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Alex Tatner (left) and Norfolk Terrier, Mabel (right). The Tatner family had been on holiday in Cornwall with their pet when she swallowed a fish hook
A family has pleaded with beachgoers to keep an eye out for sharp objects after they lost their pet dog when she swallowed a fish hook hidden in the sand.
Helen and Richard Tatner had been enjoying a break in Cornwall with their kids and Norfolk terrier Mabel.
During a visit to a small cove at Penlee Point on the Rame Peninsula on July 19, Mabel swallowed a fish hook hidden amongst rope on the shore.
Helen, 58, spotted the fishing line hanging out of Mabel's mouth and tried to remove it before realising the baited hook had already gone down the terrier's throat.
Mabel was taken to Langford Small Animal Hospital in Bristol where she underwent an operation on July 20 to have the hook removed from between her ribs.
Sadly, seven-year-old Mabel died after the
