Since we seem to be on the topic of dogs

[Sgt Mickey]

what is the craziest thing your dog has ate or chewed up.
My 6 year old lab once went through I don't know how many boxes to get to girl scout cookies. I though thaving them in boxes and sealed and put up would keep him away but no way. He has 6 boxes of thin mints and a few boxes of tag alongs. I know he should of got sick but I swear he has a stomach of steel and he was the happiest dog in the world. I came home and was sniffing his thin mint breath.
Another time I left a bag of apples by the fridge. Thinking it isn't bread which he loves or meat or something that would even smell good to him. He ate the entire bag cores and all. Left the empty bag

 

[natenapril]

a tube of desitin

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

My eyeglasses while I was sleeping.....twice! One of the reasons that they no longer sleep in the bed with us.

 

[belle&sebastiansmom]

When I was a kid our dog ate tinsel off the Christmas tree. Had to have surgery to remove it from her stomach.

Now, my dogs love to eat crayons. They steal them from the kids room. Our backyard is full of rainbow colored presents.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

My Zoey is a very naughty girl. We are working on training her (and ourselves) but we need to work harder. She has eaten/chewed:

2 pair of prescription glasses

1 red Sharpie-it looked like something had died in that room

numerous sponges-we find those pieces in the yard

filet mignon that she stole from the counter when we turned our backs.

a 1 lb package of ground beef-raw

Pizza-the kids ate three pieces of a large Papa John's the other night-she snatched the rest of it

My freshly toasted bagel yesterday

Pencils and crayons

basically anything that she can reach on the counters, although her palette is changing and she is not as interested in non food items anymore.


We had friends that had a big Doberman who ate a tube sock. When she tried to eliminate it, they had to help by pulling it out.

The first dogs that DH and I had were black labs-littermates. They got one of those Chef Boy Are Dee boxes pizza kits and ate every thing. That included the dry dough mix, and chewing through the can so they could lick the tomato sauce out of it-it was licked clean! They also did the same to a bottle of "Bitter Apple"-you know, the stuff that you spray on things to stop them from chewing? They drank the entire bottle.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

a tube of desitin

I thought I had the only dog that did this!! Boy did she puke...and puke...and puke...and puke. Man, she felt bad but I think I felt even worse having to clean it. Blech!!

 

[NMAmy]

I swear our golden retriever is a goat. She tends to gravitate toward paper products--Kleenex, a stray receipt, etc. She's gotten much better because when she was a puppy she'd eat anything. Including--a pair of SCISSORS!

I really thought they'd have zero interest for her so I left them on the coffee table. They were broken in half and she'd demolished the plastic handles. Then I got to play jigsaw puzzle making sure she hadn't swallowed any (she didn't, thank heavens!)

 

[jt'smom]

my cocker spaniel ate half box of kleenex hiney wipes when he was about a year old. we knew what it was because they came out the other end with all the wipes still attached for the most part! our yard looked like it had been strewn with toilet paper. i still cannot figure out how he was able to pass this without it killing him our other cocker ate a bag of ribs, bones and all, that my husband had brought home from the local barbeque place. again, those were pretty big bones and he devoured them in less than an hour while we were gone, and didn't even get sick!!! cockers will eat ANYTHING, and ours have certainly proven that through the years

 

[Pakey]

My current dogs are not too bad but I had a dog during my first marriage many moons ago who jumped up on the dining room table and ate 4 crystal wine glasses a friend had sent us from Italy. They were clean so I don't know what the attraction was. We were out for the evening and perhaps he was annoyed that we had not taken him.

Yes, large vet bill and a bland diet followed.

 

[OK!]

My brother's yellow Lab once ate a 3-pound box of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts that we had brought back from HI for my great aunt. Never got sick, but after the tongue-lashing she got when we got home, she never wanted anything to do with another macadamia nut as long as she lived. All we had to do was SAY "macadamia nuts" and she'd go into a head down, tail-wagging frenzy of guilt.

That same dog also once got into a deer that had been killed and cleaned on our property by a hunter who claimed he'd buried the remains far enough down that the dogs wouldn't find them. Well, the next time we put them out, Sable was gone a little longer than normal and when she came back in, couldn't stop shivering for anything. We soon found out why she was so cold, as she proceeded to barf up an enormous amount of frozen deer entrails on the carpet. It was the ghastliest thing I'd ever seen, worse than anything in any horror movie EVER.

 

[Kim&Chris]

An entire birthday cake

Several ping pong balls

A sewing needle, complete with a long piece of pink thread (that was fun - we didn't even know he did it until he tried to poop it out and the needle got stuck in his heiney - we had to gingerly pull it out)

More blankets and stuffed animals than I can count

 

[HM]

I don't currently have a dog. But our old dogs ate a Gingerbread house once.

