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What's the worst thing your dog has ever eaten?

193 replies

LovelyLittleBitofSquirrel · 11/12/2024 15:37

SquirrelDog has only eaten things like discarded paper or packaging when out and about as a pup but now is A Very Good Girl <holds breath and crosses fingers>
But my friends tell me tales (tails?!) of their precious pups eating the family roast dinner off the kitchen side or half of the living room wall plaster 😂

Share your stories please!

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Tel12 · 15/12/2024 13:00

My dog ripped apart a foil dish so I didn't know if she'd actually eaten any. Cost £600 to find out that she hadn't.

Jellycatspyjamas · 15/12/2024 13:01

Here’s the offending article looking like butter wouldn’t melt..

What's the worst thing your dog has ever eaten?
LovelyLittleBitofSquirrel · 15/12/2024 13:17

Jellycatspyjamas · 15/12/2024 13:01

Here’s the offending article looking like butter wouldn’t melt..

Here's my little horror, with the same butter wouldn't melt look on her face, but her chops will tell you she's just come in from the bottom of the garden, obviously shoving her schnoz into god only knows what amongst the compost heaps.
She is sitting on the "naughty cushion" under the orders of her boss, 5 year old DC 🤭

What's the worst thing your dog has ever eaten?
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LovelyLittleBitofSquirrel · 15/12/2024 13:20

Jellycatspyjamas · 15/12/2024 13:01

Here’s the offending article looking like butter wouldn’t melt..

Same DC has just seen the photo of your offending article and announced "That's CUTE" 😂 and indeed he is. Very!

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Jellycatspyjamas · 15/12/2024 13:21

Ah she’s gorgeous, honestly it’s a good job mine is cute or he’d be a rug by now 😂

Patienceinshortsupply · 15/12/2024 13:23

Mine stole a "roast in the bag" chicken carcass complete with foil fatty greasy horrible tray off the side in the kitchen and ate the lot - cue a panicked call to the Vet who said the bones would pass through but they suggested giving him some bread to help absorb the fat. It was a grim 2 days picking up what came out the other end Hmm His worst offence though was my debit card, and a blister strip of my blood pressure tablets, thankfully a low dose and I think he only ate about 3 before deciding they tasted rank. That was a Sunday vet visit that cost £ hundreds.

Get a cocker spaniel they said, it will be fun they said. Hmm

LovelyLittleBitofSquirrel · 15/12/2024 13:35

Get a cocker spaniel they said, it will be fun they said. Hmm
😁

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FortunateCatsGlugDaquirisAllEveningBlindly · 15/12/2024 13:51

First Springer/Choc. Lab cross ate three sofas….gradually.
also..
My favourite clogs
A tube of fizzy vitamins
Two twenty pound notes

Second Choco/Springer cross used to steal and eat socks and knickers.
also got up on the table once and scoffed vodka and lime muffins

Current mutt (collie cross) just half eats tennis balls thankfully

Shouldveknownbetter · 15/12/2024 14:23

Springer #1
Human faeces (walked her on a path through a field that we didn't realise had been sprayed with it). Ended up with projectile vomiting and diarrhoea from both ends simultaneously while we just hosed it away as it came out (luckily in the back garden or I'd have had to have burnt the house down!)
Working cocker #2
Ate seaweed and drank seawater on his first trip to the beach. Threw it all up on the walk back to the car, thankfully.
Rolled in a rotting fox - had to drive home with all the windows open and us all hanging out of the windows and retching!
Ate a box of Belgian chocolate truffles dusted with 100% cocoa powder - a visit to the emergency vet on a Saturday evening with me holding his ears back while he puked it all back up into a bowl on the vets floor. He had a chocolate hangover for a few days, poor lad.
Current working cockers
Poo 🤢 their own, each other's, other dogs, horse poo, rabbit poo. It's grim and no amount of telling them off will stop them. Vet says it's not unusual, and not to be overly concerned. Luckily we love them dearly!

MrsPositivity1 · 15/12/2024 15:54

A whole cooked chicken, and I mean whole. There wasn't even a bone left. I had cooked it for my son's school lunches.

How he left no evidence I will never know (except lots of poo)

BCBird · 15/12/2024 15:57

My friend's puppy ate part of a light bulb!!!!

Ellmau · 15/12/2024 16:31

I think he only ate about 3 before deciding they tasted rank.

I bet he manages to detect and spit out all pills actually intended for him though...

Fernticket · 15/12/2024 17:34

Crying with laughter at some of these 🤣

PieonaBarm · 15/12/2024 17:41

My terrier was quite tame reading these, thankfully not a shit eater, but loved a munch on natures buffet (any plant he could get his paws on really) but in particular there's a geranium plant in my Dads garden that was like crack to him. One year he ate all the flowers off my Mums pansies, so the next year she planted geraniums and he ate them too. Then there was pavement buffet, you learned to look 5m ahead or you'd look down and he'd be happily munching on a rotten, discarded Greggs whilst trotting obediently next to you. iPad cables, the laces on my work boots, hoody tassles, half a dead sheep he joyously once found in the hills on a walk, the meat juices my Mum was cooling outside to make gravy with (she caught him mid scoff, we had bisto that night), a Gammon joint my mum was defrosting in the sun in the dining room, and as she reversed out the drive she spotted him licking the end of it (she still cooked it and said she gave that bit to my Dad 🤦‍♀️🤣), he'd go round the pub and mug Pringles off all the old fellas if we took him in on a Friday - we'd find him sat getting ear scratches off a local OAP, beer off the landlord (would give him the overflow trays off the pumps), my pension transfer paperwork.

