Pet of the month for June goes to this beautiful boy Parker. Parker came in as his owners had called us saying that he had vomited a large sock that Parker swallowed about 8 weeks prior. Parker’s owner also mentioned that there is another small sock which Parker swallowed about 4 weeks ago; yet this sock had not come out yet.
Due to his history of ingesting items, we decided the best thing to do would be to have him straight in for an ultrasound. An ultrasound was performed and unfortunately foreign material was found stuck in his intestines.
That afternoon Parker was taken into surgery with Dr Raj who performed an exploratory laparotomy- this means we had to cut open his abdomen to find & remove the foreign material blocking his intestines in this case it was the sock that he ingested 4 weeks prior!
Parker’s surgery went very well & he woke up and recovered nicely. Since his surgery he is back to his normal playful self. We would like to thank his family for taking great care of Parker.