Woof: Great Dane spared in 43.5 sock belly ache

The three-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a emergency animal hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon. X-rays showed a stomach full of “a large quantity of foreign material.” Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer—the dog had consumed 43.5 socks. The case was so strange that the hospital entered the February surgical story, complete with X-rays, in an annual contest sponsored by the vet magazine, Veterinary Practice News, and now won a prize. Fittingly enough, the contest is called “They Ate WHAT?”

We see some very strange things, but this is by far the most socks we’ve ever pulled out of an animal.

Shawna Harch, hospital spokeswoman

The $1,500 first-place winner was a rural Texas animal hospital that treated an exotic frog that ate more than 30 small ornamental rocks from its cage.

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