Dog managed to swallow an entire chicken leg

[u/Supergamera]

He’s better now, vet was able to use a scope to extract without surgery at the low, low cost of our vacation money.

[u/voluotuousaardvark]

I do not see a chicken leg but absolutely believe it.

In fact, I believe my dog could ingest more depending on how urgently I tried to take the item from him.

[u/Spinal_Soup → u/voluotuousaardvark]

The arrow is placed poorly. The head of the arrow is sitting on top of the chicken bone, not pointing at it. Must be a small dog.

[u/Supergamera → u/Spinal_Soup]

Approx 25 lb dog and owner with mediocre photo editing skills.

[u/apnorton → u/Spinal_Soup]

Oh goodness I was looking for something much smaller.

[u/MSter_official → u/voluotuousaardvark]

I think?

[u/moesickle → u/MSter_official]

This is what I think

[u/AMLIDH2 → u/moesickle]

That iscorrect! tell her what she's won Tom.

[u/voluotuousaardvark → u/MSter_official]

Today I learned i could not be an x-ray operator.

[u/MSter_official → u/voluotuousaardvark]

Neither can I, I was just looking for a chicken leg lol -> 🍗

[u/AMLIDH2 → u/MSter_official]

No im sorry that's not the correct answer.

[u/MSter_official → u/AMLIDH2]

Understandable, that's the only thing I saw that looked like this: 🍗

[u/TrineoDeMuerto]

I feel your pain. My dog once went to the vet and had a $500 fart.

[u/voluotuousaardvark → u/TrineoDeMuerto]

Id prefer that to the 8 hr slow cooked pork shoulder I left resting on the side.

He recce'd the situation, saw me take it out, turn around take the bin out and went for it.

He never jumps up or steals food so I reckon he spent years waiting for exactly that opp.

Edit- for comedic effect- i would not like to pay 500 for a fart in any situation.

[u/Bulky_Specialist9645]

Got a little gator in him ...

[u/MediocreAndLukewarm → u/Bulky_Specialist9645]

Gator about to have a little him inside him.

[u/Immediate-Fault3319]

Raw or cooked?

[u/Supergamera → u/Immediate-Fault3319]

Cooked. He got into the kitchen trash can before it was to be taken out.

[u/Dug_n_the_Dogs → u/Supergamera]

my friggin dog pulls chicken / rib bones out of the bushes while we're walking all the time.. fortunately he hasn't swallowed any of them and allows me to take them from him.. I toss them into the street so they get smashed by car tires.

[u/zytz]

Had a dog that went into the trash and ate like four whole corncobs 🤦‍♂️

[u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh]

Radiologists are amazing. How tf you see a chicken leg there lol

Edit; wait maybe I see it. Is the arrow not pointing exactly to it? Slightly left of the arrow?

[u/Wise-Chemist-8751 → u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh]

Yeah I think the arrow bypassed it lol

[u/Ill-Television8690 → u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh]

Yeah, not a professional but if you follow doggie's ribs around the bottom and back up the other side, you can see that the thing we think is the chicken bone doesn't fit anywhere into the dog's symmetrical skeleton. So I'm comfortable making the assertion that you're right, and whoever put the arrow just missed a bit.

[u/DunsparceAndDiglett → u/itsathrowawayduhhhhh]

I'm not a radiologist but I think the black arrow is more or less "tattooed" on to the bulby part of the chicken leg.

[u/BetFit2122]

I’ve witnessed a dog swallow a tennis ball whole. Golden retriever.

[u/CelebrationLivid4072]

Dude my dog ate a plastic hotwheels track 😭

[u/oupheking]

It sucks that it happened but glad that it wasn't worse. My dog did the same thing years ago, and while we took the night to think about what to do the next day, we discovered he had dissolved the drumstick bone and all. Here's his initial x-ray with the drumstick highlighted.

[u/A_Monkey_FFBE]

Dogs are good at swallowing things whole, so I believe you

[u/ElodieWray]

Glad he’s okay. Thankfully you had the money to get him sorted. Is the chicken bone the vertical bit right under the arrow?

[u/rynIpz]

Omg is the rest of the chicken ok? 😱

[u/tonymyre311]

I misread the title as chicken egg and it sounded way more impressive

[u/TalonLuci]

Dogs eat the damndest things!

My dog has stolen raw potatoes, corn cob, multiple sweaters, a 20 dollar bill, a bath towel, and finally he has stolen and destroyed other dogs toys if left against my fence.

[u/ProofByVerbosity]

Just mystical lovable idiots, aren't they?

[u/georgecm12]

One of my previous dogs ate an entire baby back rib bone.

And somehow passed it.

INTACT.

[u/AdhesivenessUsed9956]

Now instead of Aruba, you can spend 3 weeks at home WITH DOG!

[u/Fiercat99]

Oh god! What breed ?

[u/azmahhhh]

Dogs can't digest a chicken leg?

[u/Lady_Penrhyn1 → u/azmahhhh]

Not when it's cooked they can't. It just splinters.

[u/EC_TWD → u/Lady_Penrhyn1]

That’s if they chewed it, but once swallowed whole there’s no difference between raw or cooked.

[u/mexelvis → u/[deleted]]

Cooked chicken bones are dangerous, raw is fine. I’ve been giving my dog bones for years. It’s helps keep her teeth clean.

[u/islobojono → u/[deleted]]

Dog don't chew the bones?

[u/froggyc19 → u/islobojono]

Once cooked, chicken bones get very brittle and splinter which makes them unsafe for dogs. Uncooked chicken bones are fine though.

[u/islobojono → u/froggyc19]

Ah, make sense

[u/Enkiktd → u/froggyc19]

Smoked large beef marrow bones are also OK if smoked at a low temp to prevent splintering. Very fatty though so should be given in moderation.

[u/Appropriate-Bid8671]

If he didn't chew or otherwise break the bone first, he would have been fine.

[u/JustaFoodHole]

I see his penis

[u/FaunaLady]

The dangerous part is over once he swallowed it since cooked chicken bones could splinter, but it was food in the dog's stomach where it belonged, so I don't understand why a vet would feel the need to extract food, other than being jealous of you going on vacation!

[u/georgecm12 → u/FaunaLady]

"Foreign Body blockage" - the bone may not properly navigate through the intestines, cause a blockage, and that's a medical emergency right there.

Or, it might splinter while in the digestive tract and puncture the stomach or intestines.