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Forked Dog

By Miss Cellania in Animal on Jul 12, 2009 at 11:45 am


A chihuahua named Smokey wandered around with a fork stuck deep in his head for three days!

A handle broke off a grilling fork and flew right into his head at a family party in Kentucky.

Smokey then ran off into the woods and was lost for three days before being rescued. He was immediately taken to the hospital.

Vets took just thirty seconds to remove the lodged barbecue fork in Smokey’s brain.

The dog is expected to make a full recovery. Link -via Arbroath


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  1. Lars
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    What the fork? I thought cats had nine lives and not dogs.

  2. Edward
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

    I don't believe for a moment that a fork, of all things, could accidentally get lodged in a dog's skull like that. This is a clear case of animal abuse.

  3. Alex
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    I'm with Edward - it takes a lot of force to push a fork through a skull ...

  4. Skipweasel
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 1:48 pm

    Flew off the handle? Sounds more like a human flew off the handle with the dog scrounging and had a stab at it.

    I'll have a hot-dog, please.

  5. D Bozko
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    Count me in as a skeptic of the broken handle theory.

  6. Kalel
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pm

    Of course it was deliberate, but how else do you check if he's done yet?

  7. lannaxe96
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    Ok, this is not neat, this is ridiculous. How could someone possibly do this to an animal?

  8. SenorMysterioso
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    Kal that is so wrong, funny, but wrong :D

    Poor pup. Im skeptical but strange accidents happen so Im not automatically jumping to the animal abuse conclusion. Why would you take him to the vet if you did this on purpose?

  9. ted
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Sounds bogus.
    No, I just can't fathom this.

    Maybe the person who did it is not the one in the family who took him to the vet.

  10. Vonskippy
    Jul 12th, 2009 at 8:45 pm

    How sad.

    Seems like the yappy little mutt will still be barking in the near future.

  11. Christina
    Jul 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am

    However, it seems like it would be somewhat tricky to actually manage to fork a chihuahua in the head on purpose. They are small and rather mobile. Humans have bigger heads and stay still better.

  12. Lisa A
    Jul 13th, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Oh my god!! That picture is incredibly disturbing... would have been nice to not include it right in the RSS feed, I almost choked!!

    Crazy story, though; did the dog have any brain damage??

  13. Skipweasel
    Jul 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Lisa A - it's a chihuahua - how could you tell?

  14. Video Game Dork
    Jul 14th, 2009 at 7:32 am

    It was lost in the woods for a few day. I have to admit, that would be a VERY strange site to randomly see. You are out in the woods for one reason or an other and behind some bushes you see a fork handle at shin level moving towards you! Then, it comes around from cover and its a chihuahua with a fork in it, who scampers away. Truely a WTF moment (if only someone saw it).

  15. Lisa A
    Jul 14th, 2009 at 11:17 am

    I'm sorry to see everyone is so negative on the dog because of its breed. I guess it's ok when bad things happen to some things (or people??)...

  16. Ali S.
    Jul 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    :(

  17. Smapdi
    Jul 15th, 2009 at 3:18 am

    Kentucky.

  18. Lisa B
    Jul 15th, 2009 at 5:39 pm

    Actually, it's quite easy to put something through many chihuahua's skulls, because the soft spot on top of their heads never closes (you know, the one human babies are born with). They've been killed by something as small as a pinecone hitting the top of their head. By the way, I'm a vet.

  19. Carol
    Jul 16th, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    Yep, it hit the fontanel.

    http://cvahky.net/default.aspx

  20. renderanything
    Jul 16th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

    An uncle of mine once stuck a pick-axe through his dog's skull (dog was running through while he was digging a hole in the backyard, completely unintentional). He assumed it was dead until he went back a few hours later and found it alive. It's still around to this day with a big knot on its scalp. The dog is also a tripod (wasn't born that way) and has survived a couple of encounters with cars, so I don't have any trouble believing that a chihuahua survived a forking.

  21. JONCHIDESTER
    Jul 17th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    PUT THERE ASS IN JAIL ALL BULL

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