This is Things Police See, first-hand accounts.

With your host, Steve Gold.

Welcome to the podcast.

It interviews active and retired police officers about their most intense, bizarre and sometimes humorous

moments on the job.

It is I, old gingy, old ginger face coming at you.

How you guys doing?

How's your week going?

I had a hell a week, hell of a week myself.

Very stressful, very hard. I don't know if you ever had a one of your beloved pets get very sick and then you're faced with a gigantic pet bill and

whether you should pay that or not or can you handle the guilt of killing your buddy.

You know, so that's kind of what we have this week.

It was really intense.

I have a German Shepherd that is beautiful.

He's 125 pounds, he's four years old, big old blocky head on him just a textbook beautiful male German

Shepherd but even bigger and we thought my wife thought I was on a double like I usually am and my wife thought, I was on a double, like I usually am, and my wife thought he flipped his stomach, which is a thing bigger dogs and shepherds too, can happen.

And if they twist their guts, you only have a certain amount of time to take care of it.

And sometimes they can flip it back.

Sometimes they need surgery.

So she calls me, call the local vets.

They say, just take the dog to Tufts. Tufts is over in North Grafton. It's a big teaching

college and Veterinary Hospital. They're very good. They have all the technology

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