 

[mamamary]

We had just gotten our lab from the pound. He was 6 mos. old. We had also just gotten a leather couch. Baxter was on the floor near the couch with a new chew toy. After about 15 mts. my DH looked at Baxter and he was still chewing but it wasn't on his toy. He chewed right into the leather couch. I was sooooooo mad. It's only about a 1 inch by 1 inch hole but still Now he's just into my dd's stuffed animals, socks, shoes, etc. But we love him

 

[Mermaid02]

My Mother's toy poodle (deceased now) ate a pound of Russell Stover chocolates once- she drank turpentine once too.

Our Weimaraner swallowed a whole dish rag once... stole it out of the sink.

 

[Jennasis]

A string of christmas lights with a chaser of several glass ornaments. Stupid Dalmatian...how I loved that big idgit.

 

[dislaney]

Our Thanksgiving turkey. Well not the whole thing but he sure tried. We didn't have turkey that year!

 

[Nette]

Well... our last Brittany (passed a few years ago) ate the plug off of a lamp WHILE IT WAS PLUGGED IN... Yeah, she never chewed on anything after that.

Our golden LOVES to "eat" kleenexs out of the trash. She tears them up and then it appears that she chews them like gum and then leaves me the little spit wads to pick up.

Our newest Brittany (the talkative whiny one -- see other thread) has been trying to eat our HOUSE. She tries to chew on the masonry by the back door. Good grief. You'd think we don't give her about a million chew toys... (and BTW... Nylabones are not indestructible as they say )

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

I already answered about what my current dog has eaten and now I've been thinking about all of the things that our old dog ate. DH and I had a rottweiler named Moose when we first got married. Moose was a great dog....but he was a terror when he was a puppy.

Some of the things he ate:

The leg off of our coffee table....removed the entire thing.

The door jam around the back door...and part of the wall.

a wooden puppy gate

the carpet in the bathroom...yes, carpet in the bathroom and I was sooo happy because really, who wants carpet in the bathroom. We had just moved and I had been bugging dh to let me pull it up. Gave the puppy extra treats that night

The pillow out from under my BIL's head while he was asleep. BIL used to have the strangest habit of sleeping on the floor...personally I think he was raised by wolves and MIL found him but never told. We woke up in the morning to such a scene!! It looked like Moose had slaughtered a duck in the living room.....feathers everywhere!! BIL had NO CLUE.

 

[bumbershoot]

We had friends that had a big Doberman who ate a tube sock. When she tried to eliminate it, they had to help by pulling it out.

Had a similar situation with a dog.

All of my stories are about one dog; our last Alaskan Malamute, the only one not bought from a proper breeder. A lady my mom met had a female, and she had bred her to a male who was supposedly a champion...we only met the sire after we had our puppy...such a mistake. My mom was, and therefore I am, a bit of a snob about malamutes, and while I don't need to show one, if I ever have one I want it to at least look like the standard.

So anyway, he also had mental problems that started slowly and ended up killing him...

He either swallowed or otherwise destroyed my most AWESOME bikini. I still think that I would have kept myself small enough to fit into it, if it hadn't been eaten. He snagged one of the side strings from under my door; my door was completely closed so he couldn't get in, but that dog worked his heiny off to get one of the strings to pull it into the living room.

He ate an ace bandage, and just like the tube sock above, there was some assistance in getting it out. The family had actually taken him up to the vet's office, and he was waiting for his appointment when he had to "go". Stepdad and I took him outside, where the ace bandage showed itself...stepdad put his foot on the end of it, and the dog (I can't type his name here b/c it's the name of a banned car service! think...the other name for Mercury) walked away, and no need for a vet visit.

Later, as he lost his mind, he would attack anything ORANGE. He started eating carrots whenever he saw my mom grating/peeling one. Oranges, too.

And the last thing he ate was a beach-sized, orange-colored, towel. My mom had left it out (or maybe I did, who knows) and it had been outside for ages. My mom noticed it, and decided to move it, and the dog (who was rather overweight by then because the person who took him running was away at college) noticed the whole thing, ran over, and grabbed the towel. Scared the pants offa my mom, and my mom was NOT a person to be scared by malamutes! She established alpha status over her very first malamute, when she was around 22, by actually BITING his ear when he acted up while on a long walk. That dog toed the line from then on, and even gave higher status to baby-me, when I took his prized tennis ball from him as a little baby. But this last dog...never understood that.

So he, as they say in Ratatouille, "horked it down", and it went too far down to be pulled out, was too big to pass...the vet gave my mom just the one, heartbreaking, option.



So for those of you with dogs who eat bad things...try to train them to NOT eat things, and to give those things up when the alpha person tells them to!

 

[diz4ever]

My great dane has eaten blankets, socks, shoes, silk plants, pencils, curtains etc. But her WORST habit is by far when she eats WALLS. Yes, the flat portion of a drywalled and painted wall. She doesn't start on a corner, but at a flat area and proceeds to eat and eat. One time it was a 2 x 2 foot hole thru to the insulation.