I got a frantic call from my OH this afternoon, Ceejay is not breathing well she is wheezing. Well by the time I had found someone to cover me I rang back to say I am on my way, he said hurry as she is convulsing. (reason he did not take her to vets he only has motorbikes) Anyhow I ran and drove home only 2 minutes away, loaded her up in the car and he drove. I had images of doing mouth to nose and pumping her chest and believe me I would have done it.

Well almost there and she started doing the convulsing again, her body heaving not like a fit as such. Did a couple of big coughs and she was right as rain, licked me and the tail started wagging. I said to OH keep driving to the vet, just to make sure no permanent damage is done on her throat.

Vet had a look and there was all this gucky stuff in her throat and she said that there was definately something lodged there recently a bit red and no damage to her throat. She didn't charge me for it either she is a good vet.

Got home and searched the grounds, one bone I found and threw it promptly in the bin, I thought I found all the old bones must have missed this one. She gave us quite a scare, we both thought poisoning at first as we have new neighbours that are a bit wacko.

But all is well now, and she is back to normal, well as normal as Ceejay can be.

Thank goodness, there is nothing more traumatic than when the fur kids are sick or in pain!!! Excellent news that she dislodged it herself.

Gee, that must have been scary. Glad she's ok.

OH MY GOD!!

More bone incidents, maybe I should reconsider my earlier thoughts that the benefits outway the risks.

I am so happy to hear of the great outcome and don't wish to think of the alternative, give her a hug for me.

I've had to literally pry bones caught in the dogs upper palette between their teeth. Very scary. I do give bones, but the big shin bones they can't snap.

yes i have had to pry bones out from the upper pallette and the back teeth before too and one stuck in the start of the throat and just now with komo having one stuck at the end of the other end lol thats not a nice place to fish them out of.
i am so glad that ceejay is ok but were did that stuck bone go in or out maybe it is still in the car i would hate for your girls to find it again.

OMG - what a horrible scare for you guys. I've seen Paxy swallow a chicken neck just about whole - that's when I stopped giving her those! I've heard of sticks getting stuck across the upper palette too. I'll be making sure Paxy gets really big meat bones now!

It went down the gullet basically. The bone that I found was one of the big marrow bones which she must have snapped off a piece and got stuck right at the entrance of her airway, you could just see it. So it is brisket bones and lamb off cuts from now on as they can devour that in one sitting.

I also have found bones caught up between the teeth across the pallete and that also scares you a bit. The funny thing is I always thought it would have been Izzy has she is more of the guts, Ceejay is a delicate eater and she is always the last to finish any of her food.

Where would you pump the chest on a dog? I know you blow in their nose but where would you go on the chest between their armpits? And how hard would you pump is it the same technique for a child under 8. One hand only. I would just like to know if I get into that situation that I have it right.

I am also going to restock our medicine cabinet for the us and the dogs. What would you put in the dogs medical kit? Bandages etc. I cannot have iodine I am allergic to the stuff but if anyone can help me or advise what I need to put in will be most appreciative.

good lord, how scary!

I feed bones & lots of bones & never had a problem (but I am vague & many dogs so how accurate that is LOL)

Do you mean to do something like a Heimlich manoeuvre? Not sure you could do that on a dog, and it's dangerous for ppl too. But to do cpr on a dog they should be lying on their right side (so left side up) and you compress the spot just behind the front leg, where there's a little dip in their ribcage. Not sure about how deep you'd compress (anyway I'm not sure that if you were actually doing cpr you'd be able to know if you were compressing 8cm or 10cm or whatever) - guess as deep as you could without feeling that you were about to break ribs.

Thanks Kooliemum yes I was talking about CPR, I have the whole senior first aider certificate on humans but not with dogs. lol. Thanks for the information I have that stacked in my head right side down and just behind the front leg. Thanks again.

Royalla has some terrific first aid kits, maybe she can help you, they certainly worked for little Komo and her chook.

I believe you only use the first two fingers of each hand crossed over to apply cpr to dogs, there should be a site that you could check that with or your vet should be able to help.

Hey here's a thought, why not put together a really good and handy first aid kit and we'll pin it so everyone can locate it.

It can cover neat remedies for iching, bits, cuts, general wounds, muscle achs and pains, poisons snake bite, anything, here's your chance to pull out and dust off all the old methods that still work and record them here.

I'm so glad Ceejay is ok, my heart would have been pumping so hard it would have broken a rib LOL. Pebbles was coughing yesterday morning, not like Ceejay, so I took her to the vet, she's only got an infection. Give Ceejay a big & pat for me, whew can't believe how tense I got just reading your message LOL.