They had taken the dog for a check-up after he had gone down with a mystery ailment on New Year's Eve. Buster caused gasps of amazement at the clinic when an X-ray revealed what looked like masses of metallic wire lodged in his tummy. Mrs Price said: "He's never done anything like this before so we were completely taken by surprise. It's something a puppy would do, not a full grown dog. It seems funny now but at the time it was really worrying to see what looked like wire in his stomach on the X-ray.
"The vet said his stomach had swollen to twice its normal size. She could not believe the amount of stuff he had in there." Vet Gemma Loader said: "I have done plenty of operations on dogs that have eaten things they shouldn't have, but I had never seen anything like this. It just kept coming and coming. From the X-ray we thought it was tinsel but it was actually ribbon of all different types and thicknesses. Most of it was gold so we think he might have been attracted to the shininess and just decided to wolf it down. It was touch and go for a couple of days after the operation so it is great to see him back to his normal self."
Veterinary nurse Donna Crocker assisted with the operation. She said: "Gemma was just pulling ribbon after ribbon out like a magic trick. None of us could believe so much could have fit inside such a small dog. In my six years of working as a veterinary nurse I have never seen anything like it." Practice administrator Helen Holex measured the material that came out of Buster's tum after putting it through the washing machine. She said the combined length of the ribbons was 36½ feet, or just over 11 metres, with longest single piece more than two metres long.
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