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(24,931 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)One of my pitties ate a can of green beans. It looked like someone took a hatchet to it. She didn't even like green beans.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)He also ate a plastic jar of peanut butter, except for the hard plastic cap.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)I guess the "lefts" fit in her mouth better? She was relentless as a pup.. Even when I put my remaining pairs in a relatively high-off-the floor hanging bag, she'd find a way to pull them out... Never bothered any other type of shoes-- nor anything else-- and I just stopped wearing Dansko. (she won)...
dana_b
(11,546 posts)hlthe2b
(102,491 posts)No one need ever doubt how much I love my girlie! She did test me early on.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)In the mid-sixties in the Hollywood Hills.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)and no, I didn't push on her belly to change the channel.
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)Had a Malamute when I was a kid. Saw a string hanging out his ejector port one day. pulled it out and there was a needle on the other end. How it made it all the way through was a miracle.
JCMach1
(27,585 posts)She won't leave the litter box alone
RZM
(8,556 posts)But I once saw one chow down on a nest of newborn mice. It wasn't a pretty site.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)He was swimming in a brook and when he came across a toad he just gulped it down whole. I have no idea why.
irisblue
(33,047 posts)angel alex the wonder dog decided, for some reason, at 7, to eat a ziplock baggie of mardi grai beads. they had sat undisturbed on my desk for 6 weeks before he noticed, then ate them. they showed up nicely on the radiographs. yard pick up was sparkly and festive for several days. princess pretty paws went into my closed sliding door closet and took my favorite Burgundy sling back pumps into the living room and ate one. she was 9. she now is restricted to the kitchen by baby gates when we leave.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)a jalepeno, napkins if they had food on them, a deer leg he found, a grouse and a frozen dove carcass. I maintain that he merely got confused on that last one as he had heard us talk about dove ice cream bars. He wasn't a very bright dog.
That's in addition to the regular things like the cats' litter boxes, puke and his brother's food. Canned dog food night was especially fun as he would not simply clean his bowl, he would scrape it with his tongue while holding the bowl in place with his paw, which he would repeat with his brothers' dishes.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)Years back I had a very sweet, polite Doberman Pinscher who we sort of forgot about while we went to the store to get a couple of last minute items. We'd left the whole food spread on the table and when we got back not a dish was out of place. They were all there, perfectly clean, and she sitting there like "What?" with one tiny nut from a cheese ball on her nose.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)She was probably thinking, "How nice of them!"
siligut
(12,272 posts)Funny story, it sounds like a sit-com scene. So what did you end up serving for your guests?
chrisa
(4,524 posts)He likes me to simulate a chase first (grab the toy with my hand and move it as if it's running away). Then he catches it, and commences to eat the toy.
Of course, I take the fabric out of his mouth when he gets it free. Sometimes he's done it behind my back, though, and there were surprises on the front lawn.
He'll also start attacking your feet if you move them in the same motion over and over again (it's the pekingese in him). He's incredibly mean, and I have countless scars on my hand too. lol Love him though.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)From when the Internet was still rather young.
Found it.
Anne V - 01:01pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1318 of 1332) Okay - I know how to take meat away from a dog. How do I take a dog away from meat? This is not, unfortunately, a joke.
AmyC - 01:02pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1319 of 1332) Um, can you give us a few more specifics here?
Anne V - 01:12pm Sep 9, 1999 PDT (# 1320 of 1332) They're inside of it. They crawled inside, and now I have a giant incredibly heavy piece of carcass in my yard, with 2 dogs inside of it, and they are NOT getting bored of it and coming out. One of them is snoring. I have company arriving in three hours, and my current plan is to 1. put up a tent over said carcass and 2. hang thousands of fly strips inside it. This has been going on since about 6:40 this morning.
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/dogsinelk.html
Phentex
(16,334 posts)entire thing.
chrisa
(4,524 posts)Forgot about this. It wasn't tile - think it's old linoleum - he just started ripping it up (I stopped him of course before he could eat it though).
He might have been doing us a favor, though.
Chellee
(2,104 posts)They were everywhere on the x-ray from stem to stern.
A whole lot of Metamucil later, he was fine.
doc03
(35,431 posts)baldguy
(36,649 posts)Opened a 1ft x 2ft hole down to the studs. Then she started in on the studs. Pit Bull puppies need chew toys.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Who, me? LOL
siligut
(12,272 posts)Orchid is certainly a beauty.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Unfortunately, her style consists of chew marks on the furniture & little pieces of her toys scattered about.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)Who knows why?
Two of them never chewed a thing. The younger one will chew just about anything-- eyeglasses frames, Birkenstocks, any kind of gloves, anything made of plastic or paper, makeup brushes, combs, a tube of Neosporin, hand cream, you name it. Nothing is safe around her, especially if it is expensive!
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)and, well.....
I can't think of a nice way to explain this, but I will do my best.
