Dog's shredded tongue spurs push for safety

Myrtle Beach Sun News ^ | 31 March 2006 | Dwayne McLemore

[aomagrat]

Dogs will lick anything once.

[al baby]

will it work with cats?

[Plymouth Sentinel]

Oooouuuch!

Use one at work.

May never be able to look at it the same way again.

[Boundless]

> ... parents never allow their children to operate a shredder ...

With kids around, even visiting, the shredder needs to
be out of reach or inoperable, lest checks, stocks,
bond, cash, pets and the child disappear into it.
Even the insertion of an unshreddable object (table
fork) will wreck both the fork and the shredder.

Due to identity theft concerns, shredders are becoming
quite popular (we've had one for over a decade), and
these accidents are going to continue. Take steps to
ensure your name isn't featured in the next story.

[WorkingClassFilth]

No, they're too thick. Run over them once or twice and they should run through without a problem.

[DumpsterDiver]

A safety warning for dogs: beware of paper shredders!

[supercat]

The technology to build paper shredders existed a hundred years ago, but people then would have thought the notion absurd. Fireplaces and stoves worked faster and better, and didn't require electricity.

[Still Thinking]

Did they change his name to Crosscut?

[I still care]

I looked at one of the pictures. Actually, it looked sort of like decorative cutouts. My irreverent thought was there are people who pay to have that done to their tongues.

That said, for this to be a 15 minute incident, with the poor dog howling and bleeding, must have been horrible.

[Modok]

I only got the cat halfway through before the shredder jammed. Couldn't get the shredder to go in reverse so I had to put up with the cat in the shredder for another day and a half. Next time the cat goes in head first, but that has it drawbacks as well if the shredder jams again.

[Still Thinking]

Yeah, as well as the even more convenient 55 gallon incinerator. Try using one of those today, though, and watch the full wrath of the nanny state befall you.

[Riley]

This hurts just reading about it.

I'll bet Gromit doesn't have this problem.

[HairOfTheDog]

Ping!

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[Modok]

Just get Congress to pass a law the says the shredder manufacturer must put a warning label at dog's eye level warning the dogs about the danger.

[al baby]

[HiTech RedNeck]

"A child doesn't know that you need to let go" of the paper, Davis said.

Not to mention that the kid may feed interesting looking things into the shredder to see the shreds. Such as the contents of Mommy's billfold.

[pageonetoo]

...will it work with cats?

Spot was wondering, too!

[supercat]

Do strip-cut shredders really have a purpose when used for shredding small quantities of material? If one were to stir up the shreddings from 1,000 pages worth of material, a thief might have at least some difficulty putting them back together, but if a wastebasket contains the shreddings of e.g. ten pages, reassembly wouldn't take long at all.

Ironically, I think strip-cut shredders are probably most common among the people who shred the smallest volume of material.

[WorkingClassFilth]

A 4:1 torque converter on a 3500 rpm motor in the 1 horse range should do the trick.

[Screamname]

Reminds me when my brother was about 5 years old and was at a bowling alley with my mother, he stuck his fingers in that rubber spinning wheel that returns bowling balls to the top. If you don`t know what I`m talking about, here is a picture. See the wheel at the end? That`s how he got his nickname "Stubby!"