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This bloody dog will be the death of me

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captainPugwashh · 21/12/2024 00:44

I love him to bits but fuck me hes outdone himself this afternoon

Went out to pub and had a lovely time. Came home to him bashing into thing and staggering about with a nice pile of sick in the middle of the only rug we have (why do they always do that) quickly rush him to the vet who asks what he ate. He ate bread dough and vommed it all back up. The yeast was fermenting in his stomach and he was effectively drunk.

They could feel something in his tummy so he was sedated and x rayed. He had coins in his intestine and a Lego action man. So he's had emergency surgery today and has cost me &
£1600. He'd eaten 27p in coins fuck knows how or when!

How old is the dog you ask? 17 years old no shits given.

He also chewed off the vets shoe lace when he was brought back to me as the vet was telling me what he had removed from his stomach. He didn't swallow that thank God.

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noctilucentcloud · 22/12/2024 09:41

WorriedMumofTeen16 · 21/12/2024 22:20

Said cheese lol

My dog would like to say amateur - none of this nibbling business, a few chomps and it's gone before the human notices / reaches you! Aaah cheese, happy days.

bouncydog · 22/12/2024 11:02

TinyMouseTheatre · 21/12/2024 18:43

He had to be rehomed after DH had to remove the miniature daschund from him one Sunday lunchtime!

He was eating him?

He had hold of him by the head and was trying to get him into his mouth. It was awful - luckily DH got to him quickly and managed to save the daschund before he injured him. Had he not acted quickly the daschund would have been badly injured.

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 12:00

iloveeverykindofcat · 22/12/2024 08:34

Ours has just had a large rock cut out of his intestines. Should be coming home this morning, rather doped up and sorry for himself but digestive system successfully repaired.

He's a very handsome Cardigan corgi, not far off the size of a labrador with short legs.

Why did he eat the rock? I don't know. Personal reasons. He got it all the way through his stomach too.

Personal reasons! 🤣🤣

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Daisymay2 · 22/12/2024 12:21

For quite a while my mother was puzzled by little pieces of grey foam on my bedroom floor. I hadn’t got a clue about it either.
One day she walked into my room to find the dog, with the corner of the carpet pulled up, chewing the foam backing. He had mastered the art of pulling up the carpet using his claws, then nosing it back into position. As demonstrated when she shouted at him.
Half King Charles Spaniel, half Chihuahua, fabulous dog, mostly well behaved. Lived to 16.

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:03

FamilyPhoto · 21/12/2024 07:02

Simon is a legend.
As a Lab owner we know the struggle.
Mine is 10 now
Hilights include
2x phones and 3 remote controls , he then moved on from electricals to shoes.
All the shoes.
His first Xmas he was 11 months, we were really careful with chocolate so he somehow got the wrappers from a box of Quality Street - he had rainbow shits for days.
Wool. As in my knitting.
And now, in his golden years , he is fantastic in the house but once outside he could eat ANYTHING .

I love this!

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ny20005 · 22/12/2024 13:09

I feel your pain !

My springer doesn't eat stuff anymore but injures herself all the time.

We've been to vet hospital twice in the last 10 days & total for this claim is currently at £1200. Luckily she's heavily insured so it's just £100 excess each time

Our last dog was a King Charles & he managed the get hold of some roses chocs one year - ate them whole & pooped out the foil

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:24

doglover92 · 21/12/2024 07:22

A few Christmases ago I had a bag of food ready for a food bank, mine managed to open the door and get into it, he ate a whole box of dark chocolate cherry liquors, a full lasagne, loads of tomato puree (tubes included) and a few packets of biscuits! I had to pay £500 for the vet to induce vomiting because it was out of hours, but to make things worse he is incredibly clingy (and stubborn) and 45kg so the vet couldn’t take him to do it. I had to sit on a floor for 2 hours holding a bucket to catch his sick telling him it was going to be ok 😂 I was heavily pregnant at the time!

That is impressive!

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:27

LunaNorth · 21/12/2024 07:39

This is Bella. She is a tiny Artful Dodger, a thief, and a burglar.

Last Boxing Day, she managed to reach, unwrap and snaffle a box of 80% dark chocolates. Sadly for her sisters, they were also in the room, so they all had to have the induced vomiting treatment to be on the safe side. They all came staggering out of the vet’s office looking like the food poisoning scene from Bridesmaids.

