Yikes, I'm sorry... but at least it isn't what I dealt with many moons ago!

My girls were both young, and we had a teeny tiny Yorkshire terrier pup. My youngest (about 4 at the time) had a small rubber ball in the living room, rolling it on the couch. No faster than I could get it out of my mouth to "be careful, and don't drop that, cause the puppy could swallow it" guess what happened? My little girl immediately dropped it, and Webster immediately decided to swallow it! I mean it was surreal how quickly it all happened. I was so astonished, that we searched the entire house, "just in case" it had rolled somewhere instead! Well, finally we had to go to an emergency vet clinic more than an hour away at 9:00 pm .... with two young girls who should have been in bed! We had gone to a local ER vet first, but they didn't have a special retrieving tool! Sooo, we made the trek and the x-ray showed the ball inside Webster's tiny belly. He was kept overnight, the ball removed with the special instrument, and $300.00 later, we went home!

Needless to say, with small children who constantly had barbie shoes and all kinds of small toys all over the floor, we found little Webster a home with one of our neighbors good friends. Happy but very costly ending!