Surgery on ailing Great Dane yields 43 ½ socks
PORTLAND, Ore. - The 3-year-old Great Dane was miserable and retching when its owners rushed him to a northwest Portland emergency animal hospital.
It was something he ate!
X-rays showed a stomach full of "a large quantity of foreign material." Nearly two hours of surgery later, Dr. Ashley Magee had the answer — the dog had consumed 43 ½ socks.
DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital spokeswoman Shawna Harch said it's perhaps the strangest case in the hospital's history, The Oregonian reported (http://is.gd/Zb55C9 ).
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[font color=green]You think that the owners would have noticed something with all of the orphaned socks that had no partners to make a pair?[/font]
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Well, I guess that mystery is solved. 
I could never tell unless they were toe socks anyway.
