Again, owners might not immediately notice the injury because it happened so quickly and the stick was immediately dislodged. While the stick was long gone, a huge laceration remained, “and most times the owners were unaware” of what was making their dog behave so out of sorts.Īs they gallop and leap through the woods, dogs are also at risk of spearing themselves on dead tree branches that have fallen to the ground.
“Many times people would bring their dogs into the emergency clinic because they were at the park and a stick literally impaled the dog at the back of its mouth,” Klein remembers. Jerry Klein of Chicago, who worked as an emergency veterinarian for 36 years, knows from experience that nature isn’t all chirping crickets and fluttering butterflies. When Sharp Objects Create Dog EmergenciesĪKC Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Such errant pieces of wood “can be very dangerous,” Staudt-Cartabona warns, noting that she has also had Borzoi inadvertently wedge smaller sticks between their teeth in one dog, this unwelcome toothpick rotted the tooth at the base of the gum, eventually requiring it to be extracted. When she eventually glimpsed the pinky-wide chunk of wood inside her Borzoi’s mouth, it had already ulcerated the dog’s upper jaw. “Borzoi are so stoic they don’t let you know when they are in pain,” she explains. “Usually, dogs will paw at their mouths a lot when there’s something stuck,” Staudt-Cartabona says, but she noticed nothing out of the ordinary. Recently, one of her Borzoi chomped on a stick that then lodged across the roof of her mouth, sticking like a rafter between the teeth on either side of her jaw. Karen Staudt-Cartabona of Swartswood, New Jersey, the American Kennel Club’s 2005 Hound Breeder of the Year, knows this firsthand. While it’s not likely that yours will hurt himself with something as seemingly benign as a maple branch or a riverbed pebble, it is indeed possible. But if you’re a dog, they can do even more damage than that.ĭogs are amazing creatures, not least of which for their ability to imperil themselves with seemingly innocuous objects. Sticks and stones may break my bones, goes the schoolyard rhyme. They can be more hazardous to your dog than you might think
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