How long until an earing passes through my dog? It belongs to the mother in law and is a diamond one - she is not amused !! :-)

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Not really sure - our terrier ate the photocard from my daughter's digital camera and haven't seen it yet two weeks later.

When a puppy ate one of my earrings I got my husband (he chose the puppy so it was his fault!) to 'go through the motions' ;-) till he found it. It took two days. :-)

Going from when my dog used to chew up her blanket - next day.  Would a card have dissolved somewhat in the stomach? Mine frightened me last week on holiday.  There was a pot plant with pebbles around the base.  She took to playing with them. My hubby called her over while she had one in her mouth - big mistake it just slipped down her throat.  Next day after a run on the beach she started eating grass for all she was worth.  After a couple of heaves up came the stone.  What a relief although I have heard of dogs carrying a number of stones in their stomachs for some time I was concerned about the consequences. 

>What a relief although I have heard of dogs carrying a number of stones in their stomachs for some time I was concerned about the consequences. 

I took my old Girl Gemma into the vet as she wasnt very well. The vet found a 'mass' and wanted to Xray as they thought she had stomach cancer. Took her in the next day and went to work. Longest day ever, to then get a phone call to say the 'mass' was a load of pea gravel sitting in her stomach, where she had been eating it!!!
I believe it stayed there until the day she died in December!!
So yes, they can be fine with stones sitting in there stomach LOL
Lea :) :)

does it work like it did with certain dinosaurs that it aids digestion by acting like a pestle and mortar in the stomach?

I am afraid that it is not safe in general for dogs to have stones in their gut. Some may well get away with it, but if it passes into the lower part of the gut, which can happen at any time, it can cause an obstruction. my friends retriever died of eating stones.

In answer to the OP, it should only take a day or two for it to pass, but a small earring is going to be hard to find in a piece of poo. you may have to put all poo in a poo dissolving substance like that you get in dog loos, and then sieve the residue. Personally I'd claim it off the dog insurance instead, if the earrings were very expensive.

> Personally I'd claim it off the dog insurance instead, if the earrings were very expensive

Me too!   This reminds me of a comedy routine Joan Rivers used to do :-)

'a small earring is going to be hard to find in a piece of poo.'  I suppose it depends on whether you have a small dog or not.  How do you make the quotes pale?

> How do you make the quotes pale?

Either go into "reply" highlight the bit of text you want to appear in the quote from the posters text showing below your white reply field and click the tiny grey "" at the bottom or cut and paste the quote you want and simply put a > in front of it.

Thanks Isabel - I would never have spotted that little grey bit.

seems more sensible than sieving through poo.

lol wasn't suggesting it was a good idea to have dogs eat stone pinklillies!

Sieving poo? Sounds like prospecting, :-D  I'd keep an eye out anyway because there's a good chance some part of the earring will glint. That's what I've discovered about bits of tin foil anyway :-D

>Sounds like prospecting

sounds like fun :-D   panning for diamond earrings :-D

Should appear in a day or so, but I wouldn't like to try and find it!  To make it easier you could let her have a raw bone to chew then you will get some nice solid/crumbley white poos to spot the earring in - :D

Have you found it yet?

I needed to check something suspicious once so just plonked the poo in a bucket and blasted it with the spray hose til it broke up.  If you carefully tip the dirty water out, the heavier items stay at the bottom and the rest floats off.  You can keep adding clean water til you can see what you are looking for.  My dogs odd item was a plastic soldier that had some red wool twisted round it - ouch!

It's not the nicest job (pardon the pun) in the world but you'll be reassured to know it's out!!  She may never wear it again so perhaps you can have it remounted as a memento...  Good luck

In a piece of brown rubber shaped as a turd!! good conversation piece.