Since we seem to be on the topic of dogs

[Gabes_mommy]

My mom is a teacher and she made 4 dozen cupcakes for her students once - 2 dozen vanilla and 2 dozen chocolate. Our dog, a dobie, ate all the chocolate cupcakes but left the vanilla. The same dog also once stole an entire pizza off the table and ate it during my birthday party.

 

[paintnolish]

Dirty underwear...eww...he just likes to chew certain areas...
Our puppy chewed up Dh's brand new PS3 controller. Why the heck would you leave that on the floor with a puppy? I said, "Daddy learned a lesson, the hard way, about leaving stuff on the floor."

 

[ZephyrHawk]

My retainer. No, it wasn't just an excuse not to wear it...although I appreciated the excuse.

 

[TinklednPants]

I had a puppy who absolutetly destroyed an entire couch. Came home and it looked like there had been a blizzard in the house with bits of white foam cushion everywhere. The couch was literally gone. I was too stunned to be angry.

 

[TinklednPants]

and another dog ate a steak (no surprise there). But right off the roasting hot BBQ.

 

[PlutosFriend]

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

Well, I have two Cocker Spaniels. My black and white girl (I need to change my avatar picture), likes to chew crayons. Makes for some VERY interesting poos!

 

[kayla87]

Our smaller dog (20 lbs) ate a whole acorn...which we only found out 800 dollars later! Although I wasn't there, I think it went like this...Molly was walking around the woods at Grandma's, found an acorn, thought it smelled good, and picked it up. Grandma called Molly's name, and thinking Grandma might take the acorn, Molly swallowed it whole! I'm pretty sure that's how it happened

Two Christmases ago we brought home a paper plate full of cookies from a party. A day or two later, I came home and realized that the cookies were missing...paper plate and all I know it had to be our bigger dog since she's the only one tall enough to get on the counters.

As for chewing...pretty much anything, including couches, windowsills, picket fence caps, plastic plant pots, shoes, and probably lots of other stuff that just seems normal now

(Oh, and they aren't opposed to playing with carcasses they may find at grandma's...most recently a frozen hummingbird baby! )

 

[TanyaLovesPooh]

Our Bichon ate a package of Trident gum from my purse 2 weeks before Christmas. Discovered it upon coming home from church and I didn't take my purse just that one time wouldn't ya know. Found the package near my purse and all the gum and wrappings were gone. Called our vet and asked him about it after seeing online that Xylitol, the sweetener in some sugar-free gum is poisonous to dogs. He said to take Chewy to emergency clinic (8:30 on a Sat. night) since he ate so much.

They induced vomiting and gave him charcoal. They saw several gum wrappers in the vomit and suggested they keep him overnight with an IV. We opted to stay awake all night and keep our eyes on him. The Xylitol can make a dog's blood sugar take a serious dive and put them in a coma, do liver damage and cause death.

Chewy is fine and we no longer keep gum where he can possibly get it. I wanted to post this so others would know of the potential dangers.

 

[luvmy3jewels]

My dog ate our stairs. Well, not really the entire stairs just the wooden edges of the first five from the bottom up. She's a lab/rottie mix and I think labs are notorious for being bad chewers. After that incident, we no longer allow her free roam of the entire house when there is nobody home.

 

[jmskinner]

I had a Boston Terrier that ate everything. Once our others dogs got into a fight, the DH was in the process of eating an apple and somehow thought throwing the apple at the dogs fighting would stop it. Well it didn't, but Mozart saw his chance to eat an apple.

I also had a cherry pie in my car, you know those packaged one serving ones. He ate the wrapper and the pie. I was taking him to the kennel when he did this, so I had to let them know just in case he got sick. They looked at me like I was nuts.

Then there was Baby, a Boxer we had when I was in college. My Mom starting yelling at us because she found the stem from our grapes laying in the floor. "I don't mind you eating the grapes, but at least throw away the stem!" None of us had eaten grapes. We finally caught Baby eating the grapes.

Same dog once ate my Whataburger. I had placed it on the table and when I came back all that was left was a piece of lettuce and the wrapper.

He also tried my stepdads black licorice. He didn't like it, but obviously kept trying to find one that tasted good because all of the ones he had licked, stuck to the carpet.

 

[minkydog]

Last Valentines Day, Minky ate my DHs entire heart-shaped box of chocolates. Two pounds! Plus, the cellophane it was wrapped in,the whole top of the box, all the little brown papers, and half of the cardboard bottom. A quick call to Poison Control set my mind at ease, but sheesh! I could have beat that dog within an inch of his life He pooped red cellophane for 2-3 days.

