Gahh dog has eaten Christmas pudding

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First off, because I know this is the first thing people will say - he is already at the vet now with DH.

He's just eaten 3/4 of a large Christmas pudding out of a pedal bin with a flat flush top that he still managed to open (anyone want to guess what breed he is?)

He's at the vet now, and was there within 25 mins of eating it. Please give me good news stories of when your dogs have done this...? I'm hoping as we realised so quickly that vomiting will sort it?

Hope DDog is home with you very soon OP.

You did the right thing getting him to a vet asap. The main risk of eating grapes / raisins arises from renal failure. As such the dog's renal function should be tested and monitored by a vet. Making them vomit at home isn't enough.

It can be hard to predict the outcome unfortunately. Some dogs seem unaffected, others react to ingesting only a small amount. Research is ongoing as to why as it seems unrelated to age, health or size of dog.

Our dog ate two thirds of a Fortnum and Mason Christmas cake, part of a gift hamper.
Straight to the vet, had an emetic injection and stayed overnight for observation but was fine. £500 bill which made Fortnums cake even more expensive. Apparently only some dogs react badly to vine fruits but there is no way of knowing which dogs will be affected.
Hope your dog is recovered and home soon x

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We paid £410 gor our furry bin to be emptied one Boxing Day evening after they indulged in chocolate Santa's.

DP said the emergency vets waiting room was full of dogs trying to look shameful but grinning at each other as if to say "so what did you snaffle"..

Furry bin was amazing full of bounce about 30mins after final vomit of treatment.

My Patterdale ate half a Christmas cake when he was nine months old. Only discovered at 11pm so was emergency vets, and three days in hospital. Bill was £950 seven years ago. PetPlan paid up even though he had the most basic cover.

It always amuses me that at his annual checkup/vaccination appointment it’s mentioned he’s lost half a kilo, and I have to explain the amount of Christmas cake scoffed, and really he should be 11.5kg and not 12kg. Funnily enough he’s never stolen anything since - even food left on the coffee table.

My dog ate a box of mince pies so granted not as much fruit as a pud ,
It cost me just shy of £400 , this was normal vet hours , not out of hours emergency .
He was made to vomit , he didn't actually bring anything back up as vet said it takes approx 2 hours to leave the stomach and we were unsure how long it had been since he got hold of them .
Then given charcoal liquid to put on his food for 48 hours .
He's a big dog ( 42kg for ref ) so everything s more expensive, more meds etc .
The vet told me in his 20+ years of practice he'd never seen a dog seriously ill ( as in long term or fatal ) effects of fruit , grapes or dried .
So all you can do is hope, it is very rare , luckily .

And finally I did claim on my insurance & was settled in full minus my excess .
Good luck, I'm sure he will be fine x

Me too! Was it out of date, didn’t taste nice etc?
Good job it wasn’t drenched in brandy, like ours!

It had to bd a Labrador!! I have a Labrador , and its just never enough food. hope you are ok and the dog is too x

Same - our pup ate a daffodil bulb when she was nine weeks old. We’d had her less than 36 hours and we were sure we had removed all poisonous plants and bulbs from back garden and she sniffed out the one that was left. It cost less than £200 - this was in 2021.

Mind you she wasn’t even sheepish when we went to collect her from vets - they kept her for about four hours and she was happy and smiling when we got there and the staff were playing with her. They must have really looked after her as she had such a positive experience.

I hope your beautiful guy is okay - what beautiful shiny fur he has!

If it's within normal opening hours, will probably be under £150, ours was when my also black lab, stole my mince pie from behind my back!

Toxicity to raisins/grapes is individual so can't be assessed via weight/breed so always best to get them to a vet ASAP.

When you have to give him the charcoal, do it outside and leave him outside for a bit.

Knew it would be a lab.

Had similar panic when ours ate a hot cross bun. Only afterwards it crossed my mind that he would help himself to my muesli if he had a chance, to no ill effects (hot cross buns and muesli now banned from house).

Exactly what I thought!
labs aren”t silly.. he would gave watched that go into bin and thought… “hmmm daft humans.. that will be mine later”
I love labs

Enjoy ☺️ This bloody dog will be the death of me http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/amiibeingunreasonable/5234661-this-bloody-dog-will-be-the-death-of-me

My cousin’s Weimaraner ate an entire 15lb fruitcake once.
He broke into their outdoor storage shed.
He had his stomach pumped and was AOK.
Happy New Year

Hope all is ok. My pup has done similar twice but she is 16 and 3/4 now so neither incident seemed to do her any significant long term damage. My most recent bill was £100 for out of hours vet visit but she got home after being sick. I think the vet said if you get them there quickly it’s much less likely to cause damage. Hope yours is home with you soon

Me too. What a disgraceful waste of food.

I feel your pain although it was a pompom on a piece of string that fell off mums hot water bottle. He always does this type of thing out if hours as he likes to cost me extra.

£430 to make him up chuck a pompom with a 2 hour round trip to the OOH vet as mine doesn't do OOH any more... 🙄

Also, re insurance, you'd probably be better off just paying the bill due to the excess and likely not being covered for any stomach issues in the future.

Many thanks indeed for your support on a dog specific board… top quality MN there.

For the more supportive - many thanks indeed! Your posts made me laugh and got me over my worry. The furry bin is home, very sleepy but has parted company with the pudding. We have parted company with £248, so call that my payback for wasting food...

DDog is struggling to keep his eyes open but keeps forcing himself awake to properly supervise the steak being cooked for NYE.

What self respecting cat would root around in the bin for Christmas pudding.

Happy New Year to you and the sweet bin. 🥰🥳

My 12 year old greedy guts has been to the out of ours vets to make him sick three times now, petplan has covered each and every visit. Our aim every Christmas is to avoid a vet trip, I just caught him in time when he was about to snaffle the christmas cake this year (despite it being store upstairs behind a closed door!).

My canine trash compactor (also a lab) ate an entire Xmas pud last year, including the wrapping. Shamefully we didn’t realise until he starting shitting foil the following day - but he was otherwise totally unaffected. As was his appetite. He has also, on separate occasions, eaten a whole box of choc truffles, consumed a still-uncut birthday cake + once slurped a pan of cooling French onion soup for 12 straight out the pan kn the counter…. Labradors are made of something otherworldly when it comes to tolerating food - hope yours will absolutely be fine!

Yes it does.
My old dog decades ago ate grapes and fruit cake, before it was well known that they can be toxic for dogs, he had no issues. I suspect a breed /genetic predisposition, but maybe it is simply random.
I take no chances with my dog now and she has eaten chocolate cake and raisin biscuits. Each time very swiftly at the vet and given emetics. Our emergency vet is now an hour’s drive away, not accessible in very bad weather, so I do worry about it. We are careful but accidents happen and she is a thief.

The percentage of dogs who are allergic to these things is tiny

our lab has stolen so much over the years. Chocolate, a whole Christmas cake, muffins, flapjacks. Etc

never taken her to the vet and he’s never so much as had a smelly fart afterwards let alone any bad effects.