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13 Golf Balls Found Inside ‘Rattling’ Dog

It’s a good thing the dog never farted… he could have shot and killed his owner.

Balls found inside ‘rattling’ dog

A dog had to have 13 golf balls removed from its stomach after eating them on walks around a Fife course.

Owner Chris Morrison had been taking five-year-old black labrador Oscar round the Pitreavie golf course in Dunfermline for several months.

He took Oscar to the vet after noticing a rattling sound coming from his pet’s stomach.

They then discovered that 13 balls – each weighing 45 grams – were lodged in his stomach.

Mr Morrison, a planning administrator, said one of the balls had been in his stomach so long that it had turned black and was decomposing.

He said: “He finds golf balls like truffles. We’re not sure how long exactly this happened over, but it must have been a fair period – several months at least.

“I felt his stomach and heard them rattling around.

“He normally brings a few home, but I had no idea he had eaten so many.

“The vet hadn’t seen anything like it, it was bizarre.

“He is a black lab so he is a fair size, but to swallow 13 is quite amazing.”

The balls were removed two weeks ago in a successful hour-long operation.

Bag full

Oscar is now on the road to making a full recovery on a special post-operation diet of watered-down food.

He also has to wear a muzzle while out and about.

Mr Morrison added: “He does get a bit frustrated now and again.”

Bob Hesketh, 40, principal vet at Vetrica in Rosyth, said he had never seen anything like it.

He said: “It was like a magic trick. I opened him up and felt what I thought was two or three golf balls.

“But they just kept coming until we had a bag full.

“I think they must have been in there for several months, one was all black and the shell was swollen.”


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New Words For 2008

1. BLAMESTORMING Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline
was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps
on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS: Process by which some people seem to absorb success and
advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than by hard work.

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming
upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

6. PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a
cube farm, and heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch
potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppress ive Mortgage. What
Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working
to stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and
whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless
because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s
workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment spectacles that are annoying but you
find yourself unable to stop watching (eg. Dancing with the Stars).

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an
electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just
above the rank and file.

15. 404: Someone who’s clueless. From World Wide Web error Message ‘404
Not Found,’ meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA: Features of the American landscape that are exactly the
same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls.

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize
you’ve just made a big mistake (eg. hitting ‘send’ in error on an
email).

18. WOOFS: Well-Off Older Folks.

19. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a
Cube Farm.

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Flushing Has Never Been So Much Fun

Flushing is fun!

I found this to be far more entertaining than it should be. Kohler has created an interactive website that let’s you pick items from the bathroom and flush them down a toilet. It sounds strange, and it is a little but check it out. After flushing random items down the toilet, including a rubber duckie, flowers, dog food and more, I thought, “I want a toilet like this!” Very slick marketing, indeed!

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Arkansas Mom Pregnant With 18th Child

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children… her Uterus fell out! – Andrew Dice Clay

Good for them! I’m sure this story will drive some Liberals to the edge of insanity. It’s about a religious family with lots of kids being taught good values. All a Liberal nightmare!

Soon she’ll have enough kids for 2 baseball teams

Mother’s Day draws a crowd in the home of an Arkansas woman — she is pregnant with her 18th child.

Michelle Duggar, 41, said she is six weeks along and that everything is going well.

This weekend, Duggar will join her husband and their 17 children to celebrate Mother’s Day with brunch at a hotel in downtown Little Rock. Their youngest child, Jennifer, is 9 months old. Their oldest, Josh, is 20.

The Duggar children include 10 boys and seven girls. Within the group are two sets of twins.

“We’ve had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us,” Michelle Duggar said, laughing.

The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in northwest Arkansas in a 7,000-square-foot home. All the children — whose names start with the letter J — are home-schooled.

Lots of show and tell

Jim Bob Duggar, a former member of the Arkansas Legislature and an unsuccessful U.S. Senate candidate, has not been specific when asked how he supports such a big family. But he said he was guided by a seminar about 20 years ago — a system he still advocates — that blends finance and religion.

The family has become well-known through news coverage of new births and with programs about them on Discovery Health, which is filming the family again.

The new show looks at life inside the Duggar home, where chores — or “jurisdictions” — are assigned to each child. One episode of the new show involves a “jurisdiction swap,” where the boys do chores traditionally assigned to the girls, and vice versa, Duggar said.

“The girls swapped jurisdictions, changing tires, working in the garages, mowing the grass,” she said. “The boys got to cook supper from start to finish, clean the bathrooms,” among other chores.

Michelle Duggar, who has been pregnant for 11 years of her life, said she and her husband will continue to have children as long as God wills it.

The other Duggar children, in between Joshua and Jennifer, are Jana, 18; John-David, 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; Jeremiah, 9; Jedidiah, 9; Jason, 7; James, 6; Justin, 5; Jackson, 3; and Johannah, 2.

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The World Is Going Nuts: Dog Gets Testicular Implants

You know life’s good in Australia, when worrying about your dog’s masculinity is an issue. I was surprised to learn that testicular implants for pets have been around for years.

This is definitely a case of more dollars than sense.

Apollo gets manhood back

NO one is going to call Cooktown bull-terrier cross Apollo a sissy.

The macho mutt is the proud owner of a set of silicone testicles that, after desexing, have allowed him to keep at least the appearance of his manhood.

Apollo’s owner Sarah Martin parted with $270 to order the implants over the internet from the US.

And when the two-year-old was desexed, Cooktown visiting vet Rod

Gilbert popped in the “Neuticals” ensuring the pup remains all-boy on the outside.

Ms Martin insisted the solid silicone implants made little difference to Apollo.

“It was nothing to do with the dog, or if he’d miss them,” Ms Martin told The Cairns Post.

“I don’t think he knows the difference.

“It was just that I don’t like the look of it.”

But Ms Martin said the replacement testicles were about half the size of his original, real ones.

“You tell them the age and breed of dog but they obviously thought this kind of dog had smaller ones.”

The neuticals.com website proclaims 225,000 pets around the world, including cats, horses and cattle, sport the implants.

But Apollo, who loves to watch TV and cuddle with his 23-year-old owner, may be a trendsetter on his home patch.

“He’d be one of the first in the Far North to have it,” Mr Gilbert said.

“I haven’t implanted any in a dog before, my surgery hasn’t and I haven’t had anyone ask for it.

The implants were harmless, he added.

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