The thief who bit off more than he could chew... puppy needs surgery after stealing ...

dailyMail ^ | January 13, 2012 | Anna Edwards

[aldabra]

A puppy got himself into a sticky situation when he pinched a six-inch Chinese spare rib from his owner and swallowed it in one gulp.

Greedy Staffordshire bull terrier Rossi got into difficulties when the bone - which unbelievably he didn't choke on - started scratching his stomach.

Owner Steven Hawthorn, 44, said the 15-week-old puppy snatched the rib and swallowed it whole as he and his family sat down to a takeaway meal.

His wife Donna, 35, and sons Lewis, 13 and Samuel, 11, watched in amazement as Rossi, named after motorcycle legend Valentino Rossi, jumped up to nab the pork rib and devoured it in seconds. ...

[aldabra]

Don't give this dog a bone: Rossi gulped down the six-inch rib before his astonished owners could stop him and had to have the spare rib surgically removed

What a face!

[aldabra]

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[Lazamataz]

They cheated Darwin.

If the puppy was dumb enough to eat this, and survived due to intervention, now these genes will be passed on, making dogs a little more inferior.

[C210N]

A few years ago, my dog ate some undetermined quantity of spent corn cobs - the corn eaten off, and cobs tossed, that she got into. Apparently, corn cobs go thru the esophageal sphincter quite easily into the stomach, but are completely blocked by the Pyloric sphincter from entering the small intestine. Oh, and this was somewhat complicated by the fact that the stomach does not really digest a corn cob. There were at least a half-dozen one-hour trips to a vet specialist in removing such things, with a poor drugged pup to bring home afterwards. There were ~ 6 trips for the one meal because the vet found that in our case, it was one snare per cob, and so many cob pieces, that he kept running out. All the while, over a few weeks, she had to eat special canned food that could bypass the cobs, as her nourishment.

[Dallas59]

[PowderMonkey]

I had to save my Wire-haired Fox Terrier twice one night over a big T-bone he snatched from a plate. The sharp end pierced the roof of his mouth. The length wise bone had jammed his jaws full open so he could not dislodge it. Blood everywhere. The dog was shrieking in pain as it frantically tried to pry it loose. I wrapped him up with a towel to immobilize him, and using pliers I was able to dislodge the bone. Sitting there with rescued dog in one hand, bone in the other, that little devil squirmed free and dove on that bone, and did it all over again!

[momtothree]

I know it isn’t funny but I had to laugh at just how darn stubborn your terrier is... After getting the bone dislodged by pliers... he went right back after it again. Naughty doggie!

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

Some years ago, I had some guests due over for a trout dinner and had six beautiful just over one pound trout ready to go on the charcoal grill.
I stepped inside the house for 30 seconds and when I came out, there were five fish and our late Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake, had a rather guilty look. He swallowed the trout in one bite and showed no digestion problems afterward.

[goat granny]

I once found kelly green dog poo in my yard, I picked it up with a plastic bag and went in to call the vet. I had never seen kelly green poo before, and just as I got to the phone my dog threw up a bluish green sock...Saved me a vet bill, but why would a dog eat a sock?...Only the green dye made it through the digestion tract...

[loungitude]

Long ago, I had a Rottweiler. A friend tossed her a t-bone. She swallowed it in one shot, and that was that. No sign of it again. I don’t know how that happened. Another time (same dog) stole a chicken bone, crunched it and swallowed it. I just reached down her throat and got it back.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This same dog ate an entire bag of Hershey’s Kisses. It took nearly five days for all the aluminum foil to exit.

[Gabz]

I have a kelly green poo story as well. Unfortunately I didn’t find it until a couple of days after the fact. My lab/Chesapeake mix got into my candy chocolate and ate an entire pound bag of the green bits. Unfortunately I had green carpet in the living room at the time................

[Joe 6-pack]

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[goat granny]

LOL the stain never goes away with an partially digested sock either...

[PowderMonkey]

As typical of the breed, he was a pistol. The class clown. He loved causing an uproar. Being the bad boy was his most endearing trait. He shredded all my feather pillows one day. I came home to find the living room awash in chicken feathers. In the midst of it, the only visible part of the dog was his tail, happily wagging above a sea of feathers. “Come play! Best doggie day ever!” Spike was the best dog I ever had. Sure do miss that little guy.

[Dysart]

My Staffy pup devoured an entire birthday (mine, not his) rum cake years ago, candles and all. We came home after running errands and there he was atop the kitchen table licking the few remaining crumbs from the cake pan. He was only about 3 months old; still don’t know how he manage to jump high enough to make it to the chair. But from there it was easy enough. I think that was the extent of his misbehavior in his 16 and half years.

[goat granny]

that makes a lie out of the saying that chocolate is poison to a dog...:O)

[aldabra]

Your feather pillow story reminds me of my shepherd mix who was usually well behaved, except his mission in life was killing dog beds. I’d find him, stuffing all over, happy as could be. After the third dead bed, he got to sleep on towels bought on clearance.

[Silentgypsy]

Speaking of socks, one of my late Great Danes ate my daughter’s big, fluffy tennis sock and barfed it up later. We didn’t realize the sock was missing and, even if we had, we probably would have assumed that the washer ate it or, some socks actually being wire hanger larvae, that it matured into a hanger.