Reply #7: Warning about the bone!!!! [View All]

I have a dog who's about the size of your Patsy. We gave him one of those type bones that fiance had bought at the local petstore. He grrrhed at the cats, proudly carried the bone around, gnawed on it all Sunday and even snuck it under the covers Sunday night.

Monday morning when we woke up, he had thrown up in several places. He was acting a little punky so we kept an eye on him. Monday afternoon around 3ish, I picked him up and put him in bed between the two of us while we were watching some t.v. We noticed he was trembly and he also refused one of his favorite treats. We decided to take him to the vet just to make sure he was ok. Turns out we nearly lost him.

They ran blood tests on him and found he was severely dehydrated and some of his blood chemistry was out of whack. Not exactly sure how the rating system works but on the dehydration, 60 is when organs start shutting down and our pup was at 57. He stayed at the vets until Wednesday afternoon and they rehydrated him with an IV.

The fun bone proved to be a pretty costly treat for our pup. We called the distributor of the bone and they told us to send all of the information in since we weren't the first this had happened to. We're waiting on their insurance company to reimburse us for the medical bill.