2009/10: Baxter the dog lucky to survive after eating owner’s lacy black G-string

THE NT News and NT Government are celebrating 42 years of self governance by revisiting some of our most memorable milestones. In 2009-2010, King Charles spaniel Baxter nearly paid for his underwear fetish with his life when he ate his owner’s G-string, before vets were luckily able to save him.

When Baxter ate his owner's G-string in 2009 it was front page news. Picture: Helen Orr

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THE NT News and NT Government are celebrating 42 years of self governance by revisiting some of our most memorable milestones. In 2009-2010 …

ANIMALS made the headlines in 2009, with the NT News raising a few eyebrows with its Our Dog Ate My G-string front page.

Baxter, a cavalier King Charles spaniel, nearly paid for his underwear fetish with his life, but luckily vets managed to remove the indigestible lacy, black G-string after it wrapped around his intestines.

The next animal to make the headlines was a pygmy hippopotamus shot dead by mistake during a pig-hunting expedition on a station in the Douglas Daly district, 200km south of Darwin.

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A topless heroine dousing a fire and an amorous kangaroo stalking women in Tennant Creek were just two stories that hit the headlines in 2010.

The topless sunbather burst into action to save the Alatai Apartments in Darwin from going up in flames, hosing down a palm tree that was on fire for several minutes before remembering she was topless.

Meanwhile, in Tennant Creek a kangaroo in the mood for love made female joggers hopping mad after stalking them on a bike path.

Police said they would not pursue the salacious mammal, despite concerns over the randy roo roaming the Honeymoon Ranges.

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This was the third wettest year on record for the Territory with 75 days of rain at Alice Springs Airport and 151 rain days at Darwin Airport.