lesley
Drama Llama
My best friend Turriff, desperately missed.
Posts: 7,294
Location: Scotland, Scotland, Scotland
Jul 6, 2014 21:50:44 GMT
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Post by lesley on Sept 27, 2022 13:12:44 GMT
Turriff wasn’t too bad at eating stupid things, but when he was a puppy, he would steal socks. One day I found a brown sports sock on the door mat. I didn’t think anyone had brown sports socks, and I was confused why it was wet, but I soon realised that it was a white sock that Turriff had regurgitated! My friend's first Golden Retriever, Max, would eat anything. He was left alone too much as a pup, and made his way through a huge rubber plant, two couches, and much of my friend's record collection. 🤣 Thankfully there were no lasting effects.
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Post by busy on Sept 27, 2022 13:19:59 GMT
Otto doesn’t eat anything he shouldn’t but he does steal socks for attention. Doesn’t do anything fo them, just carries them in hope someone will try to take it from him and end up playing.
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sharlag
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I like my artsy with a little bit of fartsy.
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Location: Kansas
Jun 26, 2014 12:57:48 GMT
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Post by sharlag on Sept 27, 2022 13:20:05 GMT
A throw rug, a lawn chair seat (nylon, mostly).
SHe's had TWO expensive surgeries because of blockages. We are so careful now with what we leave her at home alone with. Thankfully, she doesn't eat stuff when we are at home with her.
My "free" puppy has ended up being quite costly.
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Post by workingclassdog on Sept 27, 2022 13:22:19 GMT
Socks.. and when I mean eat.. he eats and poops it out. Thankfully that finally has stopped for the most part.. we are MUCH better not leaving socks out. And always scared one will get stuck inside him. But that mostly has stopped. I think it's only been one in the last six months.
Grass, Nerf Styrofoam bullets, a bath net spongy thing you put soap on, last night he got my son's dinner, and then blankets, towels, the siding on my house.
He's a St. Bernard.. thankfully he never was into my furniture, carpets/rugs, big ticket items. But if he can fit it into his big ole mouth you can bet he will try to eat it.
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Post by Katie on Sept 27, 2022 13:41:09 GMT
A couple months ago, my golden retriever ate the foam padding that comes in the bottom of a tray of raw chicken. And I can attest that those things swell like a wet baby diaper once they are ingested!
Thankfully, we saw him eat it and could act quickly. Gave him a spoonful of hydrogen peroxide, and he spent the next 20 minutes throwing up. Cannot believe how big that thing was when it came up. I haven’t been that scared in a long, long time!
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Post by olbrwneyedgirl on Sept 27, 2022 13:49:38 GMT
Socks, definitely! The chicken meat sponge thing, yup! Back in the day, I use to wear those sheer knee high socks to work. Those were a favorite. The middle of a couch cushion (although I'm guessing that he mostly just tore it up...didn't *eat* it). Similarly, the leg of a wooden dining room chair. Gotta love 'em, right?
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Post by gillyp on Sept 27, 2022 13:55:07 GMT
Many, many, many years ago when we were green dog owners we had one that ate a couch, a carpet, half a pound of butter and the electrical cable to the fridge. The only thing that was swallowed entirely was the butter. We learnt very quickly after that and apart from the odd tissue that has been stolen out of a pocket I can’t recall anything else eaten. DS had a lab that ate a 2” square piece of rusty metal which necessitated an expensive operation. He learnt quickly from that too.
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Post by christine58 on Sept 27, 2022 13:56:20 GMT
Harper steals socks and dish cloths but has never eaten anything that’s inedible which is rare for a yellow lab.
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Post by mom on Sept 27, 2022 13:57:58 GMT
Annie, my mini doxie who passed away last year, would chase birds when they were drinking at our fountain + kill them, then bring to thru the doggy door to show us what she did.
