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00:00It was so great.
00:02She vomited about five times.
00:04We are concerned.
00:06The owners have seen him ingest something.
00:08Not quite sure exactly what it is.
00:10My piper.
00:12There's something inside the stomach. We need to get it out.
00:16My pet ate bone fragments.
00:19My pet ate underwear.
00:21Lots of underwear.
00:23Are you kidding me?
00:25He is our rock star. Literally.
00:27What makes a cat look at a hair lasting?
00:29Look at a hair loss.
00:30It can be like, that looks delicious.
00:32Why would you do that?
00:35Wow.
00:36Cool.
00:37But wait, there's more.
00:38Oh, wait, there's more.
00:40I'm Eugene Gradecki.
00:43To my knowledge, I am the only veterinarian doing full-time endoscopy in the world.
00:48Over the years, I have removed many weird and wonderful foreign bodies out of animals.
00:53I'm doing it.
00:54My dad, he's like the most disgusting magician doing a trick.
00:58Oh!
00:59Dr. Gradecki is a legend.
01:01Here is something that doesn't belong.
01:03Bingo.
01:04They have removed an intact light bulb, a two-carat diamond ring.
01:07That'd be a story to tell.
01:08Where's your ring?
01:09The cat ate it.
01:10They have removed a toupee, garden hose from a lion, a bell pulled out of Chinese water dragon.
01:17Underwear.
01:18Holy...
01:19Yuck.
01:20Oh, my God.
01:21Holy...
01:22Yuck.
01:23Oh, holy...
01:24Yuck.
01:25Oh, my God.
01:26Oh, my God.
01:27Oh, my God.
01:28Yuck.
01:29Ninha.
01:30Yuck.
01:31Yuck.
01:32Yuck.
01:33Yuck.
01:34Yuck.
01:35Yuck.
01:36Yuck.
01:38Yuck.
01:39Yuck.
01:44Ninha, a German shepherd mix, seems to have eaten a mysterious meal.
01:50Jeez, man.
01:52So on the x-rays, you will see that smiley face thingy.
01:58Oh, my.
02:00And there is also a square object.
02:02From the density of the image,
02:05I would say it's rubber, plastic kind of a material.
02:09You don't take your chances with this.
02:12So we decided we'd better call Dr. Eugene Gorodetsky.
02:16Howdy.
02:17Hey.
02:18Let us flip into left lateral, please.
02:22Nina is sedated.
02:24A tube supplies oxygen and anesthetic.
02:30Dr. G will use an instrument called an endoscope.
02:38With light, air, and water,
02:42he locates foreign bodies
02:44and pulls them out with tiny tools.
02:48I'm going in.
03:00Well, there is still a considerable amount of food in there.
03:04There's food in there?
03:05Yep.
03:09Nina's digestive system absorbs water and nutrients.
03:14Left untreated, foreign bodies can obstruct this process
03:18and lead to death.
03:22Wow.
03:23Dr. G sees the first of two strange items.
03:27It appears to be rigid.
03:29It is concave on one side, convex on the other side.
03:33It's very vibrant.
03:35So you kind of see, like, the outline.
03:45As far as I'm concerned, let's collapse tennis ball.
03:53Now, he will pick a retrieval tool.
03:55We're going to be using radigator forceps.
03:59They are a cross between a rat tooth like this
04:03and the long jaws that look like alligator.
04:07Going in.
04:11Tennis balls have fuzz on them.
04:13They usually respond pretty well to this type of tool,
04:16but we'll see if this one does.
04:20Dr. G deploys the radigator forceps
04:23and tries to get a hold of the object's fuzzy exterior
04:27with the tool's interlocking teeth.
04:33OK, ready.
04:35He pulls a wire that connects to the forceps
04:37to close the jaws.
05:00I'm losing it.
05:05It fell off.
05:06Yep, it did.
05:08Dr. G is fighting half-digested fuzz.
05:12Nope.
05:15As I'm trying to pull,
05:17the forceps tear pieces off the tennis ball.
05:23I get another grip.
05:28And this time, it seems to work.
05:32The first foreign body is secured.
05:35Now, Dr. G needs to coax it up the narrow pipe to Nina's mouth.
05:40It can be quite challenging to get through the upper gastrointestinal tract.
05:57Come on, get out of there.
05:59Dr. G needs to adjust the plan.
06:02All right.
06:04I would like you to open the mouth wide and keep the head straight, please.
06:08OK.
06:10You will be able to feel the ball right here.
06:12Ooh, OK.
06:14It is my first hands-on endoscopy.
06:16I just graduated from college, so, you know, I'm still a baby tech.
06:20You will be pushing it towards the mouth.
06:23OK.
06:24Let's hope we can get it out.
06:26Dr. G tries to get a hold of the object's fuzzy exterior.
06:38You will be able to feel the ball right here.
06:40You will be pushing it towards the mouth.
06:42The mouth.
06:43OK.
