Gulp! 18-inch dog swallows 16-inch stick Wed Mar 9, 7:46 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - In a feat that put human sword swallowers to shame, a British dog managed to gulp down a stick only two inches (5 centimetres) shorter than its own body, and escape unscathed, a report said. Millie, a two-year-old Staffordshire bull terrier, swallowed the stick by accident while on a walk with her owner, John Hurst, in fields behind his home in Portsmouth, southern England, the Daily Mail newspaper said. Hurst threw the 16-inch (40-centimetre) stick for Millie to retrieve, but it stuck in the ground...