jobless couple fined / banned from keeping pets for not taking sick dog to vet

[Liberal_in_LA]

Men butcher endangered beached whale to eat tail
Dog eats 12 large bras, sick for 3 months
September 03, 2010 • 12:19 pm

By Diana FasanellaA British couple was fined approximately $300 and banned from keeping pets for five years after they did not seek help for their dog that ate 12 bras.

He was hooked

Rebecca Danville, 26, and her partner Stuart Lane, 28, told a Grimsby Magistrate court they could not afford to take their Rottweiler, Molly, to the vet because they were jobless, The Sun reports.

Molly weighed half the weight of a normal Rottweiler and suffered from a distended stomach, which took up her entire abdomen, when she finally was taken to the vet after three months of vomiting and obvious emaciation.

Veterinarian Michael Jefferson removed a bundle of 12 bras weighing 11 pounds from Molly’s stomach. Jefferson said some of the underwear included underwires and was from a woman with a fuller figure.

Molly has now been handed to new loving owners in Lincolnshire and is described as “happy” and “healthy” after making a full recovery.

http://blogs.app.com/saywhat/2010/09/03/dog-eats-12-large-bras-sick-for-3-months/

[Duer 157099]

1. What circumstances cause a dog to eat 12 bras, with underwires?

I just can't quite get into that dog's head.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Dogs eat anything. Glad I have cats.

[Matariki]

15. Okay. True story. Roommate's cat ate a cassette tape

and was running around the house with yards of tape coming out both ends.

He took her to the vet and she was fine. The vet snipped the tape and just pulled it gently from the back end.

In retrospect, it was pretty funny.

Other than that, I'm with you. I've seen dogs eat some really disgusting things. And then throw them up. Ugh.

[NeedleCast]

19. True. Here is a partial list of things my roommate's dog has eaten

We usually have to keep him out of the kitchen when we prepare food because he will eat anything that hits the floor, including things that are not food, but it's been kinda fun to keep a list:

Things my Roommate's Dog Will Eat:

Garlic
Garlic "peel"
Lettuce
Really old lettuce
Oranges
Orange peel
Jalapeno Peppers
"Scotch Bonnet" Pepper (paid dearly for that one)
Asparagus (raw)
Asparagus (cooked)
Plastic top from juice bottle (removed from dog's mouth before it could be swallowed)
Onion
Onion peel
Steak
Chicken
Shrimp
Shrimp shells
Bread
Paper towel part
Cheese paper
Cheese (all kinds)
Fork (attempted, failed)
Captain Crunch cereal
Fruit Loops cereal
Random bits of stuff from oven top while cleaning
Dry pasta
Al dente pasta
Wine bottle cork (failed)
Black licorice (did not appear to enjoy)
Mustard
Grape Jelly
Knife (covered in grape jelly, failed)
two week old baked bean that was stuck to the kitchen counter
Bison jerky
Pineapple rind
Cherry pit
Peach pit (failed)
Paper towel covered in bleach (vet trip, 300$ and change)
Lint from dryer lint filter
Common house fly
Stink bug
Jellybean
Unpopped popcorn
Something with a lot of mold on it that was probably cheese at one point
Cumin powder
Chicken boullion cube (did not appear to enjoy)
Pumpkin seeds
Dirt (topsoil)
Roots of green onion
Apple stem
Packet of cilantro seeds (partially failed)


This is just the list of things we've kept track of in the last 12 months.

[Crystal Clarity]

22. LOL

That's pretty funny. You might've been better off making a list of things your roommate's dog doesn't eat. Just sayin- :-)

[Javaman]

23. That's a "partial list" list?

Tis no dog, tis is a perfect engine, an eating machine

[NeedleCast]

25. He is quite the food hawk

I've lived with my current roommmate (and his golden retriever) for about two years. We only started keeping the list about 10 months ago and honestly, my girlfriend and I try our best to keep food off the floor when we're preparing it..but in the process of chopping and slicing and cooking in general (or removing laundry from the dryer, or swatting flies) things hit the floor. If a thing hits the floor, AJ (the dog) will attempt to eat it. This is a well-fed dog who gets lots of treats and attention in addition to his routine feedings.

We worried about it at first but the vet told us pretty much that dogs have pretty powerful digestive systems and that it can digest just about any organic substance. AJ is pretty solid proof of that. I have to keep him out of the kitchen when we clean because he will eat anything (obviously) regardless of the level of house-hold cleaners that it is covered in.

I do pride myself in the fact that these days I can (usually) react faster than a golden retreiver when something hits the kitchen floor.