06:44Today is Gladys' day.
06:45She will get experience pushing the foreign body from the outside as I am pulling it with the scope.
06:53Ooh.
06:57It's like a soft pipe, and then you're trying to push a ball through it.
07:02It could get lodged here.
07:14Whoa!
07:16Ta-da!
07:18Ooh!
07:20That's a full-size tennis ball.
07:23Hours after devouring it, two-year-old Nina is relieved of her surprising snack.
07:29It just smells a little.
07:31Oh, wow.
07:32Dog is playing with it, and it's just too deep in the mouth, and whoop, gone down.
07:39OK.
07:41So now I just have to find the rectangular thing.
07:45Nina's x-rays showed something else bizarre.
07:49Next up is this mystery square.
07:51Where is it, and what is it?
07:53Bit of a treasure hunt.
08:01OK, and I think I see what we need.
08:07What does it look like to you?
08:08Uh, it's darkish.
08:09It is relatively flat.
08:13It appears to be plasticky.
08:16I grab it and see how easy it is to hold on to.
08:22Oh, I feel it.
08:23Yep.
08:24Ooh.
08:25It's coming all right.
08:27Ooh, what is that?
08:28OK, whatever that is.
08:29I told you it's a plastic cup or something.
08:30It is a plastic cup or something.
08:31We still don't know what that black little plastic thing is.
08:32We're thinking maybe it's the bottom of a, like a cane.
08:36Here's something that, like, you put on the bottom of a workout bike.
08:37Your experience with workout bikes is considerably greater than mine, so I'll take your work for it.
08:42It's a black, plasticky mystery object.
09:04That's as far as I'm willing to go.
09:05I have no idea what it is.
09:07And done.
09:09Good job, everybody.
09:11Thank you, Eugene.
09:13Pleasure.
09:13She's a young dog.
09:15She will be back to herself tomorrow.
09:18Ninia is made comfortable until her meds wear off.
09:23I'm glad that things worked out.
09:26And I hope that I do not get to meet Ninia again.
09:32Have a good one.
09:34Thanks again.
09:35You too.
09:35Now, off to the next case.
09:37And what's the clinic?
09:39Good question.
09:50Sammy's not feeling well.
09:53Not eating anything.
09:54He's not drinking anything.
09:55One-and-a-half-year-old Sammy shows classic signs of a troublesome feast.
10:02I love my baby.
10:03Please, you know, let it be that he's okay.
10:08It's okay.
10:09Good boy.
10:11My biggest concern for him is that there's something inside the stomach and we need to get it out.
10:19Hello.
10:20All right.
10:21Cat has been off food for, you said, 24 hours?
10:24Yes, more than 24 hours.
10:26Sammy's symptoms are certainly concerning.
10:28This indeed does look like foreign material.
10:32Man, that's so much stuff.
10:33There's some sort of big bundle, you know, rat's nest clump of something.
10:39This is certainly large-ish.
10:43It's hard to tell exactly what it is.
10:45Let's see if we can get them out now.
10:47It's going in.
11:03One-and-a-half-year-old Sammy shows classic signs of a troublesome feast.
11:08Okay, so we are going through the esophagus.
11:17While my dad is focusing on the procedure, I'm going to go check in with Sammy's owner to see what Sammy might have eaten.
11:24Hi.
11:24Hi.
11:25Sammy is your cat?
11:26Sammy is my boy.
11:27Can you tell me about him?
11:30Challenging.
11:31Put it that way.
11:33Okay.
11:33He opens the cupboards, he snoops around there.
11:37Oh, yeah.
11:38You open the fridge door.
11:40He's in there.
11:41Sammy, you can tell right away, he's a rambunctious cat.
11:44He's normally bouncing off the walls.
11:46I felt so bad this morning, and he just looked at me.
11:48He wasn't moving.
11:49When she sees him so down and so low, I think it's heartbreaking.
11:55Do you have any idea what he might have eaten?
11:57I thought poison.
11:59That scared me.
12:00Around the house, there's so many things, and I don't have eyes on them all the time.
12:06If it's wool or anything on the floor, he'll chew on that.
12:10I'm going to go check, see how the endoscopy is going.
12:12That's great.
12:14It's understandable that Joanne is concerned.
12:16I'd be feeling the same way.
12:17The pile of items is too large to safely move up Sammy's digestive system all at once.
12:47Dr. G probes the foreign bodies to see if he's able to break the mass into pieces.
13:14If he does not succeed, Sammy will require immediate surgery.
13:28It is way more dangerous.
13:29A lot more recovery time.
13:32So we've got a hold of one.
13:34And now we're going to pull.
13:45Now it's long.
13:46Wah!
13:47Wah!
13:50What Dr. G has just pulled out of one-and-a-half-year-old Sammy is a bit of a mystery.
13:57It's like it might be a shoelace.
14:01Nasty.
14:03Not appetizing, to be honest.
