Estimate on how long to "produce" something puppy ate

Hi everyone!

My 5 month old puppy has reached the age where he investigates every tabletop, counter, chair, etc for something to steal. Despite my best warnings, my husband left his xbox controller in a chair and Murphy got ahold of it and seems to have eaten one of the thumb joysticks (I wasn't home during the incident, but the thing is missing and nowhere to be found.

So far he's eating, drinking, and pooping normally so the vet wasn't concerned and figures it'll pass. Any sign of an obstruction and he's going in right away, obviously.


Any ideas about how long it'll take to reappear on the other side?

 

My dog has eaten stones and passed them 2-3 days later!

 

10 days

 

Strange objects do seem to take a long time to pass through so I would go with around 10 days as well. Perhaps make your husband do the poo checks for leaving the controller within reach

 

I read of one who took six months to pass a leash.

 

@Kelsey&Axel's boy kept a piece of string (from a cone of shame) in his tum for 5 weeks before puking it up! I think that's a forum record, though.

 

Hehe yes a gauze string and what he ate of his plastic cone from his neuter. It all twisted in his belly so it came out 5 weeks later as basically one object.

Other stuff that he has eaten has come back up between 3-10 days. He’s only ever pooped out small shreds of fabric, no objects.

Dogs I tell ya

 

Ever considered what you haven’t seen him consume ?

 

A chill goes up the spine...

 

I didn’t mean to send chills. They are very resilient. I once saw an entire plstic bag come out. Sewing needle, magnets were the scariest and I’m convinced there’s 3kg of rocks in his belly.

 

It’s kinda like when we obsess over our children who we think are gonna choke to death but never do.

 

We had a mystery button appear. It was from none of our clothing so god knows who was missing it

 

Yes, I forgot about the plastic bag Oban ate. I wasn't sure he had eaten it at all but a week after the suspect incident, there it was. Hanging. It needed help.

 

Nothing illegal passes through Tatze - it all, thankfully, gets thrown up. She eats anything dog walking related - collars, leads, harnesses. I have learned to be ultra vigilant about not leaving them within reach.

One time she ate a lead - she threw it up ten days later, she’d swalloed it whole! All poos had been normal in the intervening ten days, no lethargy, she ate and acted totally normal the whole (very long and worrying for me) time.

 

I think their stomachs have special none food item area. The keep it there see if it's digestible if not they throw it up. We've had all sorts over the years chip forks, I even had a great bag full of treats that was not mine.they amaze me

 

That was my first instruction after he called me in a panic about the situation.

So far no joystick...but he did produce the tags from the bathmats that he carefully removed and swallowed. Oh labs.

 

I learned very quickly at the beginning that they are vaccums. So i thought i was being 100 % vigilant with socks when drying them ..i dont leave them anywhere near her. So reading all these posts about how long they go before upchucking objects might answer my constant queery as to why Penny has produced (to date) 4 socks. 3 vomited and one actually pooped out. She is hale and harty and never shows signs of distress but i am constantly saying to my daughter does she have a bleeding store of socks inside her just waiting to come out. Yeah ..blooming labs. They are a breed of there own. I never know the minute.

 

So far Caspar seems to be mainly fond of stuff that he finds in the garden, like pine cones and pebbles. I take from him such things as I know he has in his mouth but have no way of knowing what he may have swallowed. Our last Lab was a bit too fond of sticks and grass and would throw up a pile of these every couple of months - just to make room for the next lot, though sometimes he passed a poo that looked as though it was made from MDF! I soon learned not to challenge him if he had a really special trophy, though. He once swallowed and later threw up a whole frozen blackbird wing, pointy as a dagger. One of his doggy pals (a flatcoat) once ate a pair of hiking socks, which came out about 6 weeks later.

 

Our neighbour's beagle had a penchant for their (at the time) teenage daughter's thongs
This time, I DO mean the undergarment variety and NOT the footwear type.
Her OH was not infrequently called into retrieval action on walks. A double-indignity.
(This was the same beagle that would push the dining room chair all across the kitchen to use as a way of getting onto the counter to snaffle anything left - from defrosting chicken to 2 dozen freshly baked scones for the local hall)

I'll stick with my lab thank-you very much

 

I'm so glad it's not just our mobile garbage disposal! I was so worried about the amount of vegetation that Maxx quickly chews and swallows before we can get it out of his mouth, but now I can rest a little easier.