So, tell me what random things your crazy labrador has eaten....

[georgimama]

we were awoken by the sound of labrador knocking a ovenproof china dish off the side this morning. I made toad in the hole last night, and bits of batter were crusted on. I meant to soak it but forget and it had spent the night on the drainer .

About 5am the temptation obviously overcame our lab who knocked it onto the floor. It shattered, but that didn't stop him eating the batter (and as far as we can tell, some fragments of the dish ) despite the fact he was cutting his mouth.

(He is absolutely fine before anyone urges me to take him to the vet - the cuts were very trivial and stopped bleeding within minutes.)

DP has a lab/newfie/gsd that is a Very Hungry Dog indeed.

He snaffles the butter whenever I forget to hide it

A while ago we left him in a room with half a takeaway pizza - it was in a box on a shelf. Anyway came home to find a guilty looking dog on the sofa. Wondered why he didn't get up and give us the usual happy I-thought-you-were-never-coming-back greeting... then realised he was sitting on the pizza box, and had hidden a slice under the cushions

Our lab is a complete thief and unfortunately getting worse. He steals DS's toys but he never (touch wood) damages them - he just seems to like having them in his bed.

LOL at hiding a slice under the cushion - you've got to give points for ingenuity.

My lab could be so much worse, a friend of mine had one that could open the fridge.

Our friends' lab once ate the entire bag of dog food that its owners had just bought.

They had left it by the car as they were unloading the shopping and forgot about it. The lab looked like a sausage for a day or so and pooed for England!

Not a lab, but my (brainless) Cocker Spaniel decided to eat a lightbulb - found him in the kitchen crunching away! He will eat anything whether edible or not. He can open the fridge and oven so we have locks on them!

my springer steals butter and can eat a whole packet with no ill effects

he also chews up pants but am not sure how much of them he actually ingests

My lurcher will also eat butter. We will come home, and she will be lying prone on her bed, looking green and guilty.

She also likes tampons/sanitary pads . Very embarassing when she gets one and its all over the landing.

She also ate a pair of my neice's knickers.

Oh, and she ate parts of our couch

She really is very good now though . I think she may have an eye on my dds new hamster though....

Ours has eaten a glove this morning. I have retrieved a large part of it and lots of shredded bits but 3 fingers are unaccounted for so must have been consumed.

We have had to remove all waste paper bins from around the house and put a catch on the cupboard with the kitchen bin because he will steal from any bin he finds.

My parents have had 2 labs.

The first ate a table, a set of chairs, the kitchen floor, underwear and any food she could get hold of. The worst was when the vet told them to cut down on her food, which they did and she ended up eating her own crap out of hunger. She was a really chunky dog but wasn't over fed at all. My mum put her straight back onto her normal food.

The current, and second lab ate the stair carpet, the wall in the hall, a table and various other things much to my mothers annoyance. He's settled down now though.

They're just into chewing the crap out of stuff as pups

My mum had a lab/collie x when she and my dad first got together. They left it in the bathroom overnight to stop the destruction, it had food/toys/water/chews to keep it occupied.

She got up one morning and the bathroom carpet had gone. The whole carpet!! Not a scrap was left and there was a very sheepish looking dog hiding in the corner.

Dog was fine. The carpet clearly did nothing bar a bit of tummy ache. It never did it again though

Oh My God.

I am shaking silently with laughter at your dogs. I have to show DH these.

My old dog (lab cross) once stole a sausage off the pub barbecue at a folk festival.

It was too hot though, so he swallowed it whole, choked, and then threw up the sausage followed by the biscuits he'd had for breakfast.

Then he picked through the pile of puke, found and ate the sausage, leaving me to try and clear the rest up with a cardboard box while a lot of men with beards and accordions stared and laughed.

The shame....

labs are demons for getting at food!! My 9 month old is quite good, the only thing she steals are socks and pants out of the tumble dryer!!! One of my parents labs ate a toad once, the whole thing and was really really ill, nearly died! Did not stop her trying to eat another one though!

he he at the lab eating the bathroom carpet!

our lab has had too many roasts to mention, birthday cakes, whole brie put out for a party, casseroles and smashed a huge Le Crueset casserole dish (grrrrrr).

mine is trying to eat rocks at the moment.

her favourite treat is the kids' duplo blocks.

At christmas my lab retriever cross managed to get into the lounge (door is shut at night) and ate two boxes of seashells and a terries chocolate orange. They were wrapped under the christmas tree. he had to go to the vet the next morning to be made to be sick as chocolate is ve bad for them.

My other lab once ate a 4 meter roll of wrapping paper

It is worth bearing in mind that these are both guide dogs who are apparently inteligent animals.

I should not read things like this at work...I love the idea of the guide dogs behaving badly!

Monty is starting to sound like an angel by comparison. Keep em coming...

During her 3 year life, my black lab has so far;

climbed into a 15kg sack of dog food as a 16 week old puppy and eaten enough to make her wider than she was long. Resulted in emergency trip to vets for bloat

eaten about 60 daffodil bulbs. Resulted in much, much vomit because the bulbs are poisonous to dogs

eaten 2 AA batteries. Resulted in emergency trip to vets for acid burns to throat (fortunately there were none)

eaten the top of one (of course just one) of my favourite Russell & Bromley boots

eaten the corner of the bottom stair carpet

eaten about 20 gallons of sea water. Resulted in severe emergency at the vets with gastric torsion

Oh yes, and her fav treat when she was tiny were slugs and snails. Vile, vile creature.

But she is still soooo cool. And thoroughly insured!

Love the lovely M&S pet insurance people.

Luckily my mutt is quite sensible but my sisters two labs once chomped their way through her husbands stash of paintballing pellets. They had rainbow poo for several weeks!

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My 9th month (homebred) puppy is very fond of radiator caps, walls, skirting boards, fluff from several dog beds and anything you or I might consider edible as well as lots of unmentionable things she finds in the garden.

Her brother however wins the prize for me....pack of 12 firelighters and on a different occasion his owner's high cholesterol pills!

my newfie used to eat dirty tissues

he ate every handle on every cupbard and drawer in the kitchen and everytime we replaced one, he ate that too

Shoes - the more expensive they were, the quicker he chewed them

The plaster off a wall..... down to breeze block

My sister once had a rottweiler who stole the roast chicken that was waiting for my BIL to carve. She also ate 12 eggs (and their cardboard tray).....she was kept outside for a few days to let the smell from her rear end return to normal!