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I hope Darci is feeling better. Doesn't it just break your heart when they are in pain?

As for Buta's run in w/ her monkey ("Buta had an accident this morning with her new monkey soft toy, she was chewing on the monkey's nose & all of a sudden, she was frantically using her paws to push something from her mouth.　She has managed to removed the nose & it got stuck in between her teeth haha she got quite a shock but i managed to pull the nose out of her teeth"):

That reminded me of something that happened w/ Tucker just days after I brought him home. He was out in the yard with me and quietly chewing on a stick. Suddenly he's gaging.

In my mind I am thinking he's choking, he'll die before I can get him to a Vet, everyone was right, I can't handle a Corgi, I killed this little puppy..... Suddenly I came to my senses, opened his moth, couldn't find anything in his throat.

What I did find is that he had a small twig stuck to the roof of his mouth. It was wedged between teeth on each side of his mouth. I picked it out.

He lokked at me then went back to chewing his stick. I think I took every stick he came in contact away from him for about a week then gave up.

Both my dogs will pass up a Nyla bone or toy for a stick. The'd rather chase after each other w/ a stick than with a ball.

The good news is that they don't swallow most of the stuff they chew. They just chew it and leave the pile for me to clean up.