Dog eats 43½ socks

[KamaAina]

http://www.mercurynews.com/weird-news/ci_26466136/dog-eats-socks

The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital....

X-rays showed a stomach full of "a large quantity of foreign material." Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer -- the dog had consumed 43 ½ socks. ...

So strange that the hospital entered last February's tale, complete with X-rays, in an annual contest sponsored by the vet magazine, Veterinary Practice News, and won a prize. The contest is called "They Ate WHAT?"...

The $1,500 first place winner was a Plano, Texas, animal hospital that treated an exotic frog that ate more than 30 small ornamental rocks from its cage.

Portlandians, you might want to reconsider buying socks at the thrift shop.

The real surprise here is that it was a Great Dane, not a Lab. Labs are so notorious for eating foreign objects that some vets have a code "LAS": "Lab Ate Something".

[Blue Owl]

1. Well I'll be darned!

n/t

[KamaAina]

2. DUzy!

[pinboy3niner]

3. !!!

[shenmue]

4. Nom nom nom

Urp. Sorry.

[magical thyme]

5. thank dawg my lab confines himself to eating horse and cat poops

If he gorges, the puke is beyond disgusting. But at least it doesn't require surgery.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Meh. He lost all my respect when he couldn't finish the last sock.

[KamaAina]

7. Clearly Joey Chestnut's dog has nothing to worry about.

[TorchTheWitch]

8. and here I thought my dog would eat anything

Dirt, bugs, tree bark and poison ivy seem benign compared to this.

[progressoid]

9. So, they weren't lost in the dryer after all.

[KamaAina]

11. Another DUzy!

[benld74]

10. Nobdy in the family noticed they were missing socks???

[KamaAina]

12. ^^^ See No. 9 above. ^^^

[Nuclear Unicorn]

13. "The $1,500 first place winner -- "

...took the money and bought some new socks.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Neighbors when I was a kid had a Lab who ate rocks.

He also ate part of our rubber door mat. Nice dog, dumb as a stump. Also had a friend whose dog chewed the crotches out of dirty underpants in the laundry, and ate cat poo out of the litter box.

I am convinced dogs will eat anything at all.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. Cool Hand Luke

I can eat 50 eggs.

[AtomicKitten]

16. dude, that's my job says the dryer

[KamaAina]

17. Yet another DUzy!