Published: Friday, 5th September, 2008 13:10
Pet dog Oscar eats 13 golf balls
By Matt Meade
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Oscar with the golf balls removed from his stomach
OSCAR the dog is feeling above par after an unlucky 13 golf balls were removed from his stomach.
Owner Chris Morrison (48) was stunned on making the discovery after hearing rattling from the five-year-old labrador’s stomach.
Oscar hoovered up the balls over a period of several months on walkies at nearby Pitreavie golf course. One of the balls had even turned black through decomposure.
Mr Morrison, of Birch Grove, Dunfermline, said, “I felt Oscar’s stomach and heard them rattling around.
“He normally picks up golf balls and brings them home, but must have been swallowing some all along.
“I take him out early in the morning and late at night normally around the areas of the 9th and 12th fairways and he hunts them down like truffles.
“He finds them in all sorts of places where golfers lose them.”
The planning administrator took the golf-ball guzzler to a Rosyth vet to have the balls removed two weeks ago.
And shocked principal vet Bob Hesketh (40), of Vetrica, Primrose Lane, Rosyth, toldthe Press he had never seen anything quite like it after a successful hour-long operation.
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.
“It’s incredible really. We occasionally find things like bottle corks but this is a bit different.”
Oscar is now on the road to making a full recovery after a special post-operation diet of watered down food.
But it’s become a good walk spoiled for Oscar – he now goes walkies wearing a muzzle.
Mr Morrison added, “He does get a bit frustrated. He couldn’t go running around straight away but he’s now off the lead again.”
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