Dog undergoes lifesaving surgery after vets find a VIDEO GAME in his stomach

When Rocco the Staffordshire Bull Terrier started vomiting and refusing to eat, his owners feared the worst.

But when vets took an X-ray, they didn’t expect to find a VIDEO GAME lodged inside him.

The four-year-old rescue dog was taken to the PDSA’s Glasgow Shamrock Street Pet Hospital after his owners noticed he wasn’t behaving like his usual self.

Vets took an X-ray and found a rectangular-shaped object in his small intestine, which turned out to be a Nintendo DS cartridge.

Owner Sean Johnston said: “He wasn’t acting himself at all and we were worried he’d eaten a corn on the cob, but we were so shocked when the vet said it was from a video game.

“We don’t own a Nintendo or anything like that so we’re baffled as to where he got it from.

“He’s a rescue dog and we’ve only had him for about six months so the only thing we can think is that it was from his previous owners – who knows how long it’s been in there.”

Left untreated, the cartridge could have caused a fatal blockage but surgeons were able to carry out lifesaving surgery the same day and Rosso was discharged the next day.

PDSA senior vet Susan Hermit said: “We see dogs that eat strange things all the time but none of us had ever seen anything like this.

“Objects can sometimes sit in the stomach for a while, but they cause problems when they try and push through the guts, which are much narrower.

“It was a good job Sean brought Rocco in when he did, as an object of this size trying to pass through the guts could have caused a deadly blockage or pierced his internal organs.”

Owner Sean, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, added: “Even though we haven’t had him that long, he’s already such a big part of the family, so we’re delighted to have him back home.

“He’s made a brilliant recovery.”