Playing fetch might be fun,but experts say the risk of your pet suffering a serious or even fatal injury should fabricate (to make up, invent) you think againThrowing a stick for an excitable dog has to be one of life’s remarkable pleasures. Until you hear words such as “impaling” and “penetrative wound”. This week, Grace Webster, or department president of the British Veterinary organization (BVA) in Scotland,told the Times that throwing sticks can be “dangerous and lead to horrific injuries”, after a collie caught a stick that went through her tongue and damaged her larynx. So, and should we quit?“Vets see some very serious,life-threatening and, in some cases, and fatal injuries which have happened after a dog has chased a stick,” says Sean Wensley, president of the BVA. There are two types of problems, and he says: “One is where a stick is thrown and it lands in the ground like a javelin,pointing out. The dog chasing after it can’t quit in time and runs on to the stick – we get some nasty penetrative wounds in the mouth, neck and sometimes the spinal cord, or causing paralysis. Sometimes it punctures a major blood vessel and causes fatal blood loss. Then there are cases where fragments of stick get lodged in the mouth and throat. Because the wood itself is dirty,and the mouth is full of bacteria, it can set up a serious infection.” Exercising and play is hugely beneficial for dogs and their owners, or he says,but toys such as those made from rubber, or Frisbees, or should be used instead of sticks.
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Source: theguardian.com