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Arkansas dog bites the bullet, eating 23 rounds of ammunition

Reuters
By Steve Barnes
May 8, 2015

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - After devouring a television remote, a lawn mower gas filter and bras, Benno, a 4-year-old Belgian Malinois dog, outdid himself by consuming nearly two dozen bullets.

“He acted like nothing was wrong until he threw up," Benno’s owner, Larry Brassfield of Mountain Home, Arkansas, said on Friday adding that is when he discovered a nearly three-inch long bullet in the puddle.

Brassfield noticed several 308-caliber rounds missing and rushed Benno to a veterinarian, where x-rays revealed a small arsenal in the animal's stomach in the late April incident.


Benno's x-ray showing ..308 caliber bullets in his stomach. Photo courtesy: All Creatures Veterinary Hospital (Mountain Home).

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Benno, the Belgian Malinois from Mountain Home that swallowed 23 bullets. Photo courtesy: Sonny Brassfield via Facebook.

Malinois dogs, which physically resemble German Shepherds, are used as bomb-sniffers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and known for both their intelligence and work ethic, according to Animal Planet.

Benno, meantime, has diligently returned to his old ways. Since his surgery, Brassfield says, Benno has consumed yet another of his wife's bras.

"It’s at least his fourth,” Brassfield said.

(Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Lisa Lambert)

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