My dog must have an iron stomach

[simba928]

I woke up this morning and found that my dog, Jake, had gotten into something. She had gotten sick in several places all over thoe house and there was foil laying next to those places. What did she get into? We had a bowl of Hershey's chocolate (from those packs that have mini Hershey bars and peanut butter cups and Hershey kisses) sitting on the counter. It was back in the corner where we thought she couldn't get to it and it had been sitting there for a few days and she hadn't shown any interest in it. But I guess this morning she decided she wanted it. She ate most of the candy, foil and all.

This wasn't the first time she did this though. We had a bowl full of Hershey kisses sitting on the end table in the living room last Christmas. She got up onto the chair next to it and sat there eating the entire bag of kisses, foil and all. Before that, she got into a basket we have full of snack-type foods (chips, marshmallows, etc.). She took out all the bags of chips and everything else in it, found the bag of M&Ms at the bottom of the basket, ripped it open and ate that. We came home to bags of chips, untouched, scattered all over the floor and the empty bag of M&Ms. Then before that she ate half a tray of brownies that was sitting on the counter, covered in aluminum foil. Oh, and somewhere between those, she ate about 5 or 6 chicken breasts that were sitting on a plate covered with aluminum foil on the counter. Of course she left 1 for my dad to have when he got home.

Seriously, I'm starting to think she is a robot or something. Today was the first day anything she has eaten has ever had any kind of effect on her and now she is perfectly fine. She never acted sick today, she just kind of left her mark to tell us that she got into trouble all over the house.

 

[babieemelly]

Aw, be careful. Chocolate is very, very bad for dogs. Baking chocolate especially, like in brownies, has led to comas and death. Put the chocolate away so your dog can't get it!

 

[Pakey]

My little dogs (only weigh 10 lbs) are doing midnight stealth missions by getting out of our bed, heading to the kitchen, jumping on the counter and helping themselves to what they can get and then returning to bed. On xmas eve they enjoyed some gourmet desserts from an expensive bakery. Luckily, they didn't seem to enjoy the chocolate brownie cakes, only ate a bit of them. But they loved the carrot cakes. Finished all of those off.

They are such small dogs we had no idea that they could get onto the kitchen counters. I have no idea if they have just learned how to get up there or if they've been doing it all along and we didn't notice. We leave plates of cookies and stuff up there all of the time. We just noticed this time because these were expensive desserts that we were planning to use Christmas morning.

I really hate to think that we've been eating their leftovers.

 

[coolbeans]

we had a dog to do that once, DH thought I ate the last of the kisses and I thought he ate them, the only way we knew that the dog was the culprit was the evidence in the yard...if ya know what I mean.

 

[Mady/Sophiemom]

I had a poodle when I was younger. I remember eating the middles out of a bag of oreos, and giving the dog ALL the cookies. Of course this was long before the news came out that chocolate was bad for dogs. She was pretty small, and luckily she didn't even a belly ache.

 

[MouseJunkie]

My brother's dog ate Oprah's gourmet brownies. Actually, my sister-in-law ordered them, fedex delivered. She never even got one. The dog ate the whole package.

Yeah, I came home to 4 presents this evening. (Elvis ate too much crap at Christmas...Thanks DAD!) Oh joy! Which was great, considering I can barely move, as I hurt my back the other day. The last thing I wanted to do was get on my hands and knees and scrub the floor.

I had no stain remover. So of course, Elvis wouldn't come when I tried to put him in the bathroom so I could go to the store. I had to drag him! He wasn't in trouble. I know he couldn't help it, but why today!

I was so distraught thinking about having to clean up the mess when I took him out after work, that I left the keys in the mail box. Thank goodness for the guy who realized what I'd done. He beat me back to my door to handed me my keys, just about the time I realized I didn't have them.

I'm off to buy spot shot tomorrow. Resolve stinks. It does okay on the stain, but I can't stand the smell it leaves afterwards. Although, it's better than the not so lovely scented carpet Elvis left me.

I couldn't go too far for fear there'd be more lovely presents when I returned.

Hopefully, he's gotten it all out of his system tonight. If I come home to more presents tomorrow I might just cry. I darn near cried tonight as I've been in pain all day and this was the last thing I needed.

BTW Elvis likes entire loaves of bread, steak left out to thaw. And Bogie liked Butter. He's the reason to this day my Mom now has plastic butter dishes. He'd knock the glass ones off in his quest for butter. Silly guy!

 

[ArmandXG]

Dogs aren't the only chow hounds. I had a cat who tore open a bag containing angel food cake. She ate the entire top off and then proceded to leave spongy little "hair balls" everywhere. One Thanksgiving, she ate the center of a pumpkin pie and left little tongue marks all over the second one. I ate what was left of the first pie, but I wasn't going to waste the second, so I covered it with whipped cream and served it to my husband's Uncle and his (then) wife. I know it's cruel and (for some) yucky, but they were terrible house guests and they deserved a lot worse than eating after my cat!
My dear cat also enjoyed peanut butter, spaghetti, Laseur peas, cheese whiz and caramel. I would have to pre chew the caramel to soften it so she could eat it. The two cats I now have won't even eat table scraps. Go fig!

