Anyone else have a dog eat glass by accident!?

[SamPoodle123]

Of course this happens Sunday evening when my vet is closed! Thankfully, I managed to get through to the emergency and they said give the dog green beans and just keep an eye on her. Online it says give the dog bread....which she already ate with the glass!

Basically, my two year old broke a glass cup last night in my bathroom it was filled with water. I used paper towels to pick up the big pieces and online it said use bread to pick up all the tiny pieces...so I did and it worked like a charm. I used 3 pieces, through them in a plastic sainsbury's bag, put it in the corner of bathroom by the trash (it was folded over), then got distracted by two year old, put her to bed. I forgot about it until this evening during bath time, as I noticed it was tipped over and I checked bag and saw two pieces of bread missing. So the dog obviosuly got into it when me and my dc was out for the morning. Not even sure why the dog would sniff out bread in the bag!

So now, I am monitoring her. She at some green beans mixed with wet food (but not much of the green beans). I had to mix w the wet food to try and get her to eat it. I also put more bread, as online said bread is good.

Has anyone else's dog eaten glass before?? Advice?

And before anyone has a go at me for being gone during the morning....we took her to the park for 30 minutes first, left for two hours, came back and took her to the park again before popping to the store for a short time and back home for the rest of the day. Normally, others are home, but our older two are out of country with my dh.

You called an out of hours vet who said feed your dog green beans because it ate glass….

I’d suggest getting a 2nd option from a decent vet, I’d be incredibly concerned if I was you

next time glass goes in the bin before dog or young child finds it

How big were the glass pieces in the bread?

I can’t imagine what a vet would do in this situation, they can’t open her up and remove such tiny slivers of glass so I guess it really is just trying to get them through her digestive system as quickly as possible and keep an eye out for any decline which may suggest a perforation.

I don't get why green beans will help. Sorry if I'm missing something.

Yes, the pieces were very tiny. I had used paper towels to pick up the big pieces and online it said use bread to pick up the small pieces. Coincidently it said online to feed the dog bread if it eats glass as well.

The vet said green beans would help bc of the fiber. I listened and fed the dog green beans, more bread and dog food!

Mine ate great big bits and had to have them removed. That was expensive...

They did say that if the bits had been smaller they would have let them pass.

Sympathies.

Oh wow, that must have been a difficult surgery to find the bits and remove them! Unless they were quite big.

So far, she is fine and dandy, as normal. I really hope everything will be okay. I have now learned my lesson to never leave anything potentially dangerous like that out. I still can not believe she went in and got the bread....

Biggest was an inch across.

If yours is a scavenger by nature you’re going to spend the next 12 years going, “WTF have you eaten now???” and phoning the vet to ask. “Is this toxic?”. A friend’s dog had to have unrelated gut surgery and, when they opened her, they found a whole load of those single serving ketchup packets. This was in lockdown so they must have been there for months. Dogs are idiots.

Hope she’s okay this morning.

My dog did this, managed to come bounding into the room, when I was clearing up broken glass. I took him to the vets as an emergency and he was x-rayed (not cheap). There was a small piece of glass in his stomach and I was told to give him bread for a day or so and keep an eye on him. Luckily all was fine

When my dog was a pup, he ate a big bit of a smashed cup that he got to before I did. Rushed him to the vets who gave him a laxative and told us to give him some adult wet food to help 'coat' it through the digestive system. He was fine.

He's a lab though and we had many trips to the vets when he was a pup for things he (shouldn't have) had eaten

@Motorina I was picking up my dog's 💩the other day and thought 'What on Earth is that?!'.

It was an empty tube yoghurt wrapper that he'd been sharing with my little one!

Yup, as a puppy mine ate a chunk of glass ornament that fell to the floor beside him. It fell, I popped him straight behind the gate to keep him out of harms way and then picked up the ornament and tried to find the missing piece. He literally crunched it between his teeth as I looked over at him, wondering if he'd managed to sneak it up before I gt him out of the way.

My OOH vet also advised high fibre (green veggies) to help pass quickly plus bread and/or rice to help cushion it as it did so. WHY do they always do these things outside normal veterinary hours!!

He was a-ok.

Thanks all. Everything is well so far. She did two big poops this morning. The first poop had a tiny bit of red blood, which is from when she pushed out. Then running around the park playing as normal. The second poop an hour later was perfect and no fresh blood. I will continue to monitor, give green beans, bread and wet dog food for the next couple of days.

As a vet have seen one dog eat a light bulb, and another eat a whole box of 12 glass Xmas baubles. Simply by choice !
Both were fine with bread and monitoring.
Green beans is a new one on me though, will have to research !

Hello. I just wanted to update in case anyone else goes looking online for the same thing. Happy to report that our dog is okay. :) Obviously, I am still keeping an eye on her. But she is happy, eating well and normal poos.

Our puppy ate a glass Xmas bauble age 4 months. Vet did an X-ray and saw a few tiny pieces but told me bread would be great he best thing and to monitor her. She was absolutely fine.