Chicken Wing....

[StateOfMine]

Flint snatched up a chicken wing off the grass on Monday. He had bloody diarrhea with a few solid pieces today. The day before, a solid normal poop about half the size of his typical amount, but its possible he pooped before that too and I didn't see it. He is acting normal. He eats, he drinks, he runs, he plays. He was even rough housing with an aussie that ran up on us just moments before this happened. The amounts are not typical of his normal poops. He strained on his 3rd attempt but all that came out was thick, bloody diarrhea about the size of a fifty cent piece coin.

I tried to get him to the vet today and they had no openings. Obviously they'll be closed on weekends. I've given him pumpkin and wet food, hoping it will help hom pass the chicken bone. And again, no behavior change at all.

Is it possible he passed the chicken bone already and his digestive tract is inflamed from passing it? If its not one thing with this dog its another....

 

[GennyB]

Is it possible he passed the chicken bone already and his digestive tract is inflamed from passing it?

I think the only thing I have learned for sure is just about anything is possible. Like finding a chicken bone just laying around.
I have to assume that it was cooked. With limited access to a Vet, I think I would rest his belly and see how he does. By that I mean fast him and as he gets better slowly give him chicken and rice or rice and whatever low fat bland meat you have. If you see signs of tummy upset (like bile) you can give him pepcid to help calm the acid from the irritation. I don't remember the dosage but a quick search will answer that. Good luck and I'm hoping he's alright!

 

[Ravenbird]

What @GennyB said. Little to no food, maybe no-salt chicken broth and when you do feed, rice & plain cooked chicken, a little at a time.

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[Oh Little Oji]

Ugh. Sorry you're having this worry. I hope he is just fine!

It's part if the culture around this city to throw fried chicken bones on the ground. Bastards.

 

[StateOfMine]

Well he had normal poop this morning even if it is a tad bloody still. I think we're okay if things are moving along as normal. I have his ecollar back on him after that incident. Bad Flint.

 

[JanS]

It's part if the culture around this city to throw fried chicken bones on the ground.

I'm so glad we have a lot of land so we don't have to worry about that sort of thing.

Well he had normal poop this morning even if it is a tad bloody still. I think we're okay if things are moving along as normal.

That's great to hear!

 

[LucyXIII]

I think the only thing I have learned for sure is just about anything is possible. Like finding a chicken bone just laying around.

Since getting Angel I've learned this too! (Also that people are gross). He also found a chicken wing next to the sidewalk. We've also found: so many half finished cigs and joints, fast-food, phone chargers, 3 pairs of eye glasses, banana peels, what i think was cooked macaroni, 2 patches of greasy mystery substances and our strangest find to date: a whole red snapper -- raw. On the sidewalk.

Well he had normal poop this morning even if it is a tad bloody still. I think we're okay if things are moving along as normal. I have his ecollar back on him after that incident. Bad Flint.

Good boy Flint, be ok. Bad Flint, stop eating dangerous garbage.

 

[Oh Little Oji]

Since getting Angel I've learned this too! (Also that people are gross). He also found a chicken wing next to the sidewalk. We've also found: so many half finished cigs and joints, fast-food, phone chargers, 3 pairs of eye glasses, banana peels, what i think was cooked macaroni, 2 patches of greasy mystery substances and our strangest find to date: a whole red snapper -- raw. On the sidewalk.

Native to this habitat are Swisher Sweets boxes, wigs/hair extensions, lots of plastic drink bottles (some with a yellowish liquid inside), and of course something you notice when you ride a bicycle: broken glass. Of course, broken glass is native to every place I've lived.

Dax, two Dobermans ago, used to eat cigarette butts and cigar butts when found. He actually grew out of that habit, but eeewwwww.

 

[LifeofRubie]

The amount of chicken bones Rubie finds on our walks is astonishing. People leave their trash bins out and then critters chew holes into the lids and run off with stuff only to abandon it in the parkways. It always seems to get worse in the winter when it gets dark so early, for some reason, too.

Our neighborhood is generally pretty free from trash but we do have the... Brandy Bottle Bandit. There will be stretches where every parkway for blocks in every direction will have a discarded E&J Brandy Bottle. Like someone is hiding their empty bottle stash and then goes for either a walk or drive and just tosses them. Usually they're not broken, luckily. But we will get to the bottom of this mystery some day.

Glad he seems to be on the mend!

 

[LucyXIII]

Native to this habitat are Swisher Sweets boxes, wigs/hair extensions, lots of plastic drink bottles (some with a yellowish liquid inside), and of course something you notice when you ride a bicycle: broken glass. Of course, broken glass is native to every place I've lived.

Dax, two Dobermans ago, used to eat cigarette butts and cigar butts when found. He actually grew out of that habit, but eeewwwww.

He's grown out of butts mostly, never been interested in beverage containers. Thankfully we've never encountered hair, I think he'd all over it.

 

[JanS]

Native to this habitat are Swisher Sweets boxes,

Here it's the McDonald's slobs who stuff their face in the car and toss their trash out the window wherever they happen to finish it. Like it would be so hard to set the bag down in the car and put it in a trash can when they get out. As for food items, living out here most of it comes from kills in the woods when wild critters drag it in they yard, but at least they can't get into the dog fence to drop it.

 

[MichiH]

Native to this habitat are Swisher Sweets boxes, wigs/hair extensions, lots of plastic drink bottles (some with a yellowish liquid inside), and of course something you notice when you ride a bicycle: broken glass. Of course, broken glass is native to every place I've lived.

Dax, two Dobermans ago, used to eat cigarette butts and cigar butts when found. He actually grew out of that habit, but eeewwwww.

Sounds like where we live too. Also, airplane bottles of empty booze and pints of empty pinnacle vodka.

 

[GennyB]

WOW! Just wow! I have never seen a chicken bone on the side of the road! I live in the country now but even when I lived in the burbs it was pretty clean. I just can't imagine what nasties the trash brings into the picture.
Like @JanS an occasional animal gets killed but we have natural clean up crews that get on it pretty fast.

Just curious @LucyXIII @Oh Little Oji @MichiH what kind of littering laws do you guys have?

 

[remy]

How is Flint doing now?

 

[StateOfMine]

How is Flint doing now?

He is fine. Back to pooping normal. I think we're ok