We are very lucky (or very careful!) and our girl has never eaten or chewed anything she wasn't supposed to, even when she was a puppy. however, my friend asa Dalmation, and the things she tells me both have me in stitches and fill me with horror!

He once got into the utility room and ate a whole 15KG sack of James Well-beloved, plus the bag. She said he was laying down groaning with a huge belly. Of course, she immediately rang the vet (her boss) who said to keep a close eye on him, luckily he was OK.

Secondly, she came back from the supermarket and let him out for a wee in the garden while unpacking her shopping, when she went to call him back in, she noticed the postman had left a parcel by the backdoor as she has been out. Her dog had eaten an entire childs potters wheel, including paint, clay and paintbrushes. Again Luckily, again, he was OK.

That was some a couple of years ago, he is four now, and she is far more vigilant about what she leaves around him, having learnt that he will eat absolutely anything. (she does look after her dog properly, in case anyone is worried, I think she must have just been extremely unlucky!)

So, has anyone elses dog eaten anything so horrifying?

Yes my dinner!!

A plastic peg fallen from the washing line..........he couldn't pass it all! Another trip to the vets!

Back in the early 90's I had a Yorkshire Terrier x breed and she chewed more than any dog I've ever owned.  Even plaster off the walls.  After destroying hubbies slippers, I later found that she had poo'd out a COMPLETE toe (intact) of a size 8 slipper.

A friend's dog ate his way right through a lath and plaster wall in just over an hour. He was a very large rescue dog whom they were assured was fine with being left by himself. They left him alone for an hour whilst shopping and came back to find he had eaten his way through from the kitchen to the hall. It was the only time he ever chewed anything and they think he just preferred the view from the hall to that from the kitchen so left him in the hall whenever they needed to leave him at home :)

Lol.... Probably another dogs poo..... yuk....!!!!!

Kayla once ate a whole joint of beef....my poor parents had to make do with pizza for Sunday dinner that week LOL

Edited to say she also chewed a tube of super glue as a pup, rushed to the vets but thankfully no harm done  :rolleyes:

Had a lurcher once who would eat anything not nailed down, she once polished of ten two pound bags of frozen tripe, bags and all and never had a moments concern!!! and she stole them from the top of the kitchen cabinet :rolleyes: !!
My mums Doberman once ate a box of childs wax crayons followed by a ball of wool and poo'd different coloured poo's all strung together like a string of sausages the next day. Luckily he came to no harm but a ball of wool in the intestines is not a great idea.
I have a huge old oak tree in the garden and the girls will eat the fallen acorns so I spend my time this time of year picking up acorns befroe they can get to them.....do you know how many acorns fall from one huge tree???
Aileen

Two tampons , a week ago.  Only one has appeared so far .

ewwwww...unused I hope??

Cassie ate a large plastic 'peg' sorta thing and pooed out a pile of blood...I'm sure if Derek had seen it he would have fainted! But she was okay...it just must have scratched her bowel on the way through, but she recovered fine!

Kerry, a Bernese I had off me mam, ate a whole section of plater wall, even though she was only there overnight and with Cassie! Must have tasted yum!?

Sarah my Dobe, years ago, ate a whole black bag of rubbish hubby left in the wrong place...for about 3 days she had pre-packed poo in self made poo bags!!

I don't wish to go into any more detail :rolleyes:!
Apart from the worry of them passing through, the worst thing was asking advice from our handsome young vet ;-).

:-D

Maddie : snails *yuk*  tube of mascara, pen,
Mikki : slugs  and snails *yuk* pegs wooden and plastic, MY sandal ( only one and only ate half of it) anything wooden, paper, plastic, edible, unedible,  too many to mention :rolleyes:
Missie: advent calendar (only the chocolate though ) the odd pencil or two
Molly :  erm........nothing :) she's a good girl she is :P

I think Bernese must have a thing about plaster. Ours ate a wall too. Our first Bernese ate chunky crayons that came out the other end whole!! Treacle regularly counter surfs and has eaten a whole big box of Costco american cookies, a loaf of bread and a bag of uncooked pasta! :D

My girl once ate a torch, complete with bulb :rolleyes: She had burns at the back of her mouth and throat form the batteries and had to have water and complan syringed into her mouth every few hours. Same girl also ate a bottle of metacam ont he way to a show once, it belonged to another dog and was in my show bag - she didn't have any ill effects but the other dog had to go all weekend without any metacam and was very stiff. Also...on the way to another show she got into the front of the van and bit several cartons of ribena and chewed up a pack of crunchies, when we returned to the van the front seats were soaked with ribena and all the dogs were covered in squirts of it and Tossy was covered in crunchie bits all over her gorgeous white coat. I managed to clean her older brother up and he actually went Best in Show, apart form lovely trophies one of the prizes was a sack of dog food - yep - you've guessed it...Tosca got into that too on the way home. I loved her to bits but she was an absolute midden of a dog :D

Ahh poor thing!

One of my friends dogs, needless to say it was a SWD once ate two hare skins!

