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Question by fifty50: My new dog has eaten grass, a rubber band and geranium leaves. She gets sick. What should I be doing?
I am so confused about my 2 year-old toy poodle. I got her a month ago from the shelter which got her from a puppy mill along with all of the other dogs. First she had to be restitched after being spayed. After that incident, I thought I would next focus on getting her digestive tract settled. She has many other emotional and life skill issues, which also need to be addressed.

My dog vomits and has diarrhea every few days and is absolutely normal on the other days.

She ate a rubber band, which the post office person leaves on the ground by the mailboxes. She pooped that out. The dog trainer did not want her walking in front of me and she is too nervous to walk next to a large mammal like me, so she walks behind me. I have to watch her more closely and I bought her a kong figuring if she likes rubber, she will like her kong. She has mostly ignored it as she has never had a toy.

I grew geraniums this summer so there are dead leaves all over the place sort of like leaves that have fallen from a tree. There is no way that I can pick them all up, but I am keeping her out of my yard. Prior to this, she did eat some of them and threw up and had digestive upset for a day each time. I don’t know if she threw up because she ate them or if she ate them in order to throw up.

I saw her eating grass and I told her to stop it and maybe I should not have done that because dogs sometimes eat grass because they have to vomit. She did vomit and now her stomach is upset and she isn’t eating.

This also affects her backside. When she poops, she tends to bleed and expel mucous on the days that she eats greens.

When I went to get her stitches taken out, two of the poodles were back at the vets being treated for whip worm, even though the dogs were dewormed at the shelter. She has all of her shots.

She eats chicken with cornmeal and lamb with rice dog food along with rawhide chew sticks. She ate a rawhide chew stick for the first time yesterday. She ate the kong doggy treat the day before. I know she ate cheap dog food and wasn’t fed the last six days at the puppy mill. She is also very nervous and that may be harming her digestion.

She was checked by the shelter vet in early November and she saw a second vet at the end of November in order to be restitched.

I was thinking that I should give her only one dog food flavor and brand for awhile and make sure she doesn’t eat anything else to see if I can stabilize her.

After two years of being confined to a metal cage, she doesn’t like being contained and she is starting to explore my house. With two kids, I’m afraid she might try to eat other objects, if they forget to shut their bedroom doors.

I’m thinking that I should super clean a few areas of the house and keep her confined to them. I should maybe try only the lamb and rice food first. She won’t eat if her tummy is upset, so I was thinking of keeping her from eating grass and seeing if she will still eat food. Nothing comes up with the grass or geraniums except stomach slime or possibly mucous. Since the dewormer didn’t eliminate the other dogs whipworms, I’m thinking I should either get her treated once again with a dewormer or have her stool sample rechecked. Any other ideas?

Best answer:

Answer by Sarah J
I would take all these questions to your vet. It could be because she came from a puppy mill. If in doubt, take her to the vet! My cat was losing weight once, didn’t think anything of it, and he died because he had an enlarged heard muscle, he had a blood clot. Good luck and happy holidays!!

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My dog has had some loose stool accidents in the house today. I noticed what looked like half of a rubber band in his stool. It wasn’t moving, just a flat, half-circle thing about 3 inches long. Could it be a worm? It’s hard to tell because it just looked like a rubber band, not a living thing??? But he does have an upset belly too…