Jan 04
Meet Dingo, the April-fresh Australian Cattle Dog
Jan. 4, 2010
Dingo liked to help his owner with the laundry, but she never expected his love for dryer sheets to end up the way it did. Read Rachel Bournival’s story about her dog Dingo below:
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One morning, my Australian Cattle dog, Dingo, was walking strangely, all hunched over. I lifted up his tail and saw what appeared to be a piece of poo stuck to his backside. I grabbed some paper towels to remove it, but it wouldn't budge! Then I realized it wasn't stuck TO him, but stuck INSIDE him. I rushed him to the vet. We were taken immediately to a room and a tech arrived. While I held him down, she gently worked the mystery item out of his backside, a fraction of an inch at a time. It turned out to be 2 small objects, between one and two inches in length each.After she had determined there was nothing left inside, she put the objects on a paper towel and examined them. "Strange," she said. "It's thin, like paper, but it's very tough, almost like cloth."
"It's a Bounce sheet!" I exclaimed, finally recognizing it for what it was: 2 small pieces of anti-static dryer sheet, rolled up and covered in poo.
"What, did he eat the dryer sheet?" she asked. I explained that Dingo rather enjoying fishing the used dryer sheets out of the clean laundry baskets, and carrying them around the house. But I'd never seem him EAT one before. Since that day, Dingo has categorically ignored all used dryer sheets...even those that fall out of the basket onto the floor. It's as if he knows...
Looks like Dingo has learned his lesson; even if something smells good, it’s not always a good idea to eat it! Dingo shouldn’t feel too bad though. In 2007 we looked through our claims history to find the most common household items surgically removed from our pets and found that dogs loved snacking on panty hose, underwear and socks!
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3 Comments
Rachel Bournival said: Dingo's new brother, Diesel, chowed down on my cell phone this past weekend. Seems like it runs in the family!
Daniel Ludwig said: Well, my Rottie once ate a pair of glasses. And by eat... I mean she ATE it! All that was ever recovered was half a frame and 3 pea-sized pieces of glass. She had no ill-effects from it, thank goodness. During the same week (if not the same day) she also ate my wallet, for the 3rd time in six months. Nothing more priceless than watching the reactions at the DMV when you hold up a mangled license and say... "Uh... My dog ate it..." I have since been issued a METAL money clip. No more leather (too close to rawhide chews) around here... lol
Melanie Monteiro said: In addition to being an obstruction hazard, I believe that many fabric softener sheets can also be toxic to dogs if swallowed (according to the aspca), but that would most likely be straight out of the box, not after going through a dryer cycle. I'm glad that Dingo is okay! When my Labrador was a puppy, she once managed to unzip my husband's gym bag and eat a plastic disposable razor! Thankfully the blade popped off in the process while she was chowing down on the handle, and the only lasting damage was to our bank account after a trip to the ER (sadly, back then we did not have VPI pet insurance).
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