My lab, has tried allsorts fox, rabbit, cow horse, poo, a (close eye is needed on walks) . He also licks where other dogs have peed (dirty dog)

He has eaten socks, knickers, underpants, cardboard, my walls, doors, paper loo roll :rolleyes: shoes, boots.

He is growin up a bit now though my boy, he has the run off the house now, and full access to 15k bag of food, which believe it or not he leaves alone. He occasionally still eats the odd sock but thats about it.

Its when we are out that he needs watchin very very closely lol

at a torch, I thought the potters wheel was the strangest one ever!

Indi eats horse poo on a regular basis, I don't count that as strange personally, apparently is is good for them too.

Oh, she did eat cat poo in the garden once though, and came in with it all in her teeth, licking her lips, I thought my Fiance was going to be sick! It was disgusting, but also quite funny. :-)

Tissues Tissues Tissues and more Tissues.
Beano ate a Pilates band last year. Was picking up green rubber pooh for about a week!!!
Lea :)

Not eaten as such but swallowed a golf ball, my other bitch chewed a barbie doll and a day or so later came out 2 intact barbie feet which gave me such a giggle whilst doing mundane poo duty :D :D

Dont you wait for the men from the funny farm to come and take you away when you are doing the pooh patrol.
Is it just me or is it everytime you see something different you pick it up and inspect it to make sure you shouldnt be worried about them!!
Lea :)

lol Lea when they eaten a whole pack of crayons i was thrilled to see different coloured poo's how sad or what!! on a drizzly monday morning what could be better :D :D

Skye is a good girl and has only chewed the odd shoe.

Piper well where do I start, my pill a whole months worth, a whole box of chewing gum 40 plus the box they were in, socks, the crotch out of underwear(clean or dirty shes not fussed) toilet roll, her bed, my fav shoes, my dinner. She is only 10 mths so heaven knows what she will eat in future.

Mary

One of ours, Azzi, a long time ago ate rollers which emerged bit by bit.  I think if I remember right she also had bits of a carrier bag another time.  Obviously had a thing about plastics.
On a caravan holiday, Mum thought she'd do a bit of sewing.  She put the needle and thread in the arm of her chair, and Tara ate it.  That required a trip to the vets.  We never saw the needle again, but she lived a good few years after that.

Pops jumped the safety gate, went in my bedroom and eat 5 mars bars, 7 rocky bars, half a pack of digestives and 2 bounties. Then she moved into sons room and eat a whole tub of Tropical Fish food.... finished off in the kitchen and eat the chicken fat/juices cooling on the worktop.No Squits or anything. She has the constitution of an Ox. Normally its plastic bags that she gets out of the bin.  Great when you poop scoop.
She is  a fabulous dog but omg what a food thief!

My current two haven't eaten anything particularly out of the ordinary but we had a yellow Lab when I was a child that ate all sorts.  The entire flex & plug off an iron (not a bit remained :eek) and most of Mum's sewing basket & contents, including needles   to name but a few.  No ill effects at all.  Must have been that cast iron Lab stomach at work :D

A rottie I had when my daughter was little once ate my passport and her passport when they came through the door.

Only had a week to go till we flew on our hols so had to shoot back to passport office!! 2 passports ended up costing a small fortune and he was unpopular with OH for a while!!! :-D

The same dog also ate my long leather riding boots which were very expensive, OH's lovely shoes and daughters jodphur boots!! And he wasn't a puppy when that all happened...definately old enough to know better!!!:-D

He obviously had a thing for leather.:-D

Other than that....I've had various plaster walls eaten away over the years. The lot I've got now are quite good!!!:-)

complete! corn on the cob husk......3 times!! had to be opened up each time! Then there was the can of baked beans....complete!

My cairn ate ate a lamb chop bone that had been dropped onto the floor. It got stuck and he had to go to Bristol University. May not have been the most "stupidest" thing but it was definitely a very expensive lamb chop !!!!
jane

I friend of mine had a rescue Great Dane who consumed their wedding cake on the morning of their wedding!!

my old lab ate a rubber glove, frantic phone call to vet, he asked what sort of dog, told a lab and said give her carstor oil, it worked!!  My sisters 6 month old lab ate the sofa arm yesterday!!!:rolleyes:

ive given up worrying abour gloves Justi....ours eat on average 1- 2 pairs leather gardening gloves a week!!! they pass through!!

My two are pretty good I think after reading this.  The one thing that they do eat is the dog rope toys.  Finn chews them until they become unravelled then Bran cleans up by eating them.  The problem is then when he goes for a poo I have the pleasant job of pulling the rope out otherwise he ends up squating round the garden for ages trying to get rid of it.  What a lovely job.

One Christmas we noticed that the lametta (spelling?), those very narrow silver strands that you hang on the branches of the Christmas tree, were disappearing from the bottom layers. As the week wore on, the strands hanging further and further up the tree were going.  We thought that mice had set up home in our living room and were coming out at night to take it for nesting!! Then one day my old dog was out in the garden and did a poo which consisted of mainly clear plastic strands all jumbled up together. It took us a moment to figure out what had been going on. At night, when we had gone to bed he had worked his way around the Christmas tree eating the lametta from first, the lower branchs, and then up as far as he could reach! His digestive tract must have removed the silver covering from the strands. He lived till a ripe old age so no harm done.

