Has your dog ever eaten something out of the ordinary?
Tuffy once ate a plastic nipple used for breastfeeding. My friend was visiting and had just had a baby a few months back. When the feeding helper went missing- I defended Tuff-Stuff's honor- reassuring everyone that MY Tuffy would never do that. A couple days later, while "picking up" after him in the backyard, I had to make a call and confess that he was indeed the culprit.
Look at this x-ray from a Veterinarian's office. Can you guess what this woman's dog ate?
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. Here's what happened...
"She heard him doing something behind sofa, but he was OK. Then, in the garden, she noticed some wires in the feces," Lisa Nickless, spokeswoman for PDSA, a U.K. charity for sick and injured animals, told ABCNews.com. "They took an X-ray, and realized, 'Oh dear, this is much worse!'"
The X-ray showed a "large mass of wires" in Charlie's stomach. The dog, whom Fay actually calls the "light of her life," was rushed into surgery with PDSA senior veterinary surgeon Sophie Bell.
"I hadn't even noticed that the lights had been chewed at this stage, but it quickly became clear what had happened," Fey said.
Bell soon was able to extract the life-threatening lights.
"It would have been fatal," Nickless said. "It was lifesaving surgery. That amount of mass wasn't going to pass through naturally. If [he couldn't] go to the bathroom, he would have been sick."
Nickless said that they also found a shoelace - proving Charlie to be a repeat offender.
Bell said that over her years as a veterinarian she has seen animals chew up many items, including socks and rubber ducks, but this was her first case of Christmas lights.
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