A 3-year-old Great Dane with a fetish for footwear ate 43 socks but was saved by surgery.
Dr. Ashley Magee at DoveLewis Animal Hospital in Portland, Oregon, told CNN: "We opened up his stomach and kept removing sock after sock of all different shapes and sizes"
The super-sized pooch had shown a hankering for socks before, but the extent of the problem wasn't apparent until he got sick and the X-rays showed the contents of his belly.
This is the best bit:
The amazing X-rays of the socks in the dog's belly won 3rd place in a contest: The vet clinic submitted the X-Ray pics to the annual "They Ate WHAT?" contest at Veterinary Practice News and won the $500 third prize, losing out to a frog who gobbled up 30 rocks from the bottom his cage and a German shorthaired pointer who swallowed a metal shish kabob skewer.
That German Sheperd is probably now touring with The Jim Rose Freak Circus. 43 socks and he didn't even win! That's harsh.
Watch the news report on the Great Dane here
