What my stupid dog ate next

[Roodog]

I was just congratulating myself on managing not to have to visit the vet because of something our scavenger / opportunist thief greyhound has eaten, for a whole year, when my husband shouted up the stairs to me that the hound had torn into a box of bonemeal fertiliser and obviously eaten some, though not masses.

That was yesterday afternoon. After a sleepless night mopping up sick and repeatedly checking the data sheet that states bonemeal is not toxic to dogs, I took him to the vet this morning. He's still there, and will remain on IV fluids overnight. Apparently he's now really comfy and chilled, and everyone loves him.

Honestly, he is a nightmare and not only does he not learn not to eat anything not in his food bowl, apparently we humans have not learned to expect him to eat ANYTHING even things totally unexpected.

And he's only been away for the day but I'm missing him!

What unexpected things have your dogs eaten, just to keep you on your toes? I know labradors are renowned scavengers, but I reckon greyhounds can give them a run for their money!

I once caught mine nibbling one of those dessicant sachets that say DO NOT EAT all over them.

Tbf she was only 4 months old at the time, obviously now she's 2 she could read the warning herself

(fortunately she hadn't actually broken the wrapping!)

Tons of chocolate
Bowl of defrosting raw mince
Half a chocolate cake (the half he could reach from the counter)
Licked ant poison once too

My friend's dog jumped on a lightbulb🙄

Left adult dd home alone responsible for dhusky.
Didn't notice dhusky had eaten a flip flip. All except the toe post.
Lots of sparkly poo that week end...
Dhusky went into kennels after that.

Labradors x 2. Nothing you wouldn’t expect .
Cat shit; horse shit; human shit; rancid dead deer; rancid dead rabbit; rancid dead seal ; hamburgers waiting to be grilled; chocolate cake; tub of cheese spread; lawn fertiliser and yes , bone meal . Oh , and something ash -like near the crematorium . 😳😳

Oh yeah, shit of all varieties, but sheep and cat are his favourite 🤢
We're lucky he's big as he hasn't suffered from the chocolate cake or Easter egg.

If the kitchen door isn't shut tight, any food not sealed away is fair game. Fortunately he's not canny enough to open doors.

@Timeforachangeisitnot did the bonemeal make them ill?

Stollen
Piece of Terry chocolate orange (for some reason he's very drawn to it?!)
Rabbit poo
Deer poo
Sheep poo
Horse poo

Getting a theme here?

No. The seal and rabbit made them vomit; the dear gave them worms; the human shit was possibly laced with drugs or alcohol and was scary ; but the bone meal was ok.

6 frozen burgers.

Plenty, but the latest offence was to rip through 2 outer cardboard packages to get to posh, loose leaf tea (T2 brand) that my DH had bought for my birthday and stashed under his desk in the office. I mean - it did smell delicious. But tea!

Only yesterday tiny terrier stole a whole hot cross bun. Fortunately it was economy brand so not too many sultanas.

Husband was a bit puzzled to be called to afternoon tea consisting of a cup of tea and an empty plate.

Our first dog, a brown lab had an eclectic menu, including:

Steaks dh left on the work top.
Salmon dh left on the work top (he didn’t learn).
Gingerbread stars and Christmas trees I left on the work top (I didn’t learn either).
Numerous tubs of butter left too close to the edge.
Bags of bread - ditto.
Ds3’s mars bar (had to go to the vet and be made sick).
Horse shit.
Cow pats.
Sheep poo.
Her own poo.
Mulched grass clippings.
Flour - flour + dog slobber = glue, which was quite funny to watch.
Dh’s raspberry turnover - left in a low table.

And last, but most impressive :

4.5kgs of dry dog food. She looked completely spherical and the dog food was coming through pretty much completely undigested. On the vet’s advice, we didn’t feed her for days! She would have eaten more (she’d got into the cupboard where the 10kg sack lived), but we realised what she was up to when dh saw her being sick (to make room for more, we assume).

God love her, she was a lovely dog - we lost her last year (cancer, and chemo, plus old age and finally a gastric infection she couldn’t fight off - she and our other dog both ate something very rotten, and her system just couldn’t cope).

That reminds me - ddog2 (a rescue lab/pointer cross) found half a very dead, runny seal in the rocks on Stevenston beach. She ate some, tried to brink the rest with her, and when it wouldn’t come free of the rocks, she rolled in it.

Dh had to bring her home - on the train - coated in green, runny dead seal. He was then planning to bring her through the house, upstairs, and through our bedroom to shower her in the en suite, but I put my foot down and we washed her outside. After two really good goes with dog shampoo, she was clean enough for a final shower upstairs (to warm her up - not that our dogs are spoiled, of course) - but we had run out of dog shampoo so dh grabbed the cheapest bottle he could find, which belonged to one of the dses - but a dog who smells of Lynx Africa is an improvement on manky seal! 😂😂😂

My childhood dog used to steal teabags out the bin, the rancid dog! She liked herbal tea ones too .... spicy!

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius oh god, I had similar with dead seagull on the beach. Didn’t realise he’d rolled in it until he got in the car. Drove about 15 miles, in pouring rain, with all the windows open 🤮🤢

Ours is fond of a particularly fragrant ditch near our house. It's a black, anaerobic decomposition stinking pot. And he loves it.

Absolutely stinks to high heaven if he gets near it

Oh Lordy our Labrador rolled in a dead seal on Mull. We had to get the ferry then drive back to the rental cottage and bath her using washing up liquid. It was not fun! We had to do a forensic cleanup in the cottage!

Why on earth do we love them so much ? 😂😂😂

Ddog stole three onions yesterday and instead of going to the grooming parlour for a lovely bath she was down at the vet, being made to vomit and conking out from the drugs. She was comically woeful for the rest of the day but appears to have bounced back. Argh!

These are completely harmless. Silica gel=sand 😁

Oh wow, so many disgusting snacks! Quite relieved we've never experienced that. He's kept on a lead almost always so I guess that reduces the chances of finding dead things at the beach.

Friend's dog got stoned by accident, having eaten something left at the park. He was fine after a day or two but that was a worrying one.

For future reference:

www.animalpoisonline.co.uk/

great for finding out if you do or don’t need to go to the vet. Saved me a fortune once 😂

The trouble with greyhounds is that they are gannets who will eat anything, tall enough to reach worktops, and dim enough to make you underestimate them.

Over the years our greyhounds have eaten half a cooked Guinea fowl, a punnet of plums, the bandage off his leg, a sponge mop head, dark chocolate-coated gingers, all the leaves off my dragon plant, a packet of burger cheese (cheese, wrappers and packet), most of the stuff from our garden (particularly cherry tomatoes, strawberries and cucumbers, all straight off the plant), the middle of my lovely new knitted throw for the sofa, half a hot cross bun out of our neighbours hand as he came out to say hello at snack time, a slice of bread out of a man’s hand as he was trying to feed the ducks.

These have been with 3 dogs across 15 years so we’re not as neglectful as we may sound…

Only his own poop as a puppy, wooden trains as a puppy, jigsaw pieces (again as a puppy). I taught him a very strong leave. Since then he's only pinched a very tempting piece of cave cheese and his kryptonite, fallen on the floor lego. I can even leave raw meat out to defrost on the kitchen worktop when he's shut in the kitchen.