They couldn't believe their eyes when they saw what was in her stomach. 19 pacifiers ended up in a bulldog's belly
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThey couldn't believe their eyes when they saw what was in her stomach. 19 pacifiers ended up in a bulldog's belly.
Mortimer, their four-legged friend no longer ate. Concerned, a Massachusetts family took him to a veterinary clinic to help him and understand the reason for his lack of appetite.
Hence the discovery and the shock of the veterinarians: in fact, 19 baby pacifiers ended up in the dog's stomach.
"It was quite shocking to see a dog that can swallow so many pacifiers over the course of a month - and go unnoticed," he said Rob Halpin dell’Angell Animal Medical Center di Boston.
Yet Mortimer had managed to do it. So many disappearances had not made the family suspicious, which probably thought they had lost the pacifiers outside the home.
But the bulldog had gotten his fill by gulping down this dangerous snack. For some time now, Mortimer had had minor discomfort and was nauseous before meals. A first visit to the trusted veterinarian ended with the prescription of drugs against reflux.
But the 3-year-old dog's symptoms have worsened over the past few weeks. Hence the family's choice to take him to a clinic as the animal had almost stopped eating.
From the radiographs it emerged that the S.tomaco of the dog kept not one but well 19 pacifiers.
Using a non-surgical procedure known as endoscopy, the vets removed the foreign bodies and freed the dog of that "weight" on his stomach.
Today Mortimer is fine, it's as if nothing ever happened to him but he was also lucky. He could have had a digestive tract obstruction or a rupture that would have been fatal.
The dog has been discharged and returned home to his family who, this time, will do what they can to keep their baby's pacifiers away from him.
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