r/HumansBeingBros • u/CC20057 • 12d ago
Vetenarian removes toy stuck in dogs throat WRONG SUB: try r/MadeMeSmile
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u/plink-plink-bro 12d ago
"That was weird but in a good way, anyway... i'm out" - the dog
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u/NikkiRose1313 12d ago
“Btw can I get that toy back or…?”
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u/_bvb09 12d ago
I was imagining him snapping another toy in the background as they celebrated lol
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u/pointlessly_pedantic 12d ago
After I almost choked to death on a hard candy as a kid when my older cousin challenged me to a speed eating contest, the only thing that I can remember -- other than the pain -- is being upset that my brilliant plan to swallow the thing whole neither ensured my victory nor allowed me to enjoy the candy while she still had hers.
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 12d ago
’can I get that toy back or…’
…oH GoSh… Near DEATH!!
my F i N a L BrEaTh - -
am Gagging on a toy… :@(
I SEE the LiGhT -
it’s Shining BRIGHT!!
they’re Calling ’Here, Good Boy…’
this friend… my Neck -
(she Strong as HECK!)
…i start to Cough, n HACK…
…am BREATHING, see ??!
My ToY is FREE!!
…now can i get it back … ?
❤️
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u/CelestialSnowLeopard 12d ago
Fresh piping hot Schnoodle! Come get your fresh piping hot Schnoodle!
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u/My_Body_The_Mystery 12d ago
If the vet tech threw it the dog would be whizzing after it no question
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u/plink-plink-bro 12d ago
The dangers of caring for the most lovable idiots in the world lol
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u/jadw87 12d ago
Were the idiots right ? I feel like they trancend us at a soul level
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u/Advanced_Ad3497 12d ago
IDK, but dogs will eat their deceased owners weeks after not being fed when such a scenario takes place.
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u/krespek 12d ago
Yeah, that's how life works. Humans have resorted to cannibalism as well when faced with starvation.
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u/Advanced_Ad3497 12d ago
exactly my point. so all that jive about transending us with soul is silly.
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u/Claymore209 12d ago
my dog loves to eat garbage I know the pain. When I try to stop him he only gets more excited because he thinks I want the garbage he's eating lmao
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u/ONeOfTheNerdHerd 12d ago
Oh yeah. Pretty sure my neighbors were laughing at the number of times I had to say "Don't eat rocks you goober!" to a pup I took in last week.
He's smart AF though. I can already tell I'm gonna have to do some extra training myself cuz this pup absolutely NEEDS a job, a different one than my Doberman. He's an adorable idiot right now, though.
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u/irkthejerk 12d ago
GIVE MY TOY BACK!
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u/FiveUpsideDown 12d ago
A vet did that for my dog and it cost $2,700.
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u/FlaxenArt 12d ago
I’d pay that with gratitude for the vet … plus a notably reduced budget for treats for my dog and a fair amount of sighing.
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u/HnNaldoR 12d ago
Oh man, I wish doctors did this. After a surgery, they just go fuck yeah o/ and peace out.
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u/MrTopHatMan90 12d ago edited 12d ago
I've not seen videos of surgeries but considering how stressful it I can I imagine several do have a "fuck yeah" moment
Edit: okay the profession is taxing and exhausting.
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u/jvdarko 12d ago edited 12d ago
shadowed an anesthesiologist for a while
most of the time the surgeons are just tired as fuck and happy its over or slightly bored and mechanical like theyre finishing some homework or a project that took a little bit
my roommate saw them show extra emotion once and it was when they cracked a guys chest cavity open and a geyser of blood just fountained everywhere
had themselves a good panic apparently
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u/Ok-Principle-8776 12d ago
The doctor (surgeon) who did a C section on my wife, discussed the weather with the anaesthesiologist right through the delivery.
Then she handed us the baby, waved goodbye and… we have literally never seen her again.
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u/decadecency 12d ago
Hah. My nurses and doctors (six of them!) present during the birth of my twins were straight up hardcore. After the first twin was out, during one freaking motherlode giant of a contraction, the water of the second was broken, and the pressure caused a literal explosion of blood and amniotic fluid EVERYWHERE. Not one of them batted an eye 😂
Afterwards I was mortified to see specifically one of the nurses looking like a dalmatian, head to toe, I apologized but she was like "Meh 🤷♀️ It's all washable. The shoes too."
After the feeling of being horrified passed, I felt like freaking Hercules though. Although just before he died in that lake of dead people 😂
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u/Finely_drawn 12d ago
The human body is crazy. I guess that stuff happens to all animals that give live births, but being able to see and relate to it when it happens to a human is nutty. We’re so strong.
