Quote Originally Posted by Jolt View Post
Glad he's OK--what a relief that must be! Speaking of dogs eating things that arent so good for them, have any of you seen the show "My Dog Ate WHAT?" on National Geographic Wild? Some of the stories are as follows: a bulldog who ate a whole bunch of pacifiers over a period of weeks (family had triplets, pacifiers kept going missing, dog started acting sick after a while, vet discovers stomach full of pacifiers and has to remove them), a St. Bernard who accidentally swallowed the spoon when taking a pill in a spoonful of peanut butter, a bullmastiff who ate an entire leather leash (which was removed intact via endoscopy), a Cavalier who swallowed an entire pair of thong underwear on two separate occasions, and a Jack Russell who swallowed a fish hook when his owner wasn't looking during a fishing trip. There were others but those are some of the crazier ones. I also had a neighbor growing up whose yellow lab once chewed up and ate most of a Coke can (he was OK). Cats usually seem to have more sense when it comes to eating things!
I could have been on that show. My last dog swallowed a large sewing needle - complete with thread still attached! She had to have it removed from her throat, through the front of her neck, to the tune of about $3K. Ouch for both of us! This same dog used to get grapes for treats (her whole life, no issues!), ate most of a clorox drop-in tablet once and enjoyed knawing on bricks. She also got drunk by carefully drinking beer out of plastic cups lined up next to a sand volleyball court - she didn't knock them over, so she'd drunk quite a few before anyone realized she was doing it! (she also enjoyed eating the sand when I wasn't looking...). She was one hell of a dog!

divingbiker - I'm glad to hear that Sammy is on the mend!