It is a very sad story, a sad way to lose a dog. But it leaves me puzzled.
How would small round pellets (bb size or smaller) cause an intestinal
blockage? Did they all clump together in the intestine? Is it possible
that the dog already had a mass in her intestines? Have there been other
reports of intestinal blockages with this product? Or is it a case of
assumed cause and effect because two events happened at the same time
(bone and blockage)?

I don't know the answers, I fully agree that we need to be careful about
what we give our pets as treats, but I'd need more information to be able
to conclude that the treat caused the blockage.

FurPaw

I've been thinking about blockages lately (we just started GI at school,
haven't actually talked about blockages though). From my (limited)
experience I'm forced to come to the conclusion that some dogs must be
predisposed to them. My own dog, has passed things through his intestines,
that by rights should have caused a blockage (and I've seen cause blockages
in other animals).

You name it, at some time or other, he's probably eaten it. (Socks, gloves,
porcupine, plastic bags, wrappers, cotton stuffing, chunks of bone, cooked
chicken bones discovered in the park, etc, etc, etc). How he's gotten away
with it, I have *no* idea.

Then you'll see some poor dog that gets in to laundry one day, eats one
sock, and turns up on the operating table two days later. I don't understand
it. All I can think is that the motility of some dog's intestines must be
better than others.

Dale