12/05/2025
Zen, oh Zen, what did you eat? He pleads innocence since his new yard has all kinds of buried treasure. Who can resist?
Emergency surgery with a gastrotomy (incision in stomach) and enterotomy (incision in small intestine), and Zen is on his way back to digging for buried treasure.
The worst thing that he ate was the tiny thread/string that connected the two bezoars (clump if indigestible debris). String in the intestines, called a ālinear foreign bodyā, acts like a saw and cuts through the intestines. Zen was on his way to Zen heaven without surgical intervention.
During this holiday season, in order to keep your zen, make sure your pets do not have access to strings, ornaments and tinsel.
Happy holidays!