IADNBU - ear wax

[DontBuyANewMumCashmere]

My DF told me recently she picks out her baby's ear wax and feeds it to her dog.

[NeedMoreSleepOrSugar]

I don't know if I'm more confused as to why someone would do this, or why they'd bring it up in conversation! Poor dog!

[Katedotness1963]

Poor dog...

[AdoraBell]

My dogs would probably eat it, disgusting beasts, but I wouldn’t actually feed it to them. That’s beyond grim 🤢

[Alloftheboys]

Why?
Is that the dogs only food?

[Doctroo]

I don't know about dogs but every cat I've known loooooves earwax.

It's all the yummy proteins.

Quickest way to befriend a cat is to offer it a lump of ear goo.

[ConciseandNice]

I feel a bit nauseous.

[meredintofpandiculation]

Quickest way to befriend a cat is to offer it a lump of ear goo. I can believe this. My cat's idea of heaven is to stuff his nose in your armpit and inhale.

[DontBuyANewMumCashmere]

Tbf she loves that dog so it won't be ill treatment on her behalf!

My dogs also eat all sorts but I wouldn't give them it, wilingly!

Can't actually remember how it came up in conversation... it does sound odd but she conversation was flowing.
Like her son's earwax...

[kittykarate]

Quickest way to befriend a cat is to offer it a lump of ear goo

One of my cats is obsessed with ear wax, and will dig in bins to get cotton buds.

[DontBuyANewMumCashmere]

Oh God she's got two cats too...

[Namethecat]

It will be of no surprise due to my mn name but as a cat owner I can hand on heart say I have never offered it a body part / excretion of mine to eat. Gross !

[MikeUniformMike]

CharlieAlphaTango loves ear wax.

[TheSmallClangerWhistlesAgain]

Dogs are grotbags, they probably love it. One of mine eats toenail clippings.

Having said that, I don't go round collecting toenail clippings FOR the dog. That is weird.

[kittykarate]

Dogs love being around when the farrier is trimming horses hooves - like giant fingernails to chew and eat.

[Loonoon]

Our old cats loved earwax. Sadly then I didn't really have any. Now I have hearing aids which create a lot of excess wax which is wasted.

[Loonoon]

No, different boots to Friday.

[nauticant]

When we had a cat (oh, lovely cat), she would go mad whenever I'd file my nails licking my fingers and trying to chew on the nail-file (metal, so it was the nail dust she loved not the file). Anyone else have a similarly fixated cat?

[morningconstitutional2017]

Well that sounds gross but I'm assured that in olden days people used ear wax to stiffen their thread if they had problems threading a needle. I think I'll pass on that one.

[GeekyBlinders]

I had a friend in my teens who used to pick her dog's sleep out of his eyes then feed it to him. He loved it.

[BigDamnHero]

I currently have a blocked ear due to ear wax (can't hear a fucking thing out of it and have to wait a fortnight for it to be syringed). Are you telling me I should just let my cats sort it for me?

[DontBuyANewMumCashmere]

Giant fingernails

Sleep

What is wrong with people?!?!

[KerplunkChampion]

Now I want to know how far people have gone with feeding bits of themselves to their pets. Dogs like blood, right?

[HoobleDooble]

Nauticant my previous cats used to do that, I had to hide my emery boards or they'd steal them. Current cat isn't at all interested.

[viques]

She's probably trying to train the dog to lick out the child's earwax on command...........

[BigDamnHero]

Now I want to know how far people have gone with feeding bits of themselves to their pets. Dogs like blood, right?

I'll admit when DS1 was a baby with reflux I did once, in my sleep deprived state, watch our German shepherd lick a particularly large projectile load up from the floor and think, 'At least I don't have to clean it up.' I was BFing at the time so I guess it was both my bodily fluids and DS's by the time the dog got to it...