New York City Dog Swallows 100-Plus Pennies

 In the article "New York City Dog Swallows 100-Plus Pennies" By Katie Kindelan she talks about a dog named Jack who had swallowed up to at least $1.11 last weekend while his owner Tim Kelleher wasn't paying attention. Once Tim Kelleher had found out his dog (Jack) had eaten pennies and they were gone plus Jack began to vomit he took him to the BluePearl clinic in Manhattan. Once Tim had gotten Jack to the clinic they immediately had took X-rays and had did a 2 hour procedure to get all 111 pennies out of Jacks system. Dr. Amy Zalcman said to ABCNews.com "I would say he's a very lucky dog." She also said  "First, that we were able to get them all out by scope and not surgery, and that he hasn't had any secondary signs of zinc toxicity."

 Owner Tim Kelleher said to New York Daily News his "voracious Tasmanian devil" of a pet was going after a bagel when he got the pennies instead. He also said that "He climbed on my desk to get at the bag with the bagel and knocked the change all over the floor," "While he was licking up the crumbs, he swallowed the pennies." Dr. Amy Zalcman said that zinc pennies could have caused damage to  Jack kidney's , liver and red blood cells. If Jack did eat zinc pennies and plus the amount that he had eaten (111) then he really would of been killed. Luckily, today Jack is okay and his healthy. 

It's a good thing that Jack was okay because anybody else could of took that situation the wrong way and counted it as  animal cruelty and Tim could have been in big trouble. It's a good thing that Dr. Amy was good enough to do the $2,500 procedure.