Dog Licks Paper Shredder, Gets Tongue Caught

By Anna Deem in News on Jan 9, 2010 7:30PM

A dog in the south suburb of Park Forest licked the top of a paper-shredder, which caused his tongue to get caught in the machine. His tongue "was 3 inches into it when I pulled the plug," said Pat Taylor to the Chicago Sun-Times, who was watching her daughter's dog, Caine, over New Year's weekend when the accident occurred. Caine's cry and the noise of the blood splattering upset Taylor's own dogs who began barking at Caine. "It was complete chaos," Taylor said. "The place looked like a crime scene." Caine unexpectedly bit through his own tongue to release the machine's hold on it.

A vet at an emergency clinic recommended that the dog be put down, but Taylor decided instead to send him to a specialist in Buffalo Grove who installed a feeding tube. Caine has been released and is now back at home. "This dog will have to learn a whole new way to eat and drink," said Patrick King, Caine's regular veterinarian, to the Sun-Times.