I let my guard down

dturm wrote:
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The worst case I had was a cat, presented with sewing thread hanging out the rectum. Gentle traction didn't work. We ended up doing surgery, the other end was looped around the tongue. This string went the entire length of the GI tract. It took 5 enterotomy incisions in different spots to completely remove the entire length of string. Fortunately the intestine was still in reasonable shape and I didn't have to remove any damaged intestine, but we were probably hours away from a perforated gut.

Doug, DVM

colliehauler wrote:
Last night a was cooking hamburger. I left the empty hamburger container in the trash on the counter with intentions of throwing it away when done. Dinner was done and I ate. I went back into the kitchen afterwards to find the empty styrofoam container on the floor. Cooper had consumed the absorption pad that was underneath the meat.

A big thanks to Dr Doug who suggested giving him a couple of tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide to get him to regurgitate it back up. When it come back up it was almost complete with the plastic backing.

nineoaks2004 wrote:
One of our dogs ate a rug string, the string was sticking out of her butt. I grabbed it and she took off, string must have been 15 ft. long..She was fine after that but I am glad I noticed it when I did.