Oklahoma Veterinarian Pulls 21 Pacifiers From Dog’s Stomach

EDMOND, OK — Any parent with an infant can attest that it’s crisis time when the binky disappears. It happened over and over to a family in Oklahoma, and it took a veterinarian to recover the lost pacifiers — nearly two dozen of them — from the stomach of the family’s Shar Pei, Dovey.

Dovey is doing fine now, a woman who answered the phone at Gentle Care Animal Hospital in Edmond, told Patch. And the Rogers family is now “a one-pacifier household,” she said.

Dovey had been acting fine until recently, when she began losing weight and throwing up. An examination of the vomit revealed one of the lost binkies and an X-ray at the vet’s office revealed Dovey had snarfed up at least seven more. Dr. Chris Rispoli at Gentle Care ordered an immediate surgery.

Rispoli told KFOR-TV the baby’s missing pacifiers were “too big to go through the GI tract, so we decided we had to open her up and get them out. And they just kept coming out …”

“This was the most fascinating and exciting surgery I have ever done or my staff has ever been a part of,” Rispoli wrote on Facebook, adding that by the end of the surgery, the team had pulled 21 pacifiers from Dovey’s stomach.

It was a first for Rispoli and his staff. They’ve recovered missing socks, panties and corn cobs from dogs’ stomachs, “but never 21 binkies,” he told the TV station.

Scott Rogers and his wife kept the pacifiers on the counter when they weren’t in the baby’s mouth, but it seems Dovey is a bit of an acrobat and was able to snatch the binkies from the counter.

Dogs “will eat anything, anytime and at any age,” Rispoli wrote on Facebook, “so always be watching.”

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