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["Ila Wigfield" <ilaw1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All,

I just want to let all of you who have dog guides of something that came
my way today.

This is to be informative and will hopefully save some animals from
something I never thought of until today!

Best regards,

Ila

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From: Teresa Christian [mailto:teresa.christian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:58 AM
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Cc: 'blue rock girl'; 'Ila Wigfield'; 'Tamara Rorie'; 'cheryll'; 'Sheila
Killian'
Subject: FW: shredder danger




-----Original Message-----
From: cheryll [mailto:cheryll@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 6:12 AM
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Subject: Fw: shredder danger


I checked this out and status is true. It went on to say that kids may
also be in danger if the shredder is left on the automatic setting. I
would suggest unplugging the tool. I just did because of my guide dog.
Cheryl Keep pets from paper shredders

DENISE FLAIM, Newsday dot Com



January 22, 2007



It's never what you worry about.



Ellen Lutz of Aquebogue learned that firsthand last month,

when her 7-month-old golden retriever, Striker, ambled into

her home office and licked her paper shredder.



To her horror, the machine latched onto his tongue, and began to grind.



"He was screaming, and he was fighting for his life," says Lutz, adding
that in his panic, the 67-pound puppy did even more damage to his
mutilated tongue.  She immediately disconnected the shredder, and took
Striker to a nearby emergency hospital.



"I was covered in blood from head to toe," Lutz remembers.



A story this horrific is hard-pressed to end well: Striker's injury was
so severe - basically, most of his tongue was gone - that he was
euphonized.



"I've been in emergency medicine for 10 years, and this is

the first time I have seen or heard of this," says

veterinarian Gal Vatash of the East End Veterinary

Emergency and Specialty Center in Riverhead, who treated Striker in
December. "But I'm surprised it doesn't occur more often. Most of us
have paper shredders at home, and dogs are always sticking their noses
in all kinds of places."



Indeed, Striker is not alone. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has
recorded five dog mutilations involving shredders, and what is not known
is how many cases go unreported.







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