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!

Same GSD who would sit beside you as you cooked to ensure the kitchen was kept sparkling with no food remnants on the floor, once rescued a steak sausage that had "jumped" out of the pan, it didn't hit the floor before this massive black beast had scoffed it and ran through the house to the front door to be met by me coming down the stairs as he vomited an entirely intact unchewed sausage, Was clearly too hot, DM and I looked at each another and she said "do you think your DF will notice if I put it on his plate?"

Our second dsg used to steal food and bury it in the large plant pot in the lounge! It was starting to smell and we couldn't figure out where it was coming from think massive garden planters that DM thought looked great in the lounge....it was the early 90's. Until we were getting rid of the monstrosities and it needed four people to drag them into the garden... what we found in he soil could have kept a family in door for a month!

**food not door

Dsis had a lab.

He was a fan of knickers - would eat the crotch but leave the rest. We then discovered that he had been sneaking into the neighbour's garden and pinching hers from her washing line.
Ate 6 Easter Eggs - foil in garden gave it away.
Ate an entire cheeseboard.

Crowning moment was when he was being looked after by my dad and step mum for a days. He ate a dead seagull. Vomited everywhere. Was banned from their house indefinitely.

Labs stop at nothing. As a kid our lab had a particular thing for leather. Entire work boots eaten overnight so only 2 rubber soles left in the morning, numerous wallets (and contents) best one when she ate a condom off tge beach. Next day poo saw a condom blowing up out of her arse my mum chasing the dog down the beach pulling the very stretchy latex which eventually broke with a kick back that ended up with my mum covered in dog poo. There's a lot to be said for kennels and holidaying abroad!

Whole box of quality street with wrappers on- sparkly poo all over the garden..
Many remote controls, the pocket off dressing gown as there was a sweet inside it, phones, a birthday cake that was cooling, really so many things I couldn't even remember them all..
Also had a cat who stole bacon from under the grill when it was cooking.
Love this thread thanks OP

Our german shepherd/ jack russell? cross ruined;
1 pair tap shoes
1 pair boots
1 pair slippers
1 schoolbag
1 pair swimming trunks
a whole line of washing
several stuffed toys
several pairs of underpants
many socks
1 brand new Man Utd shirt- DS not impressed
She also stole and ate most of a tub of curry powder- her water bowl was licked dry.

Outer insane black lab once jumped up into the car, knocked my glasses off my face, snapped them up before I had even realised and crunched them into smithereens.

Thank you so much for this thread. Lost my beloved 14 year old cat this week suddenly and this has made me laugh. My lab is greedy but so stupid, the cat outsmarted him at every turn! We'd give the dog the remnants of a leg of lamb and then hear him barking, only to find the cat running off down the garden with it! The cat also stole off kids and hubby's plates, leaving the poor dog just the bones he left (which he then threw up). His worst eat was definitely the hamster though 🙈 Which he attacked my son for and took it out of his hands (he was nowhere to be seen when he got the hamster out). Hubby used to call our small furry friends Sulley's happy meals. Bloody miss him 😢

My gorgeous yellow Lab thinks it is his mission in life to keep our town free from discarded food. Any walk is a nightmare as he has so many bloody allergies!

I told my youngest Ds off one Christmas for eating all his chocolate and leaving the wrappers all over his floor. He hadn't had a single one! The dog had an amazing ability to unwrap chocolate money and just eat the chocolate. That day he ate 3 x bags of chocolate money, 3 x Terry's chocolate oranges, 2 x large toblerones, 1 x pack of sherry laced fudge, one complete chocolate stocking. An expensive trip to the vet to have his stomach pumped. Twice happened since. And once after eating an entire course of antibiotics.

He picked up the head of a dead rabbit the other day. He didn't want to give it up to me. There were children around. I though it best he ate it rather than freak out the children with rabbit's head staring out of his mouth!

Love him but by god he can eat!

We have a Retriever and he's done the sugar trick although he just spewed up randomly for a couple of days, it was like trying to get syrup up off the floor!!! He'll eat anything though. He's even been known to eat a lolly and the stick and wrapper to come out in tact now that's magic. Nappies are another, his crap has just been full of the crystals, I'm surprised he's not dead!! as I'm typing this he's following youngest child around because she's carrying a big wedge of playdough and he's been eating the bits she's dropping, I'm sick of shouting at child and animal Oh and then there's the cat, they work in conjunction with one another as well, the cat sometimes knocks stuff off the side for the dog but the cat is just blatant and goes and pinches stuff off plates, he loves chips! I think the film Secret Life of Pets was based on my animals!

My Heinz57 now deceased once chewed the lid off a litre bottle of Baileys and drank a great deal of it. Exh and I returned home to find her falling around all over the place and I thought she'd hurt herself as she could hardly stand - until I found the half empty bottle! She was very drunk! On the phone the vet said to just keep her contained so she couldn't hurt herself which I did and I tried to walk her so she could sober up a bit have a wee but had to hold her up by the lead/collar and her tail. She was absolutely fine, but clearly had a hangover the next day . Miss her :(

Oh and at other times she ate a whole lettuce, a whole chicken carcass (which she hurled back up under my bed), countless knicker crotches, good leather shoes.... (shakes head at memories).

