Warning against child's stuffed animals *******

[papbouv]

**Warning against child's stuffed animals**
Sent by a co-worker, feel free to cross-post:

Last night at agility class, a vet, who is a fellow agility student was telling us about a case she
had this week. The dog ate a child's teddy bear and was very sick. When she opened the
dog up to remove what she thought was an intestinal obstruction she found a huge gelatin
type mess inside and the dogs intestines were black and the tissue dead. The dog will die no
surgery can fix him up there was no living intestine left from stomach to colon.

This was not an obstruction..... so she called the manufacturer of the Teddy Bear on a quest
to find out what the gel was and what killed the dog. Turns out the stuffing in children's toys
contains ingredients for flame retardants and mite control! It is designed to be come a gel. It
is highly toxic. Now you would think a child's toy would be safe because it is for children, but
they don't expect a child to eat the stuffing of the toys... huummmm that seems a bit scary
too. But we all know dogs demolish stuffed toys.

So do not give or buy your dog any children's stuffed animals... some people get them at
goodwill etc. The vet will be posting a warning and story and I will send any other facts as
needed and as I learn more. Maybe some children's toys do not have this ingredient, but
better to be safe then sorry. So meanwhile, make sure all your dog toys are for dogs. Please
pass this on... it is a horrible death she described and one that can be avoided.
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[Dee Dee and Hallie]

Wow. Great to hear thanks so much! We used to buy the Goodwill toys for the dogs when training for obedience, not with Hallie as she is way more food motivated than toy motivated so we always trained with tweats but that scares me to death to think if Fred or Jessie had swollowed some of that toy! Shame we have to be afraid of food and toys with our kids!

[hannah]

So poor little dog, that's a very sad and alarming case. Thanks for sharing to us..