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. Onions bad bad bad for dogs.

check google.

Every one of my dogs has been trained since puppyhood to not be in kitchen when we are in it.
More for my safety than theirs, but it does help keep the onions and stuff out of their mouths.

Having said that, I have never had a dog that is so determined to pounce on anything that falls to the floor as my current dog.
He is particularly found of paper.
and towels
and dryer sheets
and socks.

[freebrew]

26. I had a dog that ate

a whole pound of unleavened(rising) bread dough.
It wasn't pretty, his stomach swelled to unbelievable dimensions.
Then, he farted. Not pleasant, but he came out of it alright.
He never begged for bread, ever again.

[SoCalDem]

6. Well..... I have a CAT who will eat PLASTIC

if given an opportunity:grr:


and we once had a Lab who was so loving to my boys that she would eat anything they offered her...

Mike came in one day to announce ..."Mom, Tasha will eat gravel"...:grr:.. He "offered" her some pebbles from the garden and yup...she ate them..

We had a very "strong" discussion with the boys about what she SHOULD eat and what she should NOT eat..and that just because she trusted them so much, they owed it to her to only feed her GOOD things to eat.. (in fairness to my son, he was only about 4 at the time:)..)

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. My cats are super super picky. Annoying sometimes, but stories like this make me glad

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. Bras are expensive! Didn't the lady notice them disappearing?

[End Of The Road]

11. I had a bulldog that ate socks.

After the first $urgery to remove a pair, hubby & I took extreme care to make sure all socks were out of reach.

But then... bulldog became sick again, and more surgery followed to remove more socks. We asked to see the socks; they weren't ours, we had never seen anything like them.

We think bulldog was using mailorder.

[Crystal Clarity]

12. Maybe she was hungry? Seriously

If they were neglectful w/medical care, perhaps they didn't feed her well either? :shrug:

It might've eased an aching hungry belly somehow... :-(

[Kat45]

18. My friend's dog would eat his wife's pantyhose

Then they'd see him running around with the pantyhose hanging out his butt, after which my friend would have to slowly pull the shit-covered hose out the dog's butt.

[yellerpup]

21. My friend's Doberman

ate a 15# bag of landscape gravel. They tried surgery, but poor pooch had to be put down and my friend mourned for over a year she was so heartbroken. Sometimes dogs snack out of boredom--just like people. I adopted a pair of rescued kittens who were bonded to plastic because neighbors poured milk onto garbage bags in the alley to feed them after their mother was hit by a car. They both would go straight for the dry-cleaning bags if we didn't dispose of them immediately. Sad. I'm sorry for the owners and the dog.

[Fumesucker]

2. Only the wealthy deserve to have pets..

Or anything else for that matter..

[Matariki]

16. Sure. But it's also a responsibility to have a pet.

You need to be able to feed them or take care of them when they're sick. Right? What would you suggest otherwise?

[Fumesucker]

20. Take them to the pound..

Where they'll be properly cared for..

I'll just point out that not everyone who has pets now and cannot afford vet care for them was in that situation when they got the pet or pets in the first place.

[Quantess]

4. Bizzarre story!

I understand banishing them from owning pets, but a fine? They couldn't afford to take the dog to the vet, so how are they supposed to afford a fine?

[CBR]

5. Poor dog...

"three months of vomiting and obvious emaciation"

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Yeah, but he's ok now

[SheilaT]

10. There are vets who

will help out those in dire need.

I do have a lot of sympathy for someone who acquires an animal and then circumstances change and affording food or care becomes difficult. But to allow a dog, any animal, to suffer so obviously for so long is truly criminal.

Personally, I'd suggest some jail time and community service as making more sense than a fine.

[Raineyb]

13. Yeah that'll teach them to be jobless.

And to make sure they learn send them to jail where a record will make it even more difficult to get a job.

[SheilaT]

24. So being jobless makes it

okay to let an animal suffer like that?

A responsible person does everything possible to take care of their animals. If necessary, give them up. Yes, they might be euthanized at a shelter, but letting them starve to death isn't kinder. Or abandoning them, thinking someone will pick them up is even worse.

And if a couple of days of jail time would rend them permanently unemployable, that's news to me, but community service, preferably in an animal shelter would make sense.

[joeybee12]

14. Yeah, any indication they contacted a shelter or rescue group for help?

Probably not.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Really, there is no excuse for allowing this dog to suffer. There are many groups that are providing

money for treatment of animals and I'm 100% positive that a vet would have taken care of Molly without payment once her condition became known.

OK, the story is from Britain, but I'd bet there are groups there to assist with vet bills as well.