Rottweiler undergoes three hour operation after eating 30 PPE gloves

Well, according to a dog from Wakefield, you should eat them when your owner isn’t looking and then hide the evidence under your bed.

That’s what happened when Rambo, a Rottweiler, did this to his owner Darren Coyne

But this was only the start of the story that ended up with Rambo being rushed to a veterinary hospital when he was sick and brought up one of the rubber gloves that Darren used in his job for intercontinental hotel group.

Seven-year-old Rambo was first taken to Wakefield Westgate Vets4Pets for a check-up and then to Leeds Birstall Vets4Pets 24/7 hospital for an endoscopy.

And that’s when Rambo’s secret habit of eating PPE gloves was finally uncovered and handed vets a marathon effort to prevent a doggie disaster.

Keith Leonard, veterinary surgeon and owner at Leeds Birstall 24/7 hospital, carried out the endoscopy with help from his team.

He said: “When Rambo was referred to us we didn’t think we’d be finding much; particularly as he literally bounced into the hospital seemingly without a care in the world.

“But the seemingly brief endoscopy turned into a three-hour operation as we removed 29 further PPE gloves from Rambo’s stomach, making it 30 in total that he had seemingly eaten.

“Each time we pulled a glove out, we went back to check it was the last one and found another one – it was something we’ve never seen or heard of before.

“While Rambo was outwardly in a healthy condition, it wouldn’t have taken much for his situation to have turned critical and his owner’s quick thinking to bring him in to the practice and then our hospital, effectively saved his life.”

Darren had been provided a number of boxes of PPE gloves to help him with his role at Holiday Inn at junction 40 of