foreign body X-ray competition!!!!

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Mark Hedberg — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:57:48 GMT

[quote user="Wispa"]

also seem to be having a spate of corn on the cobs and wine corks at the moment - all my PDSA clients must be having some very strange parties.

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Yes, a real cornucopia! *hides*

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Leigh Hinsley RVN NCert(BDev) MBVNA — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:31:14 GMT

we had a englsih bull terrier which in ONE ex lap we removed; 3 socks, massive pair of pants, several small plastic toys, a load of plastic wire? a pair of tights and rubber balls. His stomach was like a treasure chest and the smell was undescribable! He was our pratice's serial offender!

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Elvira — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:22:36 GMT

We removed a jar of peanut butter, including most of the glass jar, from a Staffie last week.:(

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Wispa — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:44:55 GMT

also seem to be having a spate of corn on the cobs and wine corks at the moment - all my PDSA clients must be having some very strange parties.

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GremlinNurse — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:31:17 GMT

A child's plastic wand..with a star on the end! X-ray was brill and dog was fine!

Also the usual socks, knickers, small plastic toys, peach stones, rubber balls etc

What goes through these pooches heads?!!!

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Mark Hedberg — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:51:46 GMT

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]

He had been with his new family just a few weeks when he was brought into us by new owners wanting to know if he had any residual problems from his 'accident' that would cause him to be overly protective of their teenage son - stuck to him like glue apparently and was always scratching at his bedroom door to get in - my boss suggested that dad might like to have a little 'chat' with his son

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Absolutely priceless!

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Emma Purnell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:01:27 GMT

We have had a couple of interesting ones, a Smiley Face ball was nice, and one dog ate a towel and laptop keyboard at the same time, we were attempting to save as many keys as possible after the op - very horrible experience! A large glove was another interesting one...

We have had a similar pants experience, except the owner was a 16+ and the pants were a frilly size 10... The wife stormed out of the discharge consult leaving the dog to the male, embarassed, owner... Awkward...

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Alison Clare Hickman — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:07:38 GMT

Bizarre... these stories have made my morning! Cheers.

My 'best' (apart from knickers which do seem to feature regularly as a favourite treat in the dog scoffing world) has to be a Barbie doll head, just the head. Still smiling that blonde and blue-eyed grimace as we pulled it out.... It was quite spooky - sort of Bride of Chucky.... woo-ooo-ooo.

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Katie Mansfield — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:04:18 GMT

[quote user="Wispa"]

there are 2 very memorable, very awkward foreign bodies. one was a member of staff who had some of her crutchless french knickers removed from her english bull terrier, and the other was a dog which had chewed of the end of a *** - pink one with a heart on the end. the owner looked a little embarassed when we gave it back to her.....

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OMG!!!!!!

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]knickers ( size 16 removed from a labrador when the husbands wife was at best a size 12 = oops),[/quote]

OMG!!!!! again

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]

Once he had been discharged a few days later it was decided that he wasnt in fact going to be a sniffer dog anymore and after a while, not knowing what else to do with him, he went to somebody else on the force as a pet.

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Love it!!

K x

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Wispa — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:43:14 GMT

yep, we had packets of cannabis, which the owner asked if could have back.

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Sal the 1st — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:22:22 GMT

[quote user="Katie Mansfield"]

little packs of controlled substances

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not an xray story but you have just reminded me of the drug squad dog we had in at one place. Springer spaniel that was undergoing training - and lets just say he got a bit too excited retrieving a package (they use the real mcCoy) and it split a bit and by the looks of him when he arrived he had partaken of some of the contents . Once he had been discharged a few days later it was decided that he wasnt in fact going to be a sniffer dog anymore and after a while, not knowing what else to do with him, he went to somebody else on the force as a pet.

Re: foreign body X-ray competition!!!!

Katie Mansfield — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:57:23 GMT

[quote user="Rose Roche"]a dog who swallowed fridge magnet letters which spelt out O SHIT[/quote]

In that order???!!!! Loved to have seen that XRay!!!!

We took Postman Pat out of a Lab once - and returned it to the child that had lost it (washed, obv!!). We also had a Collie in that kept swallowing golf balls, although the owner didn't play golf, lived nowhere near a golf club and had no golf players or children living either side of his house. It was a complete mystery where he was finding them.

Apart from that, I've seen the occasional sock and, amazingly, little packs of controlled substances ( v luckly the dog survived).

K x

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Roseann21 — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:16:04 GMT

I have seen a Doberman who swallowed a total of 10 golf balls and a dog who swallowed fridge magnet letters which spelt out O SHIT, and a labrador with one of those really hard rubber bones - it looked like a cartoon xray.

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Kathryn Dyson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:31:20 GMT

We had a GSD swallow a small kong toy (in one gulp, rope included) the x-ray of it is great will have to have a search for it.

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Steph SVN — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:47:06 GMT

Iv seen a couple of balls (including a golf ball!) and a thong which was a rather funny occasion, the lady owner was very embarassed! x

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Mark Hedberg — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:15:29 GMT

[quote user="Sal the 1st"]

knickers ( size 16 removed from a labrador when the husbands wife was at best a size 12 = oops), socks, a sports towel!, a mock leopard skin posing pouch ( we had real classy clients at that place I tell you) a car key, a smartie top with the letter p on it, the bayonet fitting and part of the element from a light bulb, a complete chicken with feathers but minus its head from a Great Dane, an engagement ring, and from one of my own cats a rather expensive diamond earring (whose owner wasnt wanting it back even tho I offered to autoclave it) but the best has to be the maglite torch- that actually still worked when we cleaned it up

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Frankly, with some of my patients, I wouldn't have been surprised if that had come from the same dog! :p

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Sal the 1st — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:08:40 GMT