Esophageal Obstruction in Dogs

My havanese poodle mix has separation anxiety and we went out to dinner and came back and he ate half his dog bed and threw up the fabric on the couch. He’s been restless, coughing, licking his lips, and he threw up again an hour later after we got home, but I’m still afraid there might be some residual fabric in his esophagus and think he might be suffering from an esophageal obstruction. Do you think I should take him to the vet to get him checked out? He’s been eating but I’m just quite concerned considering he’s been coughing and licking his lips frequently. I also want to add that he went outside and began to eat grass which he rarely does. I know this could be a sign that he knows he has to throw up.

Good evening everyone! I have an 11 month old Havanese, she is 4 days in recovery from spaying surgery and I gave her a little (thumb sized) beef bone as a treat (I also heard it's good for natural cleaning process for the teeth). I have to mention it was boiled as the vet recommended I boil it first. Well the thing is, Ivy enjoyed it for about 5 to 10 minutes as she was playing around with it and suddenly i heard like a bigger chunk of the bone broke and she immediately started acting weird, I knew she was choking and I tried a few things to make her feel better and indeed she stopped after we took a walk outside, she was urging to eat some grass so I let her do her thing but not too much. Then I checked her throat again and it seemed like she swallowed the bone. Now she's really chill, sleeps or even plays but I'm wondering if there are chances it got stuck somewhere on the way cause she still does this swallowing once in a while and gulps like it's something but I can't really tell.

On Monday my 7 pound dog ate a small rawhide type bone that got lodged in her throat. She shook her head violently to get it out. I was trying to assist by pushing on her throat. As we were headed to the veterinary hospital I put my finger in her throat and she coughed up the lodged bone. Along with the bone I noticed dripping of blood. The hospital was closed on Monday so I went home. During Tuesday night she threw up liquid with slight foam. This happened one time. She is eating and drinking normally. She seems ok although I am thinking to take her in for x-rays. Is scoping a better option or even needed at this time?

We were recently ravaged by an F3 tornado. It traumatized many members of the family, I think it may have affected my dog as well. She has not been herself lately. Additionally, my husband fed her bad ground beef, thinking it safe for a dog after being cooked. I can't tell if it is bad food or that she had a hard time getting one particularly large chunk down her throat. She has been panting heavily for the last three days, foaming as of last night and experienced a strange loss of balance, stared off into space with her head tilted to one side as if having a petite Mal seizure. What could this possibly be?

I honestly have no idea what is wrong with my pup he was acting fine this morning and out of nowhere he just started vomiting and then it progressed. It has been happing all day and night. I have no idea what to do!

My dog must have ingested something earlier in our backyard, because he showed signs of choking & attempts at vomiting. After aboua an hour, he seems mostly okay but still has hiccups (nothing nearly as serious as the hiccups he had earlier while he was trying to vomit). He peed & pooped when taken outside & even wanted to run & play, but he still has some hiccups. He fell asleep now exhausted and we’ll take him to the vet in the morning, but do you think there is still a possibility the object is stuck in his throat & he needs immediate medical attention? I know it’s hard to tell without examining him, but is it likely the object is still stuck?

so my boyfriend decided to give my dog a little piece of meat as a treat after dinner tonight. i made him take it back and cut it up so he could eat it. the pieces obviously were still not small enough, and my dog doesn't like to chew food. he scarfed the pieces down and after the last one, he was clearly choking. we were seeing if we could get it out and he fell over. in a panic my boyfriend instantly reacted and tried giving him the heimlich. he was walking around then, trying to cough it up. in the process his poop/pee fell out of him. he coughed up something which i tried to help out so he wouldn't swallow it back down. only wiped away mostly foamy stuff.
he's been laying on the bed now. i'm sure he's scared, confused and exhausted. his chest is rising/falling fast, so i'm assuming that means fast breathing? his heart beats sounded kinda weird....two normal, then four real fast? he put his ears up and looked when we said his name, and even just made a little bark still when a car pulled in -- so still alert but maybe just wiped?
don't know if there's anything i should do and if i need to take him to the vet in the morning... i'm worried sick -___- funds are tight right now, or i'd take him to the ER vet in a different town.

The vet has diagnosed my dog with pancreatitis. She has been suffering from it for 5 days now, having not much more than water because soon as any food is eaten her stomach bloats and she regurgitates that along with white foam. The bloating is obviously air because it bares not relation to the amount of food and foam that comes out before it goes down. She is desperate to eat and currently has her usual energy when not suffering. She wakes every morning with backwards sneezing a sure sign that she needs to be sick (without food), but she can sleep for hours during the day without problem.

