Meet Benno,a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois dog that outdid himself by consuming nearly two dozen of bullets.
Benno’s Owner Larry Brassfield has this to say about the incident.
“He acted like nothing was wrong until he threw up,”
I later noticed that about 308-caliber rounds were missing and I rushed Benno to a veterinarian, where x-rays revealed a small arsenal in the animal’s stomach in the late April incident.
My first concern was not an explosion but poisoning, said veterinarian Dr. Sarah Shelton, who feared Benno’s stomach acids would attack the metal to fatal effect.
Shelton removed 16 cartridges from Benno’s stomach and left two in his esophagus rather than prolong the two-hour surgery, correctly calculating that the animal would soon expel them. In all, the dog had eaten 23 rounds. She said Benno’s prognosis is “excellent.”