Bassett hound swallows 31 rusty nails

A Colorado Springs dog owner took her Basset Hound to the vets for a stomach ache, only to find out the dog had eaten 31 roofing nails, her rabies tag, and siding from their house. Carla Borck’s Basset Hound Sophie wasn’t feeling well, so she brought her in to an emergency veterinary clinic to be seen. Expecting just a stomach ache, she and the veterinarian there decided to take an x-ray, just to be sure. What they discovered looked like a clump of about ten nails in Sophie’s belly.



The dog went in for surgery, and when it was all said and done, turns out Sophie had consumed 31 roofing nails, her rabies tag, and siding from their house. The goods were removed, and the dog was considered lucky to not have any internal bleeding or perforations in her intestines from the jagged, rusted nails.

Borck and her husband later figured out, their black Labrador puppy has done the digging work, and Sophie, the eating in their dog run in the side yard over time. The nails turned out to be from when the home got a new roof in the years before the two bought the house, and Sophie’s taste for metal was something she’d done a good job of keeping from her owners.



Sophie is recovering well, but the house has since had to be “puppy-proofed” and the yard scoured for any remaining metals or pieces. The veterinarian that treated Sophie warned the Borcks, once a dog has a taste of metal and gets the feeling of it on their teeth and likes it, they’ll go back for more, time and again.

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