Posted on 05/20/2010 4:31:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The dog ate my homework and that was just for starters. Shocking X-rays reveal the strange things that wind up in the stomachs of our pets, reports CBS-2's Dave Carlin.
CBS 2 got the inside story. At the Dewitt Clinton Dog Run on Manhattan's West Side we met dog owners with "tails" to tell.
Carol Sumner's beagle "Snoopy," "ate half of a rubber ball once," she said. "I was just hoping it didn't get stuck there but fortunately it came out."
Patricia Smith's dog is named "Richmond."
"He ate my phone," she said.
Kevin Jenkins, whose dog is named "Arnold" said, "He eats paper towels for some reason. He's obsessed with them."
Veterinarian Amy Zalcman is an expert in figuring out the unusual things canines and cats consume. Showing us a series of 10 X-rays, we saw that dogs are often money hungry. One dog had swallowed a stack of coins.
"The penny when it gets digested can cause trouble with their red cells and the red cells get destroyed," she said.
CBS 2 HD was shown the X-ray of a Bull Terrier puppy who ate a kitchen knife and survived.
So did a cat that swallowed a needle, which was lodged at the back of the throat. The surgery to remove it took place before the needle traveled to the cat's brain.
Other X-rays revealed a tiny metal engine from a toy car, a pencil, earrings, a collection of rocks and more.
My last dog jumped the fence and crashed our neighbor’s wedding reception where she grabbed and ate an entire Virginia ham. We didn’t know and couldn’t figure out why she drank gallons of water and panted like crazy. I thought she was dying in the middle of the night. The emergency vet took x-rays, saw the whole ham (have no idea how she did it) and had to pump her stomach. $1,000 later....
Our new lab eats socks. It’s kind of gross to clean up the yard. The vet says it might kill her, but she opens the hampers. I’m fit to be tied.
When I was growing up, one of our barn cats went a little too far smacking around our Great Dane/German Shepard mix. He was 145 lbs and so skinny his ribs stuck out.
He picked up the cat, just like that. He carried it around the yard for nearly 5 minutes.
We were scared to try and get it back. We kept expecting half a cat. The cat never fought at all (after inside his mouth).
He set the cat down without physical harm. The cat never got near him again.
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sorry, almost forgot you.
I love the expression on your cats’ face... priceless.
Just last Sat. I had to take my mother’s Maltipoo to the emergency vet. Dumb dog ate a rock. $1400 for a “free” dog. Today it came in with a piece of crockery. I have ordered it a cage muzzel for when it goes outside. Next time it eats something that has to be removed, the dog is toast.
My dog ate a baby rabbit in one bite. Chomp! Gulp.....Gone.
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Panties, dirty socks, paper. Our golden has to “retrieve” something. She does the “marley mambo” with it. We call it the parade.
I had no idea until she ran into the living room, jumped on the couch and barfed up a ton of soap bubbles. Talk about WTH??? The vet said it probably just cleaned her out. It was A LOT of soap bubbles.
And Pippin has shown him the advantages of snacking on used tissues while we are out; the house looks like a kleenex factory exploded.
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My dachshund puppy ate an entire military miniature-a lead one. (This was back in the 1980s before military miniatures had to switch to some other metal because of health concerns, I think the new metal is a compound ending in -ium, but anyway...). The “miniature” was nearly 4” tall , and it was of a French hussar smoking a pipe while sitting in a chair. All we ever found of the hussar was his head and part of the chair...The dachshund puppy (who lived to be nearly 15 years old) ate and presumably digested the rest of the figure.
What a sickeningly cute little puppy! Looks like a miniature, and like he’s not too happy with the ear-action going on.
LOL! Awwwwwwwww! He’s adorable!
My Lab ate a cell phone once. Took it right off the sprinkler man’s belt, played keep away and chewed it to pieces. Don’t think he swallowed any of it, but I had to buy the man a new phone.
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