What is the oddest thing you have taken out of a dog's gut?

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Lucy Fleming — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:16:08 GMT

[quote userid="9239" url="~/f/clinical-questions/31336/what-is-the-oddest-thing-you-have-taken-out-of-a-dog-s-gut/248805#248805"]I left a swab in an abdomen once after a spay, luckily my own bitch.[/quote]

I had my first ever ovarian remnant recently...in my own cat.

At least I didn't have an annoyed owner to explain it to. I wonder if I was being too wet to pull hard enough as she was my own

Nothing wildly memorable on FBs. My first one I ever saw as a student was a sick, but I mainly remember the mature, wriggling roundworms following it out of the enterotomy incision.

Recently took a peach stone out of a 14 year old cavvie with a heart murmur you could hear as she walked past, so age is no barrier to indiscriminate eating, apparently.

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Andreas Ege — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:51:15 GMT

Can only offer ¾ of a scalpel blade the owner used for model building. When it snapped off the dog gobbled it up faster then the owners could react.

Was a good example for the need to xray in at least 2 planes as well. Completely invisible on the d-v lying parallel to beam under spine. Clear as day in all detail on lateral.

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Charlotte Marshall — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:43:57 GMT

One of the original solid red nose day noses once, but I still think my favourite was 3 golf balls from a GSD whose owner had no idea where he had got them from. All different sizes and staining as been in there for varying different lengths of time must have been ages as one had got a flattened side from bashing into the others.

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dr doolittle — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:03:24 GMT

An Oral B toothbrush, unchewed , from a bulldog

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David Scarff — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:31:17 GMT

When newly qualified x-rayed 20kg crossbreed with intermittent vomiting; baffled by amount of wire and clips. Sudden shout from kennels: he's straining - passed the largest bra I have ever seen!

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sue dorey — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:16:27 GMT

A guard dog in a car yard....multiple nuts and bolts,and about 2 m of carpet where it had unravelled and he must have just kept swallowing. The nuts and bolts didn't cause a problem,the carpet did.A Weimaraner ate several golf balls,it was walked on a golf green every day .

A Cavalier ate about sixty white pebbles just put into owners garden for decoration,it literally rattled as it walked,but they all passed eventually without surgery.

Cats,same cat 3 times bit the plastic bit off baby's dummy,also ear buds ,twice.Another ate an Almond,it was 17 years old , and the cutest one was a small plastic toy mouse which came out looking at me with all it's plastic whiskers intact!

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Dinu Catilina — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:05:36 GMT

[quote userid="6386" url="~/f/clinical-questions/31336/what-is-the-oddest-thing-you-have-taken-out-of-a-dog-s-gut/248680#248680"]Mine was a bit embarassing. GSD, presented with intermittent discomfort, couldn't get comfy lying down sometimes. Xrayed her to find a metallic shaped object in her abdomen, shaped rather like a large pair of forceps. I had spayed her 2 years earlier as she had a pyometra and had left one inside ......luckily said dog belonged to my vet nurse at the time and removal of forceps (at no cost obviously) fixed her!!![/quote]

I left a swab in an abdomen once after a spay, luckily my own bitch.

I gave a puppy to a friend in Romania who was operated for an intestinal occlusion about 6 months later. The culprit was a dummy from my kids.

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Dinu Catilina — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:02:36 GMT

[quote userid="8991" url="~/f/clinical-questions/31336/what-is-the-oddest-thing-you-have-taken-out-of-a-dog-s-gut/248724#248724"]I have heard the knickers / wife says they're not hers and variations on it every clinic I've worked at. I think it's a load of bollocks personally![/quote]

I may still have the photo with the knickers. Large enough to be used as a parachute by the wife. I do not have a photo of the wife though!

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Anthony Dennison — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:52:50 GMT

100% condom one from me was true. What makes it so memorable was the vet who's case it was doesn't deal well with awkwardness so watching her speak to the male partner you could see her start to shrivel up and cringe.