Do you think the correct diagnosis has been made?

my puppy was choking today. he stopped breathing and collapsed even after i did chest compressions. he choked while eating. thought he was dead. a neighbor grabbed a hose and flushed water into him and he came to after the food came up..now he is very lethargic and breathing very heavily like he is forcing air out. when he was choking he had light foamy blood coming out of his mouth..he is alive now but very uncomfortable and cant lay still for more than five minutes and this happened 6 hours ago..still breathing very heavily

My shih tzu Andy swallowed a small piece of a rawhide bone. He was in pain whimpering and couldn't walk. About a minute or 2 after he swallowed it, he threw up. I don't think the bone was in it.. is he Okay? Do I need to take him to the vet? He drank water after throwing up and ate about 10-15 minutes later.

I took my puppy to the vet and they couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Her breathing is very short and Varys between hard breathing and light breathing. This morning she was drooling a lot. It’s almost like she is chocking on something

I adopted Winston about 3 months ago and he vomits regularly. I have taken him to the vet numerous times and have done many tests, and the only thing we have come up with is that it is some kind of allergy. He is now on a hydrolyzed protein diet, but I am still not seeing much of a change. Although there has been a slight change because he does not puke everyday now, but when he does its multiple times in a day, and it is anywhere and everywhere. It has recently been brought to my attention that it could be a Esophageal Obstruction because there is absolutely no pattern whatsoever in Winston's puking. Looking for information to see if its worth spending more money on getting an x-ray done at the vet or if I become more stricter on his diet and continue it for a longer length of time.

Sully swallowed a large piece of foam sometime today without me noticing. A few hours ago he started acting strange and threw up the foam with nothing else. I think it may have been stuck in his throat somewhere and I’m not sure if he swallowed another piece with it but his breathing has seemed off. He’s breathing short rapid breaths around 70 breaths per minute. Is it possible his throat could just be irritated? Or do I need to see a vet immediately?

My 5 year old spaniel seems to have something stuck in his throat, I can't see anything, but think it's a small chew, he is not eating or drinking, but I have gave him water through a bottle, he is totally miserable, but not sure if I should take him to the emergency vet now, or first thing in the morning, and is their anything I can do to help him, he doesn't seem in any pain and I can't feel anything in his throat

My 10 year old American Eskimo dog is a food scarfer. He does not chew and even with a slow eating bowl can accomplish the task of eating very quickly. He gets dry food mixed with canned wet. The wet food we gave him this morning was slow cooked whole chicken wings...if you take a fork to the bone it is easily broken. He has eaten it many times. Today was different. He gobbled, and started coughing after his meal. Almost sounds like a honk. I have been giving him warm chicken broth and he will get wet food for dinner(not that chicken wing kind!). He has an appetite, is drinking water, is bathrooming normally. I assume it is a scratch, but of course it it Sunday and I cannot call vet. Advice please

My pup started coughing and lightly drooling today out of the blue. He is also licking his lips and nose pretty frequently, which is not completely out of the ordinary and I’m probably over reacting because I’m concerned. However, I’m worried he might have something stuck in his throat. He ate his food tonight which was completely solid and he peed and pooped afterward. It’s midnight and I can’t stop worrying that something is wrong.

My dog had a esophageal obstruction which was removed by endoscopy 3 days ago. The problem is now that no food is able to get to the stomach and he is vomiting it up. The obstruction was near the heart area. Why can't the food go into he stomach? He also has aspiration pneumonia due to the obstruction. He remains at the vet at this time. We do not get any encouragement for his recovery. What can we do next?

My husky was acting like something in his throat today. Has not vomited at all.

Eating and drinking are normal. Breathing seems normal. His tone (husky talk) has deepened a bit in the last few days, and today it looked like has was having a little harder time swallowing. He was still able to swallow and eat though.

I opened his mouth and didn’t see anything in the back of his mouth/upper throat. Is it possible for dogs to get a sore throat from stress? (We moved a few weeks ago and he has 2 other dogs in the house now, I know it’s been stressful).

His activity level and behaviour is same as normal currently.

Our 9 moth old Lab was left home alone for 4 hours with a cow hoof. It was a large one that was about half it's original size. I feel foolish for leaving him alone with it, but didn't anticipate that he may demolish the whole thing. He was acting normal when we came home, and in the morning his stool was normal as was his energy. Then, he immediately regurgitated his breakfast. Thinking he maybe just ate too fast, being a lab and doing this often, we just passed it off as nothing to worry about. We fed him new kibble and then a couple hours later took him on a 3 hour rigorous hike in the mountains. He was energetic and had a great time showing no signs of issues or discomfort. That night, he ate his dinner and passed out from exhaustion but later woke up at 4AM and regurgitated again. I use this term as I'm unsure if he is regurgitating or vomiting. It seems his food was still undigested but being a lab, he quickly ate what he had just thrown up and has managed to keep that and his breakfast down today and has had another good stool. Should I be concerned that he has a blockage in his esophagus ?

