The disgusting side of owning a dog.

[SwimmingInTheBlueLagoon]

I used to think it was disgusting that occasionally my Spaniel got small slugs on his ear (the risk that comes with long dangly ears and them wanting to stick their head in undergrowth, I suppose).

Then I got my second dog and he swallowed a dead dried up toad whole before sicking it back up at my feet.

I didn't think anything would trump the toad incident in disgusting/freaking me out. Then today my dog came in from garden with a tick on his head. It looked like a nasty grey growth. I didn't even know ticks could be grey. Ticks are disgusting. I still feel queezy. I can't believe it was in my garden! Yuck. Yuck. Yuck.

This is the stuff no-one tells you before you get a dog!

On a side note my vet removed it for me and very kindly didn't charge me anything.

Ticks are so prevalent here that I have to check myself for them after a walk through the forest

BiteyDog outdid himself the other day when his poor dog walker had to wrestle a rotting deers head from his mouth [boak]

What about when they eat grass and you have to pull the poo out of their arse when it get stuck

That's nothing, my dog found a human poo in a wet wipe at the end of our road and ATE IT ALL. He has also eaten a used tampon he found in the park.

Mine caught a myxamatosis-riddled rabbit and ate it.

Then pucked up furry brown soupy puke all over the kitchen.

Then developed a horrible case of worms. I knew it was love with DP when he pulled the worms out of the dog's arse for me.

They're disgusting

Mine had been a bit off colour for a few days and I was thinking he was going to need a vet trip. Then at six thirty one morning he was sick in his crate - and it was a huge mass off wriggling roundworms. I've had some icky things to deal with over the years of pet owning but that was the all time low. Called the vet and ordered wormers as soon as they opened!
(Just to clarify I'd had him two months and he'd come from the rescue kennel wormed, de-flead etc. I presumed they'd used drontal so I was fine for another month, they must have used something which didn't last as long. I hadn't just neglected his worming programme!)

Omg Toss you win

Worms ughhhh

I have pulled a massive tangle of tapeworm out of my dog’s bum in public.

That was special.

bitey that's disgusting, your poor dog walker, yet I feel equally sorry for your dog having to give up his disgusting wonderful prize.

Eeylops I couldn't have dealt with that!!! Which reminds me mine are due wormer.

Dance I think I'm more horrified those things were left out in public by other humans, in the first place.

Toss that is disgusting and I really wouldn't put it past my 2nd dog to do that (once he grows up a bit and stops being glued to my side- he's still a puppy).

husky do I even want to ask how that came about?!

Eric once picked up a decomposing pigeon complete with maggots,he only managed to hang on to half of it as it broke up as he lifted it. He wouldn't drop it for a whole hotdog and I just couldn't bring myself to touch it. Ended up walking him home retching to get dh to remove the pigeon. One of the few occasions that I used the hose to clean him off outside before bathing him inside much to his disgust.

Oh yes Swimming apparently he was very reluctant to give up his prize. I was just glad it wasn't me that had to have the tug of war with him

Wow, your dogs are making me feel so lucky that WinnerDog just rolls in Fox shit😂

The first time I wormed my rescue puppy, he threw up a huge mass of worms, ate them before I could get there, then half an hour later went into the garden and crapped them out again! I was gagging so much clearing that up

Mine eats human shit. (not envy)

She got a taste for it when DS2 had a couple of accidents during the potty training phase and
I wasn't quick enough to get her out the room. We occasionally have travellers parking up in our local park and using the undergrowth instead of the public loos. Dog has more than once found it and devoured it. I now avoid the park for a good couple of weeks after they have moved on.

Some of these No, actually, ALL of these. Fuck.

Wow Toss 😮 And here I thought my dog coming out of the undergrowth with a decomposing deer leg - complete with hoof - was bad.
And why does nobody tell you about anal glands before you get a dog?!?

This recent one doesn't even sound that bad but the smell was so so awful! a squirrel must have buried a net containing several fat balls for the birds in my parents garden. Penno dug it up this huge mass of rancid animal fat encased in plastic mesh and was attempting to choke it down. I ran out and held her by the scruff of the neck and held the fatberg with my other hand while shouting for someone to bring some cheese so she might give up this delicacy. Even after scrubbing my hands repeatedly I could not get the smell off my hands. Give me a wee roll in fox poo any day!

Argh I had forgotten about anal glands! Once we had a visiting lady vet have the privilege of emptying them, and she used some kind of special bum febreeze afterwards.

My dog at my little sisters shit twice!