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 Both dogs and cats can eat foreign objects. The appetite for oddities can add up to millions in treatment costs.
In 2011, Veterinary Pet Insurance Co. received more than 6,500 foreign-object ingestion claims. Policyholders spent nearly $5.2 million in treating pets.
Pets that ate these items made full recoveries. Check out the list of items that dogs and cats ate:
* about 100 rocks * box of razor blades * foot-long metal hanger *
* cholla cactus * 130 fish oil capsules * chopsticks *
* 14 hair bands * cinnamon-scented pine cone *
* 15 vanilla votive candles * three sewing needles *
* entire tube of dog toothpaste * artificial finger nails *
*glass ornament * cell phone case *
* G.I. Joe action figure * fish hook and line *
* makeup sponge * dental retainer *
* pennies and thumb tacks *
* package of fluorescent light bulbs * ribbons and wrapping paper *
* dead porcupine * pillowcase * mothballs *
* deer antlers * dental floss * wedding ring *
battery * aluminum can *
rat (swallowed whole) * pepper spray *
* two plastic eyeballs and a bunch of broccoli stems *
* five pounds of trash and a scrub brush | 
