Dog has just eaten an entire roast chicken(!) Reassurance of similar escapades please!

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Our 7 year old rescue greyhound (who is renowned for eating a manner of things he shouldn't) has outdone himself this evening. Just found that he's eaten an entire rotisserie chicken (full carcass and leg meat, breast meat had been removed for our dinner). He's been a tiny bit sick (literally a tablespoon equivalent) and promptly eaten that up again. He's had a lot of water too. Other than that he's acting like his usual self.

We're going to keep a close eye on him for 48 hours as I'm aware of the risk of blockage/internal splinters, but I can't help feeling anxious. (Obviously if he stops eating or shows signs of distress it'll be straight to the vet with him). Can others possibly share their stories of their beloved pooches eating all manner of naughty/bad things and being fine afterwards? Thanks in advance xx

My rotty as a dc ate 8 Easter eggs complete with all packaging. .

A whole chicken belonging to our upstairs neighbours..
Many many pairs of shoes..

An antique table and 2 chairs..
Our house had doors that just pushed open so couldn't contain her from naughtiness.

@Hoppinggreen . Mmmmm, cheesey toenails...

We have a little JR. I rushed her to the vets as I thought she was having a stroke/dying.

She couldn't walk properly, tried climbing the stairs and just toppled backwards, stood looking at me strangely then peed right in front of me in the living room. She was staggering around but seemed strangely upbeat.

She was drunk. She had knocked back not one but two tankards of mead by climbing on a chair to reach the table they were on. She lived on and has been caught in the act many times since, she's even sunk to the depths of licking empty wine bottles.

She also ate two huge bars of 'Old Jamaica'
Chocolate. Stolen out of my bag. Two nights mini break at the vets for her.

I very rarely find any poop in the cat's litter trays. The filthy creature gets there first.

I have an alcoholic, chocoholic, shitaholic dog.

My friend's little JR x has eaten all manner of things, including shoes, cucumber and ice cubes. Last time I heard about her, she'd scoffed a broken egg, shell and all.

Mine did this a few months ago, and I posted on here in utter panic!! He's never stolen anything before, and the chicken carcass was well back on the worktop - I initially thought DH had thrown it out but then realised dogs bed had some bones in!! The vet reassured me that boiler chickens are very soft boned these days, and dog was fine - his poop was very interesting to try and scoop however for about 3 days.......they advised me to give him some wholemeal bread to absorb some of the fat and help it pass through. It's hard not to, but don't panic.

And I used to think Stephanie Plum exaggerated about the things Bob ate!

We have a black lab....

To much naughtiness to list but you are not alone!

I wish I could say this was the first time @JaneEyre70 ... although it's definitely the most bones he's ever encountered. I gave him brown bread on the evening of the incident and touch wood he's been fine since. I've tried not to worry but I swear he's trying to give me a heart attack!

My husband and dad both reckon he's dissolved the bones as there's still no sight of them and he appears completely fine... which I can sort of believe given the acidity of dog stomach acid but I can't get over how they can dissolve chicken bones but not sweetcorn?!!

Loving the shame stories, dogs definitely add something to your life eh! 😂

The best meal she had was half a leg of roast pork and half a tray (maybe 20 pieces) of roast potatoes.

She regularly consumed a loaf of bread.

We now have a gate on the kitchen.

Our dog is a hoover too - she's eaten in the past
Sons chocolate 5th birthday cake, I'd left on the side to finish icing
A large frozen joint of beef - again on the side to defrost
Whole joint of ham - put to one side to cool for Boxing Day
Countless numbers of chops
Icecreams out of the children's hands
DHs pork chops yesterday - nicked them off the side
My chocolate I'd hidden in my dressing gown to eat in secret from the kids
She's also got into the fridge for a cheese raid
And one dreadful but memorable occasion - leftover takeaway curry - the poor dog shat from one end of the house to the other - needless to say DH had to sort it as he was the one who'd left it out
As a puppy she had a real thing for anything plastic - the kids toys were always in danger.
She's a collie cross and quite big so everything is in reach - especially once she worked out how to open the bloody fridge

My parents' JRT ate a chicken carcass once. My dad realised the house was quiet and the dog was nowhere to be seen, so went looking for her.

