BC Mobile Animal Endoscopy

Looks pretty realistic, doesn't it? Swallowed whole. The squeaker still working. A quick and satisfying procedure.

This is a scarf from a teddy bear. The garment is a little dated (2018), but otherwise in good shape. For some strange reason it got stuck between the stomach and duodenum.

For those of you not well versed in hygienic products, I'll share a secret: THESE ARE NOT MICE. This determined 10 kg mutt ingested a total of fourteen tampons, vomited four of them up, and I got the remove the remaining ten. Fun!

Did this case just yesterday. This rope toy came out of the stomach of a Staffordshire Terrier. Slightly challenging, but not bad at all. Apparently this fellow is a chronic offender.

Small dog. Large fishhook. Not a good combination. The removal was quite straightforward.

Did this case just yesterday. This rope toy came out of the stomach of a Staffordshire Terrier. Slightly challenging, but not bad at all. Apparently this fellow is a chronic offender.

This soother made it into the duodenum (small intestine) as can be seen on x-rays (in the right cranial quadrant). I was able to reach it, but could not get it back into the stomach even using the strongest forceps. I ended up threading an inflatable balloon through the hole in the pacifier, inflating it and then pooling it back through the stomach, oesophagus and mouth. It was a good challenge.

I recently stumbled upon an old picture. This case is quite old, but I don't think I wrote about it before. This was a 10 day old miniature horse (35 lb) that managed to ingest a large amount of wood shavings and got herself an oesophageal obstruction. Horses are not my strong suit; I can hardly tell one end from the other. However, this creature was too small for real horse vets to deal with. So I decided to give it a go. And it worked well.

I can not be certain that the pup was motivated by the slogan "JUST DO IT", but one has to wonder. This shepherd pup is just 4.5 months old, and this is not his first foreign body. If he continues in this vein, this might be a beginning of a long and productive relationship.

These are the parts of barbecue grate. Most in the stomach (I believe there were about 40 pieces) and some in the colon as seen on the x-ray. It is a little tedious to remove those, but they came out in under 30 minutes.

This seven centimetre twig has been lodged way down in the lungs for a couple of months. As one would expect, it resulted in chronic cough not responsive to symptomatic treatment as well as some radiographic changes. Came out rather easily.

This middle-aged Frenchie tried to swallow a sizable piece of bone. It got lodged high in his cervical oesophagus (outlined by arrows on the x-ray). It was a lot of hard physical work to pull/push this object back into his oral cavity; it took three veterinarians well over an hour to accomplish the task.

Quite an impressive geological collection for a small breed older dog. The removal made him considerably lighter.

When I got a call about a swallowed dinosaur head, I got justifiably excited. When I scoped the Frenchie, there was no such head present, but the stomach was far from empty. From left to right - a shark tail, a dinosaur tail, a stick figure (supposedly from some cartoon) and an unidentified object (possibly a Corinthian column). A rather unusual collection.

Most cats do get hairballs (or trichobezoars if you prefer ten dollar words). In vast majority of cats they never cause an issue. As usual, there are exceptions. Some of them can become rather large and well organized, and that is when endoscopic assistance is requested.

A rabbit with gastric stasis. A tube passed to remove the air from the stomach. The tube chewed off and swallowed. Sitting in the stomach and oesophagus as seen on the x-ray. Removed easily. Some of them lagomorphs can be pretty quick with their incisors.

Something different this time around. This picture baffled me. What are the criteria? Depth? Speed? Aim?

A Greater Swiss pup. Couple of foreign bodies. Not sure if the sock was meant as an appetizer or a dessert.

Most dogs eat grass. For vast majority of them it never becomes a problem. Some talented individuals can consume enough to truly get obstructed. Recently I had to remove a couple of gastric grassy meadows. It takes a while, but it usually works.