Comments on: String coming out your dog’s butt like a fuse? http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/16/string-coming-out-your-dogs-butt-like-a-fuse/ Blogging by a team of pet-care experts. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:26:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lois http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/16/string-coming-out-your-dogs-butt-like-a-fuse/comment-page-1/#comment-9411 Lois Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:29:36 +0000 http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2007/03/16/string-coming-out-your-dogs-butt-like-a-fuse/#comment-9411 I have to admit to being one of these people, obviously quite accidentally. Our puppy had gotten hold of the last audio cassette in our house, having great fun pulling the tape out of the housing. It made a lovely whizz noise as she pulled and pulled. My husband got it away from her and put it on a high shelf. After all, who would expect a cat to eat a cassette tape? Well, ours did. And we didn't know it until there was audio cassette tape come out his butt in accordion pleats!! Several hundred $'s later (no delay on our parts!) our vet was able to open his belly and massage out the remainder of the tape - 36" total - and Odin is fine several years later. Lesson learned? Along with 'Get Down', I would add 'Look Up and Around', especially if you have climbers. This could have been deadly and we - or rather, Odin! - was just lucky it was caught! I have to admit to being one of these people, obviously quite accidentally. Our puppy had gotten hold of the last audio cassette in our house, having great fun pulling the tape out of the housing. It made a lovely whizz noise as she pulled and pulled. My husband got it away from her and put it on a high shelf. After all, who would expect a cat to eat a cassette tape? Well, ours did. And we didn’t know it until there was audio cassette tape come out his butt in accordion pleats!! Several hundred $’s later (no delay on our parts!) our vet was able to open his belly and massage out the remainder of the tape - 36” total - and Odin is fine several years later.

Lesson learned? Along with ‘Get Down’, I would add ‘Look Up and Around’, especially if you have climbers. This could have been deadly and we - or rather, Odin! - was just lucky it was caught!

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