Orbeez are those colorful tiny water beads that grow in size once submersed in water, and the pup thought they looked like a fun snack.
“Accidents happen and dogs are quick y’all! He needed surgery to remove the rest, but he’s on the road to recovery,” the user @larenmciaren explained in a comment. “He is underweight, but from what I understood was pretty recently rescued.”
After eating an entire bag, the Orbeez naturally expanded inside his stomach and gastrointestinal tract was, well, interrupted.
“He ate a LOT. A whole dry bag of Orbeez. And they literally hydrated in his GI tract. The next poop there was more ‘material'”
His owner took him to the emergency vet at Animal Urgent Care Arvada in Colorado, where an X-ray showed a stomach full of hydrated Orbeez, the Shore News Network reported.
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