[LukeL]

Can you imagine the X-rays from a San Francisco hospital from people who accidently “sit” on objects.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Doggie and Kitteh ping!

After reading this, I’m having 2nd thoughts about getting another dog! Poor babies!

[familyop]

"a Mastiff who" that "swallowed an eight inch long wrench, a Terrier who" that "had eaten a Nerf arrow. and a short-haired cat" who" that "had"

[Patriot Babe]

Amazing what pets swallow.

[edpc]

I had a cat who ate a portion so fabric from the dust flap on an old piece of furniture. We had no idea what was wrong with him and neither did the vet for a day or two. Turned out the string had worked its way into the intestinal tract and caused a lot of damage. He had 60% of his intestines removed, lost half his body weight, and was touch and go with pancreatitis for awhile.

That was 3 years ago. The little dude has made a (slow) full recovery and is observing me as I type.

[doorgunner69]

Reminds me of my crazy Siamese that ate all the rubber stooers off the door bumpers in the house. Cat just loved to chew rubber, like the mouthpieces off our scuba regulators.

Which of course we discovered shortly before the first dives of vacation.

And of course his fetish for string and yarn, great fun when it started coming out the other end. I believe there is a saying about that...........

[Dysart]

After taking an X-ray we had figured out that it looked like a small fishing pole.

That musta hurt reel bad.

[Lera]

one year old Mastiff SNIP Surgery was performed, and an 8 inch metallic rachet wrench was removed along with the separated rachet pieces.

Mastiffs are really bad about swallowing things they should not . I came home from the grocery one day with 20 packages of meat and set them on top of the freezer in my garage . Walked inside with the rest of the groceries and came back out to find all the meat GONE . Didn't think anything about it as I figured my husband had put it in the freezer . Couple of days later while mowing the lawn I found the evidence under a tree . Mixed in his dropping was all the wrappings from those packages of meat . He just swallowed them whole .

Had another one swallow a stuffed toy whole while playing catch . Luckily he puked it up the next day.

[stilloftyhenight]

My doggie’s favorite toy was Goofie. One day Goofie’s ear disappeared. Yes, it was in his stomach.

[Young Werther]

IT'S SNOT WHAT YOU THINK!

[TheConservativeParty]

Our first Doberman puppy (25 years ago) swallowed a 22 inch choke chain. We’d tossed it on the floor after a walk and I heard a sound that was metal on teeth and suspected he’d swallowed the pile of chain on the rug. Sure enough he had, as the x-ray showed, and it was removed by surgery. As a pup, he would eat almost anything and we learned to keep things out of reach. He once had a wad of 20 dollar bills in his mouth that was left on a table before a vacation. He also went up on the counter as a big puppy and ate the top off a cherry pie. He was lots of fun!

[real saxophonist]

I spilled some Hoppe’s #9 on the carpet once, and for the next 3 days the dog was constantly licking that area of the carpet.

[Ditter]

Wish I had know about this contest. One of my dogs ate a balloon. It came out his butt inflated (again). It did not require a visit to the vet. I removed it myself, gently. I have a picture around here someplace. :)

[Hot Tabasco]

Dumb dogs, they’ll eat anything..............and people accuse cats of being finicky. LOL!

[dhs12345]

Once read a of story of a dog eating a woman’s sock. The sock went missing and the owners noticed it hanging from the rear of the dog a couple of days later.

[Twotone]

I have a cat who likes to chew on cardboard boxes. She doesn’t swallow anything (that I know of), but leaves a lovely puncture pattern along all flaps.

[lonevoice]

Good grief, the things some of them will eat!

[ponygirl]

When I was a kid, my mom had a sewing room and our little dog used to go in there and sit under her feet while she worked. One night, my father was watching the tv with the dog was on his lap and he was petting her when he got pricked on the finger by a needle coming out of her neck. He pulled the needle, and it came through her neck with the thread still attached! Emergency trip to the vet revealed she had been eating the occasional sewing pin. They found another one stuck in the roof of her mouth.

[green pastures]

I think my favorite part of the article was,"46lb English Bulldog swallowed a 9" screwdriver. Dog did very well after cranial laparotomy and gastrotomy. However, after he woke up he promptly ate his iv injection port."

[Ponyexpress9790]

True story-—My mother’s long haired white cat had a blob of doody stuck toits backside. I grabbed a paper towel to clean him. Knowing that it was dried and matted in his hair, I figured I had one shot of yanking it off and with it a lot of hair. While petting him with one hand and the other I surrounded the blob with the paper towel. As if I was trying to start a chainsaw I YANKED. Cat screeched, jumped, took off running— and there I am standing there holding this blob and ONE END of 30 feet of embroiderythread. Cat ran from kitchen to bedroom and I had to pick to the thread, the last few feet I pulled out from the cat as he was hiding under her bed. He was hissing at me something fierce, he wouldn’t come near me for a week.