A dog named Mortimer started to have some stomach issues back in April of last year. Her mother took him straight to a vet but for neither the vet nor for his mom very worried about all of it just yet.
Emily Shannon, the mother of Mortimer said, “At the time vet diagnosed him to be suffering from an unrelated vomiting syndrome. We all hoped that he would get better with medicine.”
Mortimer was prescribed some medicine by his vet Dr. Doug Brum and he sent the 3-year-old pit bull dog back home. His family hoped that this would be the end of his pain. Unfortunately for Mortimer, the medicine only helped him for a short time and by the time it was May, he got so sick that he seemed like a different dog entirely. He no longer was following his mother around the home but instead would most of his time sleeping. Eventually, the poor dog stopped eating and by that time his mother was really worried that something was clearly wrong with her dog.
Without waiting another day, Shannon rushed Mortimer to the MSPCA Angell’s Animal Medical Center. There they took some X-rays of her and the results of it revealed something truly shocking.
The stomach of the poor dog was stuffed with 19 baby pacifiers that had completely blocked his digestive system.
Shannon said, “I was shocked to see the reports. I have two little children at home but never had I imagined that he had been eating pacifiers for so long.”
It seemed that Mortimer had been stealing these pacifiers one at a time over the course of many months that did not raise suspicion of the family. The vet immediately prepped the dog for an endoscopy and they successfully removed all 19 of these pacifiers from his digestive tract.
Dr. Burn said, “It seems that he started eating these pacifiers since April and that started his cycle of vomiting n nausea. If his family had not shown urgency in his treatment, it could have been far worse.”
Mortimer is now safe and is recovering in the care of his loving mom. The family is glad that they were able to help in time.
There is a lesson for all the pet owners in this story that they need to keep even the minute of the everyday items far from the reach of their pets. These pets have the tendency to eat whatever they can find and the next time another pet does something like this, he might not be as lucky as Mortimer.
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