14:04It's hair-lustic.
14:06Ooh, you might be right.
14:08It's a black hair tie.
14:10It does not look like a fresh hair tie.
14:12You can see that the cat's stomach has been trying to digest it unsuccessfully.
14:16I thought it was one full string just, like, wound up.
14:23What makes a cat look at a hair loss?
14:27It can be like, that looks delicious.
14:29I'm going to eat that.
14:31There are various theories as to why cats like hair ties.
14:37You can butt them around.
14:40Some to do with the textures, how bouncy they are.
14:43It seems Sammy's acquired quite a taste for them, because there's more.
14:51Does anyone want to take bets?
14:52Yeah, what, four?
14:54At least four.
14:54I'm taking five.
14:57Six.
14:58Six.
14:59Let's see what we can do with that.
15:02We are going to try and get out the pieces one at a time.
15:08That is the safest.
15:10It does take a little bit longer, but that is a better way to go.
15:16Tackling elastics individually reduces the chance of damage to Sammy's digestive tract.
15:24Oh, more.
15:27Yuck.
15:29Conceivably, Sammy has been accumulating those hair ties for some time.
15:34When he ate one too many, that's when it became a problem.
15:37All right.
15:39Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um.
15:42Is the last one?
15:43Nope.
15:44There's one more?
15:45There is more.
15:49Oh, this smells awful.
15:51They stink so badly.
15:53They're covered in hair, assuming Sam's own hair.
15:56So gross.
15:57The maximum that I have seen from a single cat's stomach was 51.
16:0351?
16:03So you guys have a long ways to go, yes.
16:10Ah!
16:14It's a piece of rubber, uh, from the hair elastic.
16:21Ah, come on.
16:23It's not coming out this time?
16:24No, it doesn't, Connor.
16:27Why?
16:30Things are really messy in there.
16:33I just hope that he's able to actually, like, yank it out.
16:54I think this is going to be really difficult.
17:01Uh, they didn't want to come out through the esophagus.
17:05Dr. G struggles to pull out multiple hair elastics gobbled by Sammy.
17:13Oh, hold on.
17:17Are you changing your strategy here?
17:19I put them back into the stomach, and now I'm trying to move them.
17:26And it is working better.
17:30Attacking the elastics from a different angle...
17:32Half a hair tie.
17:35...they break apart and are easier to remove.
17:39Yeah, that's, that's rubber.
17:42So gross.
17:44Can I change my number to, like, eight?
17:46Any more in there?
17:52I think we might be getting to the bottom of the barrel.
17:57Oh, hold on.
17:58There is something else in there.
18:00Hair elastic?
18:01Is that what we're going for?
18:02Diamond ring?
18:03I'd like, can I have the diamond ring if it's a diamond ring?
18:07I have removed two-carat diamond ring ones.
18:09Really?
18:10That'd be a story to tell.
18:11Where's your ring?
18:12The cat ate it.
18:13The dog.
18:13Dog ate it.
18:14Okay.
18:20Now there is nothing else left in that stomach.
18:26How many hair ties is it?
18:28We have managed to get 12 pieces of hair tie out of Simee.
18:34A mountain of hair ties.
18:36Woo-hoo!
18:36I feel good that we were able to solve the problem without a scalpel.
18:44One big takeaway is if you have hair ties, try to keep them where the cat cannot get them.
18:53Even when I grow sufficient hair to use a hair tie, I will definitely be very vigilant for that.
19:01All right, you have a good night.
19:02All right, thank you.
19:03Thanks for having us.
19:05Bye, have a good evening.
19:07I think he's going to go home and be better.
19:09I don't think he's going to learn his lesson, though.
19:12They never do.
19:12Sammy.
19:26Come on, it's okay.
19:28I know.
19:29It's awful.
19:33Okay.
19:34All right, here's Sammy.
19:35Sammy!
19:36There he is.
19:38He's all good.
19:39Baby!
19:42So these are the elastics that the doctor was able to get out.
19:47Sammy!
19:47I know.
19:48Why would you do that?
19:51No, they're not mine.
19:52I wouldn't, I don't wear, my hair wouldn't do it anyway.
19:55It turns out the elastics may have been left by a household guest.
20:00Off it comes and maybe puts it on the table and that's it.
20:04He's got them.
20:05You're a brat, you know that?
20:07I think I'll put a note on the door.
20:09No long hair in the house.
20:12So no more hair ties for snacks, right?
20:14No more hair ties, no.
20:18So happy that it ended well and I got my baby back.
20:21Thank you, everybody.
20:23No worries.
20:23Have a nice day.
20:26I love getting to chat with Sammy's owner.
20:28Such a lovely lady.
20:30You don't often get to talk to the owner, right?
20:32That's like pretty much out of the question.
20:34Rarely.
20:34That's one of the things that you can help me.
20:40Yeah, improving my connectivity, if you will.
20:42Public relations.
20:44Yeah, I can call it that.
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