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 27, 2022 14:00:20 GMT
Our dog was pretty good about not eating random things like socks, but also we were basically paranoid after our first major scare. We were cooking out on the grill and we were eating corn on the cob. We had the empty cobs sitting on a plate and she snatched one and took it to the other side of the deck. We thought "oh how cute" (yeah, dumb...) and let her have it. I mean, dogs can eat corn so why not the cob too, right? ugh. After she ate the entire thing something made us google. Turns out corn cobs are indigestible. We actually waited overnight with me checking on her a LOT. Called the vet the next morning and she spent the entire day there having an hourly series of xrays to be sure the cob wasn't causing a blockage. Turns out that she "ate like a lady" to quote the vet....chewed her food properly. They could see the corn cob bits moving through her intestines. So her ladylike ways helped her avoid a blockage and surgery. sheesh
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scrappinwithoutpeas
Pearl Clutcher
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Location: Northern Virginia
Aug 7, 2014 22:09:44 GMT
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Sept 27, 2022 14:19:34 GMT
DS's cat (currently living with us) loves cardboard, and has eaten plenty of it and then regurgitated it into little piles in random spots all over the floor, ugh. She only eats the plain brown corrugated cardboard, so the piles looked like something else until you looked closely (not fun). Once we caught on that it was cardboard she was eating, we made sure to immediately recycle any cardboard boxes as soon as they entered our house. Good thing it wasn't a pandemic where we had so much more stuff being delivered in cardboard boxes than usual...oh wait! Other than that, the cats don't get into too much as far as actually ingesting stuff they shouldn't. They certainly like to try chewing on stuff (mostly paper), and nosing around things like butter, milk, and ice cream if left unattended so we're careful about that.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2022 14:27:16 GMT
when he was younger, Prescott, one of our Shelties (he's about 33 lbs full grown) ate a couple of my DH's athletic socks. And it went ALL THE WAY THROUGH HIM!! We were sooo lucky!! We had no idea he had done it till I saw it in his poop-- I think he had chewed it in half, so it was at least 1/2 a sock. (I can't imagine what that felt like, lol)
Same dog also chewed / ate a couple pencils, and a set of fine-liner markers with metal tips holding the marker nib. The white fur on his beard/feathers was green, orange, and yellow from the markers... sigh. I would worry about him having sharp bits of pencil, etc. in his digestive system, etc., but nothing ever happened. I swear, his insides must have been made of iron.
One of the younger dogs we have now (he's 2 1/2, and about 25 lbs) has taken to chewing on my underwear... even if it's clean! He will even grab it off the drying rack if he can get ahold of it. (we dry most of our clothes on a drying rack that we set up in the spare bedroom.) My DH actually called me yesterday and told me Kokopelli had dragged my pajama pants and wool socks out into the living room into his dog bed-- not eaten them, thankfully-- just wanted to 'have' them there, I guess. I had to laugh, picturing what it must have looked like, seeing him drag a pair of pants across the floor.
eta: I forgot! We got Kokopelli and Kachina fixed on the same day so they could both recover at the same time. The vet tied their cones on with strips of cheesecloth, I think- tied into a bow. Kokopelli ate the cheesecloth tie off of Kachina's cone TWICE, darn him!! (that's when we found out about the wonders of Hydrogen Peroxide for making a dog puke!) After that, I just put her collar back thru the loops in the cone.
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Post by hop2 on Sept 27, 2022 14:55:58 GMT
Tissues. Especially used tissues. (Barf ) he loves them
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 27, 2022 14:58:54 GMT
Tissues. Especially used tissues. (Barf ) he loves them ooh, yeah- those, too. Tissues and paper towels. If there's pet barf on the floor, we will clean it up with Natures Miracle and put a paper towel square over the spot on the carpet till it dries. Sometimes those paper towels disappear... and Kokopelli's poop later in the day is *MOSTLY* paper. Sigh. And the small wastebaskets can't be left on the floor any more, otherwise he'll eat the tissues. I guess he thinks he needs extra fiber, lol?!? (it's no WONDER he told the animal communicator he had a 'gurgly tummy' when we talked with her.)
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kate
Drama Llama
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Location: The city that doesn't sleep
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Jun 26, 2014 3:30:05 GMT
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Post by kate on Sept 27, 2022 15:02:23 GMT
Tissues and tampons. Used ones, both.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Sept 27, 2022 15:45:12 GMT
The wall. Our golden as a puppy, just put his mouth on the wall and proceeded to chew it! The marks are still there and he's 6 now. Total it's about the size of two quarters and it's about knee height in a hallway, so not very noticeable. One of his favorite things to eat are paper towels and paper napkins. I have to warn people that are over when we're at the table eating that he will snatch the napkin right off their lap.
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grammanisi
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Jun 26, 2014 1:37:37 GMT
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Post by grammanisi on Sept 27, 2022 15:58:34 GMT
Our first Yorkie, Harley, would eat Barbie shoes! Poor Barbie never had a matching pair!
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maryannscraps
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Post by maryannscraps on Sept 27, 2022 16:03:33 GMT
Sophie used to chew up anything she could find, but hardly ever ate any of it. She did eat hair elastics and the green fuzz off all the tennis balls.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Sept 27, 2022 16:21:47 GMT
Tissues. Especially used tissues. (Barf ) he loves them my dog too!!! And papertowels!!!! She also loves to eat my hair rubberbands, not like regular ones, but ones made for thick hair.
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Post by shanniebananie on Sept 27, 2022 16:25:31 GMT
We have a chocolate lab who considers dog feces to be the most delicious treat on earth. Her own or her dog sisters - doesn’t matter. The fresher, the better🤮
Nothing we have tried will keep her from doing this. We just have to be diligent about picking it up every day.
Our previous chocolate loved to eat crayons which would create “rainbow sprinkles” poop.
