The one and only time I will ever give my dog bread. I personally don’t eat bread, but when I was given some food for Thanksgiving, it included a loaf of bread. I feed my dog, a yellow Lab real food 99 percent of the time. He is very healthy. All my dogs have lived past their lifespans with real food. So this particular day, I cooked a turkey for Thanksgiving. Taking all the bones out, and cutting up some turkey into very small pieces about 1/2 inches in height, length, and width, I gave him a nice turkey dinner. After he ate that, a few minutes went by and I decided to give him one piece of white bread. I ripped it up into small pieces and put it in his food pan. He ate the pieces and immediately started to choke. And he couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t do anything but watch, because I would not be able to get my hand in his mouth and down his throat. It took more than a minute, but he finally was able to get that bread down his throat and survive this experience. I will throw that loaf of white bread in the garbage and never give him bread again. So the information I am seeking is with regard to the following: Is there an apparatus, maybe made out of metal that can be put into a dog’s mouth to keep it open so that you can get your hand and fingers down his throat without getting bit by the dog clamping down on your hand? Also, what was lodged in his throat was not a hard object, but bread which probably had a slimy texture when it got in his throat and got doughy and expanded. This would be very difficult to get out of his throat. How could you open up a breathing passage with something like this stuck in his throat? And also, I don’t know how a Heimlich maneuver could dislodge doughy bread glue like this.
I actually don’t expect you to provide a good solution to a situation like this, if you are not able to. However, I thought I would share it to the public here to make them aware that bread is not a good thing to feed a dog. Even one piece could prevent them from breathing and has the potential to kill them.
So how does this article relate to this survival website. In a survival situation, you may be baking your own bread, or you may have some emergency food in your refrigerator which includes some loaves of bread. I would suggest, under no circumstances should you feed your dog even one slice of bread. This is based on my own personal experience with what happened to my dog. The choice is up to you to make.
PLEASE NOTE: Cornbread is OK. It is made a different way and is grainy, not doughy. It is more like a grainy dry cake. I have always given my dog homemade cornbread without any problems.
(I had previously written this article to a veterinarian who had a video on YouTube.
I thought it was also important to share this information here on my website.)
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