Dog chewing sticks - Where do they go?

**IheartOman** · 20-02-2007 20:58

Im just wondering, my puppy chews all day long and he has literally 15 toys that he can chew but normally opt's for a stick from outside. He will chew this and I know he is swallowing some of the stick.

Im just wondering if anyone knows will this make him constipated? Or do sticks break down in their system easily and they just poo them out?

Bit gross sorry!

**razzle** · 20-02-2007 21:12

I think it just goes through them. My dog ate a frizbee once and it came back out over the course of a few days. Poor thing. But that was plastic, so
maybe sticks are just absorbed, or more camouflaged in their poo.

**IheartOman** · 20-02-2007 21:15

A frizbee! Sheesh!

**razzle** · 20-02-2007 21:23

I know... she had a thing about plastic.

She ate some tinsel once too. Funny story, we saw her running around with this thing trailing behind her, turns out it was a chunk of poo still attached to her bum with tinsel! We couldn't stop laughing.

**IheartOman** · 21-02-2007 06:29

OMG that is bloody hilarious! I would have loved to have seen that. I am laughing just thinking about it!

**2boysmama** · 21-02-2007 06:37

Sticks are just vegetation...plant material. They can digest them. As for frisbees and tinsel...Nooo. They would come out the other end in their chewed up pieces.

My little girl once ate passionfruit tendrils, you know..the curly bits that the vine holds on to the wire with. Because her gut was not ready for "solids" they came out in her nappy pretty much intact. Scared me S***less! I hadn't ever actually seen worms before and I thought she had them. LOL. Funny now, but not then.

I felt a fool when we finally worked out what they were.

**IheartOman** · 21-02-2007 06:38

Originally Posted by 2boysmama

Sticks are just vegetation...plant material. They can digest them. As for frisbees and tinsel...Nooo. They would come out the other end in their chewed up pieces.

My little girl once ate passionfruit tendrils, you know..the curly bits that the vine holds on to the wire with. Because her gut was not ready for "solids" they came out in her nappy pretty much intact. Scared me S***less! I hadn't ever actually seen worms before and I thought she had them. LOL. Funny now, but not then.

I felt a fool when we finally worked out what they were.

Nice one thanks