Already posted tonight about mastiff's cruciate.....well the other one (7mnth) pinched half an eaten corn on the cob tonight, pretty sure it was him as he was licking his lips. Feel so annoyed with myself for not throwing it straight in the bin normally I am so vigilant. Please can anyone tell me if there dog has ever eaten one and what the outcome was. Many thanks

Don't want to frighten you, I'd go to the vet straight away - this can be very serious. My DIL's parent's dog had to be PTS recently following surgery after eating a corn on the cob. They hadn't realised that he had eaten it until some time later. Lucy on here also nearly lost her dog after she ate a cob :(

Betty

Daisy

Ditto - contact your vet immediately for advice. They're one of the very common causes of bowel obstruction which can prove fatal.

A dog I knew needed an op to get one removed.  contact your vet

ditto the above. Please contact your vet. Hope the outcome is good for you.!

One of my dogs pinched half a corn cob off the plate. I didn't know which one (had 9 dogs at the time), they all seemed normal. Nine weeks later the oldest girl threw it up - it was black and took some recognising.

I would still get yours to the vet though!

> One of my dogs pinched half a corn cob off the plate. I didn't know which one (had 9 dogs at the time), they all seemed normal. Nine weeks later the oldest girl threw it up - it was black and took some recognising.

I didn't realise something could stay in the stomach that long?

Please don't ignore this. The dog needs to have this corn cob removed before it causes an obstruction.

We had a barbeque a few years back. My friends Airedale stole a small piece of corn on the cob from a plate. About 5 MONTHS later we operated on her to remove a very rotten husk from her tummy. She was very ill but pulled through just fine.

Yes get the dog to the vet asap as I would never want to go through what we went through with Betty.

Yes I ditto what everybody else has said.  A friend of mine recently nearly lost her dog to eating a corn cob, that was weeks ago too. She ended up having surgery to remove it and part of the bowel that had perotonitis too.

They dont get broken down in the stomach at all.  Good luck at the Vets.

There might still be time for an emetic injection to make him vomit it back. Certainly better than surgery.

Ditto. I new someone years ago whos dali died after eating a cob

> There might still be time for an emetic injection to make him vomit it back.

Jeangenie. After something like a corncob has been eaten, how long do you have to make him vomit? When one of ours ate a leather insole, I was given the advise that to make him sick I could use mustard or soda?

If a dog's eaten something poisonous then you have no more than an hour to make them vomit - with a 'safer' (in relative terms!) foreign body such as a sock you have longer, but the longer you wait the more chance there is for it to pass from the stomach into the gut, which is where it's most likely to cause serious problems.

In theory washing soda makes them vomit - in practice I've found it to be a total waste of time and utterly ineffective; I'd get to the vet for an apomorphine injection which works like a dream within minutes.

Any update, streetmutt?

Contacted vet who advised against making him vomit as could cause more damage coming up. Took him in for xray this morning and looked clear, he may have munched it up completely. got to keep any eye on him any signs of problems straight back to vets.

good luck, streetmutt, it's enough to make you despair sometimes thinking about what a puppy can get into. Mine discovered a small wisteria last week and decided to give it a serious prune. I moved it out of the way, but he managed to get to it again--I know because I saw him vomiting up the leaves. That's when I read up about wisteria to find it is a poisonous plant. Fortunately he is fine but the wisteria is not coming back.