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Dog with Rare Disease Eats Sitting Upright in a Custom-Made High Chair

Name: Dog with Rare Disease Eats Sitting Upright in a Custom-Made High Chair
Uploaded: 2017-11-12T19:14:10
Duration: 62 s
Description: Tink, a 1-year-old silver Labrador, has a rare disease called congenital idiopathic megaesophagus and can only eat sitting up. Because there's no nerve muscle connecting her throat and the nerve cells of her brain, she eats from a special high chair.

Animals

November 12, 2017

Tink, a 1-year-old silver Labrador, has a rare disease called congenital idiopathic megaesophagus and can only eat sitting up. Because there's no nerve muscle connecting her throat and the nerve cells of her brain, she eats from a special high chair. After meals, her owners, Tim and Cori Sullivan, take 15 minutes to cuddle and burp her for safety. InsideEdition.com's Keleigh Nealon (https://twitter.com/KeleighNealon) has more.