A goldfish has undergone surgery to fix his broken jaw using paperclips. Stephen the greedy goldfish ran into trouble when he bit off more than he could chew attempting to eat a catfish.
Owner Shona Hingston returned home to find Stephen in distress with only the catfish's tail sticking out of his mouth. Luckily Shona, a peripatetic veterinary surgeon, flew into action cutting Stephen's throat to remove the Cory catfish - who amazingly survived the ordeal.
The following day Stephen was rushed into surgery where Shona, 42, anaesthetised him before stitching up his throat and making a fixator out of plastic paperclips to hold his broken jaw together while it healed.
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