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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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To: DieHard the Hunter
Yep ... those too! They'll chew anything. ;)


21 posted on 09/06/2008 5:50:05 AM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, Soros Â… use a RED crayon.)
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To: MMcC
Looks like a pup-pic. He musta grown into the special talent. Wonder what the x-rays looked like? ;)


22 posted on 09/06/2008 5:54:31 AM PDT by Daffynition (Follow the dots: Davis, Ayers, Dohrn, Malley, Soros Â… use a RED crayon.)
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To: cowboyway

Nice looking dogs — do they like to hunt?


23 posted on 09/06/2008 5:59:22 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

Canine maracas!


24 posted on 09/06/2008 6:03:40 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: cowboyway
But they will chew on and swallow just about anything. Beer cans, bricks, wood, shop rags, razor blades, etc.

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".....

25 posted on 09/06/2008 6:12:44 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Silence is not always a Sign of Wisdom, but Babbling is ever a Mark of Folly. - B. Franklin)
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To: Daffynition

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)


26 posted on 09/06/2008 6:17:29 AM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Praise God and pass the ammunition!)
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To: Dawn531

Oh yeah, she loved cheese, too. Squash the pill in a chunk of cheddar and that’s all she wrote.


27 posted on 09/06/2008 6:20:01 AM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Praise God and pass the ammunition!)
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To: bert
My former lab, as a puppy, ate two flipflops. It was ugly coming out.

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.

28 posted on 09/06/2008 6:35:13 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Sarah Palin is NOT worried about anything being above her pay grade!)
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To: Daffynition; onedoug; cincinnati65; PISANO; IonImplantGuru; Rummyfan; Aussie Dasher; ...
There are only 34 Rules Of Golf.

Email me if you want on the Golf Ping List.

Visit PGA.com, an excellent site.

29 posted on 09/06/2008 9:30:10 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: DieHard the Hunter
Nice looking dogs — do they like to hunt?

Yeah, but the Lab is almost 13. He's just goes along for the ride these days.

30 posted on 09/06/2008 11:23:38 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: cowboyway

> 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?


31 posted on 09/06/2008 11:25:57 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

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.


32 posted on 09/07/2008 9:43:23 AM PDT by MadMitch
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To: MadMitch; cowboyway

> 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.


33 posted on 09/07/2008 1:20:51 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: xsmommy

Nope. The nearest golf course is 1.3 miles. That would have to be one wicked slice to make it to Chez Cholerique.


34 posted on 09/08/2008 4:51:25 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (So What!? I'm still a rock star!)
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