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

[mummabubs]

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

Is your dog ok now OP?

Dog has eaten a roll of Christmas wrapping paper. The whole lot, including cardboard. He was very ill... but most of it came out in tact, a bit twisted but definitely useable!

He is an accomplished thief of any underwear lying around. He was straining away recently - in the middle of a cricket pitch - and out came dd's stripy pants. In fact almost every poo has some sort of foreign object in there...

This Christmas I caught him with a paracetamol blister pack. I was frantic as I didn't know if he'd eaten any. He had his stomach pumped and the vet found... one paracetamol box, one Christmas decoration, two socks... and "various other bits and bobs".

My little Jack Russell specialises in finding things under bushes. From her, I have discovered how common it is for people to buy themselves a burger or a cheese sandwich, take one bite then stuff it in a hedge. Her best discovery was an entire steak.

Some of these stories remind me of a particularly harrowing event that happened to my OH when he was in the Navy. A pal of his had this dog, and one time this pal asked my OH if he would look in on him and feed the dog for a couple of days when he was away. OH duly obliged but got a bit more than he had bargained for.

This was back in the days when people still had chip pans, and this pal had gone away and left a chip pan on the hob which was full of cold cooking oil. The dog had knocked the chip pan off the hob, spilling the oil all over the kitchen floor. Stupid dog had then decided to eat said oil which made him sick and gave him the most terrible shits. My OH went round on the first morning to feed the dog, opened the door to the kitchen, and immediately skidded along the floor which was covered in rancid oil, dog sick and diarrhea and landed on his arse. Covered in this rancid stuff , the poor whimpering dog then launched himself on OH and started licking his face while simultaneously shitting and puking.

He laughs about it now but he said it took him hours to clean it all up.... Dog was fine after.

My old Border Collie ate the entire middle tier of my very alcoholic wedding cake a few weeks after my marriage ceremony.

Sick as a, well, a dog and couldn't eat for 3 days.

My dear old dog (12yo Staffy) has a massive roll call of shameful things he's stolen/ gulped over the years. These include (off the top of my head):

An empty bean tin (that was expensive, that one)
Various Easter eggs, chocolate bars etc stolen from bags and pockets and stashed hidden by the kids
Anything out of the bin including used tea bags and egg shells
Tissue paper
Used wet wipes
An entire pizza swiped off my DDs plate
Entire lunches and dinners of my DS

This is just what I can remember. He is gated in the kitchen at dinner times etc but some bright spark lets him out (usually DH or DD) every single time.

He does get fed by the way - good mix of wet and dry, nice dog treats and occasional roast dinners and sausages so he's not starving but hey, ho that's the way of the canine

Glad to hear your muttly pal is ok, OP

My old dog ate half the kitchen door. No exaggeration.

We went out to the shops, were gone 40 minutes max. She had managed to throw her toy behind the kitchen door we think and on retrieving it shut herself in, freaked and ate her way out. However, other than a small pile of splinters and wooden shards there was nothing left of the door beyond the bottom of the door handle!

She was fine and went on to live another 10 years.

Our brown lab has eaten many interesting things over the years.

Sheep poo, cow poo, horse poo and her own poo.

Three steaks dh left out on the kitchen worktop.

Three salmon steaks dh left out on the kitchen worktop (because the fool doesn't learn).

A raspberry turnover dh left on the coffee table (see comment above re. not bloody learning).

Two dozen mince pies dh left to cool on the kitchen worktop (seeing a pattern here?).

4.5kg of dry dog food when someone (not me) left the cupboard open. She looked like a barrel on legs, was pooing undigested dog food, and we didn't have to feed her for days.

Numerous tubs of butter and part loaves of bread, left within reach on the worktop (by all members of the family, not just dh).

The cat's food, whenever she can get at it. He prefers to be fed outside, on the patio table, but tends to just eat a couple of mouthfuls and then wander off, and then the dog helpfully finishes it up.

Various rotten things she has found on walks.

A sandwich she stole from an angler - luckily he thought it was funny.

Our dog before the current one was very partial to make up. After a couple of expensive episodes we had to be very careful that visitors did not put their handbags on the floor and leave the tops open

In the past few days our Jack Russell has eaten (all of these were dropped on the floor while I was preparing food):
2 pieces of uncooked pasta
1 frozen open chip
1 piece of lettuce
several pieces of raw carrot
one small piece of cheese.
He is also partial to crisps, ritz crackers, bread (particularly baguettes) and apples.
The only thing that caused a problem was most of a bar (minus one piece) of chocolate.
He also sniffs out any leftover food at the local park as well.

5 month old staffy
she has turned every available twig into mulch
cardboard containers
Hot chile based sauce and
wants more
raspberries
she doesn't actually eat the non food items
she disassembles them into tiny little bits

she just got spayed 2 days ago
and it hasnt slowed her down a bit

we all grump and groan but would be broken hearted without them

last pup was a timberwolf
he loved all the things dogs aren't supposed to eat
but when he ate the garlic fresh from the ground or picks the grapes off the vine what you gonna do?
he lived for 15 yrs and died of old age.
as big as he was he had great manners.
wouldnt steal except for booze(loved white russians)
BUt he would sit and stare at you than the item in question..the master of trying to guilt you.

love your pup stories.
have a cat that likes white cheeses,and veggie soup????

