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!

Old Ddog rescue lab/collie cross ate:
Half a Christmas cake. (Spent New Years in emergency vets on a drip. We didn’t know he could open door handles).
Box of dozen eggs, including shells. And box
Loaf of bread
Bees and wasps
Ants

Current bonkers lab puppy ate a quarter of a bath towel from his bed. 3 days later the whole wodge of towel came back up. That was a very scary 3 days.

Omg at the ash 😳🙈😳

I'm feeling so relieved I have the worlds fussiest dog who barely eats dog food and <touches wood> and hasn't ever eaten something he shouldn't have (as far as I'm aware...)

That said he did once get to a cooked chicken carcass, some idiot had left in the park, before I did and was desperately trying to wolf that down before I took it off him. He was fine thankfully.

Current terrier has a very sensitive stomach and vomits at anything even a little unusual (except horse poo, which he snatches at just when you think you've got him past it). This has saved us a couple of times when he tried to eat blutak, and again when he got a ferrero rocher which was (unknown to us) in a present under the Christmas tree. He threw up pretty much instantly for both.

Old lady terrier loved cat poo and her own 🤢 but the most memorable was her eating one of DS' first potty poos, he was so proud and came to tell us... 'come and see Mummy...' empty potty and a guilty looking dog 🤮

One of the labs when I was growing up swallowed my dad's wool walking socks, used to steal stuff and gulp it down if you tried to take it off him... he ate loads of things he shouldn't have but also used to pick his own blackberries on a walk!

My friends dog ate a used tampon 🤮😢

Last week my collie worked out how to open the kitchen door whilst I was out and scoffed a whole tub of chocolate brownies, he had an overnight trip to the vets and had learnt bugger all from his antics 🤦‍♀️

Reading with intrigue

Socks, gloves and sanitary towels

36 onion bhajis.

Followed by a day in the vets on a drip (New Year's Eve) and a bill for £500. Just what you need after Xmas with no pet insurance.

We're insured him after that...

An entire camembert

2 mince pies and their foil cases

Probably the worst that my cocker spaniel has done, but not as bad as some of these reports 🙈

In Jan my dog ate a marble, it took 6 weeks to pass through her. I had contacted my vet who had said given her size it would probably pass through her, I wasn't expecting it to take so long.

I’m thankfully a cat person. Someone I used to work with had a chocolate lab that ate all of her currency for a 2 week holiday to America.

Two beagles, who would eat anything and everything, someone left a whole cooked chicken carcass out with a whole garlic in it, one of them tried to eat it and ended up eating the whole garlic, a trip to the vets a lot of induced sickness and £1300 later, he was feeling very sorry for himself. X

We had a cocker spaniel who lived to a ripe old age and he was a dirty little thief, some of the things he scoffed over the years included:

Loads of chocolate
Plaster off the walls
An electric cable off the tumble dryer
Cat poo and litter
A whole loaf of multi-seeded bread
A discarded kebab off the street
Human vomit off the street
Several alphabet fridge magnets
A packet of marshmallows (and most of the packet itself)
Numerous baby socks
A used tampon he managed to steal from a bin bag on a walk
A dead mouse

Our first Labrador ate anything and everything, totally got away with murder. Operated on an eat it now, throw it up later system. She ate six Easter eggs, boxes and all, in one sitting. She got into a sack of chicken corn, which popped in her stomach like popcorn and she did expanding poops every twenty minutes for 24 hours. She wasn’t allowed rawhide or chews because she swallowed them whole, like a snake. She couldn’t have bones because even a huge bone would be all gone in about ten minutes.

Our current lab ate a tablet out of my horse’s bucket, burped green bubbles. Keeled over, then just as I was ringing the vet, came round, threw up, and carried on as normal! His most disgusting thing was eating a mouse that the cat had dropped. I was just pondering what to do with the poor thing because it’s heart was still beating slightly, when gross-dog swallowed it whole before I could get to him. I could’ve murdered him. 🤢 😡

lab springer cross:

poo, all varieties
a small fluorescent power ball that we never saw come out again, maybe still in there.
a pile of raisins (trip to vet)
a triangular chunk of wood. No one saw her eat it but it came back up intact
a big tin of sweetcorn, thankfully not including the tin
used hankies out of the bin
a dead bird's wing
loads of unripe pears
face cream
a whole uncooked garlic bread

My yellow lab that sadly passed away last year:

Human poo
Various animal poos
Frozen block of mince
Socks and underwear. Mens socks were his favourite
Playdoh
Bottom half of a door
Nappies
Dug up and ate raw potatoes so often that the farmer threatened to shoot him
Vomit
A carton of passata
A cannabis plant (not UK it was legal)
Dug up and ate our dead cat, threw her up, then ate her again.

@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius omg I pissed myself reading your post 😂😂😂😂

Our ridiculous pug:

All the shits, including the one that was still exiting the cat’s ass
1kg vanilla bone shaped biscuits
Peach stone (surgery and hospitalisation)
150g of 90% posh dark chocs
bath bomb
vomit
packet of mentos

@Happysalley oh Jesus just read about your cat

One of my close friends is blind and she had to retire her guide dog because he started stealing her food!

Ah, greyhounds...! 😊
Mine ate my meds and vit tablets once. Daft fatty.

Oh, there was a toad too...

Christmas pudding (emergency vet two nights stay)
Lasagne (ordinary vet overnight)
Half a roast gammon joint (no vet needed)
Manure, regularly when on walks
A desiccated, dead toad (diarrhoea, prokolin, recovered)

Three hearing aids.

Cost Thousands.

On the day of my mother's funeral, my 13-year-old Shih-poo was walking around the house clinking. Literally. Metallic clinking that I traced to her abdomen. Raced her to the vet, went to the funeral, back to the vet that afternoon. The vet had removed 98 diabetic testing needles and an earring from her abdomen. Apparently she had found a box that had fallen to the floor, torn it open and swallowed the contents.

My Border Terrier would so do this!
I need eyes in the back of my head. I made myself a sandwich the other day and turned my back for a second and when I went back to the dining room table to resume eating I noticed the top slice of bread had disappeared .

He eats his own poo, anything he can find on the pavement on a walk, I have to be so vigilant. He once ate a rubber toy kid's dinosaur (only small) and literally on a walk a couple of days later shit it out whole on the pavement.

He also once ate some chrysanthemum leaves I dropped by accident and was really quite poorly.

Dogs eh 😂