Dog eats 23 .308s

[photographix]

This was in the paper today, which was amusing:

MOUNTAIN HOME -- An Arkansas veterinarian operated on dog last week after the animal swallowed 23 live rifle rounds.

The Baxter Bulletin reported that a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois named Benno had surgery last week to remove the .308-caliber ammunition from his stomach.

Owner Larry Brassfield said Benno has eaten socks, magnets and marbles, but he didn't expect the animal would bother a bag of bullets by his bed. Brassfield and his wife realized Benno needed medical attention after the pet threw up four rounds.

The vet removed 17 rounds from Benno's stomach but left two in his esophagus, which the dog was allowed to pass on his own.

Brassfield said he won't leave ammo lying around anymore but isn't optimistic that Benno will stick to dog food.

So the dog eating ammo is funny. But who keeps a bag of .308s on their nightstand?

[leadcounsel]

So the dog eating ammo is funny.

Um, how is this funny?! As a dog owner, I don't see anything funny about this. Dog must have been in pain. Surgery. Costs to the owner probably thousands of dollars....IF you think an animal suffering is funny, then I pray for you.

And how is this gun related?

[peggysue]

Poor pup

[CowTowner]

Seems to me there needs to be some dog owner training here.

[mehavey]

At first I thought the reporter didn't know a bullet from a cartridge [especially when the Vet
is purported to have left two "rounds" in the throat and the dog would pass them on his
own].

So I Googled "The rest of the story".
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/...ammo/70898218/

They were full-up cartridges.

Notwithstanding not wishing pain on any dog, I gotta tell`ya that I don't hold out much
future hope on this one this dumb.

It [the dog] also ate:
• Stuffed animals
• Rubber Toys
• Coins
• 8-by-8-inch square pieces of cloth
• Styrofoam peanuts
• Cheese wrappers
• Rocks
• Paper
• Wax paper
• Aluminum foil
• Shirts
• Socks
• Underwear
• Bra
• Tennis shoes
• Rope
• Nylon straps
• Weed eater string
• Gasoline-soaked lawn mower air filter
• Blankets
• Marbles
• Plastic bag
• Quilt batting
• Sewing straight pins
• Plastic soda bottle
• Magnets
• Bottle lids swallowed whole
• Television remote
• Loaf of bread (wrapper included)
• Broken glass
• Chicken legs (swallowed whole)
• Nylon hairbrush
• LEGOs
• Travel size bottle of lotion
• Baseboards
• Drywall (just randomly ate a piece of wall).

[Wyoredman]

The "holier than thou" attitude on this board amazes me sometimes.

Photographix, thanks for sharing this "dog ate my homework" story! I personally found it very funny!

I'm sure I need lots of people to pray for me, now.

[Sequins]

Look, it happened. You can laugh at it for happening or you can not, but not laughing doesn't help the dog any extra. I wonder how that dog would do on a hot dog eating contest.

[kilimanjaro]

A cat would have never eaten that. Cats win.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

If the dog was in NY, the Safe act would guarantee that the dog would only eat 7 rounds.

And lighten up - it is a safety lesson about ammunition. That's gun related.

Maybe the Dog watched Rocky II

https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?...&hsimp=yhs-001

[Rembrandt]

Animals eating things they shouldn't?.....nothing new here. We inserted powerful magnets in the stomachs of our dairy cattle to collect everything from nails to pieces of wire. The object was to collect all the metal into one spot preventing passage or damage elsewhere.

Once had a dog eat an entire tub of butter.....worked like a lubricant, he had the Hershey squirts for nearly three days.

[TailGator]

Once had a dog eat an entire tub of butter.....worked like a lubricant, he had the Hershey squirts for nearly three days.

I had a dog that stole a loaf of bread from a kitchen counter and was plugged up for a similar amount of time. We should have gotten our dogs together.

I am a veterinarian, so a couple of comments from my perspective:

Some dogs are obsessive about ingesting foreign objects. Owners can take responsibility in any of three ways: Put stuff away, pay to have it removed, or lose their dog.

I am less than enthusiastic about leaving foreign bodies in the esophagus. It is rather thin walled and pressure sores can develop and progress to perforations a lot quicker there than in the stomach.

When considering whether to give something a chance to pass, there are several things to consider. Sharp objects are obviously higher risk than smooth or rounded shapes. The action of the fairly strong stomach acid on the chemistry of the object has to be considered; metals such as zinc can reach toxic levels. And if an object is still in the stomach, you have a shot at retrieving it with a fiber optic scope, but if it passes very far into the intestine and then lodges somewhere, surgery becomes the only option, so sometimes it is better to get in there early.

[skizzums]

I had a chesapeake bay retriever that swallowed a whole tennis ball, needed surgery. didn't look big enough to swallow a tennis ball, but she worked it out. swallowed everything else as well, dumbest dog ever.

[wogpotter]

I actually know someone who was involved in this incident.
The dog is recovering just fine from his misadventure.

If you've ever owned a dog you'll know his (or her) definition of "food" is "If it fits in my mouth"

Dogs frequently grab stuff & eat it for unintelligible reasons. Its part of being a dog I guess. We have a rule:
"If I can't identify it, you can't eat it"!
It actually works about 95% of the time.

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Now that we are discussing dogs eating other things than ammo, it is not gun related and I'm closing it.