They ate what?!

Nicole
Killarney Vale Vets

Patient: Missyloo
Labradoodle

6 month old ate owners airpod, this is the second time she has done this. Owner used find my airpod and was beeping in dogs stomach and to make sure the owner played music through it and heard it in the dogs stomach. Successfully removed via endoscope and recovered well

Stacey Beard
Sovereign Vet Hospital

Patient: Dudley
Groodle

Ate a TV remote, retrieved a battery from abdomen, very good recovery.

Rolando Quesada
Anexa Raglan Vet Clinic

Patient: Mona
Vizsla Cross

Mona is 17 week old puppy that presented to us with a history of chronic vomiting of several weeks duration and weight loss. After much convincing, abdominal radiographs showed an straneous foreign body, identified by her owner as a menstrual cup. As it turns out, Mona had been senen chewing up on a few of these 5 weeks ago.
Surgery was done (enterectomy/anastomosis) and Mona is recovering smoothly.

Lisa Ross
Wyndham Veterinary Clinic

Patient: Alfie
St Bernard

Has a history of eating socks, normally one at a time which usually passes. Had been on a cortisone course and started to vomit and was off his food. Took an x-ray and stomach looked pretty suss. Ended up removing nine socks from his stomach! Only eight socks in the picture as we thought we had them all but nope there was another one. We think the cortisone made him hungrier than normal hence multiple socks at once.

Liza Schneider
Holistic Vets

Patient: Milo
DSH

Oesophageal foreign body was an entire chicken wishbone!

Tobin
Tropical Vets Ayr

Patient: Chook
Isa Brown

‘Chook” presented to the clinic after being unwell for a few days and not eating. The team took some x-rays of “Chook” to find that she had been snacking on some screws. Unfortunately for “Chook” these weren’t the tasty ‘nuts and bolts’ she was hoping for.

Tobin
Tropical Vets Ayr

Patient: Tails
Irish Wolfhound

At 16 weeks old Tails presented to the clinic after consuming a rusty star picket which you can see illuminated in the x-ray. Thankfully Tails made a full recovery and is doing well. She is a very large healthy 1 year old.

Kate
Te Puke Vets

Patient: Ziggy
Labrador

Ziggy came in after eating the mail which contained an engagement ring inside a wooden box. When we Xrayed we could clearly see the ring and the hinge off the ring box. Luckily both the ring and hinge passed on naturally.

Nayan Boehning-Elliott
Heritage Veterinary Clinic Coburg

Patient: Doug Van Dijk
Border Collie X

Dog came in being off food for two days. Gave mediation to stimulate apetite, a few days later was not better. Booked in for a x-ray and found a blockage in the abdomen. Had exploratory surgery done and a tennis ball was removed. Tennis ball came up on x-ray as a fish.

Nayan
Heritage Veterinary Clinic

Patient: Zeus
Scottish Fold X

Cat Vomitting blood given medication to stop vomitting. Came back a few days not eating and unwell. Done an x-ray found abstruction in abdomen did exploritory surgery and found nerf bullets inside of cat.

Tahlia Howey
Central Hutt vets

Patient: Romeo
Labrador

Patient had eaten a fish was the line still attached, X-rays confirmed a fish hook in the abdomen, surgical removal was performed, the fish hook was caught on the mucosal lining of the stomach so the vet had to go fishing for the fish hook 😂

Louis Thomas
Franklin Vets Pukekohe

Patient: Hanz
Miniature Dachshund

15 year old Dachshund presented for glass ingestion after the lid of the crockpot fell on the kitchen floor, in the process of trying to grab as much slow cooked venison as possible he consumed what appears to be most of the crockpot lid. Due to poor surgical candidacy the patient was hospitalized with supportive therapy and passed all the glass within a week.

Monique Triglia
Emergency Vet Adelaide

Patient: Luna
Border Collie

Luna, a 14wk old, female entire Border Collie presented to me in the early hours of Tuesday the 17th of January 2023 while I was working at my previous employer Adelaide Animal Emergency & Referral Centre. The owners had noticed that she was quieter than normal and physical examination revealed abnormal texture to her stomach, prompting me to perform abdominal radiographs.

She was taken to surgery for a gastrotomy where I removed 1.2kg of stones from her stomach!

The case was so popular amongst the community it made it into the local 7news report

Bree Purdie
Northlands Animal Care Hospital

Patient: Milly
Domestic Longhair

She was on formula and ate the nipple of the bottle!!!

Brittney
Chelmer Graceville Veterinary Practice

Patient: Howard
Pug

Howard presented to us earlier in the year for intermittent vomiting, radiographs indicated a foreign body in the stomach, referral to ARH brisbane was able to collect a crocs jibbitz via endoscope and he recovered well.

Erik Geiss
The Austin Vet Specialists

Patient: Can’t remember
Puppy (can’t remember)

This was one of my first cases as an emergency veterinarian at a clinic that now does not exist anymore. An owner presented their puppy dog with the history of it swallowing an entire kangaroo bone and explained the size of the bone. I honestly could not believe a puppy would physically be able to ingest a bone to the size of almost the size of the puppy. However, it presented with fitting clinical signs. The puppy was in a poor state and radiographs were taken.
Unfortunately they confirmed the bone ingestion and septic peritonitis. Due to owners’ cost constraints, emergency surgery was declined and they opted for humane euthanasia.

Hollie Reid
VetEast

Patient: Nala
Cross Breed

Patient came in after owner saw it eat a fishhook, unfortunately due to position of the fishhook and the owner not wanting to go for referral the patient was euthanised.

Jeremy Jones
Nowra Veterinary Hospital

Patient: Ned
Kelpie

Ned, an 8 week old Kelpie puppy ingested a tent peg of all things! We preformed a gastrotomy after hours, and the surgery went well and the hungry puppy went home the next day!