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Offline MagicM3

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WARNNING FOR THOSE WITH PAPER SHREDDER
« on: August 12, 2006, 12:22:11 pm »
PLEASE CROSS POST
 
this one comes from a well respected Borzoi person,
and veterinarian, Elizabeth A Coney, DVM of Kentucky.

 She wrote:

 Now - for every one of you that has a home paper shredder with an
 "auto on" feature, I want you to go turn it off and unplug the
 paper shredder right now. Because night before last I was
 presented with a paper shredder containing most of the tongue, ripped
 out by the base, and a very pretty sweet 1 1/2 year old lab cross
 whose owners euthanized her.

 She always watched the paper go into the shredder, she thought it
 fascinating. The "auto on" feature means the shredder sits there
 waiting for something to get placed into it. Like an inquisitive
 tongue.

 I told them, "Dogs can do fine without a tongue, they have to learn to
 drink and eat differently", but the owners didn't want to go there.
 The look in her eyes said, "I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't supposed to
 do that, it's all my fault". We all cried.

 I cried when I read this, myself. In subsequent posts Beth says she has
 learned that dogs who have lost more than half their tongues *don't* do
 as well as she had been taught. According to the veterinary literature
it is also possible for animals to be injured other places than
tongues

- a Basset
lost an ear, a long-haired cat most of the skin on its side, a
kitten a foot, > etc.


She didn't mention any human injuries, but I can't imagine that a
toddler would be immune from either curiosity or injury.

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Re: WARNNING FOR THOSE WITH PAPER SHREDDER
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2006, 02:15:15 pm »
The auto is off on mine.
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Re: WARNNING FOR THOSE WITH PAPER SHREDDER
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2006, 02:20:15 pm »
OMG! That's horrible!  Luckily we don't have one but I've worked with industrial shredders and they're definitely dangerous.

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Re: WARNNING FOR THOSE WITH PAPER SHREDDER
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2006, 04:08:20 pm »
That's horrible.  Mine is kept off but still plugged in.  I'm going to start unplugging it now also.
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Re: WARNNING FOR THOSE WITH PAPER SHREDDER
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2006, 01:52:46 am »
Mine stays unplugged.  I had visions of Baloo and all that hair...  Or a dane ear...  This is horrible.  I really feel for the family.