( CNN ) You might call her a watchdog , because this Boston area Doberman really has a thing for timepieces . She recently ate three . Last Thursday , Jeff Courcelle came home from work to find 5-year-old Mocha -- a pure bred fawn-colored Doberman pincher -- hovering over a pile of screws , metal pieces , three watch heads and some chewed leather straps . `` My husband , who 's the most calm person that I know , called me up and said , ' I 'm not quite sure if I should panic , ' `` said Courcelle 's wife , Michele Parkinson . The 80-pound Doberman , whom her owners describe as `` more goofy than scary , '' had pulled down a basket of wrist wear from a shelf in their bedroom and eaten nearly all the contents . Parkinson knew that Mocha would n't be able to pass all that leather on her own . The couple took her to the MSPCA 's Angell Animal Medical Center , a 24-hour emergency and specialty hospital , where a veterinarian performed a 3-hour endoscopy to explore the contents of her belly . Mocha was a repeat offender : Just last summer , she got very sick and had to have emergency stomach surgery after a piece of plastic from an orange juice container perforated her intestine . She had 28 staples down her belly and 10 inches of intestine removed , Parkinson said . Fortunately this time , the jewelry remains were still in Mocha 's belly and had not made their way into the digestive tract . The X-ray , however , was disturbing . Parkinson and her husband were just expecting to see a couple metal pieces . `` It just looked like a Christmas tree and I almost threw up , '' Parkinson said . The veterinarian removed `` about a pound of leather straps and metal pieces and detritus '' during the endoscopy , and let nature take its course for the remaining pieces , MSPCA spokesman Rob Halpin said . As of Friday , Mocha was no worse for wear . The hospital sees dozens of cases each week of dogs ingesting foreign objects , and is trained to look for the symptoms of blockages -- typically lethargy , not eating and vomiting , Halpin said . They once saw a golden retriever who had stopped eating and found 43 pacifiers in her belly . ( Apparently she was taking them from babies at the park . ) And there was the 100-pound bull mastiff who ate his owner 's brie that was set out for a party -- along with the cheese knife . The night Mocha stayed in the hospital , a nervous Parkinson stayed awake reading stories about dogs ingesting watches and other objects . She found one article about a Newfoundland whose owner knew something was awry only when he heard an alarm go off from his dog 's belly . `` We 've taken every imaginable thing that could fit down the gullet of a dog out with surgery , '' Halpin said . `` There 's some evolutionary traits that some dogs have that lead them to eat first and think later ... and some of them are so food motivated that anything with a scent could be associated with food , and they go for it . '' Mocha likes to suck on fleece blankets and has been known to eat rubber ear buds or hair elastics , but nothing like a pile of jewelry , Parkinson said . Her breeder wondered if the dog was acting out of anxiety . That day , Parkinson had left Mocha in a different apartment the couple owns that the dog was n't as used to . The breeder told Parkinson that Dobermans are particularly known to get anxious and do these sort of things . `` She had a dog that actually consumed her whole dog bed , '' Parkinson said . From now on , Parkinson said she will put Mocha in a crate if the dog will be staying somewhere new . Follow-up X-rays Monday on Mocha showed a few pieces of metal left , `` but they were moving along '' and the vet expected her to pass them naturally . Parkinson said Friday Mocha was `` her playful , energetic , curious Doberman self . '' But now that she thinks of it , the timing of this whole incident is a little suspicious . `` My husband was all excited about the new Apple watch , but could n't justify a reason to purchase it since he owned three watches , '' she said . `` I am convinced that he and Mocha joined forces here to destroy all of his current watches in order to make room for Apple 's new watch . ''
A Boston-area dog ate three of her owner 's wristwatches . A veterinarian removed The night . of watch parts from her stomach . Mocha the Doberman is now doing well .