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.
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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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