Dog loses tongue in shredder

Tara the Labrador cross liked nothing better than eating up the biscuit crumbs dropped by her owner's children - until the day disaster struck.

The mischievous pooch sniffed out the remains of some shortbread which had fallen on to a paper shredder in her owner's Craigentinny home.

But as she stuck her tongue to retrieve the tasty tit bit she activated the machine, trapping her tongue which left her howling in agony.

The injured dog had to undergo two operations on her mouth, and had to have one-third of her badly-damaged tongue amputated.

Mother-of-three Miss Brown said the 12-year-old Labrador cross was lucky not to have died.