 

[Tinkerbell58]

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

A Dalmatian we had many years ago ate a bunch of bananas...including the peels! When my son was 4 years old (he's 22 now), he played connect-the-dots on the dog with a purple marker.

 

[Tarheel Tink]

Socks seem to be a big fetish for a lot of dogs. A friend of mine had a Dalmatian who passed them without incident; she said after snow melted she had a multi-colored yard from all the socks he had eaten over the winter!

A client's Labradoodle is obsessed and had to have surgery THREE separate times to remove socks that had caused blockage. My doctor finally asked the owner, "Uh, have you considered a clothes hamper?". Not that he's complaining with 3 kids in college.

We have some very interesting radiographs of various items that show up without barium- a fishing weight/sinker was in one lab's stomach! A Siberian Husky gulped down a dry Brillo pad when his owner dropped it in the kitchen; she said they locked eyes and raced for it- he won (surgery again- fascinating radiograph!). How did THAT taste going down?

 

[Pigeon]

My current dog loves a good TV remote. We go through a fair number, since the kids and dh seem to be incapable of remembering to put them out of reach. She also loves the plastic boxes CDs come in.

I had a Dalmatian who chewed through the wallboard in our bedroom. She gave new meaning to the phrase "eating us out of house and home."

 

[klacey1]

Our basset solved a corn cob whole when she was 4 That, obviously required a trip to the vet for emergency surgery. We still have no idea where she found that-- we don't eat corn on the cob and she is supervised when she goes outside (for the most part)

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

Our Bichon ate a package of Trident gum from my purse 2 weeks before Christmas. Discovered it upon coming home from church and I didn't take my purse just that one time wouldn't ya know. Found the package near my purse and all the gum and wrappings were gone. Called our vet and asked him about it after seeing online that Xylitol, the sweetener in some sugar-free gum is poisonous to dogs. He said to take Chewy to emergency clinic (8:30 on a Sat. night) since he ate so much.

They induced vomiting and gave him charcoal. They saw several gum wrappers in the vomit and suggested they keep him overnight with an IV. We opted to stay awake all night and keep our eyes on him. The Xylitol can make a dog's blood sugar take a serious dive and put them in a coma, do liver damage and cause death.

Chewy is fine and we no longer keep gum where he can possibly get it. I wanted to post this so others would know of the potential dangers.

Chewy was just trying to earn his name!

 

[jsaem]

I have to laugh at this thread because just this morning, after dropping my son off at school, I came home to a little surprise. I have two dogs, a 2 year old yellow lab and a 6 month old black lab/I don't know what mix. (he turned 6 months old TODAY actually) I was only gone for 15 minutes mind you and I came home to a HOLE the size of a dinner plate chewed out of my kitchen floor! Now this pup has NEVER been a chewer since we got him over 3 months ago. I just saw it and looked at the two of them and yelled "What did you do!!!" Well the 2 year old just looked at me like, hey lady it wasn't me and the pup crawled under the kitchen table, tail between his legs, with that oh crap kind of look in his eyes! I was really upset but I'm getting over it. Hubby said he can fix it so it looks like I won't be getting that new flooring I've been dreaming about for the last couple of years.

 

[acejka]

The fat dog in the signature is our curious one. His worst thing was one of the large whitman's samplers, it was full minus 4 pieces. Ya know, the one that has 2 trays on the top and 2 on the bottom. He left 3 pieces, all english walnut clusters, guess he didn't care for those...

It was gross though, we had to induce vomiting-made him drink peroxide- and we caught it so early that nothing was digested, so we could still tell which pieces were which!

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

We had a Samoyed growing up, and he got into different things - once ate a whole bag of tootsie rolls & other Halloween candy, once chewed the cable almost all the way through (cut his tongue up pretty badly). After that, my dad made sure the cable was inaccessible to him. He once ate through the screen, grabbed the drapes, pulled them outside, and chewed them up. My mom was NOT happy. The worst, though, was the time he got hold of our half-moon parrot -- feathers all over the living room.

 

[christineann]

After reading this thread, all I can say is WOW. My dogs haven't eaten nearly as much crazy stuff, but here goes. This is what my black lab Jake ate:

a Bible

a hunting boot

a computer cable

the screen off the porch

drywall (still attached)

a burrito (inhaled it in one gulp while we weren't looking)

One night he got the pantry door open, removed a box of saltines, and ate a whole sleeve of crackers. Oddly, he left the other 3 sleeves and went back to bed.

my daughter's Playskool dollhouse people. He would get the heaves @ 4 a.m., I would let him out, and then when the sun came up, I would go investigate.......look, there's a head. There's a leg.

Somehow, he never got an intestinal blockage. He was an incredible dog.