A Great Dane Ate 43 And A Half Socks, Survived And Won A Prize Too
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By Darian Goh — 05 Sep 2014, 01:27 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
A 3-year-old Great Dane was saved by a veterinarian after she removed 43 and a half socks from the dog's stomach
A 3-year-old Great Dane was saved by a veterinarian after she removed 43 and a half socks from the dog's stomach
Image via globalnews.caBecause the material was deemed indigestible, Magee had to resort to a two-hour surgery to remove the mass. The contents of his belly? Socks. A lot of them. Forty-three and a half to be precise (a cloud of mystery hangs over the whereabouts of the half-sock).
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"We opened up his stomach and kept removing sock after sock of all different shapes and sizes," Dr. Ashley Magee at DoveLewis Animal Hospital in Portland, Oregon, told CNN affiliate KGW.
cnn.comThe dog was rushed to the vet after it couldn't stop vomiting and gagging
According to The Oregonian, the family rushed the dog to an animal hospital when the canine wouldn’t stop vomiting and retching. Dr. Ashley Magee took several x-rays of the animal and found “a lot of foreign material in his stomach,” according the animal hospital’s spokesperson.
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After vomiting and retching during the day, abdominal radiographs revealed "a severely distended stomach and a large quality of foreign material," according to Veterinary Practice News.
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There's no need to worry though, as the canine was discharged and recovered just a day after surgery
There's no need to worry though, as the canine was discharged and recovered just a day after surgery. Photo for illustration purposes only.
Image via huffpost.comThe Great Dane was discharged only a day after surgery, and as if his survival wasn't a miraculous enough ending to this tale, Veterinary Practice News announced on August 27 that the hospital had won a second-place money prize for their story.
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The Great Dane is doing just fine. He was home a day after his surgery.
cnn.comThis amazing record of objects even won a prize in an annual "They Ate WHAT?" contest, where participants submit crazy X-rays of weird things animals ate
The animal hospital submitted the example to the annual "They Ate WHAT?" contest at Veterinary Practice News, which was published online on August 27. DoveLewis won the $500 third prize. Not bad.
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Who won the first prize? A joint tie between a frog who ate 30 rocks from his cage and a dog who ate a shish kebab skewer
Oh, and yes — that means there were weirder entries: the sock-gobbling Great Dane was "beat out" by a frog named Kermit who ate 30 rocks from his cage and tied with a German shorthaired pointer who swallowed a metal shish kabob skewer.
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Oh, and those X-rays even impressed the experts. The vet clinic submitted them to the annual "They Ate WHAT?" contest at Veterinary Practice News and won the $500 third prize, losing out to a frog who gobbled up 30 rocks from the bottom his cage and a German shorthaired pointer who swallowed a metal shish kabob skewer.
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