12/12/2025
💙🐾 Meet Gizmo – Foreign Body Surgery 🐾💙
This little sweetheart, Gizmo, recently needed urgent care after he stopped eating, hadn’t passed stool for 24 hours, and became very lethargic. A few days earlier he had vomited a piece of plastic, which made his owners understandably very worried.
X-rays taken at another clinic showed five foreign bodies — four in his stomach and one in his intestine.
(You can see these clearly in the X-ray photos included in this post.)
Gizmo was admitted for pre-operative blood tests and then underwent an exploratory laparotomy, where all the pieces of plastic were successfully removed.
(We’ve also included a photo of the little cup showing the foreign material taken out.)
He recovered well from anaesthesia, stayed with us for a few days for monitoring, and we’re delighted to report that he’s back to his bright, happy self again. 💛🐶
If your pet suddenly stops eating, becomes lethargic, or you suspect they’ve swallowed something unusual, please seek veterinary help as soon as possible.
