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Today for the second time in her life my greedy bitch let greed overcome her wish to live. 
So how do you deal with a choking German Shorthaired Pointer?
This is a labrador sized animal, shorter in the body and standing a bit taller on the legs.
The dog seems unable to move, frightened, unwilling to stand and trying to vomit without the usual extravagance of movement that goes with a doggy spew, its breathing also appears restricted.
First you prise its rigidly clamped shut jaws open to see if there is anything visible and find nothing. This also allows you to check the breathing.
Second you pick it up by the hind legs, with its back against you, put one arm round the body at the leg to stomach transition and slap it on the stomach just below the ribs, repeat until it shows signs of easier breathing or a wish to really vomit, when you release it and watch as it seems to produce a semi-deflated white football from its mouth.
Not sure what it was that came up in a pint of foamed saliva, that resembled whipped egg white, but it was brownish and about the size of a golf ball stood on to reduce it to half height.
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So how do you deal with a choking German Shorthaired Pointer?
This is a labrador sized animal, shorter in the body and standing a bit taller on the legs.
The dog seems unable to move, frightened, unwilling to stand and trying to vomit without the usual extravagance of movement that goes with a doggy spew, its breathing also appears restricted.
First you prise its rigidly clamped shut jaws open to see if there is anything visible and find nothing. This also allows you to check the breathing.
Second you pick it up by the hind legs, with its back against you, put one arm round the body at the leg to stomach transition and slap it on the stomach just below the ribs, repeat until it shows signs of easier breathing or a wish to really vomit, when you release it and watch as it seems to produce a semi-deflated white football from its mouth.
Not sure what it was that came up in a pint of foamed saliva, that resembled whipped egg white, but it was brownish and about the size of a golf ball stood on to reduce it to half height.
Some Useful links.
UK Vet UK e-How USA Vet
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