Naughty Kobe...

Naughty Kobe...

As soon as I came back from Paris, I got ready for my first training session with Kobe. I called Nadia, his owner, to confirm our usual Sunday morning training session and got shocked at what she had to tell me: Kobe was recovering from a stomach operation at the vet! The story is as follows:
While I was gone for a week, Nadia gave birth to her first child, one week earlier than planned. Therefore, obviously she didn’t have any time to spend with Kobe. At the same time, he also didn’t have any training sessions as I was gone (usually I would train him 3 times a week). Bad timing! The natural consequence was that Kobe soon got bored and frustrated...and this is when he started playing the Golden Retriever’s favourite game and took his revenge: chew and swallow anything that comes your way! Believe it or not, one day he decided to chew and swallow a huge pebble that he picked up from the bathroom, 2 smaller stones from the garden, several pieces of glass and some other stuff that could not be identified...Fortunately, someone saw him chewing on the glass and he was immediately taken to the vet where they took x-rays that clearly showed everything that he had swallowed. There was no other option but to cut open his stomach and take the stuff out. Today I picked him up and poor Kobe has a large scar on his belly. He was incredibly happy to see me and once he realised that he was back home he started to jump around out of joy...He surely has suffered but I believe that since it didn’t kill him it could have only made him stronger...