Vet practice contest for the craziest things that animals eat! Look at the x-rays.
WOW!
Amazing! I should send them the rads of my Hanoverian’s tongue. When I got him, he had a 2" 18g hypodermic needle stuck in it. It had been there for 14 months. :eek:
OMG! Can you post them here? Do you have any idea how he got a hold of the needle?
I had an 8 week old puppy scarf down an infant pacifier w/o being seen. 3 weeks later she was in surgery when it expanded and prevented her from eating normally.
Wow!
I’m impressed with the glue mold.
My vet had a series of photos taken by another vet entitled “Finding Nemo”. A Lab ate a blinking, lighted Nemo toy. Yup, it was still blinking after surgery!
OMG, the false teeth!
OMG a needle?! They have plastic caps on the end…how the heck did he not end up loosing his tongue. Lucky soul!
I’ve got those beat:
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9986/cataav.jpg
NOT MINE, a cat that was here in ICU for a week…I’ll let you browse over that xray and see if you can figure out why 
Incidentally, it is now at home with its family.
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I’ve got those beat:
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9986/cataav.jpg
NOT MINE, a cat that was here in ICU for a week…I’ll let you browse over that xray and see if you can figure out why :)[/QUOTE]
Oh my gosh! What is all that?!
My dad’s St Bernard is a notorious bikini eater and has had to have surgery to remove them twice. Our last “family dog”, an Akita/ Shepherd mix, ate an entire packet of sewing needles once. The wonderful emergency vet we took him to couldn’t find them in surgery so left them in there. A year later he died of a ruptured stomach. :no:
A friend of mine who’s a vet tech posted this on her FB:
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/314727_568380374725_71401674_31677310_1183641286_n.jpg
So… don’t let your dogs lick spoons.
Nice femoral fracture on that kitty! Yikes…whatever is heading through the GI tract doesnt look too comfortable! Care to share what it was?
My two favourite stories are the dog who we scoped a thong out of…and the man begged us not to tell his wife!!! The other one was my own kitty, who ate about 250 small cottonballs - had to pull them out one by one…
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OMG a needle?! They have plastic caps on the end…how the heck did he not end up loosing his tongue. Lucky soul!
I’ve got those beat:
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/9986/cataav.jpg
NOT MINE, a cat that was here in ICU for a week…I’ll let you browse over that xray and see if you can figure out why
Incidentally, it is now at home with its family.[/QUOTE]
I have no idea, but it doesn’t look good! do tell please!
Nice femoral fracture on that kitty! Yikes…whatever is heading through the GI tract doesnt look too comfortable! Care to share what it was?
Rocks! And yes, thats a beautiful fracture…BOTH front legs were also broken. She came in with THREE broken legs and a belly full of rocks from being missing a month from home–guess she had been hunting for food in whatever way she could :no: Weighed 3 pounds at admission.
3 Surgeries later and we patted her on the head and off she went! But wowza.
I don’t have x-rays, as it was not my pet, but a couple of weeks ago I had to stop in at the emergency vet clinic to pick up a couple of replacement tubing adapters for my cat’s feeding tube. While there, a family came in with a young golden retriever that apparently ate a pair of socks as their backs were turned. Even worse, it was someone else’s dog that they were pet sitting:eek:.
I don’t know the aftermath of the story, but I do know that they got the dog there in record time and the first order of business was x-rays and most likely inducing the dog to vomit.
It is crazy what they will eat. I do have one dog that is a serial eater of certain types of fabric. She doesn’t just tear it up, she eats it. We’ve been lucky so far, but I have to be very careful.
I had to look a couple times at the notes for the dog with a stomach full of rocks–I saw one just like that about 20 years ago. It was a Lab, and he had some 60 odd river rocks in his belly. We opened him up, took them out and sent him home. I heard he did the same thing about a year later and his people put him down 
Earlier this year, our clinic pulled an intact pair of Victoria’s Secret panties from a dog’s intestines. The owner’s teenage daughter was mortified when they came home in a plastic baggie as evidence. (She had a bad habit of leaving dirty laundry on the floor and not closing her bedroom door, even knowing that the dog liked to chew on panties.)
My cat ate an elastic string from a cat toy once, that caught on the back of her tongue. It worked its way almost all the way through her intestines – they had to cut them in three places to get it out. The vet said her insides looked like a scrunchie. Took several days and 2 vet visits to figure out what it was, the first time we took her in they sent her home without discovering the problem … poor thing, she was very, very sick.
She is fine, but a very expensive kitty!
My vet once took a full-size bedsheet out of a St. Bernard.
My dog got into the barn trash the one time we’d had a party and some overflow bags. The chicken bones must have gone right through him but a piece of baling twine stopped the hoof clippings and they punctured multiple places in his gut. Two weeks, a few surgeries and several feet of intestines removed before he could come home at nearly half his normal weight.
That was almost 20 years ago (he lived another 10 with no issues) and he is still remembered at that vet’s office as the dog who shouldn’t have walked out.
