What's the weirdest thing your dog has eaten?

[tridim]

I ask because yesterday one of my dogs ripped an empty Dr. Pepper can in half and started shredding it. I'm watching for blood in their poop, nothing yet.

They've also chewed a mercury thermometer, several batteries, thin plywood, my papasan chair, every conceivable type of foam, a CD jewel case, CDs, a TV remote, a jar of Vaseline, a tube of Carmex and a used paper towel that was saturated with pepperoni grease. I'm sure I'm forgetting some other items.

Edit: I forgot the bottle of Advil. That was scary because Advil is toxic. They didn't die, so I guess they didn't eat many of the pills. Child-proof cap? Maybe. Dog-proof? Not even close. Hydrogen Peroxide for induced vomiting is a must have for any dog owner.

Crazy dogs.. What have yours eaten?

[Jara sang]

1. "I'm watching for blood in their poop"

Boy do I envy you...

[tridim]

6. It's just part of dog ownership

Poop and barf don't even phase me any more.

What's even worse, I can ID my dog's poop by color and size! Picking it up thousands of times will do that. :)

[TX-RAT]

2. Pecans

My Springer picks up every pecan he finds. He's also been known to eat cat crap.

[unblock]

3. spacers for laying tile

we're laying granite tile in the foyer, hall, coat closet, and half bathroom (a grand total of 92 sq. ft.!)

we had everything laid out with these little spacers between, tiny plastic plus signs you wedge between the tiles to make sure each tile is the right distance from the next.

the next morning we woke up and looked around at each other -- did you pick up all the spacers? no, did YOU? wait, OH, NO!!

INDIE!! BAD DOG!!

fortunately, these things, um, pass....

[Mutley]

4. a 2 inch nail, rat poison, those little silica packets that come in

your shoes, batteries, socks, blistex, a whole package of chocolate chip cookies, shoes, paper, plastic bags, a poncho, lamp shade, books, em... thats all i can remember now. My dog has a STOMACH OF STEEL!

on edit: oh yes, linoleum tile and paint.

[youthere]

5. A linoleum floor.

In my laundry room.

[NoSheep]

22. The entire floor? LOL!

:rofl:

[youthere]

48. The entire floor.

Didn't chew it up. Didn't tear it up. ATE it.
Really interesting piles in the yard for a couple of days though.

[LisaM]

41. We had puppies who ate a whole kitchen floor too (linoleum)

every day we'd come home and a little more would be gone. They also basically ate up two couch cushions around the same time.

[Chicago Democrat]

7. A live bird!

They are so gross and that one threw me.

[sasquatch]

8. My dog buried a chees puff once because he hoped to save it for later

:spray:

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. I'm not sure what it was

But she wasn't giving it up and I didn't really want to touch it. It was black, covered in dirt and appeared to have once been alive. ICK!

[medeak]

10. my son's poop

when we were potty training and he wasn't wearing diapers. :-(

edited to say what was more disgusting was when dog threw up entire jackrabbit...swallowed whole.

[Hobarticus]

11. Ball point pens...only black, no blue

Discriminating tastes, I reckon...

[The Animator]

12. I had a weiner dog that ate baloons.

Nicki, may she rest in peace, was our family dog over twenty years ago. we would blow up a balloon and watch her chase it all over her play area. Her mouth could not open wide enough to actually bite the balloons, cause she was so small, so she would end up pushing the things all over the place with her snout at very high speeds. It was very amusing. Every once in a while she would actually managed to latch onto the knot at the end of the balloon, and it would end up popping. Before we could get the popped ballon away from her, she would eat it. Couple hours later, when she would poop, the poop would just so happen to be the color of the balloon she ate. Yellow, Red, Purple, Green, you name it, she pooped it.

[alittlelark]

13. Warning - do not read this if you have recently eaten!

About 4 years ago I smelled something nasty in the garage attic. I went up to investigate.. it was a 6-8 or so day old dead rat...bloated,maggots - imagine the worst.

I went down the ladder and got gloves, cardboard...disinfectant. I proceed to scoop up said rat (it STANK) it was falling apart, maggots were spilling out,and I kept thinking I was gonna barf. I got it into a plastic bag, dumped bleach on the spot on the floor and headed down the ladder. The phone started ringing as I finished taking off the gloves and scrubbing my hands.

