With some dogs you can place food in their bowl and they'll pick at it throughout the day. Then there are other dogs that when fed they devour their food and make an attempt at eating the bowl. My dog doesn't pick at his food throughout the day. In fact, he's the type that will eat anything and does. He's a black lab.
The list of items he's eaten in the past 8 years range from disgusting to bizarre:
- any type of food, you name it, he'll eat it
- paper towels are a treat for him especially if the towels have been near food at anytime
- nut from a chainsaw
- licked motor oil off the garage floor
- the bag full of yucky turkey parts that comes inside the turkey. the whole bag, he didn't even bother to rip it open
- my kids first ginger bread house (this one pissed me off. why? my daughter's response; "that was my first gingerbread house and I didn't even get a chance to taste it." followed by a sad face.)
- let's not forget his poop
I can go on all day but you get the point.
Two nights ago I witnessed something I thought I'd never see in my life. The dog went upstairs, quietly, and found himself a snack. I knew something was amiss because everything was too quiet. Go upstairs into our bedroom and there he is eating a bar of soap! I'm talking Irish Spring. The gnawing and the saliva from his mouth was causing the soap to foam up. He ate almost half a bar of soap!
Yes that morning I found a sudsy pile of vomit in our hallway. I knew he couldn't be feeling well so I took him for a walk and what do you know, a sudsy............never mind.
I'm sure I'm not the only one with a dog that doesn't understand the difference between dog food and a pair of socks.
What has your dog eaten lately?
Well wadda you know, mine`s a golden lab and about the only it has not tried to eat is my son, but I bet he would give that a go as well :o
Doberman ate the side of my chair, clear down to the wood frame.
Did this all while in her cage, moved it next to the chair.
Sounds like my beagles. One of them is quite the thief...
JM
I have a beagle and a dobie. Beagle eats ANYTHING! The dobie is the most picky eater I have ever encountered.
Yellow lab.
When she was a puppy:
Siding off the house
Chair frames
A blue ink filled ball point pen then ran around the house dripping ink
About 2 pounds of deer poop in 1 sitting, then threw up all over the house afterwards
Recently:
About 1 pound of beach sand, again then threw up all over the house
mitt
my springer has eaten:
the foam from the inside of my work boots (I didn't know until he pooped it out while i was walking....and then the poop expanded like compressed foam does [laugh] )
christmas tree lights (he didn't like those coming back out on our walk either)
cow poop....probably his favorite
I actually have the opposite. I have a wolf/germanshepard mix that has never chewed on anything or ate something she is not supposed to. In fact I can put a whole plate of food at her level (coffe table) and leave the room and she won't touch it. She gets human food but never begs or whines for it. I doubt she eats her own poop too because she goes in a 6' by 6' area in one spot of the yard and will not go near there if we are playing.
Now outside animals are a different story. She gets squirrels, mice, groundhogs, etc. all the time and leaves them on the deck.
Let me take that back ONE time when she was a pup she got into some pizza mix and then her water. When we got home it was crusted all over her face.
i found pieces of fake Christmas tree in the cat's poop. Does that count?
Quote from: Stu Pedasso on January 09, 2009, 06:52:36 AM
i found pieces of fake Christmas tree in the cat's poop. Does that count?
What about an icicle "streamer" following the cat...
JM
My brother has a Chinese Crested.
that damn dog eats EVERYTHING. his laptop charger, his cell phone cord, his old cell phone, his chicks cell phone charger, cat poop, its own poop.. pretty much anything it has access to is going to get nibbled on.
Its one of those little dogs that pee's on everyone. it'll jump on you lap to lick your face just to pee on your leg.. I hate that dog... >:(
Darmah ate a box of ear plugs
maybe 60 or so.
her poop was very festive for awhile [laugh]
i had a mutt for a while, he would eat anything.
as a puppy he ate his way out of a plastic dog crate, then ate a cell phone (the old bag style)
then he ate the presents under the christmas tree.
that was on a friday. on saturday he ate his way into a large Tupperware bin full of dog food. got himself thown outside for the day, and ate his way through the wood fence and escaped.
unfortunately, he had his dog tags already, and someone returned him.