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peppermintpatty
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Refupea #1345
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Jun 26, 2014 17:47:08 GMT
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Post by peppermintpatty on Sept 27, 2022 16:34:24 GMT
I'm a jewelry designer and my dog eats my beads and chews on stray pieces of wire. None of this is good for him. I have to spend a lot of time cleaning up my workspace and vacuum every single time I do some work so he doesn't get into something that he shouldn't. The beads have caused him to have sparkly poop and they have also caused some loose teeth that he has had to have extracted. These are really small glass seed beads so they won't get stuck but the wire is something I really have to be careful about.
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Post by Cupcake on Sept 27, 2022 16:51:17 GMT
My brother has 2 Golden Retrievers… the younger one is about a year old now and she has eaten not one, not two, but THREE remote controls. What is it about inanimate objects that makes animals say “hey, that looks delicious!” 🤣
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Post by Katie on Sept 27, 2022 16:55:53 GMT
Sophie used to chew up anything she could find, but hardly ever ate any of it. She did eat hair elastics and the green fuzz off all the tennis balls. My dog has no clue what joys could be had with a tennis ball. She loves them only to bite the fuzz off of them!
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Post by atomicdog on Sept 27, 2022 17:39:41 GMT
My basset ate a rock - caused a sever blockage. Turns out the vet has had that happen so often that he had developed his own tool to help with the surgical extraction! I also remember my mom telling me about how their dog (before I was born) ate one of my dad's old "wife-beater" undershirts. Apparently they saw him struggling to poop in the yard. She went out to see what was going on and had to help kind of pull the shirt out. Get a dog they said......It'll be fun they said!! LOL!
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Violette Vixen
Full Member
Jenn
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Location: The Poconos, PA
Nov 27, 2019 19:11:25 GMT
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Post by Violette Vixen on Sept 27, 2022 17:49:22 GMT
<~~~ him, he's actually pretty good. Our first dog, he used to eat the hands and feet off of all my daughters Barbie dolls. That was a hard lesson for them...
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carhoch
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Be yourself everybody else is already taken
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Location: We’re RV’s so It change all the time .
Jun 28, 2014 21:46:39 GMT
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Post by carhoch on Sept 27, 2022 17:58:17 GMT
Gus is a paper shredder extraordinaire, if you have any paper products that needs to be shredded in tiny pieces just leave it next to his bed at night , he does a very thorough job . Kala destroyed my husband’s glasses when she was a puppy but since then nothing .
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leeny
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Location: Northern California
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Jun 27, 2014 1:55:53 GMT
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Post by leeny on Sept 27, 2022 18:24:16 GMT
When our Bob Dog first came to us as a year-old, he ate the floor and wall in the kitchen. Once we got him off that it has always been eating holes in his blankets. Just little holes here and there, but we've never seen any blanket come out of him. This has gone on for ten years now. Unforturnately while we were on vacation and DD was housesitting, Bob Dog got his male part stuck in one of the holes. He freaked out and twisted it so bad DD had to take him to the vet to get him untangled. We now watch those blanket holes very closely and get rid of the blankets as soon as the holes get to a certain size.
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maryannscraps
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Aug 28, 2017 12:51:28 GMT
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Post by maryannscraps on Sept 27, 2022 18:26:11 GMT
When our Bob Dog first came to us as a year-old, he ate the floor and wall in the kitchen. Once we got him off that it has always been eating holes in his blankets. Just little holes here and there, but we've never seen any blanket come out of him. This has gone on for ten years now. Unforturnately while we were on vacation and DD was housesitting, Bob Dog got his male part stuck in one of the holes. He freaked out and twisted it so bad DD had to take him to the vet to get him untangled. We now watch those blanket holes very closely and get rid of the blankets as soon as the holes get to a certain size. OMG Poor Bob Dog, that must have hurt.
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maryannscraps
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Post by maryannscraps on Sept 27, 2022 18:27:31 GMT
My brother has 2 Golden Retrievers… the younger one is about a year old now and she has eaten not one, not two, but THREE remote controls. What is it about inanimate objects that makes animals say “hey, that looks delicious!” 🤣 When Sophie was a puppy, she chewed up 3 ipods and a tv remote. That was pretty expensive. I have no idea what the attraction was.
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Post by birukitty on Sept 27, 2022 18:35:16 GMT
Jesse (our cat) loves to chew on and sometimes ingest bits of plastic bags. He especially loves the thin plastic bags I get from Whole Foods to put produce in. As soon as I unpack the groceries I have to keep an eagle eye on him as I put the produce away so he doesn't get to those plastic bags. All 3 of the humans in this house know not to leave any plastic bags within sight of this cat-plastic bags have to be hidden from him behind closed doors or taken immediately out to the trash.
Biru used to love to lick and chew on printed photos back when they were still being printed with inks. Being a scrapbooker I had to keep a close eye on him when I had my photos spread across my desk working on some pages. Oh how he loved to first lick and then sink his sharp teeth into those photos. It had something to do with the chemicals they used I guess.
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