I went inside and answered it - I had left the rat in the bag by the garage door. Sis is on the phone and I tell her what just happened. 2-3 minutes later I open the garage door, and look for the rat.....

Bottom line - The dog ate the rat, and the cardboard pieces. She comes in the house a few minutes later - she had been hiding under the deck.

She barfed it up - I screeched (Sis is still on the phone w/ me), drop the phone, and run to get something to clean up the UNSPEAKABLE disaster on my floor - as I returned w/ cleaning supplies she had finished re-eating the rat she had just puked up.

She smelled horrid for days, but otherwise seemed fine. I was not..:puke: :puke: :puke:

[TheProphetess]

37. You win!

That has to be the nastiest story ever!! I can't imagine how you made it through that experience - yikes!! :puke:

[inanna]

14. Well, this is pretty sick....

but my dog (when he was a pup) ate poop out the cat litter box.

We were disgusted, to say the least. But, after we asked around a bit, it seems this is not uncommon behaviour for dogs.

I dunno...

[NoSheep]

20. Oh. We were frozen in one winter with a friend and her cat went in the

corner. My little terrier took care of it immediately. I have to say...I appreciated it at the time. It was a really messy one and we were all staying in one heated room. oh good god.x(

[SoCalDem]

15. Aluminum barbeque knobs, cable from Adelphia

parts of their doghouse.. rocks..

Labs.. need I say more:eyes:

[DrDebug]

16. Electric cable

Almost chewed it through as well and yes it was plugged in

[Spiffarino]

17. Chrismas tinsel, crayons and rubber bands

Oh, and all on the same day. It was the most festive pile of feces I had ever seen. I couldn't decide whether to throw it away or lacquer it.

[inanna]

19. LMFAO!!!

[NoSheep]

21. LOL!!!!

:rofl:

[youthere]

49. LOL

:spray:

[NoSheep]

18. A condom. Used. I heard the slurping and grabbed the end. Got it

out just before it disppeared down his throat, Yep. It really happened. He's a 4 lb maltese. Loves to watch us "play". :popcorn:

[Spiffarino]

31. Oh, SNAP!

Oy. Bad pun. Sorry.

[Catchawave]

23. A Barbie Doll.....

My old springer spaniel left a "doody" in the yard with a Barbie arm and hand sticking up (as though it were waving). I'm surprised the old gal lived to 13!

But most of my beloved canines, were simply connoisseurs of dirty underwear crotches. EUwwwwww.

[Maine-ah]

24. half a bag of cotton balls

mop bucket water w/ Mr. Clean in it (scary)

only the plastic parts on my bras (WTF?)

Frogs (she caught it in mid-hop)

books

magazines

you name it my dog will eat it.

[wideopen]

25. Crayons have to be the funniest

thing I've ever seen her eat. She absolutely loves them, when walking in the yard you can see the colors in the poop. We always have several colors available for viewing at anytime, and shades of orange seem to be her favorite. Also anything dead (after it's been buried for a few days then dug back up).

[bleedingheart]

26. their own crap

that is just disgusting and weird....

one dog of ours ate steel wool, crayons and soap.

[inanna]

27. Yes, our dog has eaten his own too.

In the wintertime it's even more ....interesting.

:puke:

[wideopen]

30. Cow dung popsicles

I have a fairly large pile on the porch all winter long.

[cruadin]

28. I'm not 100% sure what the weirdest thing she ever ate was,...

I can only attest to the weirdest thing she ever ate and then failed to fully digest.

One of my dog's turds kinda looked like a serving of Neapolitan ice cream because she had eaten some plastic peanuts, for packing fragile items and they were (apparently) white and pink, and they had gone through her intact, but fully integrated with the rest of her bowel contents.

I almost took a picture -- but I didn't.

[MazeRat7]

29. 8 crisp, new $100.00 Bills.

Yes, we were able to recover the corners and serial numbers from 7 of them.

