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!

LordRothemere I quite like ikea! Especially the meatballs.

I am happy to report there has been no more vomiting, though he does have the squits and is waking us up to let him out.

All this has reminded me that our other lab likes to pick glitter off of things. It makes picking up her poo slightly more interesting.

They are certainly a challenge but all is forgiven when you look at their gorgeous little faces!

"My sisters dog are a lb of cheese once."
We used to have a retriever who once ate a huge block of cheese... off the neighbour's kitchen counter... while they were in the room. Just casually strolled into their house, took the cheese and strolled out again.

One year somebody my mother thought it would be a good idea to have real gingerbread ornaments on the Christmas tree. Next morning we came into the living room to discover that only the top of the tree was decorated. And the great dane was looking very guilty.

I've had two dogs who loved potatoes. One would tear into the side of the bag and steal them, but the current dog will just stand and stare at the bag until somebody gives him one. I talked to somebody once whose dog would dig potatoes and carrots right out of the garden.
I dropped a (big) can of dog food on my toe earlier today, so informed the dog that he's not being fed for the next month. He didn't believe me. I've since fed him, so he was probably right.

I know because our dog did this too! She's a JRT cross, though, but eats anything and has no sense.

She threw up a huge pool of clear syrup, after which I had to go into town but thought I'd better take her with me to keep an eye on her. She clearly still felt very sorry for herself. The second pool of syrup outside Lloyds bank was not my proudest moment!

She's also at various times eaten a tub of fish oil tablets (that produced interesting poo), a kilo of charcoal biscuits (that was quite nice the other end), a loaf of mouldy bread and a tub of sudocreme.

We have child locks on every cupboard and keep anything else up very high and yet still I am very well acquainted with the poisons service via our vet! I think I am single handedly keeping someone in employment....

My husband, before we met, lived with his DF and DB with their two cats and a Heinz 57 mongrel. Dumbest pooch ever. DH came home one day to find one of the cats had broken into the high cupboard where the Go-Cat was stored, and with cat number 2 managed to open the box and start dropping biscuits down to the Stupidest Dog in London, who ate them all. Pure teamwork. The dog threw up for two consecutive days.

I feel your pain, my now geriatric border terrier ate an entire tube of athletes foot cream, metal tube box and all. He did throw up the plastic lid but the rest eventually made it out the other end. He also took to nibbling the glass bulb part off our Christmas tree lights, which were on at the time, how the daft sod didn't electrocute hismeslf I don't know, that did warrent a stomach pump by the vet. Most recently DP had moved his pumpkin to rest just out if the fenced in veg patch, so it could get more light, sit on newspapers or some other twaddle, and the dog decided it looked pretty tasty. DP found him with half the pumpkin, he got pretty sick after that one.

I used to dog sit my then boss' black retriever a lot and one day when I went to walk her I had done some shopping on the way to the house and left it by the front door. On the walk she stopped to drink at every little stream or puddle we came past and when we got back I realized that she had eaten the entire pack of stock cubes I had bought, including the wrappers. There were little sparkly bits in her poo for a few days.

Ah the days of the family pet being a golden retriever.
My mum had read that yuou train them by having the carry a sock of mince then after they have retrieved it and handed it over they get to eat it.

The dog seemed to be doing quite well until my mum found she had gone back tot he kitchen where the rest of 1/2 Lb of mince had been.

I also did not get to eat my 16th birthday cake - she got there first.

Is this just for dogs?

My cat once licked half the topping of a cheesecake.

The after effects? Well I can no longer eat chocolate cheesecake.

Poor you.

My golden retriever had a stomach bug recently after eating just a small ball of raw beef mince at the butcher and vomited/shat all over the house for hours, including on our guest bed.

Labs are really the worst for crafty food stealing. I don't think I'd have one for this reason. My golden will sleep straight through me cooking and serving bacon just 20 feet from her bed!

One of my friends dads used to have a lab. He took it a walk where it discovered a deers head. The dog proceeded to eat the head, every time my friends dad tried to get the dog away it picked up the head and ran. Friends dad was quite infirm and couldn't catch it. Eventually he just had to sit down on a fallen tree and watch as the dog crunched its way through the head, eyeballs and all. Dog was then sick all over the car on the way home.

My daughter's Shih Tzu got in a box of Quality Street. He ate a few and hid the rest round the house for later. He used to get in her handbag and pinch the kids' sweets. No ill effects !

