I started a thread on Saturday and no one wanted to talk to me! But the issue is still going on so I thought I'd expand a bit. (link to original: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_doghouse/3721482-Dog-eaten-a-piece-of-a-plastic-yoghurt-pot-decisions)
So the dog - 3 year old cockerpoo ate a bit of hard sharp plastic, he has a lot of form for eating crap. At the weekend the vet took X-ray (using weights to hold him still!!) said she thought she saw something but not enough evidence to either repeat x-ray or do ultrasound (both of which would need to be done under anaethestic). She said if he gets worse they can do the ultrasound, but at the moment he is simply not quite right, and was sick again this morning (first time since Saturday).
I've been thinking of all the other times he's eaten stuff like this, which I never see coming out in his poo and its making me think what IS in his stomach? You see those terrible pictures of sea birds and whales with stomachs full of plastic - I can remember a dozen times when we think he's had something like part of a plastic bottle top etc., over the 3 years. I also remembered last week before the plastic he chewed a hole in his blanket and ate the resulting circle of fabric.
Our last dog died aged 5 after exploratory surgery (not due to eating rubbish) so we are on hyper alert thinking could it happen again. I've booked him in with the vet I like for Friday but the way its going I reckon we might have to take him in earlier. (poo is normal just the occasional vomiting since we saw him eat the plastic)
What experiences have other dog owners had?
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DishingOutDone · 22/10/2019 09:41
When mine was that age dgc4arter he favoured building materials 
As a puppy, he liked to chew things - but he only ever swallowed a couple of small bits. He preferred to leave chewed plastic all over my floor instead
We always have loads of chews around for him and that seems to have worked, and we rotate them too. He's nearly 2 now and doesn't really chew anymore, though he will steal socks and carry them around like some kind of prize 
Our boy previously ate a zinc tablet and some grapes as a puppy (both required emergency vet) but since then, the past 2.5 years, its been more hardcore - literally. When the builders were in he'd have paint, filler, brick etc. Every toy has to be removed minus a part that he's scoffed, he particularly likes rope toys so I don't buy them any more as I did actually know that string like stuff is the worst for intestinal blockage. But I stupidly didn't realise plastic sits in their stomachs 
Fortunately mine doesn't anymore but due to medication making him hungry and loopy he once ate a rag which had to be removed as an emergency. We have no idea when he ate it and didn't even recognise the rag but the vet did say it could have been there for a while, rattling around his stomach, until it eventually moved and blocked the intestine
I have a 14 month old dog who should've been named Dyson; if it's not fastened down it's fair game.
I can often be found on walks with his head tipped back and my fingers in his throat.
Just tonight I though he was eating a mouse.... it was a pom pom off my slipper 
Top spider catcher.
But I've saved the best for last......
3 weeks ago we came home to find he had destroyed the plastic tray that lined his crate, literally in a thousand small pieces and we had no idea how much he had eaten, if any.
The next morning he sicked up a load, cur trip to vet, sedation and X-ray.
Nope, couldn't see anything or any pockets of gas so hoorah he's brought it all up!
Wrong.
Over the past 3 weeks he has periodically left "deposits" in the kitchen. He's pooping like normal, eating like normal and no signs of any blockages the bits obviously just can't pass so they're coming back up sporadically.
In one deposit there were prices of a blanket we threw away FOUR MONTHS AGO!
Vet says leave him to it unless he starts to show signs of illness.
I dread to think what's actually inside him.
Picture of a deposit attached.
I had a lab who ate whole big box of milk tray. I didn't get a single one 
but lived to tell the tale and eat lots of other things dogs should not eat and not even a terrible poo.
wow. What sort of dog is it and what size? I thought that if there was something in the dog's stomach it had to come out in case it moved into the intestine? Did your vet not offer ultrasound?
@Finchy19 he's an English Bull Terrier, weighs 25kg and they're renowned for being pretty hardy!
Vet said ultrasound wouldn't show anything if the X-ray didn't so only options were cut him open or camera down his throat - she said both are pretty extreme and given that he's not sick and still passing they'd rather leave him be?!
She said if anything gets blocked we'd know before there's time for damage because he'll stop pooping and eating in which case he's to go in straight away.
We've gone a whole week now with nothing coming back up so fingers crossed it's all out
Goodness where do I begin....
As a child I had a lab/GSD that ate one of those huge boxes of chocolate liqueurs at a Christmas and then all my Easter eggs the following Easter. He was probably only about 4 or 5 at the time and lived to the grand old age of 12.
Another childhood dog, American Bulldog/Mastiff that ate a whole army boot. Sole n’ all. She only left the metal eyelets. She wasn’t very well for a a couple of days but she’s still here to tell the tale and beautiful.
Again, childhood Springerdore, something wrapped in cling film... had to help him with that one 
Our Heinz57 ate a scouring sponge she scavenged from the bin as a puppy . Emergency vet called and she passed the lot eventually.
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My dog eats anything. She snatches things discreetly and disappears off with it concealed in her mouth. Her list of destruction is endless and appalling. Plastic flower pots, sticklebacks, Lego, pretend play food, any food wrappers, cardboard boxes, plastic bags, anything the toddler drops including beakers, plastic toddler cutlery, crayons pencils...
I love my dog to pieces but honestly I wish she’d kerb the habit. When I clean up her poo I pretty much stand there looking at it first going ‘wtf has she eaten now’
My life is spent worrying more about what the dogs up too than the toddler!
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