Vanessa Clements noticed Simba’s health rapidly declined in December. She feared her furry companion of almost 10 years would not be with her much longer. | SaltWire
When Vanessa Clements's dog Simba lost energy and stopped eating, the veterinarian suspected he had intestinal cancer. Weeks later, though, he passed a sock he had swallowed half a year before and was immediately as good as new. - ContributedMILL RIVER EAST, P.E.I. — When Vanessa Clements’s golden retriever’s health rapidly declined in December, she feared her furry companion of almost 10 years would not be with her much longer.
Clements, a lobster fisher, wears thick knee-high socks when she goes to work. While doing laundry last spring, she realized one of those socks had vanished. Months passed with Simba remaining in tip-top shape. The sock, Clements eventually decided, had just been misplaced.“All of a sudden, he started acting very ill, very down in the dumps,” said Clements. “He wasn’t eating very much, he was losing a lot of weight, and I was like ‘OK, what is going on here?’”
With a blockage seemingly ruled out, the next step was bloodwork. When the results came in, Clements was told her dog likely had intestinal cancer.“I live alone, it’s just me and Simba,” she said. “I’ve had him since I was 18 years old. We’re very close.”Two days before Christmas, he was at his worst and Clements wondered if she should put him down.
As though he had not spent the last few weeks refusing to eat and losing weight, sock expelled, Simba immediately returned to his normal energetic self. “If it’s not something that’s really irritating the bowel, what can happen is it’ll just kind of sit there,” said McMullin. “Then part of the ingesta will go around it, so they’ll still continue to defecate and may not even vomit that much. But then it inhibits the ingestion enough that they don't quite feel well.”
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