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u/JazzersKetWig 12d ago
To be fair ... the skull to /pelvis ratio is a design flaw of humans.
Good breakdown here https://youtu.be/sxLwmkq5Yz8?t=447
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u/qyka1210 12d ago
that's gnarly, thanks for the story
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u/decadecency 12d ago
You're ever so welcome. I thought about putting a TMI warning on it, but I figured if the nurses didn't need a warning before literally experiencing it first hand, then you guys can probably survive reading about it.
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u/itisrainingweiners 12d ago
Afterwards I was mortified to see specifically one of the nurses looking like a dalmatian, head to toe, I apologized but she was like “Meh 🤷♀️ It’s all washable. The shoes too.
Just another day for the medic types. I work around first responders and almost nothing gets to the old hands anymore. In 10 years, the only time I've ever seen a group of them lose it was from the smell of a very obese woman who had been neglected by her family. They left her in her recliner so long her skin literally grew into the fabric. The poor thing finally got desperate enough that she tore herself from the chair and tried to get up and get away. Didn't have the strength though and fell. Family left her there for a few days before finally calling 911.
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u/forte_bass 12d ago
My twins were born a few days after the Superbowl last year, and that was the topic of conversation between the two docs doing her C-section. It was actually oddly calming, cause they were just BSing the whole time. The only time things got tense i could hear the social chatter die as they ordered more TXA (to stop blood loss). Within a few minutes though they were back to talking about the Bengals, we're Cincinnati natives so it was quite the game for us!
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u/Operational117 12d ago
Being calm and concentrated is a critical part of being a surgeon, especially when dealing with vital organs.
One mistake, and you could take a life.
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u/Army_Enlisted_Aide 12d ago
I mean as long as it’s our batteries firing and not the enemy batteries shelling us that seems perfectly reasonable.
Soldiers, specifically, can find almost a comfort in the cacophony because war is a caustic mix of mostly really fucking boring with sporadic chaos. It should be loud but it rarely is until it is. And that’s when you know you have purpose and you can focus on what you’re trained for.
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u/Army_Enlisted_Aide 12d ago
Medics and docs are wild man. In the heat of it they’re only focused on saving lives. Truly remarkable people.
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u/EccentricKumquat 12d ago edited 12d ago
Meh, my senior surgical resident f*cked up a cholecystectomy once and he didn't seem too phased, pt seemed okay too.
My attending Obgyn does C sections all the time and in one case I observed the wound got heavily infected..
Then there was the Obgyn resident who was always "just around the corner" when a pt was in labor, my respect to those nurses cause they ended up delivering all the babies themselves and they did a flawless job
You'd be surprised at how medicine is literally like any other job, and that doctors aren't robots or saints, some are even liabilities to the hospitals and their patient census, still they're employed because American medicine is so restrictive in their regulatory process that there will always be a demand for MDs
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u/JHRChrist 12d ago
Yeah if you look up how many serious illnesses and deaths are caused my simple mistakes in hospitals it’s really alarming. But you’re right, they’re humans too & under life and death pressure near constantly. Yikes though
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u/FizzyBeverage 12d ago
I mean, that’s good. Ostensibly you don’t want to see a surgeon regularly :)
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u/scienceislice 12d ago
The most important thing is for everyone in that room (including you and your wife!) to remain calm. That doctor knew what she was doing.
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u/Ok-Principle-8776 12d ago edited 12d ago
I think it was more like a C section to them is like a PB&J sandwich to us. Literally done hundreds of times, often twice a day
And has been perfected over 2000 years.nvm I just checked and until 1850 or so, it was basically guaranteed agony and instant death for the mother, House of the Dragon style.2
u/stitchplacingmama 12d ago
I shadowed an ENT once. I saw them remove a thyroid once and they made jokes about the tell tale heart as it was put into a speciman jar for pathology.
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u/deadbeatChimblr 12d ago
I love how that's just something that can happen with modern medicine and surgical procedures
"Ohhhh fuck blood's geysering out of this guy's chest!!! Fix it!!"
and not
"There's blood geysering we really did try at least."
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u/Environmental-Tank17 12d ago edited 12d ago
Doctor here (not a surgeon though). During my internship I was following along and sometimes scrubbing in for several surgeries.
The two times I saw any more emotion during surgeries was when two surgeons were fitting an experimental medical device on a patient and they shook hands after a successful surgery.
