Posted on 09/06/2008 4:26:43 AM PDT by Daffynition
A dog had to have 13 golf balls removed from its stomach after eating them on walks around a Fife course.
Owner Chris Morrison had been taking five-year-old black labrador Oscar round the Pitreavie golf course in Dunfermline for several months.
He took Oscar to the vet after noticing a rattling sound coming from his pet's stomach.
They then discovered that 13 balls - each weighing 45 grams - were lodged in his stomach.
Mr Morrison, a planning administrator, said one of the balls had been in his stomach so long that it had turned black and was decomposing.
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Nice looking dogs — do they like to hunt?
Canine maracas!
Yep. I've had labs and or retrievers all my life. I have three Labs now. The three I have come from prime field trial stock and are, by far, the smartest dogs I've ever owned or ever been around. However, I've also come to the conclusion over the years that Labradors seem to operate on a universal theory of "eat it now and decide if it's food later".....
That’s just funny! Just like your dogs, that’s what she did. She pounded down that food and licked that pan clean! Worthy of a “stupid pet tricks” audition. :o)
Oh yeah, she loved cheese, too. Squash the pill in a chunk of cheddar and that’s all she wrote.
Our neighbor has a dog that would frequent the new home being constructed across the street in the evening. He would eat any leftovers the workers tossed into the garbage.
Accidentally ate some insulation one day. When he went poop and it was coming out, he turned around and growled at the turd.
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Yeah, but the Lab is almost 13. He's just goes along for the ride these days.
> Yeah, but the Lab is almost 13. He’s just goes along for the ride these days.
Thirteen is a pretty good innings for a Lab. What do you feed him?
Black Labradors: gotta love ‘em! Beautiful dogs, and dumb as a sack of hammers
Not so sure about the dumb bit, when I’ve been out with my lab and he been in the sea or a loch and we stop off at the pub for him to dry off he always gets served first. It’s like Cheers everybody know his name and I’m just the guy with Murphy.
> It’s like Cheers everybody know his name and I’m just the guy with Murphy.
(big grin!) and my apologies to Murphy — I’ve judged him and his Labrador mates wrongly. cowboyway has pointed me at some dog intelligence scores, where Labs score pretty hi: I recall somewhere around 7th out of all the breeds.
Nope. The nearest golf course is 1.3 miles. That would have to be one wicked slice to make it to Chez Cholerique.
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