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Vet extracts 7-inch rubber lizard from real one
Bearded dragon is just 12 inches, but toy passed through entire tract
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Seven-year-old Finley Collins thought her pet 12-inch bearded dragon might be giving birth when she noticed an unusual protrusion near the lizard's tail.
But Finley's father, Jeff Collins, feared it might be something more ominous and rushed Mushu to an animal hospital, where a veterinarian pulled out a 7-inch toy rubber lizard.
"I've never extracted a lizard from another lizard before," said veterinarian John Rossi.
Rossi had sedated Mushu and pulled on the protrusion.
"The next thing I knew, I was seeing legs and a body and a head. It was very strange to be tugging on this thing," he said.
By the time the rubbery lizard's legs began to appear, Rossi realized what it was.
"We were all laughing," he said. "It passed completely through the entire (gastrointestinal) tract," Rossi said.
Rossi said bearded dragons, a variety of Australian lizards, often swallow such things as small suction cups, screws and dimes.
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