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- Subject: Re: dog eating rocks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.094131.673@news.wesleyan.edu>
- From: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:41:30 EDT
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- Earlier this year I thought my puppy had eaten 2 nickels. She was acting quite
- constipated (straining to 'go' but nothing happening), so the vet said to bring
- her in for xrays. Xrays revealed no nickels, but vet said she seemed to have
- been eating rocks, as "her stomach was full of them" according to the vet.
-
- Well, to make a long story short, several hundred $$$ worth of vet bills & xray
- bills later, & 2 days later, the dog came home from the vet (in PERFECT health,
- in my opinion). The vet had done nothing except "monitored her condition", &
- everything came out just fine. I was less than happy that it cost me so much
- just to watch Nature take its course, apparently mostly with xrays. No wonder
- Buffer seems to have a strange "glow" to her lately... ;-)
-
- I think that Nature takes care of most of these peculiar gustatory habits, just
- fine.
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- Ruth Ginzberg <rginzberg@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
- Philosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA
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