Found her on the kitchen bench with a chicken leg in her mouth- the only thing that remained. He got her down from the bench and she went straight to her dish and ate her dried food. Honestly, they're strange creatures!

Hope your pooch doesn't feel too poorly!

DDog once ate a huge Stilton (was the start of December and we had bought to last the month).
The diarrhoea all over the French windows is probably the worst thing I've ever seen/smelled in my entire life.

A Glowstick
Weird toadstools that came up on the lawn overnight.
A chocolate lolly (complete with stick) that he stole off a child
Half a tube of toothpaste.

Worst in terms of expense is the cat, who helped herself to our Christmas turkey.

I was dog sitting my dads dog one weekend . They were due back on the Sunday afternoon so I thought I'd cook a nice roast. I put an uncooked chicken, all still in its wrapper, on the worktop and took my ds to church. When we got back, the dog had jumped up and ate the raw chicken 😩.... he was just lying on his side , his stomach all swollen.
Later, I went upstairs to use the loo..... he'd also done a massive shit on the landing.
I don't dog sit no more 🐶

"she'd scoffed a broken egg, shell and all."
I forgot to add egg shells to the odd treat I give my dogs. We're not big egg eater but I feed both the eggs shells, they love them. The old dogs also eats raw carrots courgettes and cooked sweet corn, the young one wont touch veg. Our cat eats the remains of DH's porridge every morning, patiently waiting for him to finish it and the last cat adored sweet corn, he would steel over instead of meat.
Both dogs will eat the cat shit out of the tray given have a chance.

One of our beagles used to eat daffodils - not the whole plant, or even the whole flower- just nibbled a few petals here and there.

Chocolate lab has eaten:
Whole big bag of cheesy doritos
A roast of beef (shared with the cat)
Two mangos- oh the shits!
A Terry's chocolate orange, my Xmas one unfortunately but thankfully it was white chocolate

He hasn't come to any harm the old bean!

Over the years my dog has eaten:-chicken bones and the remains of a chocolate pudding, bunch of grapes whilst managing to leave the stalks in the plastic bag, Christmas turkey, luckily after lunch and caught before devouring it all, rotting crab on beach, decaying deer,
and many more . My favourite though was when he nicked thee last piece of a lemon cake from the kitchen table when there were two people in the room without either of them seeing him do it😄

We have whippet which we rescued as a pup. He is very skinny (even for a whippet). In the first few weeks after he came to live with us he ate a whole pack of butter, cleaned out the marg tub and ate three quarters of a chocolate birthday cake. His masterpiece was the night I left the deep fat fryer on the worktop to cool down. During the night he climbed on the worktop and drank about half of the oil from the fryer. He then came upstairs and vomited a golden flood of oil onto the middle of our bed.
He seemed fine the next day.

Both dogs have been known to eat dead animals they find whilst we are out.

When I was a child, we had a German Shepherd who once slurped up an entire eel out of a pond like a strand of spaghetti. She was fine.

An entire rotting fish, down in one. Much groaning and many terrible smells followed.

A jellyfish.

My mum's dog ate a chicken off the side, it also broke into the cupboard where it's dry food was kept, nibbled through the bag and ate masses. Then drank loads (of course). They actually thought she was going to split in two with the swollen food inside her.

This thread has made me cry with laughter. Loving 'Dustin Scoffman'

My golden lab's crowning achievement so far is a huge family size tub of butter substitute, eaten in its entirety. She then spent the rest of the day looking very sorry for herself before puking the whole lot up again.

Reading the other posts I'm realising she's a mere amateur food thief - must try harder!

God is it only just me that's thinking about the "chicken farts" that the OP's dog is going to produce...

Chocolate lab
-more in shoes and toys than she cost!
-very memorably plucked the crystals off the new light fitting that we'd left on the armchair while we worked out how to fit it - I had to beg the shop for spares to replace them - she was fine

I didn't know about grapes raisins and sultanas so that's good to know.

Oh Dh's old miniature daschund had half a roast rotisserie chicken plus packaging as MIL popped them both in the car to bring to us and left for just a moment to lock up the house. MIL Dog