Stone Soup

Or, why you should not let your dog eat rocks. Remember the dog I mentioned yesterday? Well the rocks did not move overnight and we ended up doing surgery on him today. It went really well-these surgeries are always so rewarding-relatively straightforward and provides instant gratification.

The rocks were all still in the stomach-they couldn't get past the sphincter that leads to the intestine. Here I am fishing the stomach out-felt like a little baggie of gravel!

Going fishing for the rocks!

Here comes one of the bigger ones...

The final product

This dog is doing great-he actually never really acted sick and by the end of the day wasn't even acting like he had surgery-goofy labs!

Thanks to Becky for running the anesthesia and Sarah for taking the pictures!