Nantwich Veterinary Group Blog

Sox accompanies his owner when she goes to work in an old peoples home. The residents are very attached to him, and he runs from one person to another to gain attention. As playful as he is, one day he managed to got hold of one of the old ladies’ pop socks, and before his owner could stop him, he ran off and swallowed it.

Arriving at the practice in the morning, my first patient was already awaiting me: Moss, a border collie that had just eaten a plastic bag. To prevent the plastic bag getting stuck in his bowels, we decided to make him sick. To our surprise not only did he vomit up the plastic bag with a whole lot of food, but also three slugs and a round worm!

Rocky, a young Yorkshire terrier, was involved in an unfortunate and rather unusual accident: he had fallen off a skateboard and consequently broken both his forelimbs. This is not an uncommon fracture, in fact fractures of the radius and ulna (the bones in the foreleg) are the third most common fractures in dogs. The incidence of these fractures is particularly high in small and miniature breeds of dogs, like Yorkies.