dog eats marble.
Hacking Hobbs and the marble that almost killed him. Photo: Keaton B. Smith, DVM Dogs eat the darndest things. Hobbs, an English Bulldog, is no exception. On Friday night, Hobb's owners noticed that that the English Bulldog was coughing a bit. But his condition worsened rapidly: Hobbs vomited throughout the night, and by Saturday morning, his tongue was purple and he was very lethargic. They immediately took him to Dr. Keaton Smith (the same vet who removed the barbecue fork from Smokey the Chihuahua's head). Smith ordered a radiograph of Hobbs' chest cavity. "It was a wreck!" he tells Paw Nation. "Pneumonia had set in so fast, the fluid accumulation and bronchitis were severe. There ...