The Animal Welfare Society of SA came to the rescue of a kitten named Biscuit who had two barbed fish hooks painfully embedded in his mouth and another in his armpit.
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His owner who is a keen angler suspects that Biscuit was attracted to the bait left on the hooks following an evening’s fishing.
The fish hooks appeared to be new with razor-sharp, barbed tips and were quite deeply embedded in Biscuits jaw and armpit making manual extraction without sedation near impossible and risky.
“We were also worried that he may have swallowed a hook so decided to sedate and x-ray Biscuit. Thankfully the x-ray was all clear but removing the fish hooks without causing further damage required some intricate surgery under general anaesthetic,” says the Animal Welfare Society of SA.
According to his owner Biscuit is “doing fine” and he has promised the Animal Welfare Society of SA that he will be a lot more careful with where he stores his fishing tackle in future.
Thankfully Biscuit survived his ordeal with no lasting negative side effects. He is a lot luckier than many other innocent pets (and wild animals) especially sea-birds and turtles injured or killed by carelessly discarded fishing gear.
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