Spike88
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My little Peanut likes to chew at plastic bags so we try to keep them picked up but even the recycle bag that is in the house he will go after so it is hard to keep them all picked up.
This morning I was cleaning out their litter box and one of the poop pieces had red in it. I took it apart and it was a piece of a Zellers (store) bag about 1 and 1/2 in long.
How do I know if he is having a bowel problem or intestine problem or is that all there was inside?
What do I do? Should I call the vet?
This is the same little monkey that ate the plant and had the direaha for a week
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dturm
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Look for: loss of appetite, abdominal pain, abnormal or difficult BMs, change in behavior. Call your vet and get recommendations.
Most of the time in these situations I have clients watch for any of the above signs and error on the side of getting them examined if any question exists about symptoms.
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Spike88
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Thank you. He is eating crunchies and drinking water and is active. I will callthe vet and see what she thinks.
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BuckBarker
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Add vegetable oil to his food. It will lube him out and out it will come.
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or tuna fish packed in oil
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Code2High
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Good heavens if I called the vet every time one of my mob had a little piece of plastic bag in their poop or mixed with their furball, I wouldn't have enough left over for groceries! Little monsters... I don't know what it is with plastic!
Keep an eye on him, as long as things are moving right along, he should be fine.
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They didn't call her "Plain Gravy" for nothing.
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lzasitko
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I don't worry too much about it. Our dog is always into stuff and why it eats it is beyond me. Most of the time it is plastic that meat has been on and even though it is washed she will still go after it. We have also had her get tin foil and eat that after shredding it. A couple times I'll take her for a walk and she does her business but can't get it all out, ie it's just hanging there so then I use one of the poop bags and pull it out. I know it's uncomfortable for her but still does it and where it all comes from is a mystery, we do try to keep things out her reach. However it has not hurt her in any way and our vet was not to concerned about it.
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david_42
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It's tinsel time again! Always had problems with my doxie eating the stuff. No worse than grass, actually.
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dturm
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david_42 wrote:It's tinsel time again! Always had problems with my doxie eating the stuff. No worse than grass, actually.
NOT TRUE!!!
One of the real holiday emergencies is ingestion of tinsel. It's almost always plastic now days, does not digest and acts like a string foreign body in the intestines. As the intestines contract and move segmentally, the ends are anchored while the movement acts in a sawing motion and eventually saws through the intestine.
I've had dozens of emergency surgeries to retrieve string foreign bodies, some had severe peritonitis and died even with the surgical intervention.
If you have not had problems, you have been lucky.
NEVER allow any animal to eat, play with or otherwise have any possibility of ingesting.
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CA POPPY
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dturm wrote:I've had dozens of emergency surgeries to retrieve string foreign bodies, some had severe peritonitis and died even with the surgical intervention.
Doug, DVM
Exactly what our vet says, Dr Doug! Cats can't resist string-type stuff, thus all the feathers-on-a-string type toys at pet supplies. Our vet warned us when Edna was a tiny kitten to put those toys away anytime we stopped playing with her for just the reasons you cited. Also, our vet tech had his own cat chew off and swallow a shoe string. It's like the little buggers want to do the Lady and the Tramp scene of sucking up spaghetti. No piece of paper, especially tissue paper, is safe with Edna, but luckily she doesn't swallow it. I guess this time of year it's a good reminder about wrapping paper, etc. Some of the colored paper might possibly contain toxic chemicals.
Just found this list, I'm sure there are more...
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Holiday Hazards
* Christmas tree water (may contain fertilizers and bacteria, which, if ingested, can upset the stomach.
* Electrical cords
* Ribbons or tinsel (can become lodged in the intestines and cause intestinal obstruction—most often occurs with kittens!)
* Batteries
* Glass ornaments
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