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BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Edinburgh, East and Fife | Balls found inside 'rattling' dog

A dog had to have 13 golf balls removed from its stomach after eating them on walks around a Fife course.

Owner Chris Morrison had been taking five-year-old black labrador Oscar round the Pitreavie golf course in Dunfermline for several months.

He took Oscar to the vet after noticing a rattling sound coming from his pet's stomach.

They then discovered that 13 balls - each weighing 45 grams - were lodged in his stomach

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 03:07:11 PM EST
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Dogs sometimes eat small stones, gravel, wood chips and so on. Sometimes for roughage, sometimes for nervous reasons--it's called pica behavior. But I've never heard of a dog eating multiple golf balls.

And where was the owner during all this? Clearly not paying attention to his dog.

by Mnemosyne on Sat Sep 6th, 2008 at 12:40:22 PM EST
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