Posted on 09/04/2014 6:27:37 AM PDT by workerbee
PORTLAND, Ore. – The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital.
It was something he ate!
X-rays showed a stomach full of "a large quantity of foreign material." Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer -- the dog had consumed 43 1/2 socks.
DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital spokeswoman Shawna Harch said it's perhaps the strangest case in the hospital's history
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There is a secret hose behind my dryer that sends one of my socks every week up to the hozone layer.
hozone layer, LOL
I know of this dog! He’s been in my laundry room, I’m certain.
“I was surprised to learn that Great Danes have a life expectancy of only about 6 or 7 years.”
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I had a Dane and she had the best sense of humor of any dog that I have had the pleasure of knowing. She lived 8 years. All the larger breeds are short lived, the smaller the breed the longer they live. My Yorkie lived to be 17 1/2 before I had to put her down. Both great dogs, the Yorkie was the boss.
My lab is probably 7. (He may be 8, based on what the vet said when we adopted him.) We have never had a bit of trouble with him with chewing up stuff. When we first got him he started to chomp down on the coffee table in the living room, but I gave him a loud “Aah-Aah!”, and that was the end of that.
We always make sure he has toys to chew on, and sometimes he chews on sticks outside. But maybe the big factor is that he is almost always with us, as we are retired. Maybe the dog in the story is anxious because he spends time alone.
Now, lest you think my dog is a complete angel, don’t even get me started on his counter surfing ecapades. :)
She did chew place on my deck. So she no longer get tied up on the deck. She loves to chew sticks and animal bones if she finds them. We do keep her toys around at all times. My husband is retired so she's not alone much. But until these cats start being nicer to her, she is in her kennel and apartment at night. Soon, I hope to have her in the house most of the time.
Our boerboel mastiff pup managed to swallow several scarves, a few socks, and many crayons. Even a tug-toy rope. We watched him like a hawk and kept stuff out of reach, gave him lots of love, exercise, and appropriate chew toys, and it still happened on occasion. Kids leave stuff around. Scarves hang down and get pulled off hooks. It happens. Induced vomiting every single time (except for the crayons- those just added some pizazz to the many “yard ornaments” he’d leave daily) and retrieved everything. I think he finally associated those types of items with vomiting and quit sneaking off with them. A bonus, besides not having to have retrieval surgeries.
This poor Great Dane needs better supervision. There’s no excuse for that many socks disappearing and no one seeing it happen, or noticing and reacting immediately. Unless there’s an all-you-can-eat sock buffet for dogs I’m not aware of in Portland.
I know I am a bad Puppy parent. :(
Oh, come on. Dogs put things in their mouths the same way toddlers do.
I can also understand the dawning comprehension that they owners must’ve felt as they finally solved the riddle of all the missing socks.
Just about every Lab owner I have talked to has a counter surfer. Whenever we go out and leave him alone, we need to make sure there is nothing for him to get into. I guess that, in his doggy mind, he does not know if we will be back for weeks, so he figures he’d better forage.
I usually have a bowl of fruit on my kitchen island, but that needs to go out of his reach. He loves just about any kind of fruit. He also loves bread.
He will take his purloined items onto the carpet in the living room, which I suppose is the grass in his opinion. This has made for some messy cleanups, but we have learned our lessons over the years.
Earlier this year, though, we had a beer making kit out because we were planning to make some beer with it. I thought he would not bother with it. Wrong! It was not fun cleaning up the malt syrup. Fortunately, the bag of syrup was very heavy, or that would have been carried to the “grass”, I am sure. My cleanup was on vinyl tile and a throw rug.
The cat we have now is the most dog-friendly cat I have ever seen in my life. He loves all dogs, and he frequently snuggles up to ours. Sometimes, I think he considers himself a dog.
at least he didn’t eat underwear.
My dog loves carrots and rum. I cut her off from the rum. Really have to watch adult beverages around her.
One of our dogs ate a red balloon. We didn’t know it until it started coming out of the dogs butt.......... inflated. That was weird.
At that age, my now 14 year old lab was eating drywall. Not edges and corners, but in the middle of the wall. How, I still don't know.
OMG! I will stop complaining about mine now!
OMG! I saw this on TV today. What a stash of socks!
My daughter has a couple of Standard poodles that eat socks. Luckily she has been able to make them throw up and disgorge the socks, so far.
> We have a 5 month old black lab
>> At that age, my now 14 year old lab was eating drywall. Not edges and corners, but in the middle of the wall. How, I still don’t know.
Mine did that too, to the flat of an ancient plaster wall. Left me mystified as to the how of it as well. or why???
Thank you, we (family business) built the prototype and the first production molds that made those many years ago thinking Joe was nuts that it would go over big.
We blew that like America with Obama...
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