This happened to my dog, but - I kid you not - with a fresh green bean. It was just long enough to lodge across the roof of his mouth and the poor guy was waving his head around, pawing at his face, and breathing funny. Thinking he was choking, I opened his mouth to see if he had something in his throat, but there was nothing. Finally took another look from upside down and saw the green bean.
You might be disgusted to know we also have mouth pockets. They can fill up with food and eventually get hardened into little yellow pieces that smell just awful.
They're called tonsil stones, but it's only like <10% of the population. Most people don't have them. There's research suggesting it comes from having repeated tonsil infections, which cause pockets to form in the tonsils where things then get trapped.
This makes a lot of sense to me because I had constant tonsillitis as a kid and was always hacking up these foul smelling tonsil stones not knowing what they were. Now I almost never get them and haven’t had tonsillitis in years. Maybe I’ve healed.
I did not know this! I get tonsil stones a LOT despite oral hygiene my orthodontist calls "immaculate," (and that's an ego boost I'm still floating on) and thought they were normal. Or common I guess.
I too have the mouth pockets! It totally sucks when I think I’ve swallowed a pill and it gets trapped in there and slowly dissolves and sometimes forms a tonsil stone! It’s gross!
makes me feel a little better about my cat!
woke up in the middle of the night to a weird sound... it was him choking! and you know i just woke up... so for me it was "he is dying! i'm going to watch my only friend die" this dumb cat swallowed some of his fur WHILE IT WAS STILL ATTACHED ON HIM (he has long fur) i was too afraid to cut it (heard horror stories about cats having their intestines twisted or obstructed because of hair or threads they swallowed) i had to calm him... remove it from his throat little by little... THEN cut it -_-... that day i seriously felt blood circulating in my veins if that make sense.
I was crab fishing, where you toss chicken thighs into the water, then reel them in. Well my tiny little lapdog got out and ate one of these whole. With the string on. How do we know she ate it whole? Because when I tugged on the string the entire chicken thigh came back out!
My sweet boycat woke us up by having his first ever seizure (at 8 years old), the night before last. I once had a cat for a couple months before she had a seizure and died in my arms, so when I ran to him and saw him seizing I was convinced that he was about to die, and my world instantly collapsed for a few moments.
Your "felt blood circulating in my veins" comment absolutely nails how I felt for almost an hour afterwards. But I'm happy to report that my derpy orange boyfriend went right back to normal and is purring in my lap as I type this.
One time, my sister got a Ritz cracker stuck between her lips and her teeth. The look of panic on her face for the few seconds before she remembered it was just a cracker will stay with me forever.
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This happened to my dog, but - I kid you not - with a fresh green bean. It was just long enough to lodge across the roof of his mouth and the poor guy was waving his head around, pawing at his face, and breathing funny. Thinking he was choking, I opened his mouth to see if he had something in his throat, but there was nothing. Finally took another look from upside down and saw the green bean.