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Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t let your dog eat nails! (Video)

thanksgiving-dogWe’re all dashing off to our Thanksgiving celebrations with friends and family, and will be taking a few days off, but we wanted to leave you with some sage advice. This time of year we read all kinds of tips about how to keep dogs safe at Thanksgiving. (No undercooked meat, not too much food, no bread dough, no cake batter, yada yada…) But nowhere have we seen this warning:

Keep your dog away from nails. Stainless, aluminum, roofing nails, brads, galvanized, rusty, you name it — nails are not good for dogs.

It’s something we wouldn’t have thought of, except for a Florida dog named Roxie. It seems this basset hound wolfed down more than 100 nails. Luckily, not one punctured anything vital, and a vet was able to remove them all. Roxie is now recovering, and is swearing probably swearing off the hard stuff for a while. The story unfolds on the video below. Enjoy! We’ll see you again this weekend.

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