Another sad story of a dog treat gone bad

Date: Mon Jan 5, 2009 2:56 pm ((PST))

Cross post far and wide!!!!!

I would like to warn all dog lovers out there to be very careful about
the dog treats that you give your dogs. Last week I bought a 'Real Ham
Bone' made by Dynamic Pet Products of Missouri from Walmart. The label
says it is made with '100% Food Grade Ingredients' and it isn't made
from China. I thought that meant that this would make a good treat for
my dogs. Boy was I wrong.

Trace, my dog, enjoyed chewing on this bone. It did not splinter or
anything, in fact there is quite a large piece of it still left. Then in
the evening she started vomiting. She spent the next day at a
veterinarian's office where she was diagnosed with a blockage of the
colon. That night she endured a 4 hour surgery at Brandon Veterinary
Specialists where the vet picked out small round pellets of the bone, up
to the size of about a b-b. The next morning she was moved to Florida
Veterinary Specialist critical care unit. Again in the evening she had
another 2 hour surgery, because the blockage had caused poison in her
body. She passed away at 4:30 the next afternoon.

Everyone who hears this horrible story immediately says 'Well that
sounds like a lawsuit to me'. That is what I thought also. Since then, I
have learned that is not that easy to sue on behalf of a dog. The
lawyers say a dog is a possession just like a couch. So, so far, all I
have been able to do is write a certified letter to Dynamic Pet Products
of Missouri. In it I requested my vet bills to be paid and their product
to be relabeled or preferably removed from the shelf. I don't know if I
will get a response. If anyone else has any ideas about how I may
address this issue, please let me know at djurgens12@aol.
mailto:djurgens12%40aol.com%3E com.

In the memory of Trace, please pass this email on to all of the dog
lovers that you know. This type of bone is sold in all of the stores
under several different manufacturers names. I would assume they all may
do the same thing. Even if they don't splinter, they can cause a blockage.

sad........

http://www.dynamicpetproducts.com/

"chardonnay9" wrote in message news:2c-
In the memory of Trace, please pass this email on to all of the dog lovers
that you know. This type of bone is sold in all of the stores under
several different manufacturers names. I would assume they all may do the
same thing. Even if they don't splinter, they can cause a blockage.

sad........



How very sad, and what a beautiful dog Trace was. I'm glad this was posted
to reiterate that a lot of those *treats* are dangerous, and come in various
forms from all kinds of different stores. :-(

Cheri

chardonnay9 wrote, quoting from a web site:

Trace, my dog, enjoyed chewing on this bone. It did not splinter or
anything, in fact there is quite a large piece of it still left. Then in
the evening she started vomiting. She spent the next day at a
veterinarian's office where she was diagnosed with a blockage of the
colon. That night she endured a 4 hour surgery at Brandon Veterinary
Specialists where the vet picked out small round pellets of the bone, up
to the size of about a b-b. The next morning she was moved to Florida
Veterinary Specialist critical care unit. Again in the evening she had
another 2 hour surgery, because the blockage had caused poison in her
body. She passed away at 4:30 the next afternoon.

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

--
Don't believe everything that you think.

To reply, unleash the dog.

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

On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:44:56 GMT, "Dale Atkin"
wrote:

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


Bagel once puked up a red rag. WHOLE. like a shop rag.
I put it in the trash
He got it again (I did not know it)
and puked it up again. WHOLE

that dog had an iron stomach....


newfondly yours,

Nessa
----
Dog Mom to:
Hannah age 6.5 Pitador rescued age 9 weeks
Harley small shaggy cow that pretends he's a newfoundland rescued age 10 months
(Angel) Bagel went to Rainbow Bridge 9/18/08 my Newfandstuff age 8.5

I came home the other day, and my MIL said my Pembroke had gotten his head
stuck in a pail. I couldn't figure this out, as many of you know the layout
of a Pembroke. When I saw the bucket, it all made sense. There was a
glucosamine bucket, a small squarish one with a one third flat, two thirds
fold over lid and a plastic bail. He had gotten in there to get the last
crumbs from the glucosame cookies when it was sitting nest to the trash, and
got stuck. He's a feisty turd, and I'd once like to see him in a stuck
situation. Mom gave it a jerk, but not without some growling from the old
feisty turd.

A sad story with a happy ending.

Steve