A plush parsnip to be precise 😬
This happened on Friday night, DH and I were in the sitting room and DDog1 was happily removing stuffing from the parsnip. He and DDog2 usually tag-team, she chews the hole and he spends a couple happy hours laboriously pulling the stuffing out. Then DH or I clear the whole thing up and throw it in the bin, no harm done. I should point out that DDogs are 9 and 10 and have never made any effort to swallow a toy so far.
Last night we realised that the parsnip had vanished completely. We searched but couldn't find it so concluded that DDog1 must have swallowed it (circumstantially he's the most likely, realistically the less likely of an unlikely pair) I called the video vet we get through our insurance, who (unsurprisingly) advised us to call our OOH vet. They advised that making him vomit may damage his oesophagus, and that we should wait and monitor him in the hope it passes through. If not then we're obviously looking at surgery.
DH and I have stripped the room bare today, including pulling out all the furniture and dog bed and there's no trace of the parsnip.
The issue is that we're off on the holiday of a lifetime on Friday and have a Housesitter staying. I'm speaking to her tomorrow to let her know what's happening and to get her take on what she wants to do. We've been advised that if there's a blockage then we'll know in 2-4 days. If he (or possibly DDog2) requires surgery, then what is the likely scenario?
We have decent travel insurance and also pet insurance so in the event we needed to cancel then we should be ok. However I'm unsure what recovery may look like and whether we would be irresponsible to consider going away (though both insurances will only cover us for immediately life threatening conditions)
Any advice or experiences would be gratefully appreciated as we enter a second day of watching both dogs like hawks with an unhealthy interest in bowel movements 😬