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!

My lovely border collie has eaten numerous washing up sponges, socks, he has a sock fetish! A large rubber band (was very nerve wracking coming out, as I had visions of him pinging his bum!) his dads slippers, almost a whole block of cheese I left to close to the edge of the kitchen counter. A pair of knickers, oh not my everyday ones, he went into my undies drawer and dug out my posh ones!

This morning he also decided that worms looked tasty, so ate a couple of them!

Dug up and ate our dead cat, threw her up, then ate her again.
That is awful (but made me laugh, sorry)

Thanks for sharing so many stories. Makes me feel better it's not just us. Hopefully he'll be home later this morning and I can resume the challenge of stopping him eating things!

This thread makes me feel so much better about having a scavenger dog 😅🙈

Socks...all the bloody socks
Tissues
Defrosting meat
Baby bottles
Nappies (clean)
Birthday cards
Hairbands

And i swear we are vigilant with not leaving stuff out too but shes recently learnt to open doors so thats been fun 😬

Oh and all poos all the time.... why do they do that ?! 😅😅

My kelpie excelled herself by stealing the pastry top from MIL's mince pie, from her hand, leaving the rest of the mince pie for MIL (we quickly replaced half dog munched mince pie for a fresh one!)

My grandfathers dog ate (swallowed whole!) a small rubber bouncy ball, which had been given to the great grandchildren by my father. This wasn't discovered until months later, following many tests and a lot of worry about the cause of dramatic weight loss. It was eventually discovered and removed via surgery, following which the dog perked up and became healthy again and my father learnt a lesson!

This thread has really cheered me up.I adore dogs and have two of my own.

Wow we are not alone.
Mines worst was chewing gum, came with a hefty vet bill that one!
Saw her poop out a tampon once!
She will go for any poop other than dog - human and horse are favourites.
My dad's dog ate firelighters!

Cocker spaniel here. His worst delicacies were:
my debit card (the morning we were going on holiday)

whole chicken carcass off the side including all the fat (one of those roast in the bag ones) - he had the shits for days afterwards as all that fat went through him

strip of my blood pressure tablets (thankfully a low dose) and i found several spat out under his bed afterwards so we needn't have paid the arm and leg that we did to get him to the OOH vet

Our Samoyed puppy vomited a hair band (thing elastic one), a day layer she pooped out half a dozen more 😳
She's also chewed 2 remote controls (not eaten) broke, then chewed and broke the £40 replacement before it had even been in the house 24 hours 🤯

I have a beagle so he's pretty much eaten anything you can imagine.
We did have to go the vet when he swallowed a poo bag full of his own poo. Didn't even chew it just went down whole 🤢

My beautifully trained (ex-guide dog puppy) lab will eat anything you give to her, but never steal. On the street though then apparently anything is fair game, and its like christmas if she spots abandoned kebabs or chips in the park. Living in the city centre means this happens quite a lot though, along with chicken bones. She will leave it when shouted though, unless its human vomit, which apparently is so delicious she goes instantly deaf.

Never been to the vet or even looked sorry for herself, despite eating copious chocolate, dried fruit, grapes, onions... all the things they warn against!

A rotting pigeon crawling with maggots. He picked it up and wouldn't drop it either not for all the treats in my pocket. I walked him back to the holiday cottage in tears because I'm really squeamish and told DH to sort it. He hated being washed down on the back garden with buckets of water but I had no sympathy.

Oh and the only thing she'll beg for if it's on your plate is Sri Racha sauce.

As a non-dog owner (I have only ever had cats) I am by turns 😲 and 🤢 at this thread!

This is the best thread for ages!!! It's cheered me right up!! @Happysalley I think your cat wins!!

I have a labrador and he is quite the ultimate thief too. I've always said he must have been a bin man in a past life due to all the crap he picks up on his walks.

From trainers, children's clothes/toys.
I used to live in quite a rough area and bin day was a nightmare round there as things would just end up all over the pavement. He once ate a USED sanitary towel. I didn't know what to do!! I tried Mt hardest to get it out of his mouth - trying to rush home for a marigold 🤣 but tried to use a dog poop bag over my hand. It was vile.

He also picked up a thong... yes a thong which I could not for the life of me get out of his mouth and had to bribe him with treats once in the garden. Mortified.

A pair of tights!! First I knew was when she started to cough and this enormous brown slimy thing started to slowly emerge from her naughty puppy mouth. I was quite paniced initially then mamaged to grab hold and gently pull. Thankfully they came up intact or it would have been a very expensive trip to the vet. She seemed quite content. I was traumatised!

My friend's dog once gulped down a whole dead squirrel in one go.

No ill effects but the vet was impressed.

WHY ARE DOGS LIKE THIS

My old rescue dog long since departed,
Came in from the garden one sunny bank holiday with an entire warm roast chicken!
One of my poor neighbours is probably still talking about the vanishing chicken 🤣

My current dog has a thing for Lego, cleaning up her poo I found a Harry Potter figure including a wand poking up through like he was trying to escape, really made me laugh

Our Springer used to eat loom bands the kids had let fall on the floor. It made for very colourful rainbow 🌈 poos

I remember taking my friend’s miniature schnauzer for a walk when we were kids and we let go of the leash and he and dove head first into an absolutely enormous pile of horse manure the size of a small car. He absolutely chowed down like he was trying to eat his way through it. By the time we dragged him out he was head to toe covered in it.

People say dogs are smarter than cats but I’ve never seen a cat eat any kind of turd.

I took my dog with me when I went around to a neighbours house to let her dog fora toilet break.

what I didn’t know what that she’s had a cooking fail and had incinerated a chicken to charcoal. She left the charred remains sitting in its fat outside her side door.

I didn’t even see the pan, but oh boy my Labrador cross did! Later that evening she vomited all over my lovely Habitat rug. The smell of incinerated chicken and it’s fat is vile.

I saw the pan the next day. Obviously the neighbours dog didn’t do this sort of thing (a small terrier), but I had learned my dog thought anything left at ground level was for her.

A greggs steak bake he found complete with bag (happiest day of his life)
a tampon including packaging (vet job)
a full live pigeon (DD turned veggie for a few days after)
and I had to prise a squirrel from his jaws (thankfully already dead)