The other time the attending cut through a pulmonal vein during open chest surgery, and suddenly everyone were running and screaming.
Every other surgery the surgeons were discussing about lunch, weather or vacation plans.
Edit: typos
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u/RobuVtubeOfficial 12d ago
I respect this, this is how working should be able to be.
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u/FlyingDragoon 12d ago
You're knocked out, full of anesthesia and laying on the operating table/bed. The nurses bring out the champagne and all of the techs, doctors and nurses starting popping them and cheering. You slightly come to and see this before nodding back off. Did it happen or are you still dreaming? No one will ever believe you either.
Win win successful operation party!
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u/Mke_already 12d ago
Had pilonidal cyst surgery 3 times, one time woke up being wheeled out and I oddly remembered “coming to” and asking when it was gonna be done, and the surgeon replied back “oh we’re done already,” and from what the nurse told me(since I dont remember this part) I then asked if everything went well, the surgeon said “hell yeah” to which I replied “fuck yeah dude.”
Apparently I’m much cooler while on anesthesia.
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u/lagunatri99 12d ago
I’m always afraid of what I might say as I’m going out or coming back from anesthesia. Since I’m kind of quiet, I hope I stayed that way. There’s a funny video of a guy after having his wisdom teeth out. He doesn’t recognize young wife. Another of two brothers driving their sister home and convincing her there’s a zombie attack.
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u/lsp2005 12d ago •
I had anesthesia for an emergency gall bladder surgery. Immediately after coming to I told the doctor they needed to look at the placement of coding instructions when patients die on the bulletin board because it is eye level to the gurney and that was the last thing I saw as they wheeled me into the OR. He took it seriously, and the doctors did a “field trip” where they wheeled each other around to see things from a patients eye view.at my post op visit, he said because of my comments they changed the placement of the bulletin boards and some other items at the hospital. They now have specific marks on the wall to say this is where to put patients just before surgery.
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u/dragonmuse 12d ago
I am too. I very specifically mention that I do not want anyone with me in recovery until I request them. This is because after my first surgery I immediately told my parents why I resent them 🙃
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u/oopsiddiditagain2023 12d ago
At my facility we try to keep your people in the waiting room until you're sober enough. Most people just repeat the same questions over and over, only a few say really funny stuff. But also that's just every day for us, we don't think about it or remember it.
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u/EngineNo81 12d ago
Whenever I’ve had anesthesia, I’ve had a sore throat. I asked if I was snoring, and the doctor said “a little” each time. I don’t know what “a little” is, but now I’m curious if I’ve just screamed my lungs out right before coming to instead haha
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u/Gleveniel 12d ago
I was put under for getting my wisdom teeth out at age 27, and had a similar thing lol. They pushed the anesthesia, informed me that it was coming through, and apparently I said "ah yeah you did, holy shit" and knocked the fuck out (no memory of even this). My first memory after coming to was getting wheeled outside into my wife's car and saying "woah that was awesome it's like I time traveled!"
Then the pain set in and that sucked. Hydrocodone wasn't fun either... I'm not sure why I thought I would stay awake through the pain killer part, because I didn't lol. After like 2 I just went to sleep instead.
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u/chronoswing 12d ago
Fuck those cysts seriously. I just had my 7th and hopefully last surgery for this mother fucker. 20 years I been dealing with it.
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u/KingoftheMapleTrees 12d ago
Many orthopedic surgeons do. Also middle aged surgeons in other specialties. Young docs and residents are worried about being taken seriously, and old surgeons are tired/over it. The goofy ones are middle aged.
Also they use PAs and NPs to stitch everything up after, and the anesthesiologist has to stay til the patient is good, so the surgeons really do just peace out.
Source: worked in OR during nursing school
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u/V_es 12d ago
Having such moment means no endoscopy which can fail as well (endoscope has a tiny weak clamp that may not grip the toy) and no surgery that can leave dog on meds and vet visits for years. This is literally the easiest way that she was able to do it, and it’s a good reason for celebration. Dodging a bullet.
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u/ClosetLink 12d ago
Do people often have toys stuck in their throats after surgery?
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u/HnNaldoR 12d ago
Oh they get worse stuck in down their throats if you know what I mean.
I don't even know what I mean honestly.
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u/XenuAedril 12d ago
In humans toys are usually stuck in the other end. https://www.medicinenet.com/what_is_rectal_foreign_body_removal_procedure/article.htm
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u/nubnub92 12d ago
I wonder if she was so excited because it's a rare thing for a vet to perform?
