My Dog Ate WHAT?

[Denise & Hunter!!!]

I saw a television show last night for the first time on NatGeo ~ it was called "My Dog Ate What?".  The first dog they featured was a labradoodle named Lola - of course I was all scared and worried the Doodle wouldn't make it but she did ~ wheew!!  The labradoodle had a fondness for underwear, socks, and a glass baking dish full of brownies INCLUDING the glass dish :-(  It the end because it had ate the socks and underwear it cushioned the stomach lining and the glass didn't puncture the digestive tract.    The others were squeeky hotdogs, carpenters glue, a phone charger and landscape stones. 

 

It really made me start to think about everything that they COULD eat.   Hunter has done her fair share of destroying things but she doesn't tend to "eat" anything that isn't food.  We did have one incident where we thought she ate 2 shotgun shells but thank goodness she didn't. 

 

Has anyone had any experiences like this?  What happened and what did you do?  I found myself today trying to doodle-proof my house even more than it already is!

[HeatherA]

Veruca LOVES hair scrunchies. The cloth covered elastic scrunchies you can buy in a pack of 3 or 6. I use them to pull my hair back. She eats them, and I have no idea why. They don't pass, she ends up throwing up this gross, wet mass. It's disgusting. She swallows them whole. Needless to say she has greatly reduced my collection. I used to take one off and toss it in my purse, or just put it on the end table, I can't do that anymore since she goes after them. That is -- by far -- the strangest thing she eats.

[Heather and Bama]

Bama at fourteen weeks ate a marble which cost me about $500.00. O think we should get it bronzed just to remember the story. He's fine now but they shaved his belly from one end to other, plus one leg so he looks like he's been to war and didn't win. If he had been a standard size he could have passed it. My costly baby.oh yeah I thought I watched him like a hawk. I felt so guilty. I wasn't going to share this until i saw others had too.

[shelly]

Oh Heather! I know how you feel! Every time I walk into that ER I am so embarrassed... they reassure me and tell me about their 'frequent flyers' each time, but I still feel like the doggy CPS (DPS) is going to be knocking on my door!

[Camilla and Darwin]

Darwin does the exact same guilty look. He ducks his head and tries to leave the room. I would open his mouth until it dropped out before he learned the drop it command but then he learned to hold it in the roof of his mouth with his tongue. Silly dog. He now knows drop it fairly reliably, thank heavens.

[Leslie and Halas]

Halas doesn't really ingest anything he's not supposed to. Maybe a piece of a torn up stuffie now and then, but that's about it. But when I was in junior high, we had a schnauzer that ate anything. He chewed up a license plate one time, but didn't actually eat it. The worst thing he ate was a razor blade. The kind you put in a paint scraper. The scraper was sitting back on the counter, and he somehow managed to get it (he wasn't that tall, so we don't know how he did it.). We came home to the scraper on the floor, but no razor blade in it. The vet took an x-ray, and there was the razor blade, sitting in his stomach in 3 pieces. Surprisingly, he passed it without having to have surgery and without killing himself. It's still kind of a mystery how he survived that.

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

So far, Webber and Seda haven't eaten anything but dog food, and a large bug. Seda tortured it, and then ate it. Oh yea, there was my son's MAC computer cable that Seda chewed when she was teething.... But, the neighbor called me in a panic one afternoon when his labradoodle climbed up on the dining room table and ate what was left of a box of chocolates. I stayed with the dog while he went to the store to buy some hydrogen peroxide. We gave the dog a capful and he threw up a huge amount of chocolate along with anything else that was in his stomach. Scared me to death. Fortunately, the dog was OK. I am so glad that mine don't eat things that are laying around. I would have eaten all the chocolates.

[shelly]

OMG!!! What a show! Unfortunately, i think we could have been a segment.... the first thing Tori ate and swallowed was one of my elastic thermal type hair scrunchy... she grabbed it and ran as I chased her - she swallowed it...ER trip #1 = forced to vomit it up. Then it was the fatty leftovers from Chines boneless porkstrips... ER trip # 2 -= pancreatitis.... then she chewed and swallowed pieces of my son's boy scout scarf, shoelaces off of shoes she stole, and a piece of my son's Yankee cap (I hear you, you Boston fans - lol), no er trip this time THANK GOD... induced vomiting myself by taking her for a ride in the car....then the worst of all,,,, a teeny tiny screw like from the back of the remote controls, that she found from I don't know where or when - she had bloody diarrhea so we took her for ER trip #3 = X-ray found the screw, kept her overnight and she passed it the next day. Lately, in August.... she chewed most and swallowed the pieces of a corn cob for her 4th trip to - you guessed it the ER = induced vomiting and voila out it came! So as you can see Miss Tori-girl has stopped my heart quite a few times! I'm praying we are done now! (Whew ... typing all of this out really makes me feel like an un-fit doodle mom)

[Kyoko]

OMG! Iwould be panicing if Charlie ate anything but her food!!

[Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey]

Harlow is a big undies and sock eater. We try very hard to keep them out of her reach but she still manages to grab them every now and then. Fortunately, she seems to just poop them out.

[shelly]

WOW! That's an awful large "poop" to pass! LOL

[Melissa & Porter]

So, I have recently claimed that Porter is a food critic and doesn't eat non-food-stuffs, but here is a bad story that belies my claim.

One evening I poured myself a Campari (red, Italian liquor. Hey, it was a hard day) and soda. Immediately Porter seemed obsessed with this drink. He was staring at it, mashing his chin into my leg while begging...etc. I have no idea what is in this drink that attracts him/dogs. He certainly has never gone after beer or wine. Anyway, I got distracted and went away for three seconds after the drink was empty except for the ice cubes. Well, he grabbed the glass to get the residue because I got back in the living room it was on the floor with him, and he had was chewing on the glass! The only thing I can think of is that he went from ice cube to glass w/o realizing it. Somehow, his mouth was not bleeding. I put together all the broken pieces of the glass, but the "puzzle" was not complete. I searched everywhere for this missing thumbnail-sized piece of glass. Then I googled "dog eats glass" and fed him three pieces of bread (happy dog, btw). The bread inflates their poo, helping bad stuff pass w/o harming the digestive track. I watched his poo for days...no signs of fresh or old blood. Never found the glass though so I am pretty sure he ate it.

He also ate 2 full boxes of cookies with a dark! chocolate top layer. The vet asked for his weight over the phone and said, no big deal. He didn't even have diarrhea. Same with the handful of raisins my kid separated out of his trail mix and left in a cup on the counter. I really do try to be careful. My counters are usually empty...

[shelly]

WOW, Melissa! I never heard that about bread! I just 'complained' in a post a couple of weeks ago, that Tori grabbed the bag of bread off my counter and ate 8 slices... guess she emptied her stomach of any foreign matter then! LOL