Happy pet stories

EPTR
Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:23:45 +0000

A few years ago my friend and I went on a girls weekend that our husbands had given us for Christmas. While I was gone my H called to tell me that my 6 year old Cockerpoo was in the animal hospital. Apparently H had bought chinese food for my D and her friends. One of her friends left a delicious steak teriyaki, still on the skewer, sitting on the edge of the kitchen table. As my husband watched from across the room, the dog leapt up, grabbed it and gulped it down in one piece.

Well, the x-rays, ultrasounds etc. showed the skewer sitting in her digestive track and the only option was surgery to the tune of 1800 dollars. The hospital had to admit her while they waited for the surgeon to come. My husband slept with his cell phone propped under his pillow so he would be available if he needed to go back to the vet. In the middle of the night he got a call that the tech had brought the dog out to pee before the surgery was to begin. While she was outside she started to gag and, sure enough, threw up the entire skewer in one piece. It just shot out like a javelin.

When my H went to pick her up there was a note on the bill that said “Congratulations, go buy 1800 dollars worth of lottery tickets.”

They gave him the skewer as a keepsake.