Author Topic: Eating sheep poo and dead mice (Read 14816 times)

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #30 on:** January 04, 2013, 03:24:12 pm »

Dot is very picky with what food I put in her bowl - but sheep poo, pig poo, fox sh*t, rancid old goodness knows what she finds out on our rounds... these are highly delectable. Top favourite with all the collies is the smelliest yellowest runniest baby calf poo; lambs' meconium a very close second

This thread has reminded me of a thread we had on a work database many moons ago when I worked on a big computer system project. Most of the discussions were proper work-related ones but we inevitably had some light relief ones too, of which a favourite for some weeks was, "What 8 out of 10 cats and dogs really want to eat"

We all agreed that cats wanted mouse-flavour Whiskas and didn't want garden vegetables

and that dogs wanted things like "Fox Sh*t, Last Night's Curry and Smelly Old Bone" flavours.

Jackie 2 · « **Reply #31 on:** February 10, 2013, 02:44:57 pm »

If the dogs roll in anything that stay stinking after a bath such as fox pooh then smother them in Heinz tomato sauce for 30 mins then bath them. God knows why it works but it does

happygolucky · « **Reply #32 on:** February 10, 2013, 02:48:10 pm »

I can usualy stop ours eating stuff on walks until they are off hunting.....it always makes me smile when pet food is marketed to look nice to us humans when really they would choose, stinky manky rotting stuff......

Human poo has got to be the very worset

Jackie 2 · « **Reply #33 on:** February 10, 2013, 03:04:21 pm »

I have no problem with my dogs eating yukky stuff as I got over any shock of that decades ago lol but do they have to eat my bras?

doganjo · « **Reply #34 on:** February 10, 2013, 10:50:12 pm »

It's best not to watch and just worm them regularly. Can't understand any human leaving something behind - disgusting imo

plumseverywhere · « **Reply #35 on:** February 11, 2013, 07:59:12 am »

just had a half eaten mouse stuck in Murphys lampshade

He eats my bras too Jackie! and socks, knickers......

SteveHants · « **Reply #36 on:** February 11, 2013, 07:39:18 pm »

My terriers have always eaten any mice they killed - I just let them get on with it. I've never had one attempt to eat a rat, but maybe thats because either they were too excited at the prospect of killing further rats or I just didn't leave them alone with the rats for long enough.

happygolucky · « **Reply #37 on:** February 11, 2013, 08:18:09 pm »

...do you know what? maybe thats what we should eat too!!!

plumseverywhere · « **Reply #38 on:** February 12, 2013, 07:32:23 am »

at least we'd know what we were eating

Murphy has lost the nack of killing mice, he just catches and sucks them which probably isn't the nicest way to die, so I've stopped him where I can for now - he does eat what snowball brings him though.
Have a rat problem in th ebarn again so maybe he can practise on rats? being bigger he'd be able to shake them like he does his toys?

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #39 on:** February 12, 2013, 08:10:06 am »

You really don't want to let him be catching and sucking rats!!

Dogs and cats who catch rats need to know how to dispatch them quickly and cleanly, or they'll get bitten - and rat bites are nasty bites.

plumseverywhere · « **Reply #40 on:** February 12, 2013, 08:21:53 am »

No, that is what I thought! He doesn't seem able to shake mice but shakes his toy (rat sized) really well $:-\$ how do they learn and what on?

SteveHants · « **Reply #41 on:** February 14, 2013, 08:22:39 am »

In my experience, mice seem to small to be shaken. My terriers always crunched mice but shook rats.

happygolucky · « **Reply #42 on:** February 14, 2013, 11:27:13 am »

I remember having 2 cats that fed the 2 dogs mice, all you would see is a tail hanging out the dogs mouth.
The other day (lost track of the exact day...) we went for a different walk with our 3 Labs, the Yellow is daughter to our Black Lab, they tend to be running full pelt and going through rough stuff all the time....then there is our Chocolate Lab, she will trot off and stay more around me...well they all went off and the Chocolate came back with what appeared to be half a deers head, it did not smell bad so it was reasonably fresh (poacher) she walked all the way to the end of the walk and all the way back, approx 5 miles, she kept the Deer head in her mouth all the time and walked next to me with her prize, we decided to let her take it home , when they got into the car, the Yellow Lab took it off her and ate the lot!!!! Cunning dog to get the other one to carry her lunch!!!