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coin obsession Does anyone else have an issue with their yorkies being obsessed with finding change? Mine love to find pennies and coins and It scares the hell out of me every time i take one from them!! We now have a change jar by the front door that you have to dump all change in your pockets into. Purses stay on the mantle as well. I dont want to put my babies at risk for choking over something so simple as to put change where they cant get it. |
I don't think mine have never seen a coin. I know they can be pretty bad because of the metal in them. I'm not sure if it's pennies or which ones but besides choking the can get very ill. Hopefully your babies will stop looking for them. |
Coins It is a strange taste for your dogs to go for change. It seems you are taking all precautions to keep coins from them. I know you were concerned about choking, and that certainly is possible. However a small dog belonging to a neighbor had a similar issue, and he ate a penny. He became very very sick from metal poisoning and nearly died from it. It seems the acid in his stomach leached out the metal and it got into his system. So please be very careful as choking is not the only problem with coin ingestion. I know before I heard of this I did not think coins would poison a dog, but just pass through him. I don't know if what happened to the neighbor's dog would apply to all dogs, perhaps you could check with your vet? |
So far Amy hasn't found any coins. Her obsession right now is with bugs outside and worms. We have had 4 days of rain and the worms are coming out of the ground and she likes them and anything that crawls on the ground. Disgusting little habit. |
Mine hunts qtips. But I keep change out of reach because I have small kids. So its never been an issue here. |
I remember seeing an episode of Emergency Vets a few years ago where someone brought their sick dog in. Turns out he had a belly full of coins that he'd been eating! The owners had no idea! Had to have surgery to remove them. This was a larger dog, so could be worse for a yorkie. I'd keep them away from your pup. |
wow this is new never heard of a dog looking for coins that is scarey. Maybe he is trying to collect old coins! I just had to say that :rolleyes: |
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I was just reading about this at the vet the other day and it said that pennies are particularly dangerous because of something that is in them... It seems to me that it was zinc? |
That would be scary. Mine don't do this and if they did, I would never get sleep because my husband is always leaving change laying around and I am always picking up change on the bathroom and bedroom floors. So far, neither of my dogs have ever tried to go after the change. I would be so scared if they did. |
Just found the article and it said that after 1982 pennies were made with 96% zinc. The acid in the stomach can break down the copper in the penny and then the zinc is absorbed into the system. It said as little as 1-3 pennies can be harmful. |
Wow. Galen it is tissues. He sees one. He is on it and shreds it to pieces. |
My dog will look for anything and everything on floor. If i want him to take medication in pilo form i just put it on the floor. He is 8 years old by the way. |
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