He said he scoured his home before realising the timepiece had been swallowed by Charlie the dog. Charlie was taken to the vet but "coughed" the watch up before an operation became necessary. "At first I thought he was lying on it," said Mr Morgan. "Only when I rolled him over did I realise it was inside him.
"The watch was always set to go off at ten-fifty-five to remind me to call last orders. Luckily, I'd never bothered to change it." Mr Morgan said a surgical operation to retrieve the timepiece would have cost £1,000.
The episode still cost Mr Morgan £200 because vets had to X-ray Charlie to make sure the animal had not swallowed anything else. A spokesman for the St David's Veterinary Group in Exeter said: "It was the talk of the surgery. We had a real laugh about it."
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Please explain this to us without-national-health-insurance Americans. Even here, $320 for an X-ray is outrageous. And at a vet's? Seriously? Or did they also have to put the dog under anesthesia (not stated), in which case this might make some sense.
Lurker111
In the UK vet's charges are extraordinarily expensive, to the point of being a total rip-off.
£200 sounds about par for the course for an X-ray.
Pet owners are 'encouraged' to get insurance.
Yes, to get an x-ray, the dog has to be anesthetised, that's why its so expensive.
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