7 year old chihuahua, was fine all day, but when I got home, was very lethargic, is gagging but not vomiting, he’s keeping his head and neck extended, and is breathing shorter and faster breaths. His heart rate is elevated, and his temp is low. His respiration rate is also elevated due to the short abnormal breathing. He’s acting like there might be something stuck in his throat, but I’ve shoved my finger as far down as I could and feel nothing. He is clearly in distress, and I’ve now been up for 24 hours monitoring him, and syringe feeding him drops of water. Please advise what your next step would be, other than taking him to the vet, as that’s not an option right now. Thank you!

my puppy got ahold of a charger, I got it from him after it was chewed up like little pieces. I put him in bed with me he found my hair and was chewing on it moments before and we was laying there for like 5 minutes then all of a sudden.He started swallowing hard, I felt the outside of his throat and it was like a bit hard and bigger then normal so I got him up and make him some water he wouldn't drink his breathing was light, like could hear it through nose but couldn't see it or really feel through stomach. still swallow hard i opened his mouth and put my fingers down there he gagged then i did it again and i went farther down this time because everything was still the same i felt something like covering the throat so i just pushed it he swallowed hard a couple more times after that and i just kept putting my hand down his throat then after like the fourth time he stopped gagging when i put my fingers down he throats went to normal and he finally got some water and is fine after like 5 minutes of me panicking putting my finger down his throat, it being so sudden i didn't think to look down the throat or anything but I'm worried about what I should do now? Or what causes this? was he choking? This is my first puppy so i'm not really sure on most things

My dog ate a little bug and now seems like she is trying to regurgitate it but cannot. She is stickkng her tongue out a lot and her throat is making this odd movementz

Last evening my daughter dropped a pea pod while shelling peas. She insists her friend's mom said that pea shells are good for dogs and that they fed them to their dogs while she was over there. She then accidentally dropped a shell before I could say don't do it and Hudson immediately snapped it up.
But all evening he was having bouts of persistent swallowing and vomiting a small amount -just clear/foamy water.
This morning he was attempting to eat grass outside, ate a bit, drank a fair amount. But I'm concerned. Especially when now I google pea shells and find they are dangerous!
Will eating more dislodge it? He hasn't thrown up any food or water this morning. Yet. (He's currently eating the rest of his food - dry kibble type). Generally he seems ok but he looks worried.

what can I do to make my 4 month old pitbull mix to stop dry heaving and vomiting. he is also throwing up foreign objects like: Wood from the vanity, press on finger nails and etc. please help me save sam.

My 9 year old Lab ate a steak bone and I think he may have a piece in his throat. 99% of the time I let him chew it for a few minutes then take it way from him This time all that I could get was the big end and the long slim end was gone. That was last night. Today he wasn't acting himself. He eats and poops just fine as of this morning and I can't "see"anything in his throat nor does he act like there's anything there. He is 9 years old and in very good shape. I've had him since he was 9 weeks old so I and am very in tune with his behaviors.

My dog has been coughing and gagging only when she eats and doesn’t seem interested in eating much. They did blood work and everything was ok but now want to do xrays and possibly an endoscopy. Should I do the xrays or go straight to the endoscopy? I don't have a lot of money to do all this.

What does it mean when a 14 week old puppy is gagging like he wants to throw up but doesnt? He just gags and doesnt want to eat or drink anything. He chews on everything.

Friday Levi ate breakfast and and lunch (Pedigree brand puppy dry food) but about 3 in the afternoon he started vomiting. Now he will not eat anything or drink anything. He chews on a lot of things and outside and we have lots of woods by our house so there is no telling what he could have gotten ahold of.
Normally he runs with the kids and follows all of us around a lot and is very active but about 3pm Friday he has done nothing but sleep after the throwing up. He will wake up here and there when we come pet him but falls back to sleep very quickly.
I know he chewed on our fig tree leaves and deer bones, and there was a sponge that he tore up Wednesday night which is probably of more concern.

He is not Drooling much at all, and today (Saturday morning) he has not thrown up again but also will still not eat or drink.
His temp is only 101.5 which if I remember it is normally 102.5
he has peed today but not pooped since yesterday morning.
he is breathing fine and still responding and can walk around but doesn't want to.

Deer bones don't really splinter and when he does break anything off it is very tiny bits, I can't help to wonder if maybe he managed to get a bigger piece.

If a dog is gagging only, is it likely that the dog has something stuck in his throat when no other signs that I have read about exist? Are ex rays necessary?

