Bailey, 7-year old golden retriever, went to the vet with suspicion of stomach cancer. During the operation, however, the doctor found something else in it: a few gloves, tights, socks, and even a paper towel. The quadruped has been indulging in a fatal addiction for years and, surprisingly, he had no health problems. The case came to light, when dog owner Nicola Perrett brought him to the Hillside Veterinary Center in Corfe Mullen for an annual periodic screening test for epilepsy. Bailey consumed a total of 17 objects, which gradually accumulated in his digestive tract. Vet Keith Moore says, that by getting more golf gloves out of him, for rugby or socks, he felt like a magician pulling a hare and scarves out of a cylinder.
It's amazing, that the dog was not sick and was eating normally all the time. […] Vets naturally remove many foreign bodies from an animal's body, but I haven't seen anything like it in my career yet. Even for us, from a medical point of view, it is amazing. Mrs. Perrett is talking, that the only change, as the family noticed in the disposition of the dog, there was a slight apathy.
However, they ascribed it to age. After removing the ballast from his stomach, Bailey has completely recovered and now acts like a puppy again. Looks like it, that for some reason the golden retriever suffered, and maybe even still suffering from drinking, that is, an eating disorder involving the habitual eating of inedible substances.