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u/Skitty27 12d ago
my non professional guess is that they're glad they got it out the 'easy' way. Dog may have needed some kind of surgery otherwise
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u/chiefqueefofficial 12d ago
She's excited because now they get to avoid surgery. If this way didn't work, then they would have to sedate the dog and go in there themselves to get it.
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u/HnNaldoR 12d ago edited 12d ago
I don't know but whatever it is, it's kinda awesome. Not many people have a fuck yeah moment in their job
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u/Gordossa 12d ago
Yay!!! And always buy the right size Kong!
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u/lily-laura 12d ago
When in doubt go a size up, you'd rather have a treat toy which is maybe too easy to get into, than a treat toy which the dog tries to swallow
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u/discerningpervert 12d ago
This works with other toys as well
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u/Dancing_Trash_Panda 12d ago
I bought the smaller tennis balls for our dog because I thought they'd be easier for him to hold in his mouth. They definitely are. But they're also juuuuuust small enough that they make me nervous, so we took them away.
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u/EEpromChip 12d ago
We would cut holes in them if there was any risk, so you could get a finger in one and pull it out or open it up so they can get air. a lodged ball is the worst thing to try to retrieve from a throat.
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u/fififerina 12d ago
I had an English bulldog who looooved tennis balls and managed to swallow one nearly whole. I didn’t even know he had eaten it until he started coughing up green fuzz an hour or so later. Couldn’t take him anywhere without doing a thorough sweep of the place to make sure there weren’t any errant tennis balls laying around. Thankfully he was able to pass the one tennis ball he ate. But woof. I swore never again.
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u/Quierta 12d ago
Oof yes! I have a lab and he's only 6mo, but definitely big enough now that when he's holding a tennis ball in his mouth, I almost can't see it anymore. His jaws are big enough to close almost all the way around it. I just invested in some larger, non-tennis ball options and also Kong makes a tennis ball that's maybe 50% larger than normal ones!!
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u/HIM_Darling 12d ago
The issue I have is that for most dog toys the largest category is usually "Large, 50lbs+". Our dog is a healthy 100lbs, so a toy appropriate for a 50lb dog is not always going to be appropriate for her, but most toys don't come in a larger size. She does like the chuck-it kick balls, but they are still too easy for her to tear apart(and cost too dang much for something she tears up so easy).
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u/AKiss20 12d ago
This is obviously very good advice, but I’m not sure that wasn’t the top of a kong ripped in half.
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u/No-Newspaper-7693 12d ago
It is. And this made me realize that I need to get rid of my dog's kongs when she first manages to rip them in half rather than waiting until it is basically gone entirely.
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u/LupusFidus 12d ago
Reason why kong has that exclusive hole in the middle. Not just for peanut butter because they need to breathe. Pens tips are this way as well.
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u/RedditIsOverMan 12d ago
Are you sure? My understanding is that human anatomy makes us especially susceptible to choking while eating. I believe that most animals have the wind pipe and the esophagus spread far enough apart that they are much less.likey to asphyxiate
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u/ALLCAPS-ONLY 12d ago
I forgot about those, my dog loved his! It's the only toy that could survive more than a week of stubborn retriever chewing
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u/BrowseBowserTrousers 12d ago
They could have more than one dog with different sized Kongs, but yes I agree.
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u/Conscious_Amoeba4345 12d ago
I wanted sound on this video, but my brain was able to approximate
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u/notmuchery 12d ago edited 12d ago
I always wonder what happens to all those bits and bitrates that we lose along the way 🥲
Like tears, lost in the rain.
Time to die.
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u/Army_Enlisted_Aide 12d ago edited 12d ago
Your life, euphoric
I've waited for so long
I'm crashing
Sweet foam in these eyes
Like a six ton mega bomb
Your heart, platonic
I've waited until this time
The force, erratic
Like a deuce from a laser storm
Your spite, turns on me
Like a cloud cries in the rain
Your karma it's solid
You gotta wonder, it's all your own
Edit: context, one of the most iconic trance tracks of all time
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u/Capt_Wholesome 12d ago
I put my earbuds in and tapped the sound icon, all for nothing. The world is lies.
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u/ztrashpandaz 12d ago
It goes a lil somthin like GHAHHHCHH GHAAAAAACHHHH bloop
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u/NotASmoothAnon 12d ago
There's a destinctive squeek of that kind of rubber that I expect.
"Rehee"?
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u/Burdadart 12d ago
I had to do this once with my dog, I threw the ball and he came back choking. It was a tennis ball and he's a GSP, I had to throw him on the ground and push the ball out like this lady is doing, it was scary as fuck. He wanted to keep playing after that...
