Lending new cred to the adage that dogs will eat anything, Portland surgeons discovered a great Dane had eaten more than 40 socks.

X-rays turned up what Dr. Ashley Magee described as “a lot of foreign material,” when worried owners brought the sick animal to Dove Lewis  for emergency surgery in February.

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Opening up the dog’s stomach, the material turned out to be sock after sock after sock – 43 1/2 socks in all.

Photo: Veterinary Practice News

Photo: Veterinary Practice News

 

The story has just now come to light, because Dove Lewis entered the great Dane’s x-ray in an industry journal competition for Veterinary Practice News.

 

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