Dash For Power

“Stick a sock in it” has a whole different meaning for dogs.

• And underwear. And pantyhose. Those are the three items most commonly removed surgically from pet’s stomaches.

• So, if you keep thinking it was the laundry butler who done it, look again. That wagging tailed furry man’s best friend or his feline cousin, the puddy tat, if it can’t eat the bird way up high, can certainly entertain themselves to indigestion if you have a habits of socks on the floor, underwear, pantyhose; you may have a belching pet that loved the smell of you so much that one little unraveled thread at a time, there goes another sock down the gut.

• Next in order of items removed from dogs and cats are rocks, balls, chew toys, corncobs, bones, hair ties/ribbons, and sticks. Also removed have been pagers, hearing aids, drywall, batteries, rubber bands, toy cars, hair ties and sand with bacon grease poured on it. Everything but your child’s homework.

• This from an American pet insurer, Veterinary Pet Insurance. As evidence of this, Dr. Wayne Eldridge, a San Antonio vet who is a field rep for the insurer, keeps a museum of items he has removed from pets, included are paper plates, any items that have the scent of the owner on it becoming tempting.

• |Bored or anxious pets, pets under two and Labrador retreivers, which are “very orally oriented because of their retreiving nature”, says Dr. Eldidge, are among those pets most likely to swallow items they shouldn’t. Signs that a ppet has sawllowed something it shouldn’t have include vomiting, dry heaves or coughing.

• We can’t have our homes perfect, but if there are small family and they have small toys, clothes, whatever, grandma’s teeth, on the floor or easily acccessible to them, move it! Items in noses, and mouth’s way, may not be going missing in the laundry. The laundry butler may not have done it. Oh, look at puddy tat, dry heaving over there. Where’s my other sock?

So we’re off the clean the floor up, and pull that out of Rover’s mouth right now. Derek “Tweetie” Dashwood

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