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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I wonder if he has emotional problems? I wonder if he feels neglected? I am not joking.
/johnny
And the owner thought it was the dryer that was eating the socks.
Maybe he thought he was eating Clinton’s cat.
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I can’t honestly believe the poor thing wasn’t dead after the first dozen or so. I mean, how distended could his stomach have been?!
Usually, it’s the dryer that eats your socks... Did the owners not have any curiosity as to where all of their socks were going?
Off topic, but one day watching “Dogs 101” I was surprised to learn that Great Danes have a life expectancy of only about 6 or 7 years.
Forty years ago I thought we had a problem with the dryer eating socks. Then I moved a couple of pieces of plywood in the basement and found 70 that a mouse used to make a nest.
Without a wife?? Not even allowed.
Previous post....Whoops....wrong thread...
The are a sweet lovable breed, but sadly larger dogs tend to have shorter lives. Our daughter had a harlequin and it was deaf and blind in one eye. We would send the german shepherd to get him when he couldn’t see us.
Behavior problems in dogs (and children) always point back to the owner.
/johnny
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You are right, there is no such thing as free will in humans.
I have pulled socks and shoes, and pennies and plastic and paper towels out of the puppy's mouth so many times. That I now have a policy that nothing should be left out where she can get to it. Unless it's a dog toy. She has destroyed most toys. Her Kong is the only toy she has not completely demolished.
Mama done tole you not to leave no socks onna floor.
Sounds like the dog's owner needed a wife to keep track of his socks.
We had a cat once - we named him Chewy after the character in Star Wars but it turned out to be prophetic. H loved Mr. Mercat’s socks, the black synthetic kind you wear with dress shoes. He had to have one in his food bowl to chew on before he would eat. I figured it was a thing he had with being weaned too early. We fought him and kept taking the sock and then he would get another one. It took us way too long to figure out that we should just give him a sock to chew on and replace it when it got too holy and funky. Otherwise there were little chewy holes in all his socks. He never ate the whole sock however.
Not me, some other bloke... I'm quoting.
/johnny
I had a dog that really loved to eat crayons. The poop was a colorful work of art. The best were the really bright colors.
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