My 14-year-old dashund must have really been up to no good during the night. When I heard he was awake outside of my door, I figured I might as well go ahead and get up. I noticed he was coughing and then going along the wall licking the floor, strange behavior even for him. I chased him around the room and put his leash on to go out. We went outside and he did his thing. After going back to the house, he started acting like he was choking, and he was still licking the floor. I grabbed him around the belly and tossed him on the couch. It was then I saw something bobbing out of his mouth. When it bobbed out again, I grabbed it and pulled it. He had swallowed one of my four inch plastic yarn needles along with about a foot of yarn. It was fortunate he had grabbed a plastic one because I have some that are metal. I sighed with relief when I thought the mystery was solved. Oh no, about 30 minutes later, the same thing occurred, and I thought he was chewing on paper, but no, it was a ball of yarn coming out of his mouth.
In order to calm him down and me too, I finally put the cone of shame on him so that he could try to recover. Hopefully, he didn’t swallow the whole yarn basket.
The goal now was to make sure he recovered without any complications. I know what you are thinking, and no, I did not rush him to the vet, I calmly handled the situation. He is right here beside me. I will watch him closely for the next few hours.
This is a first even for this rowdy guy. It’s been thirty minutes later, and he is no longer choking and is eating and drinking normally. Guess he just wanted to shake up my day. Moving my yarn supplies to see if he will stay out of it.
Well, here’s hoping the rest of my day will be less eventful.
Have a great day guys.
Leave a Reply