Alor when it's on the bed I don't! The whole lot will have to be replaced. Tbf the mattress was shot anyway and we've been saving for a new one. Had it been a decent mattress we'd have probably tried to do something with it.

Usually my dogs at least try to make it outside when they need to be sick!

My lab isn't too bad. He once ate a giant toblerone, including the cardboard and foil, and he loves to carry weird stuff around (potatoes, dead things, grass).

My miniature dachshund on the other hand is a nightmare. He will eat literally anything. Last week he opened the fridge and very neatly helped himself to everything he could reach (which being a short-arse wasn't much thankfully). He ate half a pound of cheese, a pack of ham, a pack of pate, and a pot of tomatoes. The funniest thing was that he opened all the packets without leaving any marks on them, and left them nice and clean.

His favourite thing to chew is emery boards. I'm always finding them in his bed even though I hide them from him. He's another hearing aid chewer too.

My husband's childhood dog ate the kitchen wall. They came home from a day out to find a huge hole and piles of plasterboard bits. The dog was asleep in the midst of it with a self satisfied grin on his face.

My mum's boxer once got into the barrel where she kept his food. He just ate and ate and ate until he could eat no more. He came into the living room, wobbling like a barrel and threw up.

My MILs dog will eat anything.

He especially likes tablets. He's eaten a box of metformin (diabetes medication) before.

Taken 4 x 2L cartons of orange juice to bed.

The old dog ate a packet of smash and was very poorly.

We had only had our black lab a few months and I had been shopping one night. I came home and put the shopping away. Bread was on the bench as it always was. Went upstairs to talk to OH about something who was in the bath, came downstairs to make his bait for the next morning and the bread was no where to be seen. I went upstairs very confused and being pregnant at the time thought I had maybe forgot it but was positive I hadn't. Went back downstairs and looked through the cupboards again. It was only when I walked back through the living room again I seen an empty bread packet and a rather guilty looking lab! This is just the first of many bread related incidents. Turns out bread is his favourite!

He also ate all my birthday chocolates a couple of months ago after OH let him out of his bed in the morning while I was still asleep, without remembering to move the chocolates well out of reach.

He also has a liking for nappies and God help us if we have a bin bag in the kicthen. He has never gotten ill from eating anything either. I mentioned it to the vet once who said its not often labs will get ill from eating something as funnily enough they have had to develop an iron stomach over the years because of how greedy they are!

Labrador/lurched cross:
5 lb raw potatoes plus whole cauliflower and a swede
1 lb butter, wrappers and all
Could open fridge so completely cleared the contents, twice 😱
Contents of chip pan c2l oil
Jar of instant coffee
Brought a whole freshly roasted leg of lamb home 😋
Windfall apples were fair game

Constitution of an Ox
Picked blackberries off the bushes too, interestingly coloured poo!

Can't think of any actual food theft by our dog but some of the results of what he has eaten has been interesting. He was shitting plastic beads for days after eating a beanie baby toy and caused DS to have a meltdown when I refused to retrieve Lego from poo but the best was the multi coloured poo after he ate a box of crayons

(Completely outing)
7 month old Labrador has a liking for electricals, 2 USB cables (thankfully unplugged), 2 sets of headphones and yesterday the Boden catalogue ended up shredded around the garden!
Previous Labrador shared my birthday cake a few years ago and was very proud of doing so!

Some of these stories are making me grateful for crashdog. He may be a twat thief but at least he's small twat thief with a limited ability to reach high up. Sadly, he does have a penchant for vomming in places that are awkward to reach.

Our sheepdog has never eaten anything worse than the cat's food, but his predecessor ate MrZippy's brand new false teeth.

Mine ate an entire side of beef, we had just eaten a small amount.

I though DH had put it in the fridge, but no, there were smear makes across table cloth.

She was very sick, terrible runs and nasty vomit. A £50 trip to the vets made me very cross with her.

Try a pack of spaniels that broke into the council food recycling containers.
The food was rancid!!
They got the shakes/tremors and violently sick for about 4 hours!!!

most hilarious thread ever!

I luff dogs.

Our old collie cross ate so much crap. Skirting boards, plastic beds, wicker beds, holes in walls, knickers, socks, tubs of margerine, bags of sugar, 15 Easter eggs in one go...

She was literally an eating machine. We dubbed her "the bin".

She was fine every time. Some bastard let her out of our garden on NYE at 16 years old (she was only out for a wee) and she got run over but bounced and then ate the vet out of house and home!!

She was an awesome dog