Bentley was lately exhbiting bilous vomiting at night, so we made sure to keep a full bowl of food with him at night. This fixed the problem for a week but then yesterday he began making gagging sounds and seemed like something was stuck in his throat. We could not see anything, but he made a couple loud honking sounds. We pushed his stomach(heimlich) and he coughed up a little food. Not a full gut wretching vomit, just a cough up. The loud honking was fixed but he is still intermittently gagging like he is trying to cough up something and small bit of digested food comes up. He is still playful and rambunctious. He is eating and drinking ok,but eating slower than normal.
Also 2 days ago(before this started) we were out for a run and his harness may have been too tight_ while running gagged momentarily and loosened his harness
. maybe that bruised his esophagus?...

My 11 year old goldem retriever is very healthy, but suddenly two weeks ago he started with a terrible cough sounding as if he had something stuck in his throat. He likes to bite on plastics. The dr gave him prednisolon to treat inflamation and amoxil to treat infection for 10 days and he didn't he got any better. I took him to the vet and they took him xrays and found a big white ball in the lower trachea and white parts in the lungs where it was suppose to be black, because thats were oxygen should be. He gave him this time a diuretic to see if it was just liquid and some medicine so he would eat. After i gave him the lasix (diuretic) he started having breathing from 40 per minute before the med and changed to 80 per minute. All this totally sleeping. With the med for the nausea and to give him more hunger he vomited 2 times a lot and gag constantly as if he was to keep vomiting all night. I stopped
All meds and after a few hours his respiration went back to 40. I am giving him pepcid that is helping him to gag less and vomit let, but he is like sleeping a lot, barely eats and gags like if he was about to vomit. The dr doesn't know if liquid, inflamation or a mass. I believe prednisolone is for inflamation, so if it was that the med wouldve helped, the diuretic is to eliminate excess liquid so if it qas that he wouldve gone better. I believe he probably has something stuck in his trachea or maybe a mass, but how to know? The dr just make xrays not mri. I dont know what else to do. What could it be?

My Westie swallowed a piece of steak that seemed to get caught in her esophagus...wrenching and bringing up foam,,,calmed down after about an hour but still not herself with an occasional wretch.

My dog is 10 months old. Her mood is normal; happy and high energy. But she has been coughing really badly. It sounds like a wheezing. Its like she has to throw something up, but it won't come out, and it almost sounds like her throat is super dry. It's 9pm, our vet isn't open, and I can call first thing in the morning, but will she be okay through the night?

My dog is eating and drinking fine but suddenly stopped eating as much. he has pooped 3 times today and i didnt notice anything in his stool. he was making a weird, hard cough, and panting and breathing rapidly while laying down after he drank some water. i dont know if has something in his throat or what, but he has not vomited or gagged any

I have a 2 year old yellow lab who has vomited 6x in the past 3 days. however, he is eating and pooping fine, and his energy level is great. He may have swallowed part of a deer antler, as that is the only thing he has been alone with. He tends to vomit 6-8 hours after eating, so food isn't the issue. Vomit is mostly bile.

I have a 1-1/2 y.o. blue heeler that dove onto a stick and it got shoved down the back of his throat and broke. He was choking, but managed to gag the piece up within a few seconds. The end of the stick was bloody and he immediately became lethargic and wouldn't eat, drink, or even get up to go outside for 4 hours. I took him to the emergency vet that night and they said they couldn't feel or hear any sub-cu air. He got pain meds, an anti inflammatory, an antibiotic, and a med to coat his throat. After a few days he perked up a little. He plays with the ball but becomes tired very quickly, when barking or playing he gags and still he constantly has thick, clear drool coming from the left side of his mouth where the stick was lodged. It has been about 2 weeks now and still the same. He is a heeler that is very active and rambunctious. He literally will run for 3 hours and not be tired, But he just is not himself. Is this drooling and gagging part of the healing process of a throat injury? Or is there probably part of the stick still stuck? I was told an xray with contrast is the best bet to finding a lodged stick this late after the incident.

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Hello, I have a 9 week old Shiloh Shepard. He's been with us for a week now and was always excited and energetic. All of a sudden he got really calm, sleeps alot, doesn't have an appetite, and seems very sad. He threw up once, as well.

My chiauaua spelled wrong acts like something is in her throat. She is breathing and still eats. Her breaths sound raspy. She has gagged a few times and threw up very little once. Cannot see anything in her throat. Should I make a vet appointment?

My dog carter was eating a raw bone tonight and instantly started gagging and throwing up. There looks like there is no shards of bone, just marrow but he is having a very hard time swallowing and is extremely restless. He seems to be drinking water and eating okay. He's just swallowing a lot and dry heaving.

I have a blue nose pocket bully pitbull . She's been gagging on and off for the past 2 weeks. She still eats drinks & play around with the other dogs? Could there be something stuck?

I came home from work and my pitbull had gotten in the trash. Im not sure what he ate but im assuming he has something caught in his throat. Hes threw up alot n pooped a lot. Hes breathing funny and drooling a lot.

My dog rhino has been like wheezing and then gagging he has a smell coming from his mouth that smells like some kind of plant he ate out side he eats ok