Thought I'd post this article. Interesting read. http://www.today.com/pets/dog-survi...g-survives-after-eating-111-pennies-1C8832810
Ok, I got a story to go with this one. My story is about my cat Endo (what mtn. bikers do when they go over the bars). Endo liked to play with quarters and would throw them up in the air and catch them with his teeth. It was preety cool! He could throw a qurater up in the air as high as my head; I was very amused at the time. Then one day Endo found a nickel and my wife watched him throw the nickel in the air only to see it disapear down Endo's throat. That was the day that Endo got an Endoscopy to get the nickel from the kitty. I called my mom that day to tell her that her advice to keep putting nickels in the kitty and someday it would pay off was wrong
True story! I swear! My wife had to take off work and drive from Walnut Creek to Oakland through the tunnel to get Endo's endoscopy. I guess the staffmembers found the cat's name the proceedure quite funny.
Ut oh! Somebody must have seen this thread http://www.cointalk.com/t201719/ and tried it. Using the dog's doings as a cover story!
I am just glad the dogs is ok after that. I remember reading this article a few years back of these 2 guys at bar betting each other who could eat/swallow the most coins. I can't remeber if the guy that won died or they came out in his poop. lol I think he died. :dismay:
The bigger issue is not the coin itself - but the zinc in the cents from 1982 -. They used to tell parents to just let the coin pass through the gastro-intestinal system. Now they try to extricate it from the stomach however they can.