FGS - Dill has eaten the roast chicken carcass

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I could hear crunching and he's swiped the bloody thing out of the bin.

What do I need to look out for wrt any harm?

Didn't realise this was the doghouse - thought you meant that your daughter-in-law had eaten the carcass!

DS1 is only 12.5 - I am not an evil MIL just yet. ALthough I am practising. :o

He might not want any breakfast tomorrow morning if he is still full from the chicken! I don't think it will do him any harm. If he was going to choke on a bone it would have happened already.

It's possible the shards of bone could be very sharp going through him - sharp enough to puncture causing pain and infection. Cooked bone is dry and brittle and likely to splinter.

Keep a very close eye on him - any sign of unusual behaviour, coughing, retching, vomiting, unusual poo activity then straight to the vet.

Fingers crossed it'll pass through with no trouble.

agree it's the splintering that's the risk. Get a better bin! Hope he's ok.

It was the dumb food recycling bin from the council - I have no choice about it :) (although, as an aside, my childhood spaniel used to be able to operate the pedal bin and open the fridge )

He seems fine. He was giving it a damn good crunch - I thought nothing of it as he had a beef bone left from yesterday (raw in this case, from the butcher!) and I assumed it was that. Then I twigged.

I did google it and it seems it is usually OK. He seems fine so far.

Bloody dog.

Thanks

Glad he's ok.

Mine ate a platic water bottle last week, I had visions of haemorrhage and god knows what. He was fine.

Now he knows there's a new food bowl, you'll have to do something to stop him helping himself again - will a weight on the lid suffice?

I dropped a chicken bone a couple of weeks ago, dog swiped it and darted under table, no way was he giving it back to me. He was sick later on (no bits of bone apparent, so maybe coincidence) - on Persian rug 'inherited' from MIL, the retching wretch. So you may want to confine Dill to the kitchen or wherever for a while.

He seems fine this morning - no pools of dog sick or anything on the kitchen floor!

I think in future I will leave any cooked bones in the fridge until rubbish day!

The only other thing he has swiped from the recycling bin was half a stale loaf of bread. He grabbed it out and hared off down the garden with it. That was over a month ago and he's not bothered with the bin again until now.

I'm sure I remembered to feed him yesterday :o I know I did as I stripped the carcass of meat into his food bowl before binning the bones.

My pup did this a couple of weeks ago, I wrapped up the leftover chicken in silver foil and left it on the worktop to cool down. Didn't know the pup had grown big enough to reach the worktop, he's only 4 months old FGS. All that was left of the chicken was the foil, he must have eaten it in about 2 minutes flat. He was fine the next day but the day after he messed in his cage during the night, the one and only time he's ever done that.

I didn't learn my lesson because a few days later I made a coffee and walnut cake and left it on the side to cool and the little bugger nabbed that as well - on a plus side his coat is beautifully soft and shiny.

They are swift, opportunistic little buggers.

My childhood spaniel once cleared a border round a dining table laden with buffet food to a depth equal to how far his tongue could reach. In a house full of guests and no one noticed until he'd done it.

Our pup half inched a boiled ham cooked in cola a la Nigella. It was 1.5kg and pupis only 4!!!!

Mine does this frequently. Last week was the remnants of a Goan fish curry! Have decided swing bins + golden retrievers are not a good mix

My last dog, bless him, was very good about not stealing from counter tops. Until the week before he died, when he suddenly, uncharacteristically, half-inched a leg of lamb I'd left out for dh's supper (he was back from work late, and hungry).

dh came home to no leg of lamb, a stripped bone on the sitting room floor, and a guilty looking doggy.

But a week later, when he suddenly got really ill and had to be pts aged 14...we were so glad he'd had that lamb

Our dog is exceptionally good about not stealing from counter tops.

But only because he's a dachshund and can't

wordfactory that has made me laugh - he must have looked like a little barrel by the time he'd finished.

My dog half-inched the pork pie from my dad's plate while my dad was reaching into the cupboard for the pickle to go with it. When he turned back, there was just the untouched tomato and the knife and fork.

He thought he was having a senior moment and said nothing about it - the dog, after all, was by his feet, with short little legs. There was no way he could reach up there, surely? And he hadn't heard a sound.

Dog is a Basset hound.

LOL!

Wildfig, do you ever look at the Fred Basset cartoons? A recurring theme is Fred's thievery from kitchen tables.
Bassets may have short legs but they have big long bodies.

Fred Basset is the reason my boyfriend had a basset as a child... and the reason we have two now. They are just as smart and funny and worldweary in real life, but it has to be seen to be believed just how high they can reach when they want something. They're the same length as a Lab, with the same greed and twice the determination.

If my younger dog can smell something good but can't quite reach, he stands next to the biscuits object in question and barks impatiently for me to reach it down for him. It's a totally different kind of bark. It's the bark of a senior director buzzing on his intercom for his assistant.

Grimma aren't dachshunds just as deceptively reach-y but on a slightly lower scale?

(And thanks for the FB link - I can see huge chunks of this afternoon floating away!)

Grimma aren't dachshunds just as deceptively reach-y but on a slightly lower scale?

Horizontally, yes - amazing neck - but vertically, while further than you might guess, just not quite far enough; this one (who's big for a dachs) can just reach the edge of the counter with his nose but its not quite far enough to snaffle food.