Aw, poor little sausage... dog - Instagram celeb Frankie in vets scare
A CELEBRITY sausage dog from Hinckley had to be rushed to the vets after she tried to eat something that disagreed with her.
Frankie the mini dachshund is best known to audiences across the world for helping model jewellery items for her owner, Nicci Renshaw.
She gave her mum a fright last week, on March 18, when they were out in the garden.
Ms Renshaw had gone out to look at the coconut birdfeeders she had just put up in the garden and the petite pooch followed her.
She said: “I was looking at the birdfeeder when I saw her making a funny noise, like she was trying to be sick.
“I hit her back gently because I thought she was choking. I checked her airway and ran my finger inside her mouth but I couldn’t feel anything.”
Frankie was rushed to nearby Fairfield vets where she was immediately triaged by head nurse Kathryn, and a piece of stick was found lodged across the roof of her mouth at the back. The vets said in a post on Facebook about the incident: “Fortunately we were quickly able to remove it with forceps, and Frankie was immediately keen to take a treat. “She didn’t seem too concerned about the fright she had given her owners. Mischievous little sausage.” Frankie’s owners will be keeping a close eye on her next time she ventures into the garden, although usually the little dog prefers playing with cuddly toys to munching on sticks.
Ms Renshaw runs an online jewellery shop, with an Instagam page with some 37,000 followers, where
Frankie the mini dachshund is known across the world for helping model jewellery items for her owner, Nicci Renshaw.
Frankie regularly features alongside the bling.
The sassy little pooch, named after the frankfurter sausage, also has her own Instagram page.
She is 10 months old and is about fully grown.
Her owners have had her since she was a puppy, they were inspired to join the “sausage dog squad” as several of their friends also have mini dachshunds.
Just days earlier, the vets had to operate on Hinckley springer spaniel, Buster, who had fallen ill after swallowing a face mask.
He came across the PPE item while out for a walk in Argents Mead.