Comments on: Top Ten Items Surgically Removed From Pets

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:42:28 +0000

Our Doberman swallowed a sewing needle and had to be brought into the emergency vet since these things never happen on weekdays during regular visit hours-luckily the needle passed through her without need of surgery–the two day stay while waiting for the “special delivery” and treatment for the dobe came to about $500–not the best way to spend a weekend.

By: Paula

Paula — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:26:22 +0000

Last Memorial day weekend my 1 yr. old toy poodle, Angie, became very ill. She was rushed to the emergency hospital. After taking x-rays they told me she had “coins” in her belly. She required surgery to remove them. She had eaten 3 dimes! Cost me $500 per dime! She also likes to eat socks & underwear, and the corners of my bed sheets.

By: Nora and Rufus

Nora and Rufus — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:13:12 +0000

Our little 9 month old rescue pup (Irish Jack Russell and Blue Heeler cross) swallowed a large treble fish hook when my boyfriend took her up north on a weeklong lake vacation and his family was on a Pontoon Boat. After being misdiagnosed by a vet who was in the small town on the lake, the vet said” No fish hook, take her home,” after charging for an xray of the stomach and digestive track and doling out nausea pills. She still acted quite distressed, so she was rushed 3 hours to our hometown and after an X ray by one of our local vets of her esophogus, she was rushed into emergency surgery on her esophogus. That hook was HUGE and I just don’t understand how some vet could have missed it hooked into her little throat!!!!! I stayed up with her all night post surgery praying she would not die. That little girl was in terrible shape. That was the last week in September and now she is her old self again leaping about like a kangaroo!!!!

By: ryssee

ryssee — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:24:36 +0000

One of mine ate part of the artificial christmas tree last year. Not gonna have one this year! Also, every week she chews apart the latest issue of Sports Illustrated.

By: G in INdiana

G in INdiana — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:38:40 +0000

My Swissie coughed up a greenie. I never let him have another.

By: furmom

furmom — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:57:02 +0000

Never had to have anything surgically removed from a pet. But one very young puppy excreted a sewing pin which I had no idea had gone in. Then there’s my Golden Garburator, not a breed for the faint of heart. He has “processed” plastic bags, socks, underwear,hocolate bars with wrapper, and whole chicken legs when they were almost as large as he was, and cumulatively tons of kleenex. All our cats had far more sense than to eat stupid stuff.

By: Nell Liquorman

Nell Liquorman — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 13:40:20 +0000

I have owned cats for more than 20 years and never had a problem with any swallowing the odd object. After adopting two feral kittens, I have learned a bit. The large male, now at 14 pounds, coughed and brought up a Q-tip. While I could hardly believe my eyes, now I know that with some cats you take extra precautions.