I rushed my 10-month-old puppy to the vet when she lost her appetite and kept vomiting – then an X-ray revealed she’d eaten THREE of my socks
- Kerrylee Hempenstall rushed her puppy to the vets concerned by her vomiting
- Molly, the sock-snaffling Bernedoodle, surprised the vets who operated on her
- She is now ‘back to her bubbly self’ after the socks were successfully removed
A mischievous puppy was as sick as a dog after she secretly swallowed three of her owner’s socks.
Molly, a 10-month-old Bernedoodle, was rushed to the vet by her owner Kerrylee Hempenstall, 50, when she started retching and refusing to eat.
Kerylee, from Ballybrack in Dublin, described her shock after realising what had cause Molly’s sickness when the vet showed her an X-ray of the pooch’s stomach.
Thankfully, she received quick treatment and is now on the way to making a full recovery and is already back to her ‘bubbly’ self.
Molly (pictured), a 10-month-old bernadoodle, was left vomiting and refusing to eat after she had secretly eaten three of her owner’s socks
The relieved owner said: ‘We realised something was wrong when Molly started to vomit and become very quiet.
‘We were very shocked, though, to learn it was because she had eaten three socks.’
An X-ray showed a ‘large bundle of foreign materials’ in her stomach.
Vets decided to operate and were stunned when they pulled out three chewed socks – as was Kerrylee, who had no idea she was missing them.
Kerrylee Hempenstall was as surprised as the vets to see the socks removed from her puppy’s abdomen
An X-ray (above) showed a ‘large bundle of foreign materials’ in her stomach, so vets decided to operate
After a brief stay at the vets following the procedure last month, Molly was sent home and is expected to recover fully.
‘She’s now back to her bubbly self,’ Kerrylee added.
Molly was taken to Linnaeus-owned Primrose Hill Veterinary hospital in Sallynoggin, County Dublin, and vet Katie Dwan said it was one of the most bizarre cases the clinic has handled – made more tricky as the socks were all spread apart in the puppy’s gut.
She said: ‘We X-rayed Molly to see if there was a foreign body causing her symptoms and, although we couldn’t see anything, she did have a gas pattern in her abdomen which indicated there was a blockage.
‘I performed an exploratory laparotomy [surgical incision into the abdominal cavity] to identify and retrieve the foreign body blocking Molly’s digestive tract and quickly realised Molly had swallowed three socks.
Ms Hempenstall pictured with her sock-snaffling Bernedoodle
After a brief stay at the vets in Sallynoggin, County Dublin, Molly is ‘back to her bubbly self’
‘The tricky thing was that all three were in different areas of her digestive tract with two of them intertwined in a linear fashion in the proximal duodenum [first part of small intestines].
‘This made the surgery slightly more complicated than we originally anticipated, with two procedures required – a gastrotomy and an enterotomy – for the socks to be safely removed.
‘Molly recovered in the hospital’s emergency care ward but was bouncing around the practice again by the second day after surgery, looking for more things she could eat and she’s now happily back at home.’
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