Posted on 09/01/2013 1:36:09 PM PDT by ClaytonP
“Foreign object” is one of the most common emergency surgeries my clinic sees.
Radiographs of a stray dog brought in by animal control show a roofing nail in stomach.
Socks... for the second time in as many years.
Pinecone.
The snake who ate the snake who ate the pet rat - one inside the other inside the other on the x-ray. Snake #1 was presented for lethargy, and by the way, the owners hadn’t seen their other snake, or their pet rat in a few days, and had no idea where either could have gotten to.
Boarding dog passed a set of ladies’ undies. Mrs picks dog up from boarding, is presented with undies... which don’t belong to her.
Who knew glass doesn’t show up on x-rays? Glass tray with brownies was left on table by owners. Owners briefly leave room. Dog knocks tray from table and gulps down (chocolate!) brownies, glass chunks and all.
...Because if they don’t want you to eat it, it must be really, really good!
The dubious winner?
A lab.
But of course.
“One of my dogs ate a balloon.”
OK, that one is a must-post!
Remember this guy? [Golf] Balls found inside 'rattling' dog
I found kelly green poo in the front yard and bagged it to take dog and bag to vet....but dog vomited up a blue/green sock that stained my carpet...I guess only the green dye went through her system..Interesting color poo. LOL
To weeks later he did the exact same thing. This time he perforated the intestines and there was nothing the vet could do. I still miss that little guy (The cat, not the vet).
I did take a picture of the re inflated balloon coming out of his butt but I have no idea where that picture is now, sorry.
Speaking of poo, our lab used to pull the small glass ornaments off the lower part of the Christmas tree and eat them. I finally figured out what was happening when his poo started glittering in the snow. Dang, I miss that dog!
I’m so glad that my Chihuahua only eats paper napkins and Kleenex! Of course, he eats kibble and dog treats as well.
LOL I miss mine also. The sock eater was part greyhound and boy did she love to run when I took her into the pasture,(when I had the farm) until one day chasing a rabbit, she ran into the electric fence with her nose. Boy did she make it back to the barn faster then she left it...but recently had to put down my lab, last january, I sure do miss her too...the longer you live the more dogs you miss... But they all reached at least 13 years old...except my red husky, ate snow fence, dug foxholes in the back yard, would sit in the middle of the pool cover during the winter when it had snow and ice on it, and finally learned to climb the fence. Let her out the back door and ran to the front door and she was already in the front yard waiting....she went to a gal that had a husky so she knew what she was in for......2 kids had to get new shoes, she ate, and new carpeting in the family room she ripped off...but she was sweet, especially chasing the kids around and jumping over tables, and the 1/2 wall in the kitchen...but she was sweet, oh wait, I already said that....:O)
Oh yikes, it hurts even to read about this! I have a very long asphalt driveway and caught my Yorkie chewing on tiny pebbles from it. Wondered if it was a ‘lack’ of something he needed......
I can’t imagine looking to the APA beyond what’s required for college papers and loopy social science journals. The MLA is something of a Johnny-come-lately, perhaps therefore hewing to dated standards for presumed credibility.
The Chicago Manual of Style is good enough for me—http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0166.html—though I suspect for you nothing that veers from what you were taught in grammar school will suffice.
Craziest thing I ever saw a pet eat was our mutt Fagan who used to spend the day in the bathroom. One day we came home to find she had eaten half the shower curtain. The vet had to open her stomach and remove the pieces.
On the reference to birds at the Chicago Manual site, birds don’t really “talk.” Animals squawk or make noises at each other for breeding purposes and the like. They don’t communicate with people. Birds are not people. They are things in formally written English language.
Linguistic activism for social pathologies pushed in recent decades won’t get much further anyway. It will end and be discarded after the conclusion of the debt paradigm. What passes for journalism now will pass away, too.
“The MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (2008) is the third edition of The MLA Style Manual, first published by the Modern Language Association of America in 1985”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_MLA_Style_ManualBirds don’t communicate?
And there’s nothing in the use of ‘who’ that suggests a person. It suggests a sentient agent, which is what an animal is, without implying an animal is a person.
And I stand by my view that you are ever stuck to this arbitrary and illogical rule that you were taught in grade school. There’s no other reasonable explanation for becoming a grammar police for a dated and now little-used rule.
Now you’re just getting silly. Because animals aren’t people they aren’t to be acknowledged for their sex, sentience or relationships to other elements of the world?
Plant, animal or mineral? I believe I know what humans are—though as I see here, a sometimes irrational one.
As bad as those who feel a need to anthropomorphize animals are those who thrust themselves into the illogical in order to deny the similarities that are there.
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