We no longer have a rug, couch (went through 3), cushions on chairs, half of a piano bench, and we are down one parrot (saddest day ever). Cat poop has to be the favorite though. It's like Almond Roca for dogs.
mini dachshund eats tennis ball fuzz and rips the stuffing out of his bed all the time
Quote from: mbalmer on January 09, 2009, 10:09:07 AM
and we are down one parrot (saddest day ever).
Aw. :(
Quote from: MrIncredible on January 09, 2009, 10:56:00 AM
Aw. :(
That was a sad day, but it was my fault. I didn't secure the food doors properly and the bird (eclectus) was a great escape artist. So on top of feeling sad I still feel guilty. It's funny because when we are home the birds and dogs are out together and the dogs are afraid of those beaks.
Quote from: herm on January 09, 2009, 09:48:56 AM
i had a mutt for a while, he would eat anything.
as a puppy he ate his way out of a plastic dog crate, then ate a cell phone (the old bag style)
then he ate the presents under the christmas tree.
that was on a friday. on saturday he ate his way into a large Tupperware bin full of dog food. got himself thown outside for the day, and ate his way through the wood fence and escaped.
unfortunately, he had his dog tags already, and someone returned him.
Thats where you went wrong. Your supposed to put him outside and take the tags off while your wife isn't around.
i have a golden retreiver, i saw her eat about a one pound pork chop (no bone) without even chewing it, deer beans are a favorite, crayons, and she even decided that we needed new carpet in our house and tore the old stuff out for us. my duck calls, a rifle stock, tried to eat a live baby squirrel, shall i continue?
Lots of goose poop - downside of living by the water. :P
My 160 lbs Rottie chewed his way out of his crate - his metal crate - and was half-way through the basement door when I got home. Previously, he has eaten the entire side of a couch. Good thing he's a big baby (he lets my niece ride on him like pony), or he would be a very dangerous dog.
When we were growing up, the family beagle would eat any food she could reach. One day she got away for a little while, and came running back home with a half-grilled steak in her mouth. Don't know which neighbor's it was, but somebody was probably plenty ticked.
Angie, my former JRT, ate her way into my golf bag and then proceeded through the course of one day to strip 47 golf balls of their plastic covers. All of my balls were just hard rubber lumps with chew marks in them.
She also ate the vast majority of a sock.I didn't know it for sure until the next day when she comes trotting back into the house dragging a pile of poop attached to an elastic string coming out of her butt.
Quote from: ZLTFUL on January 09, 2009, 02:59:36 PM
She also ate the vast majority of a sock.I didn't know it for sure until the next day when she comes trotting back into the house dragging a pile of poop attached to an elastic string coming out of her butt.
[laugh]HAHA [laugh]
Wow. Compared to you all, my dogs have been extremely well behaved.
Quote from: mbalmer on January 09, 2009, 10:09:07 AM
Cat poop has to be the favorite though. It's like Almond Roca for dogs.
[laugh] [laugh] My lab/pit mix LOVES cat shit! [puke] Sick bastard.
My two dogs are pretty good. The Great Dane counter surfs...we got her when she was 3 and she knows not to, but if we're not around... :-\. The lab/pit on the other hand will sit next to a plate of food on our low coffee table and not eat it...she'll leave a huge puddle of drool though. ;D
Anyway, the Dane has gotten a full tube of soft treats (1 lb), a bag of tortillas, a few cans of bacon grease I left to cool and forgot, 1/2 of a pork tenderloin (while we were in the living room >:(), and a mango. The lab probably eats the things the Dane won't, like the Mango, afetr she gets it down for her...but I think the Dane does most of the damage. [roll]
Other than a couple pairs of flip flops and the ocassional hole in the back yard, neither has destroyed anything though. 2 walks a day and frequent trips to the park help with that. :)
My neighbor's golden ate a whole pile of very hot jalapeno peppers off the counter - didn't seem to bother him at all ???
Sister in law asked us to come over and help clear out her garden at the end of the season. She tols us the jalapenos were too hot to eat - and they turned orange!!! One look and we knew we hit Nirvana!!! Habaneros. Fresh grown Habaneros ripe!!!