This will completely out me - but a couple of years ago, having gone to the parentals for Christmas (avec pooch), we were trundling up the road for a drink at lunchtime -or possibly a little earlier-

Knowing what my ddog is like, I carefully cleared all kitchen sides of anything remotely food related. The tree had already been cleared of chocolate -by me-

Unfortunately I failed to account for my Dad, who was not so well acquainted with the Hound of the Baskervilles. He subsequently moved a couple of things around before walking out of the door, and warning the dog to 'be good'.

We arrived back an hour or so later, to find Hound chewing the last of the container that had previously protected the Christmas pud. He ate the lot. Cardboard box, the plastic bowl and complete pudding.

Bastard dog (as he now known) was promptly rushed to the only out of hours vet open in the area, and Mum and I spent three hours waiting for his anti-emetic to work. The vet came downstairs and listed the stomach contents to us - lots of fruit and nuts, check. Lots of red plastic, check. Couple of small pebbles? Check. We had no idea he'd also eaten one of my Dad's long lost watches too, though.

Bastard Dog attempted to repeat the performance the following year, when he took a flying leap at my bag-laden sister, chomping a hefty mouthful of her carefully home-made Christmas pudding.

Strike though fail.

And yes, he's a Labrador.

Popping candy? Watches? Oh my...

Around 1975 I was at a party in a shared house - think The Young Ones for context. Next morning we awoke to a commotion in the kitchen - the neighbour had come in via the open back door looking for help. Her husband had gone out early and she'd got up to find their dog quite unwell, staggering around the garden looking bewildered, legs not working as they should. Neighbour thought dog had been poisoned, she would call the vet out, should she call the police in case someone had done this maliciously?
Seconds later there was a shriek from the living room floor, where people were starting to awaken... "Me stash! Where's me f*ing stash?"
Dog had wandered in, snuffled around, found an interesting parcel in someone's pocket... and scoffed a week's wages worth of finest lebanese hashish.
It was a bit of a challenge a) to stop the previous owner from dismembering the dog and b) to stop the neighbour calling out the police. The dog eventually fell into a deep sleep in the middle of the lawn, stayed there for 24 hours and appeared to suffer no after-effects. The previous owner of the small package became very very careful about making sure that doors were closed after that...

The list of things our brown lab has eaten is long and impressive:
Horse poo
Cow poo
Sheep poo
Her own poo.
Raspberry turnover
Three salmon steaks
Three beef steaks
Numerous loaves of bread
Equally numerous cartons of butter
15 mince pies
20 gingerbread stars
One mars bar
Manky, very dead sheep intestines
Cat food

When we still had the trampoline for the boys, she used to steal stuff and hide under the trampoline with it - she could dodge all attempts to get the stuff out of her jaws, under there!

She has also stolen and eaten flour - flour+labrador slobber = glue - and I have a video of her trying to get rid of a mouthful of glue whilst, at the same time, trying to defend the rest of the bag of flour from ds2, who is retrieving it!

She also got in the cupboard where we store the big bag of dog food, and age 4.5 kilos of it! We found out what she was up to when she went out into the garden and threw up - she was most upset that we didn't let her go back and eat more of the food, having made space in her stomach!

We didn't feed her for days - and she was pooing undigested dog food for days too. Thankfully she appears to have a cast-iron digestion - unlike no2 dog, who ate the cap off a sports bottle which got stuck and caused an intestinal obstruction. She threw up copiously everywhere, and had to have an emergency operation to remove it.

I forgot - she also ate:

Several shoes (including dh's work boots and his Very Expensive leather shoes)
A tray of coffee fudge (that was her and ddog2)
The bottom of the pocket of dh's wax coat - it's the dog walking coat and the pocket had biscuits in

And ddog2 has eaten rancid, dead lamb leg - found by the river.
And dcat - aka CatBastard - is not innocent either. We used to keep the dogs' food in an open cake box, in a laundry basket, on top of the microwave - so well out of the dogs' reach. Dh came downstairs one day to find CatBastard knee deep in the dogs' food, eating around himself, whilst the dogs looked on, utterly horrified!

I am laughing out loud at these stories! I've not had any experience of dogs stealing food,but my DD's cat once tucked into a foil tray of liver and onions that DD had left cooling on the kitchen worktop,to freeze for use later. Within a few hours,the cat was extremely sick all over the hall and kitchen floor. We thought it was the liver being too rich that made her sick,but have since been informed that onions really do not agree with cats and should not be given to them. She has also helped herself to a whole tin of tuna that was left on the worktop for 5 minutes,a frankfurter sausage,a raw chicken breast and had a good go at a sticky toffee pudding. And I thought cats weren't supposed to like sweet things.

There seems to be a theme here,with Labradors! Just what is it about this particular breed of dog that makes them so greedy they will eat almost anything?!

Try the bathroom for feeding the cats and keep the door shut at the time of feeding. My cat eats in the Utility room where dog cannot reach.

Just remembered the pot of tropical fish food pellets that DD's cat managed to get hold of and scoffed. Made her very sick. And another time,I noticed she had a piece of string dangling out of her bum,just after she had had a poo. Turned out she had gone in the kitchen bin and retrieved and eaten the string that DD had taken off a joint of lamb.

Janey I've been told that most labradors lack the gene that tells them they're full, effectively they suffer from Prader-Willi syndrome. No idea if it's true but it certainly makes sense!

OP you might be pleased (or not) to learn this thread has been lifted and turned into a Daily Mail article

I have a golden retriever who will eat just about anything. Play doh is a current favourite.

Oh noooo, Daily Mail. God, do they ever stop.
I've loved this thread OP. It's totally killed my "ooh, maybe i should get a puppy" musings though..