Note: It wasn't "my" dog at the time, but he is now. *grin


MZr7

[Ariana Celeste]

32. A cactus.

When I was 9/10 I lived in Texas with my dad for a year. One night I told him I thought it would be really cool to have a cactus in front of our trailer! So he took a walk down the road and found a small one, and planted it front of our trailer. Now our dog obviously didn't like it there, and ate it the next day. :shrug:

[uppityperson]

33. Unrolled a huge leather "bone", then swallowed it

He is a big dog and we used to get him those leather bone things. He'd knaw and chew away until he got to the last inch or 2 then swallow it. We were afraid he'd choke (at one end or the other) so started taking it away when it got small. He had the last foot of one rawhide chewbone all nice and softened up, then looked at me, thought 1/4 of a second and swallowed the whole thing quick before I might think about taking it away. It was about 12 inches by 6 inches. The night emergency vet was laughing so hard, asked if he was a lab cross. Of course he is, but still. It passed but it was a pain keeping an eye on a 100 # dog who liked to poop in the deep woods.

[livetohike]

34. My dogs have eaten "Stop leak" that stuff you put in your radiator

pens, pencils, combs, magic marker, paint balls, my Iron supplements,kleenex and probably more strange stuff I can't think of right now.

They are two years old now and most of this happened when they were puppies. Nothing was safe. I still have to keep pens and pencils out of reach.

[Wapsie B]

35. You mean besides cow pies?

[tridim]

46. Yes, besides any form of poop

I think the vast majority of dogs do that.

Same with toilet paper.

[undeterred]

36. a turquoise magic marker which changed the color of his toungue

then the next week he ate a pink one :shrug:

[Phentex]

38. entire sink sprayer

hose and all

[MadHound]

39. I used to have a pit bull/great dane mix.

And when he was in that chewing stage of puppyhood, oh man. Came home one evening, and he had literally chewed the couch in two. Chewed through cans of cat food. Chewed through doors. Chewed up a whole can of chewing tobacco. Along with books, shoes, clothes, the usual stuff.

But all in all, he was a great dog, intelligent, gentle, kind and loving. I miss him til this day.

[progmom]

40. don't read this if you're easily grossed out

used sanitary napkins.
which she would puke up an hour or so later.

[Jessica]

44. Mine does that, too.

Very, very embarassing when we have guests. :o

[Jessica]

42. Not very weird, but we left a whole pizza on the coffee table ...

once because we had to go outside for just a few minutes. Pepperoni, cheese, extra cheese. She ate three slices and all of the toppings. She didn't use the ladies room for a week. x(

[Scurrilous]

43. Roaches and flies...

...runs them down, nibbles them to death, and then eats the corpse. Not so much weird as handy.

[Borgnine]

45. My homework.

[undeterred]

47. the New Testament

Our family dog ate the back half of my mother's confirmation Bible.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

50. A terry cloth sweatband

Several socks (at various times), an $80 pair of leather gloves, a pair of Dr Scholl's inserts, a piece of hubby's t-shirt, a nylon knee-hi, various bugs and snails. Called the emergency vet over the knee-hi. Said to try to make him throw up with hydrogen peroxide. Didn't work, but the dog did poop it out next day. The terry sweatband was sorta funny. Doing a FSBO on the house in Florida, sitting at DR table with buyer's agent, going over the contract. Dog starts heaving and up it comes, right in the middle of the LR carpet. Bad timing, bad dog.

[bratcatinok]

51. My dogs have learned to not eat most anything

unless I give it to them. This, of course, does not apply to paper towels or used kleenex. I have no clue what the attraction is in shredding these paper products but they both do it.

Even though the dogs have pretty much learned not to eat anything unless one of us gives it to them, I'm still careful and do my best not to tempt them. One day I received a large box (3'x2'x2') that contained other boxes as well as the packing peanuts. I unloaded the box and then sealed it by doing the folding over and tucking under of one corner.

The next morning I realized our black kitty hadn't slept with me and was nowhere to be found. The box was still in the living room since it wasn't trash day yet and was too big to be left outside. I went calling out for kitty and from inside the box came her familiar mrowr. I opened up the box and there she stood. Solid black kitty covered in white styrofoam peanuts because of all of the static electricity.

I don't know that she's recovered all of her dignity yet from that episode. It took a couple of days to find all of the little pieces of peanuts caught in her fur. I had to pick over her like monkeys do.

[Donkeyboy75]

52. A plastic attachment to our vacuum cleaner.

Other than that, this little guy doesn't eat too many weird things: