Dog left fighting for life after eating Nintendo game
'We don’t own a games console so we’re baffled as to where he got it from'
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Your support makes all the difference.A dog was left fighting for its life after eating a Nintendo video game.
Rocco's owners became concerned when the Staffordshire Bull Terrier began vomiting and refusing to eat.
They took the four-year-old dog to vet charity PDSA’s Glasgow Shamrock Street hospital, where an X-ray revealed a rectangular object in its small intestine.
The dog underwent emergency surgery and vets discovered the object was a Nintendo DS cartridge.
But its owners were left confused about where the game had come from, as they do not own one of the popular hand-held consoles.
Sean Johnston, 27, Rocco's owner, said: “He wasn’t acting himself at all and we were worried he’d eaten a corn on the cob, but we were so shocked when the vet said it was from a video game.
“We don’t own a Nintendo or anything like that so we’re baffled as to where he got it from.
“He’s a rescue dog and we’ve only had him for about six months so the only thing we can think is that it was from his previous owners – who knows how long it’s been in there.
“Even though we haven’t had him that long, he’s already such a big part of the family, so we’re delighted to have him back home.
“He’s made a brilliant recovery.”
Left untreated, the cartridge could have caused a fatal blockage.
The dog, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, was discharged after an overnight stay for rest and recovery.
PDSA senior vet Susan Hermit said: “We see dogs that eat strange things all the time but none of us had ever seen anything like this.
“Objects can sometimes sit in the stomach for a while, but they cause problems when they try and push through the guts, which are much narrower.
“It was a good job Sean brought Rocco in when he did, as an object of this size trying to pass through the guts could have caused a deadly blockage or pierced his internal organs.”
Additional reporting by Press Association
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