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Title: Dogs Like eat strangest things
Post by: CameronS on April 28, 2010, 01:53:07 pm: After competing 2.5 hours of revision, i decided to use up some off our eggs, making a meringue, so the mixture went on to grease proof paper and into the oven. 2 hours later out it comes and i left on the paper, and placed right at the back of the unit.

I came back 5 mins later to find that the dogs had eaten it all, including the paper! :dog:
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Post by: HappyHippy on April 28, 2010, 02:38:28 pm: I was almost scared to read your post Cameron in case it was some vomit inducing tale ;)
My daft GSD will eat most things (nasty and nice) but his absolute favourite thing is tomatoes ! I swear he can hear them being sliced and just stands there with the drool tripping him till he gets a bit ;D
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Post by: CameronS on April 28, 2010, 05:02:22 pm: I can list an ever stranger thing for a dog to have eaten, A rescue greyhound ate a whole 150 watt heatlamp, with no major effects, his gum was cut and bleeding, but the swallowed glass passed right through, and for days we were lifting poo full of red glass ;D
it was worrying at the time but when you look back it's kinda funny
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Post by: daniellestocks on April 28, 2010, 05:13:56 pm: The mother in laws spaniel will eat ANYTHING! Melon skin was the strangest thing ive known it to happily eat! :D
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Post by: little blue on April 28, 2010, 10:24:00 pm: our rescue GSD has a liking for christmas baubles, she about stripped the tree and fetched stuff out the boxes before we got round to putting them in the loft!

only things we know she doesn't like are onions (which is good) and bananas....
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Post by: Annie22 on April 29, 2010, 02:58:35 am: My late german shepard loved oranges, I caught him staring at the orange tree one day and moving his head as if he was searching, next thing he grabbed an orange and started eating it. Our currant dog Turdles is appropriately named, he is a poo conisur (spelling), dosn't matter what kind of animal it comes from, yet he is fussy about the food we give him. Go figure.
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Post by: Rosemary on April 29, 2010, 08:39:16 am: Ours aren't too bad but I saw Dan's parents late collie, Timmy, eat a used coffee filter complete with grounds. He also ate a bowl of lard - that made him quite sick.

Sam, his partner in crime, takes the biscuit (pardon the pun) though, by eating a "ladies personal item" left by some thoughtless camper on the hill behind their house. Dan thought Sam had a mouse in his mouth as he could see the "tail".
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Post by: HappyHippy on April 29, 2010, 10:27:56 am: Eurgh :P knew the vomit inducing stories would turn up, but a morbid sense of curiosity made me read them - blurgh ! Especially Sam's one - btw she was no lady if she left something like that lying around >:(
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Post by: dixie on April 29, 2010, 12:17:39 pm: My greyhound once ate a tray of 36 eggs and the tray, talk about wind inducing, she stank for days! ::)
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Post by: mab on April 30, 2010, 08:33:34 pm: My GSD Jess likes ginger nuts but not dog biscuits or dry dogfood - in fairness I can't fault her for that.

She also likes cowdung though (must be very fresh so she can lap it up); conversely, if she gets a fresh rabbit she leaves it for a few days to ripen before eating it.

I think an infrared heat lamp's going to be hard to beat though :o .

mab
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Post by: clumbaboy on May 10, 2010, 01:00:43 pm: I have a lunatic spaniel that is obsessed with soft fruit, will eat anything at eye level and its a race outside in summer to see who can get the strawberries first, she has also eaten a lemon, took a while and she never really enjoyed it, well thats the impression I got from her face!! :P
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Post by: Sandy on May 10, 2010, 01:16:35 pm: Ben loves collecting fruit with us and sniffs the bushes out!!!! Mind you,I think his fave dinner is any sort of poo!!!! (remember the post about me in the woods with a bad tummy :-[ )
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Post by: xnbacon on May 10, 2010, 02:26:47 pm: OH refers to my beloved hound as a labrador with spots due to her tendency to eat anything and everything. For example: we were running a bit late the other day, loaded up the truck, one dog, eggs in egg boxes hidden down the side somewhere. Got home, 'how many eggs?' I asked OH. '2 boxes of 4 and 1 of 2'. 'Why can I only find 1 of 4 and 1 of 2?' 'DOG!!'
Can't blame her, it was late and she did look rather sorry for herself the next day!
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Post by: Jackie 2 on May 12, 2010, 06:22:50 am: A friends Golden Retriever was very ill and off his food and gagging so was taken to the vet for an xray.

The xray showed something that the older vet couldn't recognise so called in the young male vet who immediately recognised a bra fastener.

Yes the dog had eaten a bra!!!

