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"Pick up your socks or this dog may gobble them up. \nWhen a 3-year-old Great Dane from the Portland area was found vomiting and retching, his owner raced him to DoveLewis Emergency Animal Hospital.\nSee also: A Really, Really Excited Dog Faints After Reuniting With Owner\nThe hospital's communications specialist Shawna Harch told The Oregonian that after Dr. Ashley Magee examined the sick dog's X-rays, she saw what looked like \"a lot of foreign material in his stomach.\"\n\nThis is the X-ray Dr. Ashley Magee looked at.Image:  DoveLewis Emergency Animal HospitalBecause the material was deemed indigestible, Magee had to resort to a two-hour surgery to remove the mass. \nThe contents of his belly? Socks. A lot of them. Forty-three and a half to be precise (a cloud of mystery hangs over the whereabouts of the half-sock). \n\nThere they are. Forty-three and a half socks in all of their shriveled glory.Image: DoveLewis Emergency Animal HospitalThe Great Dane was discharged only a day after surgery, and as if his survival wasn't a miraculous enough ending to this tale, Veterinary Practice News announced on August 27 that the hospital had won a second-place money prize for their story. \nThe contest is called \"They Ate WHAT?\" and has been annually sponsored by the magazine for nearly a decade. All vets were asked to submit an X-ray along with case details.\nOh, and yes \u2014 that means there were weirder entries: the sock-gobbling Great Dane was \"beat out\" by a frog named Kermit who ate 30 rocks from his cage and tied with a German shorthaired pointer who swallowed a metal shish kabob skewer.\n\nHere's Kermit, who earned the grand $1500 prize after swallowing 30 small ornamental rocks.Marilyn Iturri wrote in Veterinary Practice News, \u201CWe had many, many great entries. Unfortunately, some terrific and unusual cases were represented by low-resolution radiographs that wouldn\u2019t reproduce well in the magazine and so, didn\u2019t make it to final judging.\u201D\n(H/T The Oregonian)\nBONUS: Marnie the Dog Imitates Selfie King James Franco\n\n\n\nMarnie the Dog Imitates James Franco\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n7.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n8.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n9.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n10.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n11.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n13.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: Mashable, Christina Ascani\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n14.\n\n\nImage: @jamesfrancotv on Instagram\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage:  Mashable, Max Knoblauch\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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