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[Golf] Balls found inside 'rattling' dog
BBC ^ | 5 September 2008 | staff reporter

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: dogs
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1 posted on 09/06/2008 4:26:44 AM PDT by Daffynition
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2 posted on 09/06/2008 4:34:15 AM PDT by csvset
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To: Daffynition

What, no clubs?


3 posted on 09/06/2008 4:34:15 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Daffynition

Black Labradors: gotta love ‘em! Beautiful dogs, and dumb as a sack of hammers.


4 posted on 09/06/2008 4:36:09 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Daffynition

Umm...I’ll take a drop, thanks.


5 posted on 09/06/2008 4:38:24 AM PDT by RichInOC ("Bark like a dog for me...bark like a dog...oh, I will show you the meaning of the word 'respect'!")
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To: CholeraJoe

either of your boyz making any weird rattling noises these days? ; )


6 posted on 09/06/2008 4:41:30 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: Daffynition

Then there’s the other side of this. A story about my brother’s German shepherd.

She was diagnosed with Lyme’s disease and needed to take two little presciption pills daily for a length of time. Mix the pills in her food and that’ll be good. One day, my brother told some friends and me to “watch this.” He mixes a big pan of dog food and water, dropped in the two pills and mixed them in, and gave it to Duchess. We all watched as she cleaned up that whole pan. When she was done and walked away, those two little pills were sitting in the bottom of the pan. Big ol’ pile of food and she manages to selectively avoid the pills.

So he takes each of those pills, wraps a ittle bread around them, and tosses the “treats” at her to catch and wolf down.


7 posted on 09/06/2008 4:52:26 AM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Praise God and pass the ammunition!)
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To: RichInOC
Umm...I’ll take a drop, thanks.

The dog may have been thinking the same thought.
8 posted on 09/06/2008 4:53:53 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: Man50D
What, no clubs?

Mine are scattered in ponds around S.E. Michigan.....too deep for labs to dive for.

9 posted on 09/06/2008 5:02:27 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Wedgie Syndrome: The inability to recognize humor by individuals alwayls looking for an argument)
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To: Ladysmith

One of our dogs would do the same thing, the other woofs his food down and wouldn’t notice a pill. When we have to give our dogs pills we buy Cheez Whiz. Easier than using peanut butter, you just squirt the pill with the cheese. I noticed our vet has some new treats with a small pocket in them that that allow you to slip a pill inside.


10 posted on 09/06/2008 5:12:28 AM PDT by Dawn531
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To: DieHard the Hunter
Beautiful dogs, and dumb as a sack of hammers.

You're half right. I've had several labs. Got one right now. They're smart dogs and rank high on the dog intelligence list.

But they will chew on and swallow just about anything. Beer cans, bricks, wood, shop rags, razor blades, etc.

11 posted on 09/06/2008 5:23:23 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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Guilty
12 posted on 09/06/2008 5:23:38 AM PDT by MMcC
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To: cowboyway

My former lab, as a puppy, ate two flipflops. It was ugly coming out.


13 posted on 09/06/2008 5:26:31 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Conservation? Let the NE Yankees freeze.... in the dark)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Mine are scattered in ponds around S.E. Michigan.....too deep for labs to dive for.

You must be an animal lover.
14 posted on 09/06/2008 5:27:24 AM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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Only if he’s iron deficient. ;)


15 posted on 09/06/2008 5:33:53 AM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, Soros Â… use a RED crayon.)
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To: RichInOC
Triple bogey ...


16 posted on 09/06/2008 5:39:42 AM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, Soros Â… use a RED crayon.)
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To: bert
My former lab, as a puppy, ate two flipflops. It was ugly coming out.

I have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever also and that fool can turn a chunk of wood into splinters in no time but unlike my Lab he is not inclined to eat the stuff.

Here's my boys:


17 posted on 09/06/2008 5:40:55 AM PDT by cowboyway ("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
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To: Ladysmith

Amazing isn’t it? Our Labs, when fed vegetables mixed with their chow, would leave any pea in the bottom of the bowl. They way they can gobble, you’d think the tiny round object’s texture [pill/pea] wouldn’t matter. LOL


18 posted on 09/06/2008 5:42:30 AM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, Soros Â… use a RED crayon.)
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My American Bulldog is very intelligent, but same thing- any object, no matter what, living, dead, inanimate, whatever, is a candidate for consumption. His poop is like a box of chocolates- you never know what you’re going to get! (sorry for the gross metaphor lol)


19 posted on 09/06/2008 5:44:27 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (Jimi Hendrix has more experience than Obama. PALIN/MC WHATSISNAME 08!)
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> But they will chew on and swallow just about anything. Beer cans, bricks, wood, shop rags, razor blades, etc.

Sounds like a real character!

Haven’t had a black lab, but had a golden lab years ago. Her claim-to-fame was jalepeno peppers: she loved ‘em, but couldn’t figure out that what goes down hot often comes out hot. She used to steal them out of the garden and eat ‘em raw when nobody was looking. And then wonder why her bum was hot.

I train German Shepherds now.


20 posted on 09/06/2008 5:44:30 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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