They ate what?!

Eleanor Street
Northcote Paws Veterinary Clinic

Patient: Elijah
Domestic Short Hair

Owner observed 12 month old cat swallow a needle – radiographs were taken and as had passed into the intestine already we monitored with the plan to take serial radiographs. The cat passed the needle the next morning.

Amanda Ling
Melbourne pet surgery

Patient: Candy
Pomeranian

Presented for vomiting and inapppetance. X-rays revealed a foreign body.
Ex lap performed and was able to milk the object through the colon and remove rectally. Foreign object was end of silicone baby spoon

Catherine Copland
Clutha Vets Balclutha
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Dog presented with depression and vomited at home. Able to palpate hard, mobile mass in abdomen. Proceeded with exlap to find small durex vibrator floating in abdomen. Small crater type lesion on duodenum assume perforated through.

Amy
Scottsdale Veterinary Services

Patient: Abby
Border Collie X

An unexpected find in the abdomen while doing a radiograph of the chest. The object ended up being a bread tie.

Alix
Valley Cottage Vets

Patient: Poppy
Fox terrier

Puppy ate a hearing aid!

Jo Bromley
Virginia Veterinary

Patient: Grace
Standard Poodle

Ate the plastic disc think off the front of a decorative fridge magnet.

Vanessa Lian
animal emergency centre woolloongabba

Patient: Maple
Chihuahua x

Are a lamb bone as large as the dog (3 month old dog, 2kg ish) from memory. Dog was fed and bone by grandmother and when owner tried to pry it off him, he gulped and ran.

maarten van den heuvel
PetFirst Gisborne

Patient: Doggo
German Shepherd Dog

The owner found remains of his electric razor scattered all over the room. X-rays were taken, and showed the 3 razor blades in the dog’s stomach, and a boppy pin as a bonus. We recommended surgery, but the owner stated this was the 2nd electric razor the dog ate and that the first one didn’t cause any problems. Subsequent X-rays taken a few days later showed no more razorblades in there.

Alana Scott
Berwick Clyde Vet

Patient: Freddy Krueger
DMH, Black

KFC wicked wing bone ingestion.
Owner saw 9 month old cat eating a bone after digging through the rubbish to retrieve, removed said bone from cat, then realised 1 bone was missing. X-rays confirmed ingestion of 1 bone, almost whole. Ex-lap to avoid any perforation of the gastrointestinal tract.

Katie Fitzgibbon
Khandallah Vetcare

Patient: Pippin
Papillion X

(my own dog)
Came home to find her incredibly bloated and lethargic. Despite her being 8kgs initial signs led to bloat, upon x-ray they thought maybe a mass had burst.
2nd lot of x-rays taken we discovered it looked like food.
Searched the house and discovered she had broken into a new 15kg bag of dog food and eaten 3kgs worth!

Katie Fitzgibbon
Khandallah Vetcare

Patient: Zero
Westie

Presented at 8months old with sudden on set of vomiting and lethargy.
Large rock found.

Mollie Linnett
Grange Vet Clinic

Patient: Ralphie
French Bulldog x Pug

A conscious chest x-ray for a dog that had been chronically coughing. Wanted to examine heart and lungs and wanted to avoid anaesthetic due to potential comorbidities… found a rather interesting incidental finding!

Linda Schiemer
Nanango Veterinary Surgery

Patient: Sayo
Border collie

Sayo presented for Vomitting and lethargy of 3 days. Xrays showed unidentifable foreign body. Surgical removal of a cattle NLIS tag was performed. The tag was tracked – it came from a cow that had died at the property the dog was raised on (300km away). The dog had been with the new owner for 3 years! The best we could surmise was that the NLIS tag had sat in the stomach for 3 years before moving into the intestines and becomming lodged.

Taryn van
Hamilton Vets (Hamilton Small Animal Veterinary Centre)

Patient: Layla
Crossbreed

Layla is my dog… at 9 months old she decided to have a meal of river stones… It was suggested by another vet to try remove via endoscopy, but then he saw the images! No repeat occurrences (that I am aware of) 6 years on.

Vincent Chen
Wembley Vet Hospital

Patient: Winston
Golden Retreiver

In typical Retriever style Winston is a known scavenger and presented with vomiting, abdominal pain and inappetence. The owner had seen him eat a pair of undies and a corn cob a few days prior.
X-rays showed the corn cob in his small intestines.
Surgery was performed, successfully removing the corn husk and Winston went on to make a full recovery.

Matthew Wong
Franklin Vets Hamilton

Patient: Messi
Golden Retriever

Dog came in after eating a bra strap in the weekend and was now lethargic and off food.

Strap was successfully retrieved through gastroscope. When quizzing team members on the identity of fb based on the Xray, females had a 100% success rate and males were at 30%

Denise George
Pet Emergency

Patient: Ellie
Labragroodle

Ellie is a 7 month old Labragroodle who presented to ER 30min after her owner witnessed ingest a 2 inch metal screw. She had 2 x episodes of haematomesis upon presentation. The screw was recovered endoscopically and moderate gastric mucosal trauma observed. The patient was discharged uneventfully.

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.