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My sister has an 8 year old Pomeranian. Two days ago she gave him a piece of a pork chop bone and the next day he turned very ill. She said he's been throwing up constantly and can't even hold down water. She's afraid a piece of bone may have gotten stuck somewhere inside and caused him to get so sick. This morning she said he was vomiting and just fell over onto his side and got really stiff for a minute. They have taken him to a vet but don't really have much money to do anything but test him. The vet said he doesn't think it would be the bone causing him to act that way so they are running blood tests to check for liver and brain problems. She said that when they took his blood, they had said that it looked very dark. My question is, what kinds of things would cause the dog's blood to get darker and could it be the bone she gave him two nights ago? We are very worried about him.

Symptoms: Vomiting, Collapse

•   Derek McCoy says:

  November 12th, 2008 at 09:14 PM

  This does sound very much like a foreign body obstruction which could very easilly be the pork bone that the dog ate.  Unfortunately without the ability to pay for diagnostics such as abdominal radiographs theres no way to know, but if it is the pork bone then the only way to save the dogs life is surgery to remove it.  Either way theres little that can be done if they dont have the ability to pay for a diagnostic work up.   Have them apply for Care Credit at www.carecredit.com.  They offer 0% financing on veterinary care.  Hope this helps.  ~D

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