Bo (Jack Russell Terrier) is looking for us to throw us one of the 'little orange balls' for him to play. He peeled tennis balls, chewed kitchen chairs, and could bark while jumping 3 feet into the air. Hubby tosses him a bright orange habanero and bo loved the game. He gets the pepper into his mouth, chomps it a couple of times and promptly drops it. Sister in law says 'he's smart'. Dunderhead sees another (the same) little orange ball and promptly chomps on it a couple of times before spitting it out. He did this a dozen or so times before we have to leave - our ribs are killing us from laughing so hard!!!
Quote from: mbalmer on January 09, 2009, 10:09:07 AM
Cat poop has to be the favorite though. It's like Almond Roca for dogs.
We no longer have a cat (no he didn't eat the cat but I know he wanted a piece of him), I used to hate it when he had cat litter stuck in his teeth.
Well it sounds like we're actually pretty lucky. He's really only ruined one pair of sneakers. I wouldn't even call them ruined. He's never destroyed our furniture. The only damage he's done to the house was vomiting on our rugs.
I'm glad I posted. It's good to see we're not the only ones with a dog whose appetite overwhelms any logic he may have.
I like to joke about not having to kennel him when we're away. I'm just going to leave him in a room I don't mind him pooping in. I only have to feed him one good meal before we go. He eventually will poop himself his next meal. I have discovered the first perpetual machine. ;D
My dog's been eating the same food from Proplan for the last 17 years. :P
[popcorn]
These are great reads! ;D
A few years ago a neighbor came by with a souvenir. It was kind of brown and the size and shape of a bota bag. They'd noticed their dog was feeling poorly and took him to the vet. Turns out he'd gotten into some gorilla glue and it foamed up and hardened in his stomach, requiring emergency surgery. That poor dog must've been in some pain but he survived OK.
Our dog, who I found abandoned in the desert, is really a great dog and only eats dog food, although she very meticulously pees on every piece of coyote and horse poop she comes across.
When our JRT was about 4 months old she liberated a bottle of dramamine from a counter, ate off teh childproof cap, and managed to eat about 6 pills before I caught her. Keep in mind one pill puts me (200 lbs) asleep and she was about 5 lbs then. I called the vet and told them what she ate. They said "Bring her in right now." I started to ask another question and the guy cut me off and said "Bring her in right now!".
OK.
15 minutes, $105, and a shot later, she threw it all up.
1/2 a 10 lb bag of charcoal, romex, misc. rags, and entire deer tail. Those were the highlights of my labs eating career combined.
My JRT has a taste for live frogs/toads. Crunches them and swallows them down like popcorn....its quite disgusting. You can tell when he gets one because he foams at the mouth.
My beagles would eat catch and eat frogs the caught by the pond at my old house. Then, they'd roll in the remaining slime and goop.
JM
18 month old British Lab has gone through:
3 pairs of my ex-girlfriend's shoes (funny, she won't touch mine - she knows where discipline comes from ;D)
corners of a couple of window sills
stuffing out of her bed and any stuffed animals she can get
various rubber toys and rope toys (always funny when we get the technicolor poo)
siding off my shed in the back yard
my good down comforter (4 times now, I keep suturing it back)
a pound of honey ham (took about 30 seconds)
loves all fruits - strawberries are her favorite, I give them as treats occasionally
Quote from: swampduc on January 14, 2009, 07:23:18 AM
loves all fruits - strawberries are her favorite, I give them as treats occasionally
Grover loves fruits too. When we used to live in a house with fruit trees in the yard, he would jump up and pick apples, plums, etc. off of the branches.
When he could no longer reach any he would start crying :'( [laugh], I would have to pull down the higher branches so he could reach them. He would prance around the yard chomping on the fruit, juice spurting out of his mouth, proud as can be.
Watson on the other hand, loves veggies. Anytime I pull out the chopping board and knife, she's there underfoot, hoping that a stray piece will come flying her way. Radishes are her very favorite. ??? She also is a big popcorn fan.
Owen, our St. Bernard mix, once got a cake on the counter and ate it out of the box without disturbing the box. Even closed it when done! He will not eat his dog food if we are not home. We could leave our dinner on the coffee table and as long as we are in the house he will not touch it. He has never eaten out of the cat box, but does like poo in compost. Lama was his favorite.
He likes popcorn, avocado, and onion, but not banana.
Grover stole some bread out of Dave's tank bag last year...he was miffed at first cause his mom had baked the bread, but I pointed out that at least the tank bag was undamaged! [cheeky]
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