Who wants to know what happens when a labrador eats a kilo of caster sugar?

[BellaGoth]

Don't worry, the dog is fine for now!

I got home from shopping this morning and 8 week old DD started crying for a feed. I quickly put away everything I thought was at risk from labrador investigation and sat to feed her. Ddog had a sniff round and then came to cuddle on the sofa. By the time I finished feeding DD it was time to collect DS from nursery.

It did not cross my mind for a second that ddog would split open the bag of sugar all over the living room carpet and eat the vast majority of it. I was wrong.

Obviously I called the vet straight away, who laughed told me he would be fine, just might be a bit hyper.

He threw up on our bed. Right through the duvet, through the mattress and onto the carpet. The super king sized mattress is a write-off.

On the up side, dh says we can go bed shopping at ikea. Deep joy!

My rescue dog, possibly a beagle/jrt cross, was fascinated during DC3's potty training to the point where he would stalk the child and "tidy up" afterwards - and he curled his lips back so he could still eat the poo without it touching his lips, bless him dear milo.

My Aunts lab ate bottle tops ( beer bottles a plenty in that house) and when walking you could hear them in his tummy....

When I was younger our Golden Retriever ate most of a whole Stilton and subsequently threw it up all over my uncle's white shag pile carpet.

That was an epic Christmas, for many reasons.

I'm sorry, but - you can go bed shopping in Ikea?

That, surely, is the worst part of the entire episode

My lab ate half of the cake made for my baby shower. The poor pregnant belly was massacred. She tried to pretend it wasn't her but the bright blue icing all round her mouth was a bit of a giveaway

My lab ate a rock, not a stone or pebble but a bloody rock. But the greedy bugger still tried to eat his dinner (before we knew about the rock) then projectile vomited it all over our lounge, it was pretty impressive just how far the sick flew.

He cost us $2000 at the vet to have the rock removed when it got stuck in his intestine.

The other night I was sitting on the sofa when my elderly lab walked quietly past carrying a giant box of crunchy nut cornflakes which she'd taken from the cupboard.

She's eaten far worse in her time.

The other night I was sitting on the sofa when my elderly lab walked quietly past carrying a giant box of crunchy nut cornflakes which she'd taken from the cupboard.

She's eaten far worse in her time.

I had a cavalier king Charles who ate an entire black lipstick in my white bed. The end result was metronome.

The other night I was sitting on the sofa when my elderly lab walked quietly past carrying a giant box of crunchy nut cornflakes which she'd taken from the cupboard.

She's eaten far worse in her time.

my labrador ate antibiotics. the vet nurse thought it was incredibly unusual until she heard the breed. thankfully she was OK and didn't need any intervention.

bloody dogs.........

Friend of ours has a nasty accident and was on some very very strong medication. He stored them what he thought was out of reach of the dog. The dog found a way and ate the lot. Was sick for ages but survived!

Same dog ate half a kilo of raisins once with no obvious ill effects.

Ah, my old dear departed Lab once got the sugar. From a bag left on the floor from the shopping, us naively thinking the dog will never eat sugar.

I had a tug of war with him. He didn't want to give it up. Sugar everywhere. I miss him, I love labs.

Our cocker once got a whole roast chicken off the counter where it was resting, and started hauling it to his bed. Sad faces for dinner that night, including the dog's.

Contraceptive pills loll

I was once walking down the lane with lab on the lead. He suddenly dived into the hedge and came out with half a baguette. It was so funny - took a photo of him on my phone, and he looks just so gleeful. It's like he was saying 'look what I found, you can't take it off me, I found it!"

he was shitting bits of plastic and circuit board for days

That gave me a proper wobbly belly laugh!

I'm lay here CRYING at some of these tales! 😂

My mom had a lab/retriever cross and a cat. One Sunday she got this enormous leg of lamb out of the freezer (dinner for 16 people) to defrost. Came to put it on to cook and it had vanished. Turns out the cat and dog had worked together to steal about 15lbs of lamb, ferry it up the garden into a bush and consume the whole lot in the space of a couple of hours! They apparently seemed to have been taking it in turns to visit their prize and have a gnaw, as no one actually noticed either of them go "missing" at any point to have sat down and had a good feast

Ive come to the conclusion that labs operate on an "eat it now, throw it up later if need be" system. Our female lab is the worst. Her worst one was when she ate half a bag of chicken corn and did expanding popcorn poos for two days, you could hear the stuff popping inside her. Then another time she ate my stepson's Easter eggs (six) in one go, luckily they didn't affect her at all. I also struggled to work out while my crab apple tree only got apples on its high branches until I caught her chewing them off the branches. I've had to ban her from the stables as she thinks the muckheap is a minibar and she dug up and ate the daffodil bulbs.

And yes I know half of the things I've listed are poisonous to dogs, but she has always lived to scoff another day!

And re the Crunchy Nut thief, it reminded me that we used to have a tame sheep that managed to get a box out of the kitchen cupboard and get its head stuck in it. We found it wandering about in the garden bumping into things!

My sisters dog are a lb of cheese once. He had a very shiny coat after. (And lots of shiny shits!)

My childhood lab was a shocker for stealing food off tables - an entire plate of cupcakes once, including the wrappers.

Some of these stories are hilarious but also remind me why I will never ever ever have a dog. I couldn't stand it. Talk about cons outweighing the pros!

We used to have a goldie, sadly no longer with us, who must have been an extremely rare creature as she could turn down chicken if she had eaten enough.

One example of her self control came on the run up to Christmas one year. We have a huge felt Advent calendar which hangs on the back of the kitchen door and we fill it with fun size chocs for the four children. As the dog enjoyed the excitement of the daily ritual, we would put a chew for her into one of the pouches in the bottom row and she would take hers out when the children took theirs.

One day, it had been a rush in the morning and the kids had gone off to school without taking their chocs. When I got home I spotted something bright in the dog basket. She had decided to help herself to her "chew" but had realised pretty quickly that the Flake bar was not for her. It was completely intact, wrapper not damaged at all.

It wouldn't have been the case with the two we have got now, it would have been swallowed wrapper and all!

This is why I will never ever have a lab. They're cute and all but I'm a natural born, "Dumbarse Dog" owner. If I put a lb of sugar in front of my two, they'd just eye it lazily unless it was opened for them. And then fart a bit more.