Dog has lucky escape after getting six-inch stick stuck in his eye

Diesel the sheepdog was out for a walk in a wood when he ran into the six-inch stick. His horrified owner Alan Jackson, from Carnwath in Lanarkshire, took boisterous Diesel to vet Edy Alderson, who was able to pull it straight out.


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Edy, of the Clyde Vet Group, said: “I had never seen anything like it. He was put under a general anaesthetic and I very gently started pulling with my thumb and forefinger. The stick just kept coming.


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“If there had been any friction, I would have stopped. After he came round from the anaesthetic, he got down off the table without a care.” Edy said if the stick had gone in a fraction further, it would have punctured Diesel’s brain and he would have been killed.


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She added: “We need to stress you must never just pull a stick out of your own dog.” Owner Alan, 53, said: “He’s a great character and is none the worse for his ordeal.”