They didn't digest completely and the poor dog couldn't ....umm.... "move" them completely out so my roommate had to help by pulling it out of his dog.
I also had a Lab at the time (my best dog ever, Sasquatch) and he never did anything like that. He could eat wood without thinking about it but he never did anything like that and I had him almost 15 years.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)5 gallon buckets actually, but close enough.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)But I do understand where they came up with that bit.
nolabear
(42,001 posts)Her three year old son had a straw cowboy hat with a rubber band to go under his chin. The dog just plain ate the thing. The vet advised them to wait and see if it "passed", which it began to do. Unfortunately, the rubber band passed first, slightly protruding from the animal's rear end. Did I mention a three year old? Kid saw the rubber band and grabbed, pulled...and let go. The woman swears the dog went THROUGH the sliding glass patio door and they had to chase him down.
murielm99
(30,780 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)and a bottle of tums
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)my dog was only about 8 lbs. I called the vet and was told I'd have to get her to throw up. I used a couple tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide to aid that task. What I saw when she threw up, was about twice the size of the original loaves. The warmth of her insides helped it to rise.
My Dad wasn't very happy with the dog, as Mom made sweet bread once a year for Christmas. There was only store bought sweet bread that year.
pipi_k
(21,020 posts)Back in the mid 1980s.
Suddenly it wasn't in the back yard anymore.
It turned up in little pieces in my dog's poo
And no, we didn't save them and glue them back together.
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)luckily she shredded a roll of papertowels the same day, so when her bowels exploded all over the carpet we had all these paper towels shredded to help us clean it up.
She also has eaten entire picture frames, minus the glass.....seriously, even the picture, all the wood, the backing, everything, just the glass was laying there on the floor and we're lucky she didn't cut herself on it.
Also she chewed up our library book on how to train your puppy. The Library people didn't think it was as funny as we did and still charged us the $40 for the book
blueamy66
(6,795 posts)she licked a hole through the foil and licked it clean
Juneboarder
(1,732 posts)She begs for them every time I'm cutting broccoli - weirdest thing ever lol
surrealAmerican
(11,367 posts)... and also cucumbers, zucchini, asparagus, lettuce ribs, carrots, kale, tomatoes ...
About the oddest thing was when the oldest one ate our halloween pumpkins (we had yet to carve them into jack-o-lanterns).
Codeine
(25,586 posts)We told the neighbors that he ate a sweatshirt and took a sweatshit.
mojitojoe
(94 posts)It damned near killed her. Not the chocolate. Me.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)chocolate for our six kids one time. He skipped the jelly beans!
elleng
(131,292 posts)On to the vet for her! My mother had such strength, to put up with that!
Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)4 pitties:
1 ate an unopened can of green beans.
1 ate two cell phones, a remote control, one boot, a door jam, a blanket, and probably other stuff I've forgotten.
1 ate a brand new fishing lure, still in the box.
and...
1 ate a softball.
None of them ever got sick. Although, the cell phone eater stopped eating electrical devices when he tried to eat the lamp and it was still plugged in.
My German Shepherd:
Ate a fresh baked apple pie that was cooling in the window and washed it down with an entire ham.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)kcass1954
(1,819 posts)Tony the Butthead liked shoes. Mine. Had a preference for leather. Right shoe only. Unless he could get a hold of a new pair of sandals or flip-flops that hadn't been worn yet.
My former MIL had a shar pei in the late 80's who liked socks. One day, she got a hold of a pair of pantyhose. No one in the house knew that the hose were missing until they started coming out the other end. As I recall, the surgery was quite expensive.
trof
(54,256 posts)75 pound male German Shepherd.
He loved that girl.
RFKHumphreyObama
(15,164 posts)We had a narrow escape with that one...thankfully
hunter
(38,340 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retainer_(orthodontic_device)
We found it in the dog's poop. That must've
(I've always wanted to use that smiley...)
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guitar man
(15,996 posts)Dunno what was in it, I didn't see her eat it, just saw her pooping it out....for a minute I was like "WTF is that!!??!!
Damn pit bulldogs will eat anything
RIP Birdie
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)She'd only been outside for 10 minutes or so before we heard the water spraying out into the yard. Before we could dig out the master valve in the garage (we'd just moved in), the yard was ruined and the doggy a godawful muddy mess. She thought it was the coolest thing in the world to have all that water and mud to roll around in.
She's a 140 pound bull mastiff/black lab mix who's normally pretty good about chewing only the items we give her to chew, but for some reason she got a hankerin' for hose. We never did find the faucet, but can't be sure if she actually ate it because we had the yard tilled and sodded right after this.
Oh, and she's good at cleaning out the cat's litter boxes if we leave the kitty's door open.
emilyg
(22,742 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)murielm99
(30,780 posts)My dog ate her leash. She did leave the bit at the end that had the metal clasp and the part that hooks to her collar. A couple days later, she threw up 1-2 inch pieces of leash, all over the living room.