My bitch once ate a crab line lead weight. She had had to jump up to the garage ceiling to get it!!
We couldnt find the massive crab hook and it didnt appear on the xray either.
After being given emetics and the weight not coming up she had an operation to remove it.
She was very ill.

4 days later when grooming her I found the hook in the thick fur around her neck.

Oh and the same bitch once ate 2.5 kilos of growmore, she had pink poo for a week!

I've often found socks/paper/silver foil/hair bobbles/things I don't recognise in the poo.
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Post by: Sandy on May 12, 2010, 10:04:53 am: I had a narrow escape the other day, Rohan, now 5 mths old Yellow Lad, ran into her cadge so I knew she had found some treasure, I took it off her and saw it was a tube of SUper Glue!!! Lucily I had seen her but not sure where she had found it!!!
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Post by: Teresa on May 12, 2010, 03:49:07 pm: Be careful if you take cod liver oil capsules. My mums red and white setter ate a pot of 180 tablets!!! She smelt of burning rubber for days! Luckily no other ill effects :P
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Post by: Sandy on May 12, 2010, 10:04:25 pm: ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Annie22 on May 13, 2010, 12:26:25 am: Our Dog besides his poo fetish, also has to "test" all the other animal feed, from chicken food, hay, horse food and of course our food.
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Post by: Sandy on May 22, 2010, 12:12:37 am: I have to stop the pups eating the chicken pellets!!! they love em!!!!
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Post by: little blue on May 23, 2010, 07:50:09 pm: I dont let Sheba close enough to try chicken pellets... but one of our cats loves rabbit food (but it makes him cough!)
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Post by: Sandy on May 23, 2010, 08:19:25 pm: £130 >:(
£100 cheque was repaced but not the £10 or £20
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Post by: little blue on May 23, 2010, 08:50:56 pm: my friends cocker spaniel has a taste for money... think he's eaten about £40 in the 6 months they've had him
(you'd have thought they'd have learnt by now! I don't have enouhg ££s to leave it lying around!!)
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Post by: Sandy on May 23, 2010, 09:15:15 pm: Neither do we, the cheque was for the bank and the £30 dog food, needless to say they did not get any treats that week!!
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Post by: doganjo on May 23, 2010, 10:43:37 pm: And they were in your purse! Rohan has a fetish for that purse methinks :o :o
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Post by: Sandy on May 23, 2010, 11:58:50 pm: Yes she dose!! The purse is no more!!!! Rhum came to me tonight with a hi fi cable!!!
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Post by: little blue on May 24, 2010, 08:43:05 pm: Sheba has bitten through several phone chargers, a TV remote, my old laptop charger cable, the wood off the bottom of the Grandfather clock, and is a B**ger for knocking things (mugs, glasses etc) off tables with her big whippy tail...
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Post by: doganjo on May 24, 2010, 11:35:01 pm: I don't have a tail problem (mine have natural bobtails) but I just lost the velcro straps off my very first and long awaited non lace up lazy old grannie velcro fastening shoes - I'd only had them two weeks and I loved them so much. The little brat didn't even have the good grace to look remorseful
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Post by: little blue on May 25, 2010, 07:54:18 pm: when Sheba is over the arm of the sofa, "loving" her dad (my husband) and I've got the tail-end beating me about the face, and knocking the laptop or book out my hand, then a bobtail seems a lovely idea!!
(No, wouldn't have the great hairy beast any other way really. Or the dog!)
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Post by: suziequeue on May 31, 2010, 11:20:30 pm: Dugg ate some string the other day - needless to say he needed help to "extract" the offending item from the other end.

You should have seen the look on his face - he couldn't work out what was going on.

Poor old hubby had to do the deed even though it as me who hadn't been vigilant enough at the time that he swiped the string.

He loves the chicken's corn and the pig nuts.

All those stories made me giggle.