Having lost a young dog thro' a blockage, I would be very worried about any dog eating the rope from dog toys. I would be looking for an alternative to amuse them. Some dogs seem able to survive after eating some amazing things- but you never know.......

Best wishes
Linda

> corn on the cob husk......3 times!! had to be opened up each time!

3 op's for the same thing

>ours eat on average 1- 2 pairs leather gardening gloves a week

Sam,you would have thought that you'de have learned to put the garden gloves out of reach by now ;)

Kerrie once ate a full tub of vasaline which ended up being a very intersting poo!
And while I've worked in kennels I've seen a very small dog (Chi size) pass a large intact ice lolly stick and a boxer pass a pair of balled up socks! Lovely!

I walk 2 labs everyday and today walked in the house to find they had got a box of red wine off  the side and were lapping it up off the carpet! They had also dragged a large plastic tub of dried food into the lounge, opened it and were busy scoffing it in between drinking the wine!

dragged a large plastic tub of dried food into the lounge, opened it and were busy scoffing it in between drinking the wine!

...........and which DVD were they watching......... :D :D :P :P

Actually they were watching This Morning on the massive plasma tv their owners leave on for them every day!!

I had to giggle at that one alfredo.  Know it's naughty, but....hmm.....I like their thinking! :-D

Sam,you would have thought that you'de have learned to put the garden gloves out of reach by now

LOL...perhaps in a safe place with the corn husks :D

tigger, the corn cobs are dropped daily in our garden by the red deer so out of our control (although they do look very nice in the freezer!) the gloves are another matter.....the hounds can jump over any door they choose (all our outside doors are stable doors) and stealing gloves and teatowels and virtually any other  item they can lay their jowles on, is a regular occurence. Plus 2 of the girls can undo the multitude of dog proof (not hound proof!) bolts we have attemted to install over the years. Now all gloves are hidden  on top of the long case clock....but unfortunately the cat loves throwing them off so now we have to find another place to hide them!

Wow, my Dobe is an angel compared to this lot He stole food off the side twice when I was preparing it (only his own food luckily!) and chewed up two cardboard tissue boxes as a pup but that's about it (although he did also dig the kitchen floor up and used to dig up potatos from the vegetable patch and come hurtling into the kitchen with them!).

He sleeps in my bedroom and I can leave any manner of things out - knickers and socks on the floor, books and magazines, money, shoes, bags, anything, and he's not in the slightest bit interested :D Our previous 2 Dobes were the same. He does love chewing dog toys up and has some old knotted t.shirts which we use as tug toys but seems to know the difference between his stuff and ours. Feel very lucky now (famous last words )

Yesterday, Rubin the whippet was in the garden with daddy(who left the shed door open). Today, there where 4 big grain mountains on the path which I have swept up with a dustpan and brush

Of course it doesn't take much working out that the greedy little b***er has been eating the chicken food in the shed and couldn't digest the corn! It is a good thing that I have the women only common sense too, because OH had said to me the other day,

"I don't think you should buy any more of that rubbish dog food",which is JWB "he can't digest it"

Methinks, this has happened before:rolleyes:

Yonnie, Patti & Kiera the Pharaoh's raided a bag of rat food last week whilst I was out with Cora the greyhound. 

Today Patti (aged 2 years 6 months) destroyed/chewed up a plastic coated
coaster that was on the coffee table (ironically it was a Pharaoh Club one).
A few weeks ago she opened my dog show bag (opens zip with teeth) and chewed up my leather bait bag.

are we including structural things? we are on the 3rd set of stable doors into the dog room, and 2nd window frames and just about to have the 2nd door frame installed.

OMG this post is very scary!!

I am a real worrier and probably a terrible person to have in an emergency so I would be horrified if our dog ate anything he shouldn't although our house is baby proofed to the max so i guess he has never had access to anything!!:rolleyes:

Past dogs have eaten:
Goldie = leather collar, tablets, milk shake powder, (took him to the vets to have his stomach pumped out due to the tablets and this is what they found!)

Collie cross = leather collar (same day as Goldie!!)
Bernese mountain dog = SOCKS
Bernese Mountain dog = Indian takeway!
My friends little terrier ate cats poo once, she did not realise what the dog had in her mouth so put her fingers inside to hook it out!!! Yuk yuk yuk!!!

Milo my JRT ate a sample of lawn weedkiller that was posted through my door while I was in the bath.  Neither of my dogs ever touch anything that comes through the door but this must have smelt appetizing, so he grabbed it and ran behind the sofa with it, knowing Shady couldn't fit up there and get any from him.
Hence me panic and him in the vets for the day, vets onto poisons and the manufacturers, who did cough up for the vets bill and promised me they would stop thier delivery to all homes in this way.
Luckily Milo was alright.