Here’s a real nailbiter
Ashley Saks left her dog, Roxy, with a friend when she went out of town, along with instructions that – due to the 2-year-old basset hound’s habit of getting into things — she be crated when no one was home.
When the dogsitter made a quick trip to the store, without crating the dog, Roxy, sure enough, got into something — a pile of nails, more than 100 of which she swallowed.
“I counted about 130, but I don’t know how many she threw up before she was taken, so it could’ve been more,” Saks said. X-rays showed a clump of about 100 or so nails stuck at the base of Roxy’s stomach, according to News 4 in Jacksonville, Florida.
Saks said a veterinarian sedated the dog and used a device to pull the nails out through the dog’s throat, a few at a time, in a procedure that took more than an hour.
Amazingly, the nails didn’t puncture any of Roxy’s internal organs, and she seems to have recovered fully.
Posted by jwoestendiek November 28th, 2009 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: basset hound, dog, dogs, florida, health, jacksonville, nails, recovered, roxy, safety, swallows, veterinarian, veterinary