Susanna
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Post by: Sandy on June 01, 2010, 08:50:00 am: I was in the shower on Saturday and heard a lot of noise in the dog room, I went to them dripping and the pups were tugging at the Hi Fi cables, about to pull it off the shelve, I shouted to my partner (who had left it with cables hanging) to take it off them as I only had my towel on and he said ""in a minuit" I was very angry and nearly left it to the pups !!! Men!!!!!!! I did rescue it that time!!
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Post by: Sandy on June 11, 2010, 09:19:35 pm: Rhum tit tum (nick name) just brought me the channel changer and then took the newspaper!!!
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Post by: little blue on June 11, 2010, 09:26:57 pm: sounds like a good swap - you can idle in front of the telly while he improves his mind ... or looks at Page Three!!
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Post by: Sandy on June 11, 2010, 09:36:45 pm: They have settled down now but when they come in the grad everything!!!
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Post by: doganjo on June 11, 2010, 10:43:12 pm: Quote from: little blue on June 11, 2010, 09:26:57 pm
sounds like a good swap - you can idle in front of the telly while he improves his mind ... or looks at Page Three!!
Don't think so -Rhum is a little girl Labrador pup - and she's only four and a half months old! lol
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Post by: little blue on June 12, 2010, 07:45:54 pm: lol. now why did I think she was a he??!!
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Post by: Sandy on June 12, 2010, 08:58:54 pm: Rhum is just like Islay, her Foster mum, she always pickes things up to bring me, she's a little darling!!
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Post by: little blue on June 12, 2010, 09:13:22 pm: so does Sheba, usually she tries to have a good chew first...
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Post by: doganjo on June 12, 2010, 10:09:43 pm: Quote from: Sandy on June 12, 2010, 08:58:54 pm
Rhum is just like Islay, her Foster mum, she always pickes things up to bring me, she's a little darling!!
I keep telling you that one should be worked - you need to take her to a specialist Labrador trainer! And read those magazines on training. No sense in having a good dog like that go to waste.
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Post by: Sandy on June 12, 2010, 10:53:42 pm: She has the potential to be excellant, we love her to bits!!!!
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Post by: knightquest on June 12, 2010, 11:32:58 pm: I once had a Dobermann who broke into the freezer and took all the frozen food and some of the bags that it was in.....chops, peas, carrots etc. You get the picture, meat and two veg basically. That was bad enough but next day, he consumed the entire contants of the chip fryer.

The oil came out of every orifice over the next few days and some places I didn't even know he had. Blurghp!!
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Post by: Sandy on June 12, 2010, 11:38:27 pm: We are lucky that we have our dogs far away from food!!! they stay in a lean too dog room that we ut cages into but never close them.....I know Ben would be able to open anything as he is VERY clever, we are lucky to have the house the way it is!!
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Post by: forge on June 13, 2010, 11:08:46 am: ours like fruit especially pineapple :D
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Post by: Sandy on July 31, 2010, 11:47:20 pm: Now I love pinapple and threw some to the dogs but only Ben ate it and not that fast like usual!!
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Post by: ellisr on July 31, 2010, 11:55:14 pm: My old dog Rusky eats carrier bags so I have to put them in a draw so he can't see them. It has the advantage of pre wrapped doo doos ;)
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Post by: humphreymctush on August 01, 2010, 07:12:13 am: I have trained my dogs to always swallow fish head first
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Post by: doganjo on August 01, 2010, 11:56:13 am: Quote from: humphreymctush on August 01, 2010, 07:12:13 am
I have trained my dogs to always swallow fish head first
Why?
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Post by: doganjo on August 01, 2010, 11:57:24 am: Quote from: Sandy on July 31, 2010, 11:47:20 pm
Now I love pinapple and threw some to the dogs but only Ben ate it and not that fast like usual!!
That's what you give them in their food to supposedly stop them eating their own poo - or other dogs eating it. Not sure if it works or not.
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Post by: humphreymctush on August 02, 2010, 02:32:07 pm: Doganjo, if they try to swallow them tail first the fins and gill stick in their throats
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Post by: doganjo on August 02, 2010, 02:38:34 pm: duh ::) Now why didn't I think of that! ???
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Post by: little blue on August 02, 2010, 08:27:30 pm: .... and I thought it was some joke about how it'll come out the other end, head first to see where it lands, or something!! :)
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Post by: Budo1 on August 03, 2010, 06:37:48 am: TOH baked some fresh bread yesterday, placed 3 tins to cool on the side... after a while came back into kitchen to cut a slice only to find one tin missing...we find dog, half a loaf and only a small part of the foil tin left. now i understand the loaf - boy they smelt good, But the foil tin too? Both were separate so could say it was because the loaf was stuck to it.
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Post by: Sandy on August 07, 2010, 01:55:12 pm: I just bought some peroxide and put some diluted in a bucket to clean the pooo mess as the pups have the runs, then saw Rohan drinking some of the water, she only got 4 licks of it ...will it hurt her?????
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Post by: doganjo on August 07, 2010, 06:52:37 pm: She might get more of the runs - wasn't she sick? That's what vets use (Or used to, don't know if they still do) to induce vomiting. it's an emetic.
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Post by: Sandy on August 07, 2010, 07:40:48 pm: No, Rohan is fine, just got runny poo when she goes, she will have chicken and rice tonight, Rhum is good, solid poo as with all the others. THe dilute was very weak, a few caps full (5?) and a gallon bucket, she has had some imodium but if her poo is still runny tomorrow I will have to see the vet, I think she had a lot of the adult food as it gave them both the runs last time I tried it...