Dog owners, read this

If you have a Four Paws Pimple Ball with Bell (Item #20227-001, UPC Code 0 4566320227 9), throw it away. Now. It can cause serious injury or death.

In Chai's case, it resulted in the loss of his tongue.

(Warning: the videos are hard to watch. That poor dog.)

We don't have any Four Paws products in our house -- Bailey prefers a non-Four Paws squeaky toy over anything and everything else, and she only plays with that one sporadically -- so saying that I'm going to boycott the company until they get this resolved is meaningless, really. But if I was looking for pet toys, I wouldn't buy their products. Anyway, I sent an email to Allen Simon, Four Paws' CEO, urging him to pull this product from the market and make restitution to Chai's owners for his medical care. If you'd like to do the same, the email addy is: hbirk@fourpaws.com