Dog swallows two foot long stick

A dog has survived after an operation to remove a two-foot long stick it had swallowed.

Hector, an 11-stone great dane, gulped down the branch as he played in his owner's garden in Hertfordshire.



Vets spotted the 63cm stick, which stretched over two-thirds of the dog's body, when they gave him an x-ray.

The couple said they do not know how Hector came to swallow the stick but think he must have been playing with it in the garden.

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