--- title: Surgery Found 62 Hair Bands and 8 Pairs of Underwear in Dog's Stomach description: The went in for surgery after a scan showed a mass in her stomach - which turned out to be more than a week's worth of underwear. canonical: https://time.com/3951196/tiki-labrador-found-stomach/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-09T15:32:11.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:21:56.876Z og:title: 62 Hair Ties and 8 Pairs of Underwear Found in Dog's Stomach og:description: Tiki the black lab has a big appetite og:url: https://time.com/3951196/tiki-labrador-found-stomach/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 62 Hair Ties and 8 Pairs of Underwear Found in Dog's Stomach twitter:description: Tiki the black lab has a big appetite twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # 62 Hair Bands and 8 Pairs of Underwear Found in Dog's Stomach  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 9, 2015 3:32 PM UTC  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 9, 2015 3:32 PM UTC No wonder Tiki the black labrador wasn’t feeling well. The dog went in for surgery after a scan showed an unusual mass in her stomach—which turned out to be more than a week’s worth of underwear, among other household items. Tiki’s veterinarian in Pennsylvania, Dr. Hisham Ibrahim, went in for exploratory surgery, “And I found this hair band attached to another hair band to another one to another one and to other things again,” [he told Pittsburgh Action News 4](http://www.wtae.com/news/dog-in-butler-county-ate-62-hair-bands-8-pairs-of-underwear-and-more/34061394). > [](https://twitter.com/WTHRcom/status/619100822677360640) In all, the surgery removed four rubber bands, a Band-Aid, eight pairs of underwear and 62 hair bands from Tiki’s stomach. Ibrahim said Tiki has recovered well from the surgery. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3951196/tiki-labrador-found-stomach/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3951196/tiki-labrador-found-stomach/"},"headline":"62 Hair Bands and 8 Pairs of Underwear Found in Dog's Stomach","datePublished":"2015-07-09T15:32:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:56.876Z","description":"Tiki the black lab has a big appetite","url":"https://time.com/3951196/tiki-labrador-found-stomach/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3951196/tiki-labrador-found-stomach/","name":"62 Hair Bands and 8 Pairs of Underwear Found in Dog's Stomach"}}]}] ```