life.  I hope she heals up well and yeah, her hips look pretty darn good.

Good luck  Nan

Thank goodness she's ok! jackie harris

Phew  !!!

Glad she's recovering;  sorry about your pocket-book,  but on balance its nice to

know there is / was nothing there, rather than be wondering.  Esp. with a snatch'n'

swallow type hound. [ And sadly I think Nan's right, they often stay sneaky like that

and prone to this sort of thing forever.  ]

Sounds like you probably cracked the source of her upset, too.

She is not destructive, nor does she regularly eat household stuff- she just grabs laundry to carry around like a prize. She doesn't eat it. I mean sneaky in that she knows she is not supposed to take our shoes or clothing outside so she turns her head. She hasn't ever eaten anything bad except you know, typical "outside" stuff- bits of mulch, grass, a nibble off a petunia, perhaps a few bits of pea gravel eaten accidentally because it stuck to something she wanted to eat, etc.- she does like to tease other dogs w/her "prizes" and I'll bet that's what happened to the plant. I've seen her do similar with smaller plants - tug o war with them, prance around with them, shake them, toss them in the air, etc. I think she just ate more than she intended to of it this time, though the vet doesn't think Dianthus would cause such an extreme reaction. So, we really don't know and probably won't find out for sure, which is annoying! I suppose a piece of wood chip like what I found (mulch) in her vomit could certainly scrape up an intestine if it went through the right way. Just so irritating to not know and be left wondering if it will happen again.  

Well yes it can and will happen again, that was my point for th muzzle until you can train her to your best and really until she quits eating anything you do not give her. 

Leave it has helped me, but interestingly enough my current trainers teach it that the "whatever item" you have told them to leave it means that they can NEVER  go back to that item again and try to get it.  My previous trainer(s) it was just leave it, which means for now until I tell you differently.??

Saved my service girl from eating a "pill" of some sort item off the floor in a convelscent hospital my mom was in, was crawling under the bed to get it for me until I saw what it was, then yelled 'LEAVE IT' and thank god she did.  Also my not so lucky sisters sammy boy (sammies are nortorious for eating stuff) ate my sisters underware, snuck in the laundry or ?? and ate them, had $3,000. surgery to remove (this was probably 10 years ago which would seem cheap now) and healed up and did it again, second time was not so lucky as he was 10 or 11 and was never taught not to eat  things you did not give him.  He died.

Think of this when she trys to eat anything again you have not "given" her yourself or your family members.   Great days ahead,  Nan

PS:  that also means her toys, only non destructive things for her from now on, the ones with the bull dog or
tuff dog stuff, hard rubber, nyla whatever, etc.  N

The female in my sig would get sick every spring, as she would search out disgusting things that had been rotting underneath the snow all winter.  I not only had to muzzle her when I put her outside, I had to put a piece of plastic in the bottom of the muzzle to keep her from jamming the basket against the item, and getting it to squish through the wire until she could lick it/eat it!

It was a pain, but it worked. No more vomiting, no more trips to the vet for metronidazole and antibiotics!

I know a Corgi breeder who's had a big problem with her dogs eating stuff they shouldn't. One had surgery twice for rocks, and eventually died from eating a sharp piece of plastic off a flower pot.    She THOUGHT she had his run completely safe, after she covered it with patio stones, so she stopped muzzling him when she turned him out.