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THIS STORY has all the hallmarks of an urban myth, but the Ananova news
service ran it last month, so maybe it’s true.

According to the report, Kamal Shah of Mombasa in Kenya couldn’t find his
mobile phone, so he phoned it up from his landline. He immediately heard it
ringing—inside his dog.

Shah explained that he had left his phone on a bedside table, and when it
disappeared he assumed at first his son had taken it. In fact, his German
shepherd dog, Snoopy, had swallowed it.

Hearing the phone ringing from his dog’s stomach was unexpected, he…

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