What's the most grotesque....?

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Eamon McAllister — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:59:19 GMT

You know how dog walkers are always the ones who find bodies in the woods? I had a very dehydrated Mastiff presented with the worst halitosis imaginable. There was something large palpable in the oesophagus at the thoracic inlet so the dog was anaesthetised and with great difficulty the "lump" was massaged back towards the head. As the FB emerged slowly from the oesophagus into the pharynx I nearly **** myself for it looked just like the knuckles on a human hand. Turned out it was a pigs trotter about 9 inches long and completely rotten. I bagged it, put it in the freezer and left the windows and doors open for ages. The dog made a rapid recovery. I often think what I would have done if it had been a human hand. A crime scene would have been very bad for business so maybe I would have bagged it stuck it in the freezer and kept quiet. Too many witnesses though.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Dagmar Steele — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:28:53 GMT

very grumpy GSD seen by a mobile vet for difficulties swallowing, still eating a bit but generally unwell. Put on antibiotics, three days later seen by me and given anaesthetics. Found a rubber ball deep in the throat, the thing had two holes and there was some sausage and banana in the cavity. Pulled it out, made an uneventful recovery.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Hannah Wynne Richards — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:23:35 GMT

I'm not sure if I'm cheating because this didn't happen to me, but to a neighbouring practice Dog had been treated for about a week by a practice in a different part of the country for regurgitation-no diagnosis made-came on holiday and was taken to see my neighbour-who palpated something hard in the oesophagus. He radiographed it,and found it had swallowed a carving knife-blade 1st. This was drawn out very gingerly and the dog made an uneventfulrecovery. This one made the VDS newsletter some 15 years ago

Wynne

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Robert Wilson — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:45:13 GMT

Norman Lamont's head. It was the head of a Spitting Image doll. Gave me quite a turn as this face emerged out of the sh1t.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Rachael Winder — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:40:46 GMT

I had an interesting twist on the thong FB in one of my jobs. The dog was a Dalamtion who was only ever in the house or walked on a lead in a basket muzzle, as it had a propensity for scavenging and consequent surgeries. Having presented the dog's owner with the somewhat large piece of underwear, it transpired that there was no-one in the house wearing that size of clothing. The domestic ensued in the carpark...

I also came across a EBT which when I first encountered it was onto it's 4th op for retrieval of everything from CD cases to zips. It was at the stage where you couldn't leave any bedding in it's kennel and any attempt at IVFT had to be accompanied by a large buster collar. Must have had a screw loose somewhere but the owners wouldn't pursue it...

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Tanya Fielding — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:35:33 GMT

We've removed 5 thongs out of one dog

dog ate christmas pudding in a pyrex bowl not really disgusting smelt quite nice, but put me off my x mas pud on the 25th.

opened up sbt to find not the one reported missing bath toy but the full set of 5. kept them good prop for school talks

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

bob lehner — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:12:38 GMT

Yep - I've seen soiled nappies, ditto sanitary towels/tampons, t-shirts, knickers (various), bra, socks, tea towels,the stringy thing that goes round a roast joint and so on.

One of the most disgusting things I've seen was when spaying feral dogs in Botswana - they were GA'd with a xylazine combo which caused emesis. One dog had obviously been hanging round the nearby abbatoir and regurgitated a truly enormous pile of completely undigested intestines of unidentifiable origin.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Alan Tevendale — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:06:35 GMT

Not really an unusual FB but we had a dog that was finally PTS after ingesting a stone. The only point of note was the previous 11 operations for the same thing

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Julian Earl — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:00:38 GMT

I have twice removed the chewed up cassette-looped-round-the-base-of-the-tongue FB, which I know other people have seen. We have also removed the sparkly thong from a dog - underwear seems quite a popular choice for dogs. Wonder why?

Not particularly odd is the Dobermann who ate the carpet and curtains, ended up with a double intussusception, one telescoped section had telescoped in the opposite direction into the other, had successful surgery but then repeated the trick six months later. The owners had the dog pts.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Martin Jones — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:49:25 GMT

Years ago, a staffie with half a denim jacket - literally, split down the back sea -, almost unchewed. We thought it must have been like a chinese finger trap, where once one end got swallowed, the rest had to follow. The dog certainly survived a number of FB removals.

