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The purpose of this article is to characterize patients, reviewing symptoms and types of foreign bodies removed from the gastrointestinal tract of small animals with the use of endoscopy techniques: minimally invasive surgical and diagnostic procedures. The subject analysis consisted of 35 clinical cases of patients with a foreign body identified in the esophageal or in the stomach. The most commonly reported symptoms were sialorrhoea, regurgitation, gagging, dispiritedness and lack of appetite. In some animals no clinical symptoms were observed. The most common foreign bodies were bones and elements of toys. None of the examined patients developed complications in the form of a wall perforation of the gastrointestinal tract. Following treatment, 34 animals fully recovered. However in one case, while removing the bones from the esophagus, a dog died. The removal of foreign bodies using endoscopy is an effective and relatively simple diagnostic procedure. Patients quickly recover after the application of appropriate pharmacological and dietary treatment.