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Title: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: birdstew on October 17, 2013, 06:18:15 PM
This is what your Lab will look like after eating a rock that is to big to pass threw his system. Along with a $1700.00 Vet bill.
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: ICEMAN on October 17, 2013, 06:37:58 PM
Wow....

Is rock eating a common issue with dogs?
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: Stilly bay on October 17, 2013, 06:52:05 PM
Bummer! Blockages are scary. One of my GSP's blocked from a tiny pinch of dried grass.

I would like to see the rock that was the culprit, I have seen many rocks that have passed through on their own, and I bet the rock that caused your pups blockage was a dandy!
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: birdstew on October 17, 2013, 07:44:58 PM
It was not huge but big enough. He just turned 6 months so not much room in there. Labs are the number one breed for Intestinal obstruction. 
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: JJD on October 17, 2013, 10:08:11 PM
Bet for $1700, you could put in a chain link kennel with a concrete floor.
Disclaimer; I built mine a number of years ago and have no idea what current prices are.
Most pups get into trouble like that when unattended, I have no idea if this is the case, I'm just going on my own past experiences.
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: crschralping on October 18, 2013, 06:05:16 AM
Glad your pups OK. I had a dog pass a piece of concrete right on the exam table about 2 minutes before surgery was about to go down. Not fun.
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on October 18, 2013, 06:17:42 AM
I have the same problem  :bash: :bash: Son calls me up at work saying the dog is bleeding like a stuck pig ....From his WEE WEE area ... I tell him to get him to the vet before he bleeds the death ...the vet calls me and says he cut his Wee Wee ... :o after trying to figure out how he done that I figured out he was trying to jump over my 3' 6" fence I have around my garden  :yike: :bdid: It only cost me about  $400 ...your bill is a little higher  :yike: Hope is well soon ...We are 3 weeks out before we can take him out duck hunting !
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on October 18, 2013, 06:19:47 AM
Another thing to remember ...Golden Labs are gluttons ....they eat anything and everything  :yeah:
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: wildweeds on October 18, 2013, 07:20:18 AM
Had a setter that ate a rock,it didn't interfere with nothing,actually found it while x raying hips,My vet said to leave it be.I actually gave that dog away to a board member on here.He ususally posts pictures of the dog with birds every year about this time.My vet don't charge near that much for the same thing,my parents golden retriever ate some welding wire trash from mig welder and had to have it removed,it was a 900 dollar bill to have it removed.
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: BIGINNER on October 18, 2013, 07:29:02 AM
Yep. labs are bad with that.  I caught my lab chewing on a rock the size of my fist. it was too big to swallow,... but I took it away anyways.  he will literally chew on and eat ANYTHING.
we stopped buying him toys because they only last him one day, and I start finding pieces of they toys in his poop the next day.  :yike:
Title: Re: 6 Month Lab out for most of Season
Post by: JJD on October 22, 2013, 04:54:26 PM
Another thing to remember ...Golden Labs are gluttons ....they eat anything and everything  :yeah:

Trust me, color ain't got nothin to do with it, my Blacks ain't no better.
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