Santa dog saved from bone headed home

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20111214/NEWS01/712149856#santa-dog-saved-from-bone-headed-home

Published Wednesday December 14, 2011

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Santa, a West Highland White Terrier that came to the Nebraska Humane Society as a stray, would vomit and choke every time it ate. An X-ray revealed a pork chop bone lodged in his throat. Surgery removed the bone, and the dog will be fine.


A West Highland white terrier named Santa is headed to a new home after his life was saved by a veterinarian and the staff of the Nebraska Humane Society.

The 7-year-old dog came in as a stray last week. Every time he tried to eat, “he choked and couldn't keep the food down,” said Pam Wiese, a spokeswoman for the shelter.

An X-ray found a “pretty large piece of pork chop bone” lodged in the dog's throat and poking into his esophagus, Wiese said. The bone would've killed the dog — named by the staff in honor of the Christmas season — had it not been surgically removed Saturday.

“It's a surprisingly regular thing to find unusual food and objects lodged inside of animals,” Dr. Kristin Engel, a shelter veterinarian, said. “They eat something they shouldn't and then can't pass it along.”

FULL story and x-ray at link.

[pepperbear]

1. See, and here I thought the home was bone headed.