Is it bad for a dog to eat a few matches?

Is there a vet hospital/urgent care you could call? If so I’d call, just to make sure. I think your dog will be fine, though. Food and water will help.. Your doggy will eventually poop them out!!!

Much better question than this

Sorry about the dog and I hope that he is fine. Did he chew them or just bolt them down?
TheHaight: well-said.

I think chewed the tips off of some and ate a few

Call vet now. Get off the computer.

Are you a vet? Ive been given wrong info before. Will he be ok?

I found this on Yahoo Answers: “Yes, he (her dog) did just eat a box of matches, so I quickly called the vet and she asked how big the matches box was. It was around 3 inches (the tiny ones) and had about 5 to 10 matches inside. Plus, I found a few around my couch. She said to feed him lots of water and he’ll probably vomit or poo it out.”

The dog will be fine unless it’s named “Sparky.”

As long as he doesnt fart alot. ***POOF***

if the matches were lit your in for some bad episodes with kharma.

Haha.. dogs.

Update? Is the dog ok?

My dog raided the bin before and ate matches and all sortsa stuff!! Think he had a coupla jaggy poops but was fine! ;-)

Update: dog is currently fine after 10 hours after consumption. Yet to poop them out.

why did you let your dog eat matches?

i didn’t let it. It jumped on chair and got them off of a counter top while I was resting. When I saw him eating them I took them away.

I read an article about a woman who ate cigarette sandwiches in her sleep.