My Story
Lulu
December 2008
Location: Warson Woods, Mo.
Breed: English bulldog
For six months, Jennifer Zwart believed her daughter’s missing pacifiers had simply been misplaced — kicked under couches or dropped from a moving stroller — but Lulu knew better. One day she saw Lulu licking a dropped pacifier and scolded her for it. She didn't pick it up right away, because she never thought she would eat it, but when she turned around the pacifier was gone.
She immediately took Lulu to the veterinarian and expected that an X-ray would reveal the pacifier. The X-ray was unclear, so the veterinarians decided to perform surgery. Midway through the surgery, they started a “binky count” as they pulled out pacifier after pacifier. Over the course of six months, Lulu had swallowed 15 pacifiers, a bottle cap and piece of a basketball — filling half of a one-gallon Ziploc bag.
“We were all shocked, especially since Lulu never had any symptoms and I had no idea all of those pacifiers had gone missing,” Jennifer says. Now that she’s aware of Lulu’s penchant for pacifiers, she says she makes sure the baby binkies are never left lying around the house.
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