Metal detector finds ring in puppy’s tummy

When Karen Woolley’s 100-year-old family heirloom diamond ring suddenly went missing, she suspected Barney, her 6-month-old Cocker Spaniel mix puppy, might have something to do with it.

She happened to have an old metal detector handy and when she swept it across his chest, she got a bleep. A few minutes later she got a reading from his stomach. She rushed him to the vet where an x-ray showed the perfect outline of a diamond ring.

After emergency surgery Barney is doing well.

Only a few months ago Prince William’s fiancée, Kate Middleton, had a pair of antique earrings eaten by her dog Otto. They had been an expensive birthday gift from the Prince.

The Princess-to-be ended up searching through Otto’s “business” to find the earrings, as the spokesman so elegantly put it.

Dogs love anything that has the scent of their human, even to the extent of swallowing it if it is small enough.

Comments

[jerry]

Ok from now on I am going to pick up my dogs business. It just sounds better.

[Peggy Frezon @Peggy's Pet Place]

Glad they retrieved the ring. My friend's dog ate his wallet. They got it back, eventually.

[jackie]

my dogs have eaten every and anything you could think of over the years.

[Col]

For some reason, this only makes our dear Kate more endearing. :-)

[Khyra]

Mom said Unkhle Paul ate a small cheese figurine when he was little -

Mom was the lukhky finder -

Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra

[cube]

Our German Shepherd Dax had a thing for books, but not all books though, mostly hardcover Harry Potter books. She chewed up a bunch of those over the years. J.K. Rowling must've have a side deal with Dax
;-)

One time Dax chewed up a library copy of The Writer's Market. I showed it to the librarian to prove that my dog really had destroyed it. She chuckled heartily, saying that many times people blamed their dog when a book was actually lost by the human.

[Lori @ According to Gus]

Something tells me it wasn't actually the Princess-to-be that fished the earrings out of Otto's "business". ;)

[dOg training ebook]

She's lucky to have that old metal detector!! Dogs eat a lot of things so we better keep our valuable things away.

[Boris]

Oh My God...,
Luckily, Barney just fine.
How could she swallow the ring?