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Title: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: fishermanjoe on October 03, 2010, 08:34:14 PM: Yes he ate it on the drive home in the back of my truck. Do i need do be worried? Have you had this happen to you? Will the bones/feet/beak tear his insides up? Any info would be nice. I wont be able to afford a big vet bill so if he is in the clear i will skip a visit to the doctor.

Thanks for your input.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Schmalzfam on October 03, 2010, 08:36:21 PM: How long ago was it? A couple tbs salt..he will puke it right up! But, has to be quickly after.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: fishermanjoe on October 03, 2010, 08:37:21 PM: about 4 hours ago
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: carpsniperg2 on October 03, 2010, 08:41:01 PM: my friend had a lab eat 5 quail :dunno: his dog did not have any prob. the salt trick is probably to late after 4hrs
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: halflife65 on October 03, 2010, 08:43:01 PM: I heard that bird bones are really dangerous when they are cooked, so your dog should be ok. Coyotes eat birds all the time.

My old lab ate a bunch of quail and an entire duck once and he was fine. Pooped out pretty feathers for awhile, though.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 03, 2010, 08:46:22 PM: My Blue Tick ate 1/2 of a deers rear upper leg bone knuckle and all. Crunch crunch crunch. This was about 4 weeks ago. He's still alive and hasn't shown any signs of problems. What can I say I call him my little retard. :chuckle:
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: fishermanjoe on October 03, 2010, 08:49:10 PM: Ok that makes me feel a lot better!!!!!! I was a little worried there for a sec.

Quote from: halflife65 on October 03, 2010, 08:43:01 PM

My old lab ate a bunch of quail and an entire duck once and he was fine. Pooped out pretty feathers for awhile, though.

Yeah it will be a joy watching him try to pass that one. I hope it teaches him a lesson.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: halflife65 on October 03, 2010, 08:57:22 PM: Just keep an eye on him for the next couple of days just in case, but he should be ok.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Schmalzfam on October 03, 2010, 09:26:31 PM: He should be ok..remember the salt for next time.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: dirty24d on October 03, 2010, 09:40:17 PM: Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on October 03, 2010, 08:46:22 PM
My Blue Tick ate 1/2 of a deers rear upper leg bone knuckle and all. Crunch crunch crunch. This was about 4 weeks ago. He's still alive and hasn't shown any signs of problems. What can I say I call him my little retard. :chuckle:

Michelle you got me rolling over laughing haaard at what can i say i call him my little retard!! :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 04, 2010, 12:32:21 AM: Quote from: dirty24d on October 03, 2010, 09:40:17 PM
Quote from: Michelle_Nelson on October 03, 2010, 08:46:22 PM
My Blue Tick ate 1/2 of a deers rear upper leg bone knuckle and all. Crunch crunch crunch. This was about 4 weeks ago. He's still alive and hasn't shown any signs of problems. What can I say I call him my little retard. :chuckle:

Michelle you got me rolling over laughing haaard at what can i say i call him my little retard!! :chuckle: :chuckle:

:chuckle: You would have to know him to really appreciate that comment. He takes retard to a whole new level.

He gets so excited when I say "do you need to go pee outside" he tears through the house and head butts the door because he can't stop on a hard wood floor. If I am not at the door quick enough he will come back. Once he sees me he goes tearing off to the back door again and head butts it again. You would think at roughly 7yo he would have out grown that. :rolleyes:

No blanket is safe around him. I have to keep the linen closet door and my bedroom door shut. If he isn't comfy enough laying on the floor he will pull the comforters off my bed drag it through the house and put it where he wants it and go to sleep on it. If he doesn't pull the blanket off the couch first. :(

He is not a stupid dog by any means but it is almost one of those things where he is so smart me is stupid. He is also very stuborn! :yike:

He is a sneeky little sucker to.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: sisu on October 04, 2010, 01:42:04 AM: He or she will have a clean poop for a while with all those feathers dusting things off. :)

BTW I never leave anything with in reach of any dog that is remotely yummy. This list gets real big in the case of labs.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: runamuk on October 04, 2010, 05:50:53 AM: There are plenty of people who feed raw diets to dogs and their dogs eat whole chickens feathers beaks feet and whole bunnies, the dogs live long lives and are perfectly healthy I wouldn't worry at all as long as bones are not cooked they do not typically cause any problems dogs after all are simply wolves ;)
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Happy Gilmore on October 04, 2010, 10:15:59 AM: watch his turds- any blood go to the vet. Probably should be just fine. When this happens, hold off on feeding them, skip a meal and watch their poop. Do this anytime your dog eats something questionable. If they eat something, get an obstruction and you feed them a bunch more it can cause the problem to compound and go downhill faster.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Ellensburg on October 04, 2010, 01:38:22 PM: Bird bones are dangerous to dogs when cooked. Raw, not so dangerous.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Clumber on October 04, 2010, 01:47:56 PM: Should be okay - reference the RAW and BARF proponents (a club I do NOT belong to. :chuckle: ) but for future reference, peroxide is a great vomit inducer. We pretty much give out a costco bottle of the stuff with every Clumber pup we sell. Clumbers feel that if something fits in their mouth, it must be edible. And if it doesn't fit in their mouth, then it needs some chewing until it does. You should talk to your vet about how much, but we just dump as much into their throats as we can, since after the first time this is done to any dog they are not terribly cooperative the next go'round. We figure that we only get about a third down their gullets once they have gone through this once.

Sadly, I have perfected a restraint method so I can peroxide our dogs by myself - and trust me they ALL know what the brown bottle means. We also have several of the large syringes that you can get from your vet or the feed stores, fill it with peroxide out of a cup, and then put that as far back in their throat as we can. Most dogs will vomit within 3 minutes, and we have found they tend to barf about 3 times for each time you dumped some in their throat. Clumbers, being particularly attached to anything they consider food, tend to take longer - as much as 20 minutes, but they will give it back.

After almost 20 years in the breed, here is an incomplete list of things we have personally had to utilize the peroxide party method to retrieve :

1 lb bag of snickers mini-candies - all candies still in their wrappers, a "koosh" ball, feminine products, socks, gloves, an entire tube of eye antibiotic ointment, a children's glove (we have no idea when she got that - we don't have kids - we were barfing her for eating something else entirely!), cell phone battery, unknown specifically but she had gone through the kitchen garbage, eyeglasses, catnip mouse toy, something terribly gross and stinky out hunting once (we didn't wish to ID it once it came up - the smell was too horrid!), most of a bottle of 222s, and what ranks as most recent and most odd : chemical hand warmers. 2 separate times.

So peroxide is a good tool to keep handy and available in your household doggie first aid box. And if you have Clumbers (or most spaniels, honestly) in your hunting first aid kit too.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on October 04, 2010, 02:00:08 PM: Sounds almost like a Lab. :chuckle:
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: halflife65 on October 04, 2010, 03:57:06 PM: Jeez, clumber, that's hilarious. Just about pee'd my pants reading that.
Title: Re: My lab ate a whole chuckar!
Post by: BuckeyeMan on October 04, 2010, 05:00:44 PM: My neighbor feeds his hunting dog the raw diet, half the time it's chicken necks and so forth. the issue is when you cook it it can become brittle and break into sharp edges.