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07-22-2010, 04:45 PM | #1 |
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| Betty Boop ate METAL - OFF TO VET Please pray for Betty Boop. I saw her eating three bites of something that turned out to be metal from my dh's steel, rusted BBQ pit. He cleaned it in our yard tonight and didn't pick up his mess!!!!! I am so upset!! Please pray! Will update when I know more......
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07-22-2010, 05:00 PM | #2 |
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| Oh no! I hope shes okay. |
07-22-2010, 05:01 PM | #3 |
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| Oh, no! I will keep Betty Boop in my thoughts and prayers. Please update us when you get back form the vet's! |
07-22-2010, 05:03 PM | #5 |
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| OMG we are praying for Betty Boop Please come back as soon as you can and let us know she is ok. OMG. So worried!!
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07-22-2010, 05:04 PM | #6 |
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| Oh my God! I am praying for you and your little girl. My heart just sunk as I read this. Please take care and be strong. Give your baby lots of kisses.
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07-22-2010, 05:59 PM | #7 |
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| I hope everything is OK. How big were the pieces of metal?
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07-22-2010, 06:04 PM | #8 |
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| Here for an update. Praying for her.
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07-22-2010, 06:09 PM | #9 |
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| I hope your baby is doing ok, please let us know as soon as you find out!
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07-22-2010, 06:14 PM | #10 |
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07-22-2010, 06:14 PM | #11 |
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| Poor Betty Boop! How is she doing???
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07-22-2010, 06:16 PM | #12 |
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| No word yet on poor little Betty Boop, Hope all is well. |
07-22-2010, 06:21 PM | #13 |
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| Oh my just now seeing this. I hope poor Betty Boop is ok. She has been suffering from allergies and now this. I pray she is ok.
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07-22-2010, 07:15 PM | #14 |
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| We're back home. The ER vet took an x-ray. She has A LOT of metal inside her. One large piece, looks like about a 3/4" oblong piece is still in her stomach. A lot of fragments are already on their way through her system, but haven't entered her colon yet. I couldn't believe my eyes! We think the BBQ pit is made of Iron. He told us to get a magnet and go outside and see if it would pick up a piece of what she ate. It does. That's not good, because it has the possibility of turning into iron poisoning if we don't get it out of her system. We're going to call the company tomorrow and ask what it is made of. He also looked up on his computer and found a case that was almost identical to hers, where a dog ate the shavings off of an iron BBQ pit that the owner had cleaned. This other dog turned out OK with the same treatment that he is prescribing for Betty Boop. He said we need to take the x-ray to our regular vet tomorrow, but that it might be too soon to do another x-ray, ideally 24 hours would be better. But, if we wait until then, our vet will be closed for the weekend. Knowing me, I will wait until about 4:30 tomorrow afternoon and it will be around 21 or 22 hours since she ingested the metal. I would be a NERVOUS WRECK if I waited until Monday to do another x-ray! Of course, I could take her back to the ER. I think this particular vet is working this weekend. He gave us enough Prescription Diet W/D for a week to try and get bulk inside of her to get the metal out of her stomach and push everything through her system. Also, he gave her something to coat her stomach to protect it against inflammation from the metal, called Sucralfate, enough for a week. If a week goes by and she still has the metal inside her, he said one of two things can be done. 1) Since the metal is magnetized, he could put something down her throat to try and pull out the metal. This frightens me though because of Yorkies' history of collapsed trachea. ?????? 2) Surgery. I just fed her 3/4 of a 13 oz can of W/D. She didn't even chew it and swallowed it whole! Then, she threw up a small portion. You would think I haven't fed her in a couple of days! Please keep her in your prayers this entire week. I'll take her back to her regular vet in a week for a final x-ray. But, I am taking her in tomorrow and talking to them about everything. On another note, I asked this ER vet what he would do about her LP. He felt of it and said it felt like a 1 or 2. His advice would be not to do surgery until she was showing pain and it was hendering her a lot. He has a pekingese that has LP3/4 in both knees, but said it doesn't bother her at all, and she is 8 years old. He said the meetings he has attended where Orthopedic surgeons were the speakers recommended no surgery unless absolutely painful to the dog. Thanks for everyone's prayers and concern. Lila and Betty Boop, aka: metal dog
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07-22-2010, 07:22 PM | #15 |
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| OMG this is so scary. We will be praying for Betty Boop. Hopefully the diet working the metal out will be fine! I am hoping that the metal is NOT iron. I'm also hoping you can just keep doing xrays until you pass this through her system without the need for surgery. I also might give the ASPCA poison control a call to ask about the iron toxicity - a toxicologist will give you info for a $65 consult and confer with the ER vet. Just in case. Keep us posted.
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