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.
Looks just like him.
My little maltepoo had a thing for toilet paper and tissue for the first two years of his life( he’s 5 now). In fact, before I bought him the vet check brought out what I thought was a giant worm, but was, in fact, tp. I think it was because the woman I bought him from kept him locked in the bathroom for the first 3 months of his life- and probably didn’t feed him well either.
After-during the teething phase- he ate ALL of my leather shoes. Every one, just heels and soles left. Wouldn’t touch tennis shoes tho.
He doesn’t chew anything now- won’t even eat milkbones , but sometimes he’ll take off with TP and shred it all over the house. Looks like a snowstorm.
His tongue has since returned to pink...
My dear departed beagle Nalah, ate wine corks, crayons, and a belt buckle for dessert. I don’t know how she passed those things, but she did. OUCH!
Cool! Thanks!
lol Thank you!
What a gorgeous boy- and so intellectual!!
Now imagine little, black and white, longer hair and the TP torn into tiny bits like snow- and you have my living room and Mr. Bingles.
Lately he’s been too ‘in love ‘ with a giant moose slipper to do the TP thing.
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