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Originally Posted by MaysonsMom  I gave mayson a rawhide and later could not find it - i just thought that maybe it was left somewhere i could not see. I gave him another and literally saw him swallow it. It was gone before I could even open his mouth. I'm convinced that he swallowed the first. Both rawhides were thin sticks, about 3 inches long. I started to do some research online and i'm totally freakin out. I keep reading about gastrointestinal obstruction, which requires surgery. Please HELP!! Do I need to take Mayson to the emergency room? |
IF he has two 3" rawhide sticks in his stomach, I would take him in now to see if they can retreive them while still in the stomach. Those things are very very slow to digest, if they even will and the chances of them breaking down before the stomach sends it to the duodenum is slim...then you have an obstruction. In these Yorkies, thats a large peice let alone 2 of them to wait and see.