[News] Yorkie Eats Socks!
 

Yikes, scary that the Yorkie crossbreed was able to eat that many socks! Glad that Spud is a-okay now, though. Hope you don't have smelly feet! :P
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A PET-LOVER was baffled when her socks kept disappearing, then discovered her tiny puppy was eating them.

The terrier called Spud swallowed four of Jenna Jones's sports socks before he was found out.

Jenna, 19, from Ystradgynlais, was puzzled over her disappearing socks and thought they were stuck inside her washing machine.

But then she saw Spud scoffing one and feared the worst.

Shop worker Jenna took six-month-old Spud to a vet who inserted a tiny camera into the foot-long puppy's stomach.

Vet Steve Howard said, "I was expecting to find just one sock and was amazed to see two pairs in Spud's stomach."

Spud was given a general anaesthetic for Steve, 33, to remove the four socks in an hour-long operation.

He said, "I managed to locate a toe of each of the socks and grab it with forceps and pull each one out.

"I'm glad that we solved the mystery of the missing socks but it was a real shock to find out where they were.

"I've removed all sorts of things from dog's stomachs but this is the first time I've performed a sock-ectomy."

When Yorkshire terrier-cross Spud came round he was given antibiotics and has made an excellent recovery with no long-term damage from his sock snack.

Keep-fit fan Jenna said, "I was puzzled for weeks about the missing socks until I saw Spud eating one.

"I couldn't believe it when I was told Spud had four socks in his tummy. He's only little. I don't know where he put them.

"The vet thinks that the reason for his sock fetish is that he was attracted to my smelly feet."

The operation was done at the Swansea Pet Aid Hospital which is run by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.

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I remember reading somewhere the number one item vets remove from dogs' stomachs are panties.

Hahahah! I never heard of that! That's crazy! Something about the smell! :P

Toto culls NOTHING!!! Dirty ... clean ... doesn't matter. If it's within her little reach she grabs it, quickly applies her little "one second rule" and runs like a rabbit to her X-pen with her "prize"!! :p

All dogs love socks!
 

I've heard about lots of dogs who have eaten socks. While he never ate socks, I had a Golden Retreiver who loved to play "tugsock" with one of my husband's socks tied in a knot. Harry was strong enough to pull me right off the couch! Tugsock was his favorite game! Then we got a little Sheltie puppy.....so cute.....Lucy, her name was.....and she was very petite, and quite tiny at about 7 weeks old when we got her. Well, big ol' Harry the Golden was sitting and looking at this little baby the morning after we got her. Then he quietly got up and went over and got his tugsock and brought it over and offered it to little Lucy. And she took the other end and started tugging like mad! Harry could have flipped her into the next county with one tug, but he didn't....he tugged sooooooo gently.....and they played tugsock every day until Harry was kidnapped by my grandchildren because they needed protection from moose on Kirby mountain......Harry and Lucy were very special dogs in my life.

Higgins grabs everything, especially Don's socks! But he hasn't damaged the socks, so far. Just about everything winds up in that pup's mouth, but he doesn't seem to swallow anything. His favorite thing to chew up is wood.....twigs and branches and such. And he has always loved the old, fallen, very crisp little live oak leaves. Has chewed them up and spit 'em out since day one. When he was little he had a thing for little rocks, too, that worried us (we watched him like a hawk to make sure he didn't swallow one). He would dig 'em up and toss 'em around. Then he would dig another hole or two and move his store of little rocks, one by one, from hole to hole. It really was funny to watch. He still loves to dig and to bury things!