# Puppy Swallows 13-inch Knife **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 26, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505 "2005-09-26T16:16:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/1 "2005-09-26T16:16:04Z")
This is an actual CNN headline right now. It sounds like a joke – the ultimate soft-news attention-grabbing headline, but it’s for real: [http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/26/puppy.swallows.knife.ap/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/26/puppy.swallows.knife.ap/index.html) The puppy is OK. They apparently originally thought this a joke. My favorite line: > [@](#): > > She thinks one of her six other dogs – four Saint Bernards, a German shepherd and a Labrador – somehow got the knife off a counter and it eventually made its way to Elsie. “But Holmes, the dog was only a puippy. How could it have gotten a knife from the countertop?” “Watson, you will not apply my methods. How many times have I said that, once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth?” “Then … Holmes! One of the other dogs _must_ have don it!” … ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/2 "2005-09-26T18:24:08Z")
I’d like to have seent he x-ray…Aside from that…WOW! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/3 "2005-09-26T19:56:39Z")
> [@](#): > > She thinks one of her six other dogs – four Saint Bernards, a German shepherd and a Labrador – somehow got the knife off a counter and it eventually made its way to Elsie. “That new puppy’s been getting all the attention lately. I’m thinking maybe little Elsie should have an ‘accident’. Round up Shep and Rover and we’ll get the knife off the counter.” ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/4 "2005-09-26T20:22:45Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > I’d like to have seent he x-ray…Aside from that…WOW! Click the “Next” button below the photo. “Hey, Elsie! Betcha can’t eat _this_!” ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/5 "2005-09-26T20:23:34Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > I’d like to have seent he x-ray…Aside from that…WOW! Click on the little yellow arrow underneath the picture of the puppy and vet. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/6 "2005-09-26T20:48:04Z")
My evil plans are coming to fruition…muahahahahahahahah!cough ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/7 "2005-09-26T23:13:54Z")
“Or what? You’ll release the dogs, or the knives, or the dogs with knives in their mouths and when they bark they shoot knives at you? Well, go ahead – do your worst!” ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/8 "2005-09-26T23:24:04Z")
Holy cow, I own that exact same knife. Cheap piece of crap. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/9 "2005-09-26T23:31:21Z")
I’m just as flabbergasted by the story as the fact that she has four Saint Bernards, a German Shepard and a Labrador retriever. Her dog food bills must be immense. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2005, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/10 "2005-09-26T23:37:56Z")
Weird. Reminds me of the one about the guy who fell off a chair in his kitchen and sustained just a small wound behind his ear, but afterward could only find the broken-off handle of his eight-inch kitchen knife. the blade was later located running diagonally through his head, but somehow not damaging any structure that could kill him. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2005, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/puppy-swallows-13-inch-knife/323505/11 "2005-09-27T01:29:36Z")
Thinking about that makes me shudder.