They ate what?!

Gabriella Italiano
Asquith Veterinary Hospital

Patient: Mithrax
Rhodesian Ridgeback

Mithrax presented with vomiting, inappetence, and lethargy. He had swallowed a mini tennis ball in the past, so the owner was concerned he’d done it again.
This time he’d swallowed a regular sized tennis ball WHOLE. No chew marks, no parts missing, just a whole tennis ball!
We removed the tennis ball via ExLap and he recovered well! He’s now not allowed to play with balls.

Julia Clarke
Halls Head Small Animal Clinic

Patient: Bob
Bobtail lizard

This little guy came in with mobility issues with his back legs, we xrayed to look for fractures (none obvious) but found he wasn’t really a fan of chewing his food! He was sent to a carer for rehab.

Sigrid Fraser
Newtown Veterinary Clinic

Patient: Deedee
Chicken

Deedee presented for inappetence and diarrhoea ongoing 2 weeks. Being a chicken, we opted to do radiographs. Found screws, nuts and bolts! Unfortunately Deedee had pierced her gut with the screw and was suffering from sepsis.

Natalie Heckmann
Castle Hill Veterinary Hospital

Patient: Rosie
Cavoodle

Owner saw dog eat earbud 2 days before presented. Owner had not seen her pass it. Came in for xray. Induced vomiting as still in stomach and was successful.

Kira
Nowra Vet Hospital

Patient: Huxley
Irish Wolfhound X

2 Year Old known to eat undies & bras as pup.
Signs of Diarrhoea, dog happy & fine otherwise.
Nurses dog decided to do x-rays as had a missing belt buckle/strap missing for about 3 weeks.
In colon, came out in poo next day.

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