A BEREAVED donkey who stopped eating and developed a stomach blockage when his mum died is now healed - thanks to 24 litres of cola.
Joey, 15, stopped eating properly after he lost his elderly mum Josie in Nov last year.
The donkey, which lives at Slade House Farm in Sidmouth, Devon, UK, developed a large gastric impaction, or a solid blockage of food in his stomach.
Some vets sprung into action and came up with quite an unexpected solution to the donkey's stomach blockage.
Vet Jamie Forrest said, "our vets rushed into action giving Joey an abdominal ultrasound and conducting a gastroscopy".
"As well as pain relief we flushed Joey's stomach with cola several times a day to dissolve the solid.
"We used six litres of full-sugar cola a day, spread out over three treatments, for four days to soften and dissolve the impactions in his stomach so the ingesta could once again travel to his intestine.
"In essence the cola acted like a drain cleaner."
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