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Video: Puppy eats while sitting upright in chair

By Eric Pfeiffer | The Sideshow – Mon, Dec 12, 2011

In this video, 7-month-old Bella races into her very own doggy chair, pulls down her feeding tray and begins to eat her dinner … sitting upright. Bella's owners say that she is forced to eat this way because she was diagnosed with congetical megaesophagus, which prevents her from being able to swallow food while standing horizontally.

Yahoo hosts its own megaesophagus group for people whose pups are living with this condition.

Bella's owners purchased the "Bailey Chair," which allows her safely eat her meals--and also makes for a pretty cute domestic scene. According to the Pet Project blog, "The dog sits in a 'begging' position to eat, drink, or take medication and gravity does the work to bring what's ingested to the stomach."

A dog waits for its meal in the Bailey Chair

Her owners say that Bella is "doing great" and in the video is eating mix of soft dog food with some water mixed in, to ease in digestion. After she finishes eating, Bella stays in the chair for another 10 minutes to make sure the food is safely traveling down her esophagus.

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DJ CYBERIA • 5 mths ago
Pfeiffer states: "which prevents her from being able to swallow food while standing horizontally."

Get your facts correct. The dog can swallow the food while standing horizontally. The food is not moved down the esophagus because the muscle bands are not present to move the food when standing horizontally.

The dog needs to eat while standing vertically so that gravity can assist in moving the food through the esophagus into the stomach. Messaging the neck with downward strokes also helps move the food through the esophagus.

I know from experience. I bought a dog from an unscrupulous breeder who claimed to know nothing of the problem, even though the dog was 3 months old.
- Kathy 5 mths ago
  Moving food through the esophagous is what swallowing is. If the dog cannot move food through his esophagous while standing horizontally, then is is appropriet to say he cannot swallow food while standing horizontally. One and the same for the pourposes of this article.
- DJ CYBERIA 5 mths ago
  Swallowing, known scientifically as deglutition, is the process in the human or animal body that makes something pass from the mouth, to the pharynx, and into the esophagus, while shutting the epiglottis. If this fails and the object goes through the trachea, then choking or pulmonary aspiration can occur. In the human body it is controlled by the swallowing reflex.
  
  And that's why we have a reputation for stupid people on the web. The internet is available at any time to check your "facts", yet commenters and Yahoo staff writers do not fact check and end up showing the world their stupidity. Thanks, Kathy, but your comment sucks, as well as your spelling and grammar.
- Katia 5 mths ago
  Maybe you need to check your facts..what you said is swallowing is word for word from Wikipedia. Keep reading the article before you start insulting people and you'll see that moving food through the esophagus is the last phase of swallowing, so if the dog can't move food through its esophagus, it obviously can't swallow.
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Fedosei Makarov • Pittsburgh, United States • 5 mths ago
What?? Someone manufactured this ridiculous contraption just to be cute? Why can't people just let animals be animals instead of having to dress them up and pose them like babies? The poor dumb dog doesn't even realize that the stupid way it has to eat its lunch has no practical basis at all, it's just being exploited and is innocently going along with what it's been taught to do. How disrespectful to the spirit of the animal.
- Wake up! 5 mths ago
  Try reading the article again, it's a medical condition preventing the food from being moved from the mouth down to the stomach. Sitting up uses gravity to move the food downward.
- sparkie4357 5 mths ago
  Fishburn • Pittsburgh, United States has a problem, he can not read.. sadly he is like other people, who doesn't pay attention to details.. that why we have problem in washington d.c with the liberals
- k 5 mths ago
  OBVIOUSLY--you're a troll that likes to get attention.
  -This chair, as Wake Up! suggested for you to re-read the article, serves a MEDICAL NEED for the dog; it needs this chair to direct the food down to the stomach to ingest in order to survive. I subscribe to a few animal rescue groups on FB, and some of them have used, and still use the Bailey Chair for their dogs to eat. Shame on you for making such a negative comment to get attention.
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