Okay so last night I started noticing Dutch kept pawing at her mouth. Keep in mind she had been acting just fine, she ate dinner, bullied the cat and barked at her reflection for 5 minutes. It was basically a normal evening.
I go upstairs to the bathroom and come back noticing her having issues with her mouth. So I looked in her mouth and I see this huge white mass in her mouth. I''m like what the heck is this? Oh lord what did she get into? So I go and try to pull it out of her mouth but I couldn't get it out. So now I'm thinking maybe it's caught up in her teeth but no that wasn't it either.
So now I am slowly going into panic mode. Because I'm thinking OMG it's a tumor.
My baby has a tumor in her mouth
. So I immediately call the emergency vet and I am talking so fast she had to calm me down. So then she asked me how was she acting. I was like well she doesn't seem like she's in any pain, in fact she is acting normal other than pawing at her mouth. So she asked me a couple of more questions and that's when I said I can get a picture and email you. I'm like this just appeared out of nowhere because I give her the dental gel and I've never noticed anything unusual in her mouth.
When I looked in her mouth again, it was gone! I looker at her bully stick I knew exactly what happened. She had been sucking on a bit of piece of her bully stick and she managed to swallow it. When I told the vet, she just laugh but I felt like an idiot. If it wasn't for the vet technician calming me down and asking all the right questions, I've would rush her to the emergency vet and spent 125.00 on a piece of a bully stick that she had been sucking on.
I'm just thankful she didn't choke so now I have to add that to the list of things to be mindful of. I usually take them away when they get to worn out but apparently she had a hiding place I didn't know about. I tell ya it never ends.