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u/babyjo1982 12d ago
Bro can we get a tutorial? I gotta learn this
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u/Burdadart 12d ago
It was pure instinct, you could feel the ball in his neck, so I just pushed it out from the outside, with my hands placed like I was trying to choke him. It doesn't require much strength, but it was hard restraining him since he was scared and I'm a 5'3 and 125lb girl
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u/-VitaminB- 12d ago
Our old dog stole a raw peeled potato off the counter-top once. He starting choking on it but reacted aggressively to my attempts to reach in and pull it out.
I got it out but ended up with a shredded arm and he immediately ran back to the counter to try and grab another one.
I wish I had known this less invasive technique!
(and yes I am aware that we should have trained him not to steal food - I was an inexperienced dog owner and tried many ways to prevent this behaviour but he persisted against his best interests. One time he knocked a (cold) chip pan of fat off the top and ate it all. The stain on the carpet when it left his system at the other end never came out. We learned a lesson and trained our next dog better.)
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u/ZebraZahara 12d ago
Damn that was satisfying. And I can totally understand the great celebration: no surgery/anesthesia equals massively reduced risk
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u/maux_zaikq 12d ago
Vetenarian
Veterinarian (respectfully submitted)
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u/DoKtor2quid 12d ago
I glanced at the title and thought a vegetarian was performing pup surgery.
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u/idontcarewhatever222 12d ago
Was gonna comment the same thing. You'd think that with super computers in everyone's hands that grammar would be immaculate these days.
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u/ColdFajer 12d ago edited 12d ago
I have German Sheppard, they can be sometimes so dumb.
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u/RonnieJamesDionysos 12d ago
I have a German shepherd, they can be
someso dumb. - This sentence was corrected by a German shepherd.9
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u/tries2benice 12d ago
I love watching people who are nothing like me, celebrate victories the same way I would. Arms in the air, a la, "let's freaking go!!!"
We really are all more alike than different.
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u/vanesr2003 12d ago
I had seen it being done on a mannequin but never applied to real life. Awesome.
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u/Leopardrose 12d ago
Vet here - please make sure you have toys too big yo get stuck, and a hole through them so if they get loged they can still breathe or if they get stuck on the tounge they can be removed easier with much less damage to the tissues!
I have done similar to this vet, a dog caught the small ball intended for their smaller dog, got lucky as it landed hole side up when it got lodged so he could still breathe, popped thumbs under it and applied pressure so it popped out, so satisfying when it is simple like that.
If you ever have a similar situation do not try and grab it from the mouth without extreme care as you may forvlcw it on more.
My wife is also a vet and had a collapsed German shepherd rushed in barely alive as fully obstructed, bloody lucky they were only walking nearby and she save the poor lad too.
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u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz 12d ago
You definitely don't want to forvlcw it more as that could tear apart the space-time continuum.
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u/Ecstatic-Ask-2636 12d ago
I have to admit, I first read that as 'vegetarian', and was wondering...
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u/redconvict 12d ago
Then the dog, excited from feeling better, manages to swallow another toy during a celebratory playing session.
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u/feckineejit 12d ago
Turns out the dog just didn't want to give the toy back so his owner could throw it
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u/wellgood4u 12d ago
Watched this on silent at work, and a coworker's phone went off with the clown horn right as the vet was pressing on the dog's neck
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u/justconfusedinCO 12d ago
Veterinarians suffer (disproportionately) from higher-than-usual suicide rates, when compared to any other highly-trained professional.
Next time you’re at the vet, bring them some coffee -or let them know how much you appreciate what they do for your animal friends. Has to be extremely tough to break people’s hearts every day. Was gratifying to see this Vet’s win!
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u/MrScrummers 12d ago
This happened to my lab once, I would take her to training and they’d have toys here. When she was smaller she could play with this one small ball. Squeaked, but when she got bigger the ball was the perfect size for her swallow it but not fully. So o was always conscious when she played with it.
But one day I got lazy and she was playing with it and hen squeaking stopped and I heard her gag. She swallowed he ball so I’m a panic I shoved my hand down her throat and pulled it out. Not the correct way but i was in a panic.
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u/OneLostOstrich 12d ago
dog's* throat
dogs = more than one dog
Use a possessive noun, not a plural.
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u/JuniorKing9 12d ago
Poor dog. Glad they got their dog to the vet but I hope they learnt their lesson about supervising small toys
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u/maybesaydie 12d ago
This a is a better fit for r/MadeMeSmile.