Aguila a la carte... Eating Ammunition.

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Aguila .22 Colibris must be pretty tasty! Or at least my Boxer thinks so.

Because this...
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Ate this...
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I was cleaning my office/gun room the other day and dropped the round pictured above, well it was in as new condition then, and I didn't immediately pick it up. I finished the task at hand and then went looking for the round, but I couldn't find it. I figured it had bounced or rolled under a cabinet or somewhere out of sight so I gave up on it. No big deal, right? The next morning my I found that my faithful companion had dropped a healthy, steaming load in the living room. Whilst I was cleaning it up, I happened to notice a glint in one of the turds. As I inspected more closely, I saw the little hummingbird stamping that Aguila puts on the base of their .22 cartridges. I had found the missing round I had dropped.

All in all it's pretty funny, but I hate to think if she had managed to ignite the round as she chomped on it, especially with it being rimfire. There's a fairly good sized impression in the slug on the side you can't see in the picture above. Oh well... Dogs! What are you gonna' do with 'em?



:D
 
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i'm trying to picture you washing off the cartridge, just to take a pic... :p

just don't drop any 30-06, cause that ain't gonna be so easy to pass.... :uhoh:
 
What an adorable dog!

So when's she moving up to a REAL self-defense caliber? :)

My youngest, a Lab/Husky mix, got into the bathroom trash one day while I was in the shower. Took out two disposable razors and chewed them both to pieces. When I saw the chunks of chewed-up blue plastic, I feared the worst, but somehow he'd separated the blades and just chewed up the handles. I got a can with a lid after that.

I still can't figure out how he knew to avoid the blades, but thank goodness he did. He's eaten a couple of other inadvisable things over the years, but never ammo. Gives a new meaning to "explosive gas." Or "projectile vomiting."
 
If you must feed ammo to your dog, make sure it is "gas check" bullets. :neener:
 
I love dogs. The fact that the animal CLEARLY chewed the cartridge more than once tells you just how picky they really are. And yet, my parents have an animal that will turn its nose up at even the nicest of dog food, yet has no qualms about eating things that I can't even stand to look at.
 
Good thing the round extracted, it'd be a headache for the vet (gunsmith) to deal with and FTE like that.
 
Actually, lead is sweet, which is why kids chew lead paint.

You might want to get your dog's blood-lead-level checked at the vets.

Seriously. Even a tiny splinter of lead left behind (from the chewing) could do her serious harm as it disolves into her system over time. The bullet looks like it has some gouges. Even if not, she could have absorbed enough lead to hurt her while it was in there. Stomach acid is some pretty strong stuff :(

Boxers weigh about the same or less than many children. If I had a child who'd passed a bullet, we'd be at the doctor the day I found out about it.
 
That truly is a cute boxer. I'm pleased to hear she's healthy. Maybe she simply has a thing for Mexican, spicy at that.
 
Dogs will eat the strangest things and it doesn't even phase them. My beagle pup liked to chew on big, thick rosebush stems. The thorns never seemed to bother him, but thankfully, he grew out of it.

He gave us quite the scare, however, when he ate 2 weeks worth of my GF's birth control pills. :what:
 
You might want to get your dog's blood-lead-level checked at the vets
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cuchulainn, what if there is lead in the blood? is there something that should be done about it? a way to remove it and cure whatever ails the dog? or a human, for that matter?

Spin180, did the gastric juices affect the muzzle velocity of the round? :) Glad to see the dog is ok.

Regards.
 
cuchulainn, what if there is lead in the blood? is there something that should be done about it? a way to remove it and cure whatever ails the dog? or a human, for that matter?
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Chelation treatment is used in dogs as well as humans for severe lead poisoning. Basically, you take chemicals that bind to the lead as they pass through you. http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/stc123692.asp?navbar=hw119900

For mild lead poisoning, it's usually just treated with nutrition. http://my.webmd.com/hw/health_guide_atoz/aa37358.asp

The Merck Vet Manual also has an informative article on animals and lead poisoning: http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/htm/bc/211700.htm

I'm neither an MD nor a vet. YMMV
 
My neighbor told me that her cousin swallowed a half-dozen .22 cartridges when he was a kid.

The doctor reportedly said that they'd pass though harmlessly.

"Just don't spank him for a few days," he added.


;)
 
It's been nearly a week now and no apparent ill effects. The vet said there shouldn't be any problems from it. I've given her a doggie vitamin every day since, just in case.


Why is your dog taking a dump in the house?
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I do, why shouldn't she? :rolleyes:

She's but still a pup, barely 7 months old, and not quite housebroken yet. Actually it's the first time she's done that in quite a while. But sometimes ya' gotta' go when ya' gotta' go.

:)
 
Dog's will certainly eat very strange things. I have a dog that has eaten drywall, about a third of a box of borax soap, a chunk of asphalt driveway, parts of a plastic bumper off a car, and probably a bunch of things I can't remember now. He stopped most of his wierd eating habits by the time he was about 6 years old. Now he's about 12. Moving a little bit slower now, but still healthy, strong and still likes to play. He mostly now just eats lot's of rawhides, pigs ears, and the occasional paper towel or tissue paper he steals when I forget to close the garbage container of leave one on a low table.
 
I bet that round just shot right through her digestive system.
 
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