Socks for Lunch!August 09, 2016 Having just retrieved four stockings from the stomach of a blue heeler last month, we thought it would be a while before we had another case of a dog eating something silly. But then George the Labrador walked through the door. Although he was pretty bright initially, he was vomiting frequently; and most worrying of all - he’d lost his appetite (it takes a lot to put a labrador off his dinner). When we opened him up, the problem was obvious - a large wooly sock lodged in his small intestine. We removed the sock (after checking its pair wasn’t lurking elsewhere inside) and his intestines immediately looked happier. We are delighted to report that he is making an excellent recovery - so much so that when he came in for his post operative check last week, his mum told us that he’d made a spirited attempt to swallow down a beanie hat just that morning…
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