I think my boxer ate part of a soccer ball she had been playing with. She's eating grass and throwing up but it's just the grass coming up. Should I wait and see if it passes? 7 month female boxer. Piece swallowed would be about the size of a quarter of half dollar maybe.

She threw some of it up and has quit throwing up and eating grass. I assume she's probably good to go.

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Monitor for continued vomiting, odds are you are good.

DVM

Is this the same boxer and green soccer ball in the other post? In my very unprofessional opinion I wouldn't think a soccer ball would hurt a boxer. Mine eats everything. Literally anything it can get it's mouth on. I can usually find missing children's toys by finding similary colored piles of crap in my yard. Boxers gonna boxer.

a quarter or half dollar? what are you worried about?

should be ok...our two boxers have eaten similar things. Sometimes we dont realize chunks are missing from toys until we pick up the poop.

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I imagine most of our are similar, but I would start worrying when she eats the whole soccer ball, or two.

My golden had eaten a ton of stuff, half a soccer ball, tennis balls, plastic, legos etc. Biggest problem is her waking us up at 2 AM when she starts to puke it back out....the wife gets a little pissed and blamns me

My collies have eaten and crapped out a whole sock, MANY pieces of meat packaging that I idiotically left out while cooking without putting the dogs away, candy bar wrappers, wads of hair, paper, cardboard, plastic packaging.

If it's not sharp, and it can be pushed through the digestive tract with the rest of the turd material, they'll usually pass it no problem.

I had to make one of my collies puke up broken pyrex glassa before after he knocked a full dish of rice off the counter and ate the shattered glass/rice combination. Same dog also barfed up an entire box of granola bars, all still in their wrappers.

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When my lab was right around 1 year old, she ate and subsequently pooped up a few screws - bout 1 to 1.5" if I remember correctly.

Had a Golden that swallowed most of an ice cream bar, stick and all. About 3 months later asked to go outside and threw up the stick!

A dog ate a quarter or half dollar sized piece of leather? Really? SMH...

Lighten up guys. First dog so haven't dealt with all this before

Heh. First time parents, first time dog owners. You should say that in your original post when you have a question, and people will go much lighter on you.

My rule is as long as it's not sharp or likely to splinter, as long as it was small enough to fit down their throat without choking them, and as long as it's not long and likely to get knotted inside of the intestines -- so, things that would be an emergency would be cooked bones, which splinter, sharp metal that's pointed like a fork or a chunk of wire, it rules out long pieces of string or yarn because it will knot, and it rules out anything that they're unable to get in or out like large rocks and the remains of a nylabone -- it will pretty much, uh, pass, with minimal discomfort for the dog.

If your dog eats something fabric and the fabric or string is hanging out of the dog's butt when it's done pooping, snip it at the bunghole with a pair of scissors. Do NOT tug on it. It could be looped around a section of their intestine and tugging on it will tighten the loop and could cut their intestine or completely block it. Keep an eye on it, and if it doesn't come the rest of the way out within 24h, it's an emergency. (This goes for cats too. Snip, don't tug.)

What you need to do is monitor for stoppage or straining. So throwing up once or twice? That's a dog, maybe make them skip a meal. Throwing up bile for 24h straight? Yeah, that's an emergency. Throwing up blood? Definite emergency.

Diarrhea for a day? No big deal. Diarrhea for two-three days, any blood in the stool, or straining without actually being able to poop for a couple days? Emergency; go straight to 24h veterinary hospital, do not pass go...

Boxers have some interesting health challenges due to their breeding and physical form. If you haven't researched what to expect as the parent of a Boxer, please do. Please have your vet educate you about checking your dog for cancer and check at least once a month, monitoring any lumps you find more frequently. Also, learn a little bit about megaeso****us ... I know so many boxers owners who've had problems with that.

You do know where your nearest 24h vet hospital is, correct? If you don't, you should have it in your phone.

Wow. The texags censor is serious business.

I'm not sure how to explain the part that got censored except that it's a condition in dogs where peristalsis (ability to swallow and keep things in the dog's stomach) fails, and it's characterized by acid reflux.

The word that got censored is synonym for gullet.

p-h-a-g, words, or substitutes for slurs, get deleted even if they are the middle of word and not at all related to any sort of attack on a person.

My old boxer puked up a decent size seashell once. We lived in CS. Not sure where that came from. That dog ate everything.

My female lab ate several Xbox controllers and a headset. Threw up and pooped out circuit boards. Those things (labs) are indestructible. Same dog ate through the carpet and pad down to the foundation in our rent duplex.

While I have the luxury of living with a Vet, everyone usually gets 12-24 hours to poop or yak out any problems. Intense of either raises a flag, but labored breathing is the automatic ticket to the hospital. Most things work themselves out fine. Occasionally they do something extra stupid.