Puppy Swallows 13-Inch Knife, Survives

Jon-Paul Carew has seen strange items get into the stomachs of dogs before, things like kebab skewers and small utensils. But a 13-inch serrated knife in a 6-month-old puppy? "I was just flabbergasted," said Carew, of Imperial Point Animal Hospital in Fort Lauderdale. Elsie, a St. Bernard puppy, underwent a two-hour operation to remove the knife last week. She has an 8-inch scar but is otherwise fine. The dog's owner, Jane Scarola, thinks one of her six other dogs -- four St. Bernards, a German shepherd and a Labrador -- somehow got the knife off a counter and it eventually made its way to Elsie. Elsie apparently had the blade between her esophagus and stomach for about four days.