The other two looked murderous, while Bella was unrepentant, with a face that said, ‘Worth it.’

It actually says on her vet record, “Suspect Bella is the culprit. I could smell chocolate on her breath.” That’s my girl…

I love this! Bella gives zero fucks and would do it again!

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:28

PugInTheHouse · 21/12/2024 07:57

I have a malamute and he used to eat anything, I think he's better now but I wouldn't be surprised to find a number of things he'd swallowed if he had surgery.

He had eaten a poo bag full of poo and pooed it out whole, a number of stones and anything plastic.

Our pug is totally food obsessed buy tends not to eat non edible stuff

One week the malamute got hold of some wedding cake, half hour after vets closed, cost £800 out of hours as obviously they needed huge amounts of medication to make him vomit, they said he'd be sleepy and wobbly after, he definitely wasn't, nothing can touch him but he vomited up 3 raisins!

Same week the pug got hold of a part eaten giant dark Toblerone so we had no idea how much he ate. This time 5 mins before vets opened so only £150. He
came out after like he was totally pissed and his legs kept sliding away from home outwards. He had eaten loads. We got home, he ran straight into my sons room to try and find the chocolate again.

Pug also ate a poisonous caterpillar, was horrific but luckily he swallowed it whole and vomited it straight up. So scary. Again ran straight back outside to where he found it after going to the vets!

I love this little duo!

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:32

Drowningnotwaving74 · 21/12/2024 08:21

Poo
All the poo
Everyone's poo
Fox.poo a specialty.
Broadband x 3 (its now by the ceiling)
An extension cord (he then ran for a cuddle when it went bang)
Nuts, seeds, bread (especially white) put out for birds by neighbours.
Cheap dog food put out for foxes (that he would turn his nose up if I attempted to feed him it)

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The cheap dogfood made me laugh

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Drowningnotwaving74 · 22/12/2024 13:38

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:32

The cheap dogfood made me laugh

See also cheap white bread.
Little get is allergic to chicken and grain (why the bald patches) so along with poo of all denominations they are a delicacy (riffing and upset tum worth it. Lol)

Trust me we tried many.many foods before we found one he doesn't get all Lloyd Grossman about thats OK for his skin.

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 13:51

Baital · 21/12/2024 09:24

Simon is indeed a legend. Our DDog is also a dustbin, but has chosen to specialise in getting the butter off the work surface overnight and eating herself sick on it, so I wake up to puddles of melted butter vomit. And then have to discover where she has buried the rest of the block, the sofa cushions and bed in the spare room being the starting point (but not always the end point).

We have no idea how she does it, as she isn't tall enough to reach things on the work surface...

You should put a camera in and see how she's doing it! I love her specialism

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Peacelily001 · 22/12/2024 13:59

My friend’s lab ate nearly an entire sack of chicken feed.
She looked like a space hopper on legs and shat out chicken feed-peppered poos for days.

A workmate’s half lab opened the fridge when she was out, and scoffed a frozen chicken (defrosting) and 2 large packets of lard

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:00

Thelnebriati · 21/12/2024 09:45

Ddog once pooped out a green poo shaped candle. It still had the wick in the middle.

Hahaha!!!

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:02

PreBlendOils · 21/12/2024 09:56

This handsome chap was Jose. Jose once jumped the fence into the neighbours, dug up and ate their dead cat, threw her up, and then ate her again. It all happened in within a minute and in full view of the neighbours sobbing dc. I've never wanted to harm a dog but I could have murdered him with my bare hands.

Rest in peace Jose, if there is a dog heaven you're probably not in it.

This is incredible 😲🤣

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:13

Balloonhearts · 21/12/2024 20:52

Both those breeds are notorious for eating. They're like bloody goats.

Mind you I went to see my loan horse yesterday and his next door neighbour was missing. Where's Groody? I asked. Turns out he's had to have emergency surgery.

The moron was left tied up next to a Christmas tree waiting for his turn to see the farrier and amused himself by very carefully unwinding and eating nearly 11 feet of tinsel before anyone noticed what he was doing.

Oh my god!!

