Scare Stories: How To Kill Your Dog With A Stick
DAN Brockman is professor of small animal surgery at the Royal Veterinary College. Says he:
“When I see people throwing sticks for their dogs in the park I just get so frustrated. I want to go and tell them to stop.”
But the dog might take offence…
His new study, co-authored with Zoe Halfacree, a fellow small-animal expert at the college, will detail some of the injuries suffered by pets when a game of fetch goes wrong. They include:
— Dogs left paralysed after being stabbed in the back of the throat by a stick that then enters the spinal cord.
— Animals left with serious internal injuries when a spinning stick jams between the foreleg and chest as they try to catch it on the move.
— Dogs who suffer a slow death as infection spreads from tiny fragments of wood left lodged in a wound.
What to throw? A baby? A smaller dog? A bone? No… a ball:
“You must make sure the size of ball is right for the dog.”
Basketball?
“I have had to operate on dogs that have swallowed tennis balls too.”
Change ends…
Posted: 27th, December 2008 | In: Media, Scare Stories Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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December 28th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Am I seeing things? is the Anorak clock on real time? MODS!!!!! THIS SHALL NOT DO!
December 28th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
There are some balls for sale which also damage the dogs mouths and tongues, I think they have been banned now in the US, they never got here.
The dummies are great , they cannot hurt the dogs, and they float if they land in water, and a heavy outer casing of canvas which is toothproof.
Having said that Ranald has been known to carry around up to 5 golfballs at one time, another hazard being the chemicals used on the grass rubs off on the balls….
Our Norfolk used to trot about with a dummy, it was bigger than her…..
December 28th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
June, many people also don’t realize the tennis balls dangers to big dogs, as mentioned above. My cousin lost her lab that way - was throwing an ordinary size tennis ball, lab jumped high caught it, went down and lodged in its throat and dog was dead before they got it to the vet. I spend the money at the pet store and buy the large oversized tennis balls for Prince to chase. He is big but he can’t close his mouth around it once caught so …have those dummies also and there are no small size toys in my house of any kind.
December 27th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
We throw dummies
http://www.gearandgundogs.com/site/subcatagory.php?subcat=Throw%20Dummies