Laundry Retrieved from Retriever

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal on April 13, 2009 at 12:19 pm


When Bailey the retriever went to the veterinary clinic in Corfe Mullen, Dorset, England, the doctor thought he had a tumor. What veterinarian Keith Moore found inside the dog was five golf gloves, ten socks, one stocking, and part of a towel!

“Vets obviously do a fair number of foreign object removals but I doubt I will ever see anything like this again in my career.

“Even for us, from a vet’s point of view, it was pretty amazing.

“It was like doing a magic trick. We were just pulling out one sock after another,” he joked.

Moore believes Bailey must have been eating laundry for years to accumulate such a mass. The dog has fully recovered from surgery and acts like a puppy again. Link -via Arbroath


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7 comments to "Laundry Retrieved from Retriever"

  1. LisaL
    April 13th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

    Glad the dog is ok.
    One of our dogs eats cloth crap. She'll chew parts off of the doggy toys, and will scarf down socks if she finds them when her stomach is upset... you know, how dogs do w/ grass?
    Very gross finding a big wad of gooey mess that used to be one of your socks.

  2. Alex
    April 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    So that's where all those socks disappear to!

  3. eni
    April 13th, 2009 at 2:28 pm

    Oi. I work at a doggy daycare center and one of our regulars has a charming habit of vomiting up various articles of clothing. Usually socks, but occasionally underwear. Of course, he immediately replaces it by eating our bedding...

  4. seefish3
    April 13th, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    I don't own a dog, but all the previous posters seem to indicate that their dogs gack up foreign objects fairly quickly.

    This article claims that objects remained in this dog's digestive tract for several years.

    How ? Any suggestions ? This sounds like crap to me...no pun intended.

  5. Wes
    April 14th, 2009 at 10:22 am

    So, fortunately, they interrupted it before the spin cycle.

  6. Oomi
    April 14th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    Blech..

  7. Video Game Dork
    April 15th, 2009 at 4:12 am

    :3


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