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TheOliveFinch · 22/12/2024 14:14

My previous dog managed to get hold of a very large box of mixed milk and dark chocolates which we had thought were well out of his way. All the milk ones were eaten all the dark chocolates were scattered around the floor each with teeth marks a very discerning dog 😂😂

iloveeverykindofcat · 22/12/2024 14:19

This is him. They said his pain was much better this morning so he was allowed to come home, where he is doing much better. He wouldn't eat in hospital but now he has begun to eat again, so all is functioning as it should be.

He will learn absolutely nothing from this. He's not clever dog. But he's very good-looking and he's got social intelligence, both with dogs and humans.

This bloody dog will be the death of me
captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:19

spiderlight · 21/12/2024 23:54

This cost us (well, PetPlan) a couple of quid shy of £7,000 last Christmas. She didn't eat it, to be fair - she rolled on it, got it embedded in her flank, and we had a five-month saga involving multiple surgeries and the world's most horrific exploding abscess. We have an artificial tree this year.

I hope Simon is on the mend soon. He's gorgeous 💕

I love that you saved it! Sorry about the abscess! Simon has had 2 and both ruptured at home 🤮

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:20

justasking111 · 22/12/2024 00:02

Ear buds. I've lost two sets. She drinks out of my bedside glass of water too.

One Christmas our spaniel was having a poop something sparkly emerging. I stood on the end. Four foot of bloody tinsel appeared.

Another Christmas tree, Labrador one. Kept in the dining room. Some chocolate decs at the top. We sat down for lunch. The tree behind husband slowly fell towards him landing square on his head scattering ornaments across the table.

I'm picturing it just slowly cascading on to your husbands head and then the dog leaping on the tree!

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:26

iloveeverykindofcat · 22/12/2024 14:19

This is him. They said his pain was much better this morning so he was allowed to come home, where he is doing much better. He wouldn't eat in hospital but now he has begun to eat again, so all is functioning as it should be.

He will learn absolutely nothing from this. He's not clever dog. But he's very good-looking and he's got social intelligence, both with dogs and humans.

He's beautiful! Simon had the world's biggest dump when I took him out of the vets and they said 'oh good he wouldn't poo with us.

Our other dog sniffed him a lot when he came home but seems to have settled now.

What's his name ?

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captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:28

TheOliveFinch · 22/12/2024 14:14

My previous dog managed to get hold of a very large box of mixed milk and dark chocolates which we had thought were well out of his way. All the milk ones were eaten all the dark chocolates were scattered around the floor each with teeth marks a very discerning dog 😂😂

Oh my gosh you're reminded me of when we moved house we left him in an 'apparently empty' room so he wouldn't get in the way of the movers and came back to pick him up and he'd found a packet of chocolate covered coffee beans and had eaten the lot. He had to go to the vet for that too he was wired. I still don't know where the vet packet came from.

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fivebyfivebuffy · 22/12/2024 14:32

@PuggyPuggyPuggy this not so little brat eats plastic. Any kind
Bags of salad, bread bags, he opened my handbag and took out a blood test form and ate the bag attached to it
I had to yank dental floss out his mouth one morning as.. well, plastic
Also curry. He desperately wants to eat curry and onion bhajis despite me pointing out onions are toxic to cats

This bloody dog will be the death of me
iloveeverykindofcat · 22/12/2024 14:33

@captainPugwashh Mab, we give the corgis Welsh names! Most corgis are intelligent, his Pembroke sister is sharp as a tack, but God love him he really isn't. He does have a talent though - if you play a note, he'll mimic it. Even a couple of notes in a row. He could pass grade 1 melodic recall with a bit of practice. We knew he couldn't be feeling too bad when he perked up enough to "do his music" today.

captainPugwashh · 22/12/2024 14:36

iloveeverykindofcat · 22/12/2024 14:33

@captainPugwashh Mab, we give the corgis Welsh names! Most corgis are intelligent, his Pembroke sister is sharp as a tack, but God love him he really isn't. He does have a talent though - if you play a note, he'll mimic it. Even a couple of notes in a row. He could pass grade 1 melodic recall with a bit of practice. We knew he couldn't be feeling too bad when he perked up enough to "do his music" today.

I love him! Our other dog is called Alan. There's something about giving a dog a decidedly human name that is hilarious.

Our female border is called Susan but the kids called her Zazzy so she answers to that

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