{"id":657,"date":"2010-04-06T01:51:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/06\/warning-stuffed-animals\/"},"modified":"2010-04-06T01:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T05:51:22","slug":"warning-stuffed-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/warning-stuffed-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"WARNING: STUFFED ANIMALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#bf0000\"><\/font><font size=\"4\"><strong>Those of us who like to give children\u2019s stuffed animals to our dogs to play with, need to be aware <\/strong><strong>of possible consequences when our dogs rip them apart as mine always do;&#160; I find stuffing <\/strong><strong>all over the place.&#160; So now I get the stuffed toys, including those made for animals, that have no stuffing or remove it.&#160; I never give toys with <\/strong><\/font><font size=\"5\"><strong><font size=\"4\">button eyes or noses.<\/font> <\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><strong><em><font color=\"#bf0000\"><\/font><font size=\"5\">This is from the Show Dog list:<\/font> <\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#590170\" size=\"4\">Last night at agility class, a vet, who is a fellow agility student&#160; was telling us about a case she had this week. The dog ate a child&#8217;s teddy bear and was very sick. When she opened the dog up to remove what she thought was an&#160; intestinal obstruction she found a huge gelatin type mess inside and the dog\u2019s intestines were black and the tissue dead. The dog died as no surgery could fix him up as there was no living intestine left from stomach to colon.       <br \/><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#590170\" size=\"4\">This&#160; was not an obstruction. &#8230;. so she called the manufacturer of the Teddy Bear on a quest to find out what the gel was and what killed the dog. Turns out the&#160; stuffing in children&#8217;s toys contains ingredients for flame retardants and mite&#160; control! It is designed to become a gel. It is highly toxic.&#160; Now one would&#160; think a child&#8217;s toy would be safe (unless it is made in China!) because it is for children, but they don&#8217;t&#160; expect a child to eat the stuffing of the toys which is a scary thought in and of itself.&#160;&#160; We know that dogs demolish and eat toys!       <br \/><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#590170\" size=\"4\">So do not give or buy your dog any children&#8217;s stuffed animals. Some people. myself included, have gotten stuffed toys at Goodwill. but no morel.&#160; Make sure all your the toys you buy for your dogs are made for dogs. <\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font color=\"#590170\" size=\"4\">Please pass this on and help avoid another dog dying a horrible death that can be avoided.        <br \/><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Those of us who like to give children\u2019s stuffed animals to our dogs to play with, need to be aware of possible consequences when our dogs rip them apart as mine always do;&#160; I find stuffing all over the place.&#160; So now I get the stuffed toys, including those made for animals, that have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rattlebridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}