Corn Cobs

[mollyjmu]

My year old lab started vomiting Sunday and couldn't keep any food down. After staying up with her all night Monday I took her to the vet for x rays, which revealed a blockage in her small intestine that looked like a corn cob and would require a $1,000 surgery. I thought there was no way in heck, I haven't had corn since summertime and took my chances that she would pass it on her own. Needless to say things only got worse - the dog wouldn't eat or drink anything. I took her back to vet today and low and behold the doc finds a 2" corn cob in the small intestine.

Moral of the story: trust your vet and keep your dog away from corn cobs!

[Sharon]

If you have dogs and like to feed the birds also in the back yard , these things can be a problem. Corn cobs fall from the container onto the ground, seeds get moldy on the ground but the dog eats them anyways ......can get sick....fat blocks for woodpeckers go moldy easily............... I guess I should stop feeding the birds.

[dr tim]

Record we have at our hospital is 13 corn cobs removed from a Greyhounds stomach. What was he thinking?

[ezzy333]

Our dogs on the farm lived in the corn crib eating corn off of the cobs and between the squirrels and the dogs they bring corn from the field back of us and leave them here in the yard. Our dogs love the old moldy grass that I did out of the mower every few weeks but just never have had a problem with any of it.

Ezzy

[wems2371]

I have a drahthaar friend that brought an older pup, probably 8-9 months, to a training day last September. I'm guessing he didn't notice the pups demeanor when he loaded it in the early morning dark hours, but the pup looked absolutely whipped and vomited or tried to vomit several times during the day. He ended up crating it for the most part. Sometime shortly after he got home, he ended up at the veterinarians, paying for surgery for a blockage. It was a piece of corncob. I'm sure it doesn't happen often, in the scheme of things, but he spent a chunk of change on a corn cob too.

[mudhunter]

I had a setter get a corn cob stuck in him this fall, cost us nice sum of money! Vet told me its fairly common.

[MNspanielguy]

Same here, only it was labor day weekend. Can anyone spare $3,100?