 

[daisax]

Chocolate is bad for dogs, but you mostly have to fear baking chocolate. The amount of actual chocolate in Hershey candy is minimal

A pan of homemade brownies might kill a tiny dog, but a medium dog could probably eat 5 lbs of Kisses without missing a beat. Except for confetti poop.

 

[christineann]

My lab Jake ate many non-food items, including a hunting boot, a Bible, a computer cable, some screen off our porch, and my daughter's Playskool dollhouse people. He started heaving one morning around 4 a.m., I let him out, he got rid of it, and I went out the next morning to find the leg of the Playskool dollhouse mom. We thought we had sufficiently doggy-proofed the house, but he continued to surprise us. He never had a stomach blockage, thank goodness.

One night he got opened a pantry door, removed a box of Saltines, ate one sleeve of crackers and went back to bed. After he was diagnosed with lymphoma, he found a Christmas stocking stuffer of Hershey Kisses (just a handful). At 100 pounds, it wasn't enough to hurt him, but my dad was worried about him eating the chocolate. I told him that Jake had less than a month to live, and he could go out on a chocolate cloud if it made him happy. I miss my wonderful companion!

 

[Pakey]

Before I had my Chinese cresteds who do their midnight stealth counter raids, I had a cocker spaniel who ate a lot of non food items too. One night, while we were out for a dinner and a movie, he ate my Italian crystal stemware that we had received for a wedding present. Managed to eat all or part of 6 wine glasses by the time we got home; he was muching on one as we entered the house. I'd had them on the dining room table and hadn't put them back in the china cabinet yet.

He also loved ink pens and those little rubber stoppers on door stops. Could not keep those in the house.

He finally did himself in by eating a ping pong ball in our rec room. He had to have major surgery and did survive but as the years went on, he had more and more problems relating back to the damage he had done by that ping pong ball and I finally had to make that awful decision.

I never could understand the appeal of these things. He did not chew on furniture legs or anything like that but he sure loved to eat odd items.

 

[Mermaid02]

My Mother had a toy poodle who ate a POUND of Russell Stover's once.... she lived... no problems...

 

[momof1princess]

my basset hound will eat and has eaten pretty much everything, food or not. some examples: a dish towel, part of an old t-shirt, 2 clorox wipes, cat poo, rotten pecans still in the shell...i could go on all day, lol. i fear he's actually part billy goat; but luckily, everything he's eaten so far has passed without incident.

 

[milwaukee1]

My sisters lab ate a needle and thread once. That came out okay. Our dog ate a whole bowl of peanuts. Those came out okay. Never even chewed them... When I was younger and stil lived at home our lab ate some of my birth control pills and the package. I called the vet and they said the amount she had was okay. They only really dangerous thing in them is the iron. Shoes have been eaten, tubes of carmex.

 

[Holly Sox]

Wow! And here I was feeling like the only one who had such a demon-possessed dog. My Jake out-does himself at the holidays. He got into my son's Easter basket and ate an entire bag of nestle's crunch eggs. Pooped little foil wrappers for days. The weekend before Christmas, we went out shopping and came home to find the little monster had gotten up onto the kitchen counter and knocked down an entire bag of dog food. He had eaten as much as he could manage, I guess. He looked very much like he might explode, but he didn't, unfortunately.

Christmas eve, I came home to find he had gotten into a gift bag that I had NO IDEA had candy in it. More little foil wrappers deposited for several days.

We got him one of those pop-up kennel things from Walmart.... he DESTROYED the thing. He actually ended up with a bowel obstruction from the nylon thread and spent several days in the animal hospital getting IV's.

If he wasn't so cute, I'd have thrown him out a LONG time ago.

H

 

[Mischa]

We have a border collie mix named Muffy. The girl can eat ANYTHING and I mean anything! AND thank God she's ok!

She has eaten some chocolate, she's eaten glass (a small glass bowl fell on the ground and shattered - lots of pieces missing and all the cereal that had been in the bowl was gone). She's also eaten pieces of her toys (she loves ripping things!) I'd say "you name it and she's probably eaten it!" She scares us to death when we find out she's eaten something she wasn't suppose to!

Each time she's been ok (again thank God!) When she ate the glass we called the vet immidately (we'd only had her 3 days!) and the vet said feed her bread as much as she'd eat and then bring her in the next day. If there is any bleeding naturally bring her to the emergency vet. Luckily the bread did the trick and she was fine.

Most people "baby proof" their homes, we "animal proof" ours!