Marley the Great

My name is Marley, and I am a Professional Consumer of Huge Indigestible Objects.  In this picture I'm wearing the crown awarded to me with each amazing object I succeed in swallowing .  This is my FOURTH crown.  I began my training in California early last year with my first corn cob ingestion, followed by an unpleasant surgery and extended hospital stay (this is an unfortunate but necessary consequence of my profession).

Several months later, I moved to Oregon where I decided it was time to seek new challenges and acquaint myself with a new set of veterinarians, so I swallowed  a huge piece of hard plastic.  Due to my prior challenges following surgery, the nice folks at Oswego Vet decided to send me on over to Cascade Veterinary Referral Center to have me scoped.  They pulled that thing back out the way it came and I'm good as new, ready to go into training again. 

So, a few months later, I swallowed nearly an entire whole cow hoof  (no - it was not from a live cow).   How many cats can do that?   Yes, back to visit my friends at Cascade Referral for another endoscopy. 

Fast forward to the present - during a nice vacation at the beach, I thought I'd raise the bar, and swallowed 3 corn cobs.  Woo hoo!  That was awesome.  A couple cobs came back up on their own, but one decided to keep on going down my small intestines and got a bit jammed there, at my originial corn-cob surgery site, so I got to meet these really nice vets in Astoria.  They performed surgery again (I prefer the scoping, thank you), fished around a bit, removed the corn cob, and sewed me back up. 

So here I am, feeling proud as can be, yet a little sore and quesy, back at OVH for some supportive care.