Dog Sees Phone, Thinks “Bone”
September 8th, 2008
Nero, a greedy Doberman-Great Dane crossbreed, had a close call recently after he swallowed an entire Nokia cellphone in one of those momentary lapses of reason known as “24/7″ to us dogs.
Not about to let Ozzie the rubber duckie swallowing hound hog the limelight for too long, this precipitant pooch wasted no time in abducting the succulent looking thingamajig from his owner’s hand and persuaded it to take up residence in his gut - leaving nothing behind with which a frantic human might call an emergency vet, for instance.
It is of course, a blessing of our trend toward ever-shrinking technology that dog-gadget-swallowing incidents have become less and less serious over the years. It’s a historical fact, for instance, that when my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather Melvin swallowed an entire rotary phone in 1979, Southwestern Bell charged him line rental for the 3 weeks it took him to cough it back up.
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