After New York terrier swallows 111 pennies, dog still yapping
| New York
A New York City聽dog聽has undergone emergency surgery to remove more than 100 pennies from his stomach.
The 聽that a Jack Russell terrier named Jack聽swallowed聽111 pennies last week while licking up bagel crumbs from the floor and quickly became ill.
鈥淗e鈥檚 like a voracious Tasmanian devil 鈥� if there鈥檚 food, he鈥檚 got to get it,鈥� Tim Kelleher, the dog's owner, told the Daily News.
鈥淗e climbed on my desk to get at the bag with the bagel and knocked the change all over the floor. While he was licking up the crumbs, he swallowed the pennies.鈥�
The 13-year-old pooch's owner rushed him to a Manhattan veterinarian for emergency surgery.
That's when聽dog聽doctors put Jack under anesthesia and methodically removed all 111 coins. The zinc from the coins could be lethal.
鈥淚f Jack would not have had the pennies removed the consequences would have been fatal,鈥澛� Amy Zalcman, who helped treat the dog,聽told the Daily News.
After removing the pennies five at a time, Mr. Kelleher said he let Dr. Zalcman keep the change, the Daily News reported.聽
The聽dog's聽owner told the newspaper his best friend is back to his normal self, driving him crazy.
