Rant - neighbour threw cooked turkey legs into my garden

Raksha

:mad:

Just had to extract 1/2 cooked turkey leg and pick up a load of shards from the one he got to before I coukd stop him.

Fed him 4 cotton wool balls soaked in milk, which he thought was odd, but he was happy to oblige.

Spent Christmas worrying about my nearly 14 year old Spring who seems to have a touch of kennel cough, I will probably struggle to sleep tonight ...

bluebeary

alot of people probably arent aware that the sharp shards from bones can be harmful to dogs, and cats, your neighbour probably thought he was being kind to your dog and really dint mean any harm

maybe explain to him what harm it could possibly do and also maybe suggest to hand them to you next time as you could have trodden on one and hurt yourself

that way, you can pull the bits of meat from the bone yourself and then give it to your dog ?

thorsoak

IMO, the cotton wool balls are only going to exacerbate the problem! They can swell even more and cause a serious blockage in the intestine

I suggest a trip to the vet's - just to be on the safe side - the poor old boy may well need an operation

zaksmum

thorsoak wrote: »

IMO, the cotton wool balls are only going to exacerbate the problem! They can swell even more and cause a serious blockage in the intestine

I suggest a trip to the vet's - just to be on the safe side - the poor old boy may well need an operation

That's what I thought! Why on earth have you given him the cotton wool balls?

As thorsoak says, get him to the vet.

mrcow

Should you be feeding a dog cotton wool? Was this on vetinary advice?

DaftyDuck

Agree that cotton wool isn't the right thing to use at all, not least because much cotton wool is synthetic fibre these days, so is long thread and very tough. I know this remedy is out there on the internet but I don't know many vets who'd support it.... I'm married to one, and just had supper with three more!

I guess your neighbour was trying to be kind to animals and made a mistake through ignorance. Happens frequently.....

Raksha

If I say I used cotton wool balls, then that is what I used, NOT 'synthetic fibres' The reason I did it was because it was recommended on a dog first aid course I attended run by veterinary nurses. Have you ever soaked a cotton wool ball? It does NOT swell so how could it cause a blockage?
Many vets don't 'recommend' feeding raw food, but its saved the lives of many dogs who could deal with processed foods.
His lordship is bright and breezy this morning, had a normal poo and a post poo dash round the garden..

thorsoak

Raksha wrote: »

If I say I used cotton wool balls, then that is what I used, NOT 'synthetic fibres' The reason I did it was because it was recommended on a dog first aid course I attended run by veterinary nurses. Have you ever soaked a cotton wool ball? It does NOT swell so how could it cause a blockage?
Many vets don't 'recommend' feeding raw food, but its saved the lives of many dogs who could deal with processed foods.
His lordship is bright and breezy this morning, had a normal poo and a post poo dash round the garden..

Please check that the cotton wool balls have been passed ......

I've been on several canine 1st aid courses, run by breed societies as well as vets and the soaked cotton wool balls has always been refuted as good first aid .....it is good for vets of course, when they have to operate to remove the obstruction/sepsis in the intestines due to blockage by the cotton wool balls which expand as they absorb more and more liquid in the digestive process - and of course the body cannot digest them.

Dovah_diva

Raksha wrote: »

If I say I used cotton wool balls, then that is what I used, NOT 'synthetic fibres' The reason I did it was because it was recommended on a dog first aid course I attended run by veterinary nurses.

Ahhhh, then you are clearly far better informed than trained vets.

Glad your dog appears to be suffering no ill effects, but your actions were stupid and could have made things so much worse.

Mojisola

Raksha wrote: »

If I say I used cotton wool balls, then that is what I used, NOT 'synthetic fibres'

The reason I did it was because it was recommended on a dog first aid course I attended run by veterinary nurses.

Dovah_diva wrote: »

Ahhhh, then you are clearly far better informed than trained vets.

Glad your dog appears to be suffering no ill effects, but your actions were stupid and could have made things so much worse.

That's not nice after Raksha explained it was a method taught on a vet nurse run first aid course!

joansgirl

I can't believe the attitude of some of the people on here. If you haven't got anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.