Posted on 05/20/2010 4:31:25 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The dog ate my homework and that was just for starters. Shocking X-rays reveal the strange things that wind up in the stomachs of our pets, reports CBS-2's Dave Carlin.
CBS 2 got the inside story. At the Dewitt Clinton Dog Run on Manhattan's West Side we met dog owners with "tails" to tell.
Carol Sumner's beagle "Snoopy," "ate half of a rubber ball once," she said. "I was just hoping it didn't get stuck there but fortunately it came out."
Patricia Smith's dog is named "Richmond."
"He ate my phone," she said.
Kevin Jenkins, whose dog is named "Arnold" said, "He eats paper towels for some reason. He's obsessed with them."
Veterinarian Amy Zalcman is an expert in figuring out the unusual things canines and cats consume. Showing us a series of 10 X-rays, we saw that dogs are often money hungry. One dog had swallowed a stack of coins.
"The penny when it gets digested can cause trouble with their red cells and the red cells get destroyed," she said.
CBS 2 HD was shown the X-ray of a Bull Terrier puppy who ate a kitchen knife and survived.
So did a cat that swallowed a needle, which was lodged at the back of the throat. The surgery to remove it took place before the needle traveled to the cat's brain.
Other X-rays revealed a tiny metal engine from a toy car, a pencil, earrings, a collection of rocks and more.
would your pet lie to you?
lolol
My golden retriever/lab mix burped and out rolled an avocado pit. She must have eaten an avocado out in the backyard. The avocado variety in south Florida are quite large.
She later consumed a doll’s pacifier which actually lead to her death. We didn’t know what was wrong with her, and it didn’t show up on x-rays. The vet had said he would do an endoscopy because he was puzzled. He didn’t get around to doing it in time. The pacifier was wedged at the bottom of her esophagus, and the acid from her stomach ate through her tissues. She was only six years old. I was heartbroken.
man, I am lucky mine just eat out of the cat box.
Noisy eater! LOL!
They showed no problems from it.
My guinea pigs eat their own poop. It’s good for them.
And mine ate my digital hearing aid. Almost 3G to replace it.
What, the nuts and bolts, the BBQ pit, or the pile of charcoal? ; )
beautiful dog!
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