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Lesley Strong — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:54:01 GMT

Yep a 40 kg Doberman from a local rescue kennel

Some of the netting had come loose causing a linear FB and i assume that is why it deteriorated quickly when it had just been vomiting but still eating for a couple weeks The netting seemed to have stopped it being digested Didnt get to work it up due to costs so wasnt even xrayed before ex lap

It was a vet student who took the netting apart and found it I was just going to bin the big lump of it assuming it was just plastic stuff

No idea how it got down it's gullet but the net must have pushed the spines down and would assume it was already dead. The dog was a stray

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Sarah Keir — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:55:56 GMT

[quote userid="14693" url="~/f/clinical-questions/31336/what-is-the-oddest-thing-you-have-taken-out-of-a-dog-s-gut"]A completley INTACT Hedgehog wrapped in 3 meters of nylon garden netting. You could see all it's toepads and the dog still wanted to eat but had been intermittantly vomiting 2 weeks but otherwise fine until it perfed[/quote]

Hang on, this was INSIDE A DOGS STOMACH????

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David Mills — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:21:59 GMT

I have heard the knickers / wife says they're not hers and variations on it every clinic I've worked at. I think it's a load of bollocks personally!

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Lesley Strong — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:51:02 GMT

Another memorable on

Septicky looking Lab ( of course) Opened up stomach full of bone and necrotic flesh which made me and the nurse vomit

He had dug up andveaten the previous house owner's Boxer dog buried in the garden more than a year before

Why are dogs so gross No self respecting cat wd do that!!

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Anthony Dennison — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:09:33 GMT

2kg of parboiled new potatoes from a 15kg dog.

A condom from a cat's intestine. Husband then rang up - 'I'm working away this week, my wife told me my cat has had surgery today?'

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Glen McIntosh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:25:56 GMT

$66.50 in Hong Kong coins, a house key and a tube of some sort of cream all from the GIT of one miniature poodle during one exlap.

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Allison Gleadhill — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:00:10 GMT

I once took out something causing a SI obstruction in a cat. I passed it to a nurse to run it under a tap to see what it was & was told it was the head of a mouse. That’s ridiculous I said, mice are biodegradable. It was the head of a rubber toy mouse that the cat had chewed off!

Radiographed a vomitting boxer & saw something that looked like a light bulb inside its abdomen….Not a lightbulb but a door knob once it was out.

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Alissa Scinto — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:10:43 GMT

One time one of my colleagues went in a Lab to remove a stone... and also took out a spatula top, which went missing 2 years prior.

Recently I removed two fistfuls of hairties and shoelaces from a 10kg, 11yr old dog, he liked to eat them when he was a pup. It only became an issue now when a chunk broke off and got stuck in the distal intestine. The hair ties were mostly still intact and indigested .

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Kate Richardson — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:35:49 GMT

Mine was a bit embarassing. GSD, presented with intermittent discomfort, couldn't get comfy lying down sometimes. Xrayed her to find a metallic shaped object in her abdomen, shaped rather like a large pair of forceps. I had spayed her 2 years earlier as she had a pyometra and had left one inside ......luckily said dog belonged to my vet nurse at the time and removal of forceps (at no cost obviously) fixed her!!! Was when I was working in Australia where I had a go at a lot of surgery (link to other thread!) following a book as there was no other option. Taught me loads! The omentum had totally wrapped itself around it in a totally forceps shape and walled it off!! The body is amazing!!! And at least it showed the instrument was sterile

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Lesley Strong — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:32:50 GMT

Yes seen this a few times including one that had a weeping sinus over the caudal ribs and was presented for that not for vomiting. Was a skewer and you would assume v painful but just shows how tough staffies are as he seemed unbothered just a bit quiet and stiff

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ronald bright — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:55:55 GMT

GI joe toy from where else GI tract!

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Clive Ansell — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:18:32 GMT

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1) Colostomy bag belonging to granny

2) tablespoon - minus the ice cream he had been offered with it

3) full set of car keys

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same patient at the same time?

Labrador?

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Rhona Campbell — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:55:47 GMT

I had a dog presenting with a firm mass under the skin on it's flank. It was a piece of stick which had perforated the gut and migrated through the abdomen to the flank muscles...

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Jill Matthews — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:12:52 GMT

1) Colostomy bag belonging to granny

2) tablespoon - minus the ice cream he had been offered with it

3) full set of car keys

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Chris Mason — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:42:21 GMT

this one was one of our most amusing

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Clive Ansell — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:35:39 GMT

Slightly off piste;

I did have an out of hours call one night, woman in an hysterical state because her staffie had swallowed her contraceptive pillls. She wanted to know how to make the dog vomit to get them back. I tried to explain several times that they would not cause any harm, and no need to do anything. In the end she shouted at me she didn't give a **** about the dog, but needed them back because her man was coming home the next day after working away all week !!

I was going to suggest she tell him to do the dog, but though I had better not.