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PDSA/PA/AP That's a freakishly large tongue! A tasty snack of pig's heart (yum!) nearly killed Penny, an 18-year-old dog from Scotland, when a membrane from the pig's aorta became wrapped around the base of her tongue, the (U.K.) Metro reported. The aorta cut off blood supply to the tongue, leading it to swell to four times its normal size. The elderly dog could easily have suffocated or died from a blood infection as parts of the tongue died from lack of blood. Fortunately her owner, Linda Donnelly, rushed Penny to a Glasgow vet hospital as soon as she saw the ghoulish tongue dangling from the dog's mouth. Penny had eaten the pig heart hours before the incident, Donnelly told the Metro, ...