10 Weird Things Pets Have
Swallowed
“…Veterinary
Practice News holds an annual ‘They Ate What?! X-Ray Contest’ for the most ‘odd
& incomprehensible’ objects that veterinarians have discovered in their
patients’ guts.
The
medical term for eating non-food items is pica… dogs tend to do it more often
than other pets because they use their mouths to investigate objects, & in
the process can sometimes swallow those objects by mistake…
Here
are some of the unusual items pets have swallowed & lived to bark or meow
about.
1. Pacifiers
…Dovey,
a 4-year-old Shar Pei, was taken to the vet after his owner’s mom saw him snatch
a pacifier off a counter & swallow it. Dovey had been losing weight. At the
same time, pacifiers had been disappearing.
‘In 20
years, this is the craziest surgery I’ve ever done,’ Dr. Chris Rispoli at the
Gentle Care Animal Hospital in Edmond, Okla., told KOKH. An X-ray revealed
several pacifiers in Dovey’s stomach. During surgery, Rispoli discovered &
removed 21 of them…
2. Live Rifle Rounds
Benno,
a Belgian Malinois from Mountain Home, Ark., had previously eaten socks, glass,
marbles, coins, & other objects before he got ahold of a bag of .308
caliber bullets in 2015. He swallowed 23 of the live rifle rounds.
His
owner took him to the vet the next day after he saw a couple of the bullets in
the dog’s vomit…
3. Candles
A Lab
mix named Ben ate an entire bag of tea candles. ‘During surgery, we removed
approximately 38 candles/discs & chunks of wax,’ Dr. Helen Dane of Danada
Veterinary Hospital in Wheaton, Ill., told Veterinary Practice News…
4. Foam Darts & Bullets
Cats as
well as dogs have swallowed the foam ammunition from toy guns. ‘Seems like a
strange enough object to want to consume, & I find it even stranger that
I’ve witnessed this type of foreign body more than once,’ wrote former veterinary
technician Ann Staub…
5. Steak Knives
Within
the past 16 months, 2 different Staffordshire bull terrier puppies miraculously
survived after they somehow swallowed entire 8-inch steak knives. In August
2016, it took veterinarians at the Animal Referral Hospital in Sydney,
Australia, 45 minutes to use forceps to very, very carefully lift the knife
back up the esophagus of a 6-month-old puppy named Lexi…
6. Forks
Back in
2008, a dog named Apachee had to undergo surgery as well as blood transfusions
after he swallowed a fork. It took a couple of weeks after eating it for
Apachee to start coughing, refusing food, & eventually collapsing. The fork
had become lodged in his chest cavity & pierced a vein.
Dr.
Gary Spodnick & the surgical team at the Veterinary Specialty Hospital of
the Carolinas in Cary, N.C., were able to successfully remove the fork &
patch up the vein.
7. Spoons
When
the owner of a Lab noticed the spoons upon which she fed him peanut butter were
disappearing, she took him to Dr. Carsten Henkel at Robinson Animal Hospital in
McKees Rocks, Penn. An X-ray revealed not one, but 2 metal spoons in the dog’s
stomach.
8. Hair Ties
One cat
patient… ‘decided to eat over a dozen’ hair ties… ‘It was like a never-ending
bottomless pit of hair ties that we removed from this patient’s stomach &
intestines.’
9. Monopoly Dog Token
…a
canine swallowed the Scottie dog token from a Monopoly game…The X-ray was
posted on Reddit.
10. Turtle Pendant
…a male
15-pound tortoise named Lola… didn’t poop for a month (!), his owner brought
him to Dr. Don Harris at the South Dade Avian & Exotic Animal Medical
Center in Miami.
An
X-ray revealed that Lola had eaten a 1.5-cm turtle pendant ‘of unknown origin,’
according to Veterinary Practice News. It was successfully surgically removed
& Lola has completely recovered..."
Laura
Goldman
Dec.
19/2017
Care2.com
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