Maureen Stewart
wrote:
I am just writing to let you other readers know of a recent incident
with a football ( i.e. squares stitched together type and covered
in a glossy plastic) and my GSD.
My son got this football for his 14th Birthday. It was left
in the living room and on Sunday morning my GSD came into our bedroom
in a panic. Here she had this football protruding from her mouth.
I told her to drop it as she does drop items when asked. She would
not drop this item. Her breathing was becoming noisy. Her
4 large canine teeth had become lodged in the football. To get it
free my husband had to prise her upper jaw open and I had to pull down
on her bottom one to get the ball out of her mouth. We are only pleased
that we were here to get the ball free. This ball was too large to
get stuck in her mouth, but obviously with her teeth being stuck in it and
with it being new she could not free it herself with her paws. It was obviously
restricting her breathing.
Regards
Maureen Stewart
Comment
My boy Kane has experienced this problem on many occasions with balls
kicked into my garden from the young lad next door. The canine teeth manage
to make self-sealing punctures so I keep a Stanley knife to hand for when
this may happen, and make a cut in the side of the ball enabling Kane to
compress the ball and extract it himself. This may cost me a replacement
ball each time, but it saves a lot of distress on the dog’s part.
If I did not know better I would accuse the young lad of only
kicking the balls over whenever he decided that he would like a new ball?!
J
reprinted with kind permission from Maureen Stewart
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