How he lived to 13 I have no idea.

noctilucentcloud · 15/12/2024 18:04

Jellycatspyjamas · 15/12/2024 13:01

Here’s the offending article looking like butter wouldn’t melt..

Loo rolls live on the window sill in my house to foil my 4 legged thief... Got him just before covid and discovered he's partial to loo rolls, which would've been fine if the shops weren't bare with panic buying!

Ellmau · 15/12/2024 18:04

I've just remembered, a relative's dogs used to kill and eat wild deer (they lived in woodland). The hooves came out the other end...

HunterAngel · 15/12/2024 18:24

First rescue, crossbred of some kind (generously described as a lurcher) was terrible for eating things she wasn’t supposed to. Her greatest hits included:
A whole block of cheddar (on her first day!)
The handle of a wooden hairbrush
A strawberry flavoured lip balm
An entire jar of dog treats (somehow managed to unscrew the lid of one a
glass jar)
An entire share bag of Mini Eggs. The chocolate vomit stain never came out of the carpet
I’m honestly surprised she lived as long as she did.

hennipenni · 15/12/2024 18:25

Spaniel:
Christmas tree lights
Remotes for the telly
little boys shoes
daughters shoes
Husbands medication
Hyacinth bulbs
Broken glass from a smashed jar
and finally Christmas chocolates (all over the last 12 years)

SilverBlueRabbit · 15/12/2024 18:30

My parents rescue airedale was in their car and was startled by something. He was always very jumpy right to the end of his life. In his fright he became reactive and took apart their steering wheel. My mother followed him around for days pulling bits of rubber out of his arse when he was pooping.

He also ate a kitkat complete inside its wrapping. (Silver foil out of arse collecting was the agenda).

My neighbour's dog stole a chicken skewer off the bbq and the first they knew about it was then the skewer poked out of her ribs/stomach from the inside.

My rescue puppy at about 20 weeks ate my sock. We had no idea what it was she had eaten until the vet removed it - intact- after surgery.

All dogs survived many years. Airedale until 14, my dog until 18 and the neighbour's is still going strong well into her teens.

oldmums · 15/12/2024 18:42

Rhodesian ridgeback. Ate lots of bars of carbolic soap , half a turkey. 3kg best chippolapas ( not on same day) horse poo. Dog poo. Ice lolly with stick( it came out whole) tubs of butter. Meant to be on a special diet as was allergic to every thing.
My next door neighbors dog ate 10 yards of net curtain and lived

Buildingthefuture · 15/12/2024 19:37

Christ, so many things! Off the top of my head….
Pulled over the Christmas tree and ate all the chocolate decorations.
An entire roast chicken 2 minutes before I was going to carve it for dinner with friends.
A resting joint of beef for 12 people
A box of cherry brandy liquors
A box of Roses, compete with box and all foil
An entire tray of parkin
24 raw pork chops
Through the actual kitchen door to get into the lounge where said dog ate an entire chocolate orange (I was only out 2 hours)
An aloe Vera plant
A bar of sea salt milk chocolate
A toad which resulted in simultaneous projectile vomiting and shitting.
A bowl of hand made (by me!) truffles
A leather couch
The lining from my husbands cashmere coat
At least a kilo of tomato’s straight off the plant after smashing his head through a glass panel in the greenhouse
A family sized pepperoni pizza
A worn only once jimmy choo shoe (only one - she left me one to look at 🤣🤣)
The chicken breast off my dinner plate when the phone rang
Shit of all varieties - dog/horse/fox/human

And so much more 🤣🤣🤣

This is many different dogs over more than 30 years though! So much money spent at the vet and none of them have ever had any ill effects (other than the toad incident!)

LovelyLittleBitofSquirrel · 16/12/2024 07:48

"a visit to the emergency vet on a Saturday evening with me holding his ears back while he puked it all back up into a bowl"

This has cracked me up again 🤣

Thanks everyone for sharing, I have loved and 🤢 reading these 😂

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muddyford · 16/12/2024 08:21

Our vet extracted an entire riding crop from a boxer. In one piece! It was in the national press and the X-ray showed the crop inside.

MonkeyTennis34 · 16/12/2024 08:42

His own poo and that of many other dogs.
He's a Labrador.

Twiglets1 · 16/12/2024 08:44

FortunateCatsGlugDaquirisAllEveningBlindly · 15/12/2024 13:51

First Springer/Choc. Lab cross ate three sofas….gradually.
also..
My favourite clogs
A tube of fizzy vitamins
Two twenty pound notes

Second Choco/Springer cross used to steal and eat socks and knickers.
also got up on the table once and scoffed vodka and lime muffins

Current mutt (collie cross) just half eats tennis balls thankfully

Think how charming the first springer/choc lab must have been though. To get a second one.