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WORLD / Odd News
Vet extracts toy lizard from real lizard
(AP)
Updated: 2007-09-20 10:02
JACKSONVILLE - Seven-year-old Finley Collins thought her pet 12-inch
bearded dragon might be giving birth when she noticed an unusual
protrusion near the lizard's tail.
But Finley's father, Jeff Collins, feared it might be something more
ominous and rushed Mushu to an animal hospital, where a veterinarian
pulled out a 7-inch toy rubber lizard.
"I've never extracted a lizard from another lizard before," said
veterinarian John Rossi.
Rossi had sedated Mushu and pulled on the protrusion.
"The next thing I knew, I was seeing legs and a body and a head. It was
very strange to be tugging on this thing," he said.
By the time the rubbery lizard's legs began to appear, Rossi realized
what it was.
"We were all laughing," he said. "It passed completely through the entire
(gastrointestinal) tract," Rossi said.
Rossi said bearded dragons, a variety of Australian lizards, often
swallow such things as small suction cups, screws and dimes.
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