Golden Retriever Swallows Rock Resulting In 5k Surgery, Redditors Laugh In Retrospect

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Feb 28, 2022 11:00 AM EST

Going to the vet is never easy for anyone involved. The face of your dog who thinks you're going on a walk when you start approaching your vet's clinic falling is a painful sight to most owners. But sometimes, it's necessary. One dog belonging to Reddit user u/spirurulina, found out the hard way what the vet's office is all about after swallowing a rock resulting in a five thousand dollar surgery.

Look, life happens. If you spend all of your time micromanaging what your dog is sticking their nose into, you may never know a moment of peace. All we as pet owners can do is take the necessary precautions to protect ourselves financially, ie get you some pet insurance, and watch from a distance as our babies explore any and everything on their daily walks. u/spirurulina has definitely got the right idea, not only did they poke fun at this absurd price of their doggo's surgery by mounting the 5 thousand dollar rock in question, on a fancy plaque. But they also shared it on Reddit for all of us to enjoy and laugh at! 

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    Facial expression - Posted by u/spirurulina 2 days ago 2 2 9 13 17 10.0k My dog had a 5k surgery after eating a rock. I decided to display it accordingly
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    And this is how you take a negative situation and turn it into a positive, laugh-inducing one! Way to go, dude, you've got this life thing down pretty good. 

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    Artifact - THE M OST EXPENSIVE ROCK (Pipa's intestines, 2019) BONUS ZIPPER Pipa's colon, 2019)
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    The five thousand dollar rock is majestic. Don't look too close, you may be blinded by its sheer power and force 

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    Rectangle - MHT THE MOST EXPENSIVE ROCK (Pipa's intestines, 2019) BONUS ZIPPER (Pipa's colon, 2019) (ibse cojou solo)
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    X-ray - Na Purdue Unive Ow Inst Stu Acc 2/28/Q19 N e
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    Dog
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    Plant - INDOOR JUNGLE
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    Font - thesmellnextdoor · 2 days ago Of course, it's a Golden! My Golden eats so much soft rotten wood in the forest we have all but given up on trying to stop her. She lunges for that crap like it's the last hamburger at Burger King but I'm just glad she finally stopped eating the gravel in our driveway.
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    Gesture - flyingcircusdog · 2 days ago Grad school scientist, eats rock. Sounds about right actually.
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    Human body - dangy_munchkin · 2 days ago This type of rock requires very expensive equipment and it took 5k dollars to even extract this single small piece of rock. Making it one of the most expensive rocks in the world.
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    Font - IrishRun · 2 days ago Quite a funny idea. I'm inspired to do the same with our pup's 5K bouncy ball. Glad Pipa is alive and well and we can laugh about it now.
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    Font - MimiMyMy · 2 days ago I had a lab mix who must have had doggy pika. He was obsessed with cardboard, any and all cardboard. Including the cardboard that is used to keep photos in place inside a photo frame. I have no idea how he knew there was cardboard in photo frames. He also managed to chew up and swallow a glass pyrex bowl. He has swallowed glass not once but twice. Through all his dangerous adventures it is an absolute miracle he survived and never had to have surgery to remove any of
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    Font - Mattlovesthe90s · 2 days ago I feel your financial- golden retriever - vet bill pain. When ours was like a year old she swallowed a stuffed animal dog toy and it got stuck between her stomach and intestines. That was about 5k for surgery and everything that went with it. and this past September, we were on vacation and she started throwing up and wrenching with nothing coming out, her stomach started to get reallllly big. We knew right away she had bloat ( stomach flipped) we were 90 mins
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