We don't have a dog but have to share the story of my brother's border terrier who ate a small candle over Christmas...brother had no idea until the dog pooed it out almost whole in the park!

I used to have an English Bull Terrier crossed with a Bull Mastiff he ate:

My designer glasses, the same day I paid the final finance payment on them.
A stainless steel kettle, I only noticed it was missing when I went to make a cup of tea and noticed it crumpled up in the dog basket missing various bits.
A borrowed copy of Carol Vodermans Detox for your life.
My oak skirting boards
Various teatowels
My favourite pair of leggings

My PIL's dog was in the house when burglars broke in on Boxing Day. They gave her the left-over turkey to eat whilst they ransacked the place. She did eat it, and then felt so worried that she threw it all up again in the hall.

My dog used to counter surf and consume the contents of the butter dish and sugar bowl. I sent away for Barbara Woodhouse's book on dog training. As soon as it came through the letter box, the dog chewed it to pieces - she knew you see.

www.amazon.co.uk/No-Bad-Dogs-Woodhouse-Way/dp/0671541854?tag=mumsnetforum-21

Mine has eaten all sorts, but memorable items include:

A pair of tights - removed by the vet
A tray of brownies, just removed from the oven and left out of reach to cool - another trip to the vets
A packet of loom bands (pretty poos though)
Some tiny wooden Christmas tree decorations
Strawberries as they ripened straight off my strawberry plants
Knitting wool
The sole from my favourite pair of boots
Several beds (once they'd been shagged into submission)
A massive snot when a sneeze took DD2 by surprise
He used to steal and swallow socks off my baby niece's feet
And today, a dead mouse that the cat had left on the patio

My aunt had a Boxer, he once opened the oven, removed and ate the chicken that was roasting in there. He was fine and lived for many more years!

I would be tempted to think the poor boxer just got the blame for what a hungry teenager did.

Dustbin Scoffman

Small dog has eaten:
butter (in the company of her evil elder brother)
wrapping paper (interesting bits in poo)
the tops of most of a tray of fairy cakes left to cool on the table
a whole pigeon that she caught and killed, except for about half a dozen feathers. Everything else: feet, beak, wings. I thought she'd be sick, but she just looked EXTREMELY smug and slept all day.

I've an eight-week-old puppy chew a knackered old rug, and then shit out a long string of rug thread that I didn't even realise she'd ingested. Was she bovvered? She was not.

My friends dog ate so many different nameless fungi from their garden that we theorised that humans domesticated dogs as food testers: if the dog ate it, and didn't get the shits or die, the humans would try it.

I did feel I'd had a rare witty moment when I coined the Dustbin alter ego 😂 He definitely lives up to it on a weekly basis!

Thanks so much again to everyone for sharing, I've read every post and I can safely say that we are definitely no longer feeling alone with his antics!

And @Springersrock : I've technically been growing strawberries for three years now. Thanks to the greyhound I've never sampled a single one. Clever bugger ignores them completely until they're perfectly ripe and then within seconds scoffs the lot. I've given up ever hoping to taste one! 😂

@PUGaLUGS - the chicken farts have been absolutely dire. But then to be honest his usual farts are also dire. (Being pregnant with morning sickness they're usually good enough to send me running to the toilet to vom, the chicken farts were no exception)!

@StaplesCorner He's absolutely fine bless him, 100% his usual cheeky self with apparently no ill effects at all apart from the small vomit he did straight after eating it (I then had to wrestle with him to stop him from consuming the vomit. That was a small win on my part I feel).

Aw good news!

mumma and that's why we grow our strawberries in the greenhouse and in hanging baskets .

DDog does eat her weight in blackberries though from the bushes in our garden and the apples that fall off our trees.

On holiday recently (stayed in a cottage) we had left a closed box of chocolates on a coffee table. DDog slept upstairs with us in her bed. The morning after us opening the chocolates she shot downstairs, we heard an almighty crash, went down to investigate, she had got on the coffee table and knocked the box of chocolates off and managed to eat one, luckily the others were still sort of inside the box and DH managed to scoop them up before she ate any more. They must be able to smell chocolate from a mile off.

Oh bless you with the sickness, I am way too old to have any more babies. She is my baby now...

My much beloved (and very missed) Staffy x Lurcher was a consummate thief/destroyer of items, including but not limited to:
Half a sofa
Plastic bottles (with or without contents)
A tube of Pringles (tube included, all we found were two rings)
A packet of pasta 'n' sauce
A whole cooked chicken (the lot, nothing left, just a licked clean chicken bag and a dog who farted chicken for 3 days!)
A whole broccoli & Stilton quiche
Various donuts (over several years but the best was a friend who'd put his on top of his cuppa on the floor while he sorted something out and within 30 seconds said donut had vanished, no one saw her take it just her licking her lips as she walked away)
Left over take away curry (she was supposed to be a white dog, she was distinctly orange after that!)
Boerwurst off a lit barbecue
Pints of cider
Pints of bitter
Various alcopops
A pack of butter
She suffered very few ill effects (apart from stinky farts) and lived well into her teens!
She was brilliant but you learnt never to leave food or drink unattended, ever (even if you thought you'd put it out of her reach)!