Almost made an emergency vet run!
 

Bentley always sleeps in bed with me or brett... b/c that's where he likes to be. and i woke up around 3:30 because of loud thunder...Bentley had been woken up too and acted like he wanted on the floor so i put him down.. he ran and grabbed a pig ear he's been chewing on for a few days.. i figured okay that will calm him down a bit..so i put him back up on the bed ..around 5am i'm woke up by a choking dog!!! :eek:TALK ABOUT FREAKED OUT!! brett grabbed him and started trying to pat him...he could still breathe but you could tell there was something loged in his throat.. brett made him eat 2 treats b/c we were trying to get him to throw up... after about 3mins Bentley finally throws up...twice at that!! now he seems to be doing good...just a little scared! i'm so glad he's okay..i know it's my fault to for letting him still have it after it got small... :(

:eek: Glad Bentley is OK!! That is scarry! Do keep an eye on him even though he appears to be alright. I have heard that they can get an intestinal blockage from rawhide [not sure if it's the same with pig ear]. We read so many scarry things about pig ears that we stopped giving them to Toto although she dearly loves them! :)

dianne
 

I never let my dogs have pigs ears or rawhide as im too scared they will choke and Ive read too many posts on dogs choking. Im so pleased your baby is okay :) dianne :)

GOOD that you were there and heard him !! That's so scary ...I used to give our cockers pig ears and Chanel also when she was little - I had a VET tell me they couldn't chew off pieces cause yorkies mouths were so little - NOT so !

Glad he's ok!!! That must have been really scary for you!!! Will now make sure I'm careful with Buddy's stuff... probably wo't buy him raw-hide or anything like that... just in case.
-Jade

How scary. :( I am so glad to hear Bentley is ok now.

Oh my gosh - how scary!!! I'm glad he's ok now!! :)

Definitly that a scary thing. It's so lucky that you were there, I only let them chew on them if I'm right there and as soon as they look like they are working a piece off I grab it and cut it off with scissors. I'm glad that he's ok, but still keep an eye on him, was there a lot missing off the pig ear, if not he probably didn't eat too much...

I'm so glad he's ok! You must have been so scared! That happened once with Simon and after he threw up he was fine but I was a wreck for a few days ;( Give Bentley lots of love from us

Its wasn't a piece of pig ear.....the little monster divoured the whole thing. When he started the pig ear around 3:30 it was a good 3 inches in diameter. When Kelly woke me up at 5 it was gone. Bently doesn't break pieces off he just chews around the pig ear in circles making it smaller and smaller. Usually when it gets the size of a half dollar we take it away from him. I have never seen him destroy one so quickly it usually takes about 8 hours or so to get one chewed up. When I walked into the room grabed him and performed CPR as I would on a baby (angle head downword and patting the back firmly as I learned when I got certified). No result. So then, because he could breathe and had some body functions I gave him a treat to either completly force it into the stomach or move it so it could be regurgitated. Thankfully the later accured. He began to gag again and I took this oppertunity to perform the CPR again and it worked. The first was mostly stomach contents and the two treats. The second was stomach content and what was left of the pig ear about the size of a piece of adult dog food. Then after all this drama the little trooper had to poop. So I took him outside and he did his business. When we returned in the house he played with all of his toys for about 30 minutes....and then passed out where he remains in bed with mommy. And poor Kelly was blaming herself for all of this. Just one of those freak things...she couldn't help it. All I can say from all this is no more pig ears when we aren't watching, and thank God it came out.

-Brett

Gosh, that is scary! Our little chi got choked on a piece of dry dog food once, I had to dislodge it from her throat by sticking my fingers down and grabbing - she couldn't breathe at all! Needless to say, she will no longer eat that brand of dog food, but she was such a good little girl and stayed still until I got it out. I fed her some vanilla ice cream to soothe her little throat and she sure enjoyed that!
Windy and Lida Rose

Wow what a horrible night for you guys....Kelly really dont blame yourself these things happen....

If you remember just this week, I had to rush Snoodles to the vet with a piece of Petrodix stuck in her throat. He said to rawhides or pigs ears or Petrodix"s. That scared me so bad, I hit her dog bones with a hammer and break up anything to small pieces. I don't ever want to go through that again!
Pat

Thank goodness you were there and Bentley is OK. My vet said NO Pig ears and NO rawhide at all

That's a lesson I learned years ago when Muffin was just a few years old. I always gave her rawhide. She loved to chew on them. Suddenly one evening she got choked -- she had swallowed a small piece. I grabbed her, turned her upside down and shook her and patted her back and luckily, out it came. There were never anymore rawhides for her. I wish someone had warned me about them then. She must have been around one or two years old. I don't remember now. We just let her go April 20th, so we would have missed having her all of these years and what a gift she was!