Cat Lover (of sorts)

Dogs love nothing more than to chew slippers,boots and bones but one tiny terrier managed to scoff an entire family of toy cats.Little Snowy,a one-year-old white West Highland terrier,weighs just 3.6kg (8lb) but still found room for the five ornaments.

The vet initially thought it was a joke when X-rays clearly revealed a cat peering out of the dogs belly.

We were all stunned.I have been a vet for 10 years and never saw an Xray like this, said Nigel Belgrove.Weve had dogs that have swallowed golf balls and batteries before but Snowy beats them all,hands down, he added.

The terrier began to worry her owner Samantha Reed,42,when she suddenly lost her appetite and started vomiting several times a day.Initially,it was thought Snowy reacted badly to dog food and the vet recommended a diet of rice and chicken.She remained ill so they took urine samples to test for a kidney problem and tried a course of antibiotics.
It was only when they took the Xray that the feline face emerged.The cats were removed last week in a onehour operation and Snowy is now recovering well.