7wo puppy with three dummy ends stuck along the intestines. The owner thought the baby was swallowing them (but didn't seem remotely concerned about this)

An OOH centre saw a client's dog and pulled out a load of chinese takeaway - apparently the stomach was more like an impacted rumen. Cue an admonishment of the owner, till she pointed out that she was a veggie - and so was her dog. Further enquiries revealed that the old couple next door, feeling sorry for the dog over its diet, bought and fed it an entire banquet, through the fence. Not sure who paid the bill on that one.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

James Allsop — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:18:35 GMT

I once had to surgically remove a very stringy, red pair of pants from a chihuahua that was admitted by one of the other vets. I quite enjoyed the embarasment on the young lady's face when she collected the dog and whilst going through the discharge instructions presented her with the pot containing the FB This was a few years ago and she still goes red everytime she comes into the surgery, but credit due to her for not changing vets!!

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Michael Woodhouse — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:03:44 GMT

When on rotations [5th year] we had a 1st or 2nd year bring her cat in to the Beaumont. Cat was quite sickly and upon questioning the owner thought it may have eaten a used condom, as it had done previously and thrown up.

Cat was dripped, radiographed and opened up. Knotted, used [still intact ] condom was recovered from small intestine. I was scrubbed in to the op and acted as a bowel clamp.

That was one foreign body we didn't return to the owner. Made it so much more funny that she was a fellow student. There are 3 members of my rotation group post on these boards so they may remember more, Sadly I wasn't in that initial consult!

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

nikki — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:06:04 GMT

the 1st FB i ever did was a sparkly thong. The owner denied all knowledge of what the dog had eaten on admission. We xrayed it and saw the lines of elastic on the xray all lined up nicely. Pulled the very bedraggled looking exceedingly skimpy sparkly thing out and identified it and then requestioned the owner - she went a nice shade of red lol!

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Clive Ansell — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:37:58 GMT

Not strictly a FB, and not even veterinary I think, but the most grotesque thing I have ever seen was a Garfunkel's full breakfast at Gatwick airport. It would not surprise me if had already been through one of even several digestive tracts.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Clive Ansell — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:29:59 GMT

Recently had a Labrador that had swallowed whole a pair of soiled toddlers underpants. managed to retrieve them with apomorphine, so not strictly a FB I suppose. After vomiting up whole, dog tried to eat them again.

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Utlendigur — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:47:29 GMT

Removing a fabric FB from a GSD - I pulled out one lump of white material which was attached by elastic to something....kept pulling, elastic kept stretching... and suddenly a pair of very grubby Calvin Klein underpants exploded out of the incision.

Another occasion a boxer was presented post seizure. I lifted his lip to check membrane colour and found his mouth full of a mixture of papery fibrous material and brown stuff. I commented on it as I was about to start removing it - "Oh he ate my father's incontinence pants" said the owner cheerfully

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Cat Henstridge — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:43:19 GMT

The worst I have ever seen was a Labrador that had eaten raw sewage, including used tampons, when I was a student. The smell was incredible!

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Mark Holmes — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:25:01 GMT

Soiled nappy causing GDV in a german shepherd. I was not sure whether I was sad or relieved when it died before surgery could be attempted!

Re: What's the most grotesque....?

Rob Reid — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:01:35 GMT

Reminds of a story from when I worked in Wales a few years ago.

SBT in for a foreign body, never let off the lead so had to be something it had snaffled in the house. We removed several items from stomach and small intestine including a condom (I won't tell you if it was used or not, but suffice to say that surgical gloves were being worn!)

Dog recovered fine and on discharge the nurse was sent away to get the various pots with the offending items in to show the happy owners. On being presented with the condom, Mr looked at Mrs and gave her a very knowing look and said:

"That's interesting dear, considering I have had a vasectomy."