Gahh dog has eaten Christmas pudding

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First off, because I know this is the first thing people will say - he is already at the vet now with DH.

He's just eaten 3/4 of a large Christmas pudding out of a pedal bin with a flat flush top that he still managed to open (anyone want to guess what breed he is?)

He's at the vet now, and was there within 25 mins of eating it. Please give me good news stories of when your dogs have done this...? I'm hoping as we realised so quickly that vomiting will sort it?

When stealing from a plate at table height!

Ha! Oh god, I feel for you. One of our cats managed to open the damn microwave a few years back, pull out a sealed pack of pain aux raisins and scoff the lot. Three days he was admitted for, having his stomach pumped at the vets - he reacted badly to the raisins, the greedy little sod. PetPlan did cover it though! They did put an exclusion on his policy from the next renewal though.

Glad your tea leaf is home safe and only slightly worse for wear. ❤️

Pain au raisen eating exclusion clause 😂

Blimey that's quite the vet bill!

Last year my youngest dog (she was 9 months at the time) ate a significant quantity of christmas cake and that only cost me £48.

At least Christmas Pudging is delicious but wood. Poor DDog is obviously half starved!

I really laughed at him having to be pulled away from eating the vom raisins. What are they like!

Our dachshund managed to eat a mince pie a few years back. £500 and quite a lot of raisin vom later she was fine. She hasn't learned her lesson and desperately begs for mince pies every year since.

My lab wants to re-eat food he’s puked up as well.

My dog ate a dozen mince pies one year.....along with lots of other things she should t have eaten!! Lived to 10.5....

Have to say that despite the stress I was feeling when starting this thread, I've throughly enjoyed the (predictably, mainly) lab stories it produced ❤️

Think it depends on size of dog - easter egg vs Lab or easter egg vs Maltese.

Not a festive tale, but when our dearly-departed spaniel was neutered, he ate the bandage off his leg (that was covering where the cannula had been) on the way home from the vet in the car. We had to go straight back to induce vomiting. While he was still groggy from the anaesthetic. The vet nurse said she’d never known that happen during her 27 years in the job.

Oh wow, this is excellent spaniel-ing 🤣

Another lab owner here. I am paranoid about anything with grapes and raisins being in the house. Didn't get any mince pies this year even though I love them. Last year, DFIL left a mince pie on the coffee table unattended despite house rules being you eat them at the kitchen table with me scurrying about you checking nothing is dropping on the floor. Of course she snaffled it. It was Boxing Day and we had to whisk her to emergency vets bloody miles away. It was about £600 but we were covered by insurance. She vomited and pooped a lot but seemed relatively unfased by it. No lasting ill effects.

Glad he’s ok, OP.

My “eater” ( a border collie- clearly missed the very smart breed memo) has eaten the following over the years:

16 thyroid tablets (which were securely stored in a lidded medicine box inside a high cupboard, but she’s a climber and can open doors).

A bag of rabbit poo (she knocked over a wheelie bin).
A pizza box (outdoor wheelie recycling bin).
A Christmas bauble (genuinely have no idea how she got this as the dogs aren’t given access to the sitting room. We suspect she convinced a cat to roll it to the kitchen).
A full pound of salted butter (she learned to open the fridge door).

We have several pets and tend to be very careful and not leave things out, but she’s a wiley one.

This Christmas hasn’t been too bad, though she did swipe a wedge of Brie.

We’ve definitely put at least one of our vet’s kids through college at this stage.

Our Basset hound (equally greedy breed) ate a entire chocolate cake (and the cellophane) and later same.year 6 mince pies. He looked.very sorry for himself when he returned from the vet.

That can't be true! That is absolutely hilarious! I can't imagine our cats putting up with that.

I should add it was after the chocolate cake incident he decided he did NOT like the vet that he previously had loved. Not when he (vet) cut his balls off that was fine but the chocolate cake... that was his (dogs) limit.

I feel your empty bank account, our bin on 4 legs ate 3 selection boxes and a couple of boxes of hero's one year.
We'd left him for 10 mins at a friend's and it never occurred to me to ask what was under her Christmas tree in beautifully wrapped parcels.
Our vet has a sloped carpark with a drain at the bottom, it was freezing and sleeting, that was a fun 20 mins walking the hairy idiot round till he was sick.
We lost him in October, the things he ate, I'm surprised he lived to 14.
Fresh cow pat then burping in my sons face is a fond memory.... now!

That's the most beautiful furry bin I've ever seen 🥹💖

My old family dog when I was a child was a dog of no particular breed (I honestly think she was a bit of everything 😂) that we rescued and my god, she could eat for Britain! That dog ate so much chocolate throughout her life by rummaging bins and knocking things off counters (she once ate a box of dark chocolate and was absolutely fine), she ate about 3 of my Barbies, chewed a hole through the kitchen door and often demolished people's dinners if you had the audacity to nip to the bathroom.
She was the daftest, squishiest little mare and lived to the ripe old age of 17!

The moral of the story is, some dogs are dumb with stomach's of steel and it's a nerve-wrecking combination 😂

@ilovesushi it is true! Put the Carrier on the office chair and spin til the cat pukes. Lots of vids on TikTok

I’ve got an ancient Jack Russell, she will be 15 this year.

She has probably eaten more chocolate in her life than myself and my entire family put together. She’d knock walls down to get to it if she could! It must be like heroin. When the kids were little Easter and Christmas were a total nightmare. She once ate and ENTIRE dark chocolate Easter egg and chocolate orange in the same night! Even I couldn’t do that.

I think after the third time she did something like that, I stopped worrying it would kill her.

@TinyMouseTheatre

At least Christmas Pudging is delicious but wood. Poor DDog is obviously half starved!

He seems to like non edible items for some reason. I think he is just daft 😭

They really are a special breed aren't they 🫣

Another cushion cover gone this morning. Husband tried to convince me that the dog had removed the chewed remnants completely and folded it up neatly. They're in cahoots 🤬

Last Christmas eve we went to the vets with 2 dogs who'd eaten stuff they shouldn't.
Parents were visiting, brought presents from their friends/family, had no idea one contained a food hamper.
Our spaniel was renowned for stealing so whilst we assumed it was him, we couldn't rule out our shepherd also eating something.
Both made to vomit at the emergency out of hours vets, both brought up lots, mince pies, fruit cake, dark chocolate, shortbread - the vet was concerned they couldn't identify everything from the hamper wrappers so we're kept in on a drip.
7am Christmas day we were asked to collect our shepherd who was distressed and pulling out her drip. We got her and had to give charcoal every couple of hours
7pm the OOH vet called, said all well with spaniel, he's chilled, stay in drop overnight and we can get him boxing day. We opened the champagne at that point.... midnight phone rings. He's upset, won't settle we need to get him!
All had been drinking so it was a taxi to get us, go there for him, wait whilst they checked him out and then drive us home again

Both had bloods followed up and all was good, insurance was an absolute bugger, caps on the OOH vets, wouldn't pay follow up bloods.