What’s the strangest thing your dog has eaten?
I have a Chocolate Labrador (Cadbury) who is 13 months old and very intelligent…sometimes too intelligent! He’s always been a handful to keep occupied and entertained and throughout his 13 months has eaten several things he shouldn’t – eg, 2 lounges, 2 dining chairs, a hall table, skirting boards of my newly built house, fish tank pipes (yes, my new house flooded as my 3 foot fish tank emptied itself onto the floor), letters on the table (including bills), telephone cables and extension leads.
Today he’s reached another level of destruction. I got home from work and found that one of the bedroom doors hadn’t been closed properly. On first look everything looked OK, I sighed deeply and thought I’d dodged a bullet. However, on closer inspection I discovered that all was far from OK. He’s eaten a lap top! The casing looks a little chewed (not too big an issue), but somehow he’s figured out how to open it because when I opened it I found half the keys missing, he’s polished off the cables and also chomped down a door stop and DVD cover!
Having been through his “gonna eat everything in the house” phases before I’ve got it all under control but was just wondering…..what’s the strangest thing your dog has eaten?
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I haven’t never caught my dog eat anything strange except grass. And that’s probably normal.. I dunno
my dog ate my window screen once. at first i thought he just tore it apart somehow…..but i never found very much of it.
i still haven’t gotten a new one.
An entire ballet shoe when he was about 5 months old. Didn’t even know he ate it until I found it whole in a pile of loveliness in the backyard. I knew it was missing, but that wasn’t where I expected to find it.
Lets see…He has eaten socks, shoes, my daughter’s panties, OH…He ate the entire hardback novel Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (I guess he has a thing against Twilight) I suppose ate about 3/4 and shredded the rest would be a more appropriate description. Ummm….he has eaten the corner to the brick fireplace and I catch him gnawing on the metal patio chairs.
Now, for those of you who say, “why is he allowed alone to cause this destruction…” I work from home. I am here ALL of the time. When I go get my kids from school, he comes with me. When I have to leave, he is crated. He somehow manages to do this within minutes of me not directly supervising his every move. He has all SORTS of great stuff to chew on.
~sigh~ He is nearly a year…I’m hoping he will grow out of it sometime….hoping, but not counting on it. I have never owned a dog who wanted to eat things as much as him. The best part is, when I catch him…I have never once beaten him, hit him, or done anything other than a firm “No” and yet all I have to do is walk in a room and pick up a piece of what he has chewed and he cowers in the corner like someone regularly beats the crap out of him. Lol…I swear…No one does! Once I let out a “holy sh*t” as I walked in and viewed the destruction and he ran as fast as he could outside and stayed there for 2 hours. ~shrug~ I now know how extra EXTRA careful I must be with him being left alone at all.
My puppy ate a mole once, but the weirdest part is that she caught it herself in the middle of winter under 8 inches of snow.
I do have a friend whose dog ate a lightbulb once. And a full tray of brownies. And the better part of a brick, if I remember correctly. Labs…sheesh, they’ll eat anything xD
HAHAAH This is soo funny because my dog just recently ate something sooo hilarious. So of you may find it gross, but I have that kind of humor.
ANYWAYS. So my dog got into our trashcan by our bed and we scolded her and put her in her cage til morning. Well that night she was taking a poo and she’s had worms before and I always check because I’m cautious, well I saw something a little white(we have retractable leashes) and I walked up and I took a stick and moved it to discover she’d eaten a used condom and pooped it out! My boyfriend and I cracked up!! She didn’t chew it or anything just like swallowed it whole. She’s fine though.
A freaking phone cord! Ugh.
My pit bull has eaten shoes, legos, the corners of a wooden futon, cucumber leaves, orange slices, dictionaries ( he was trying to learn more), the wooden panels of a couch, tissue boxes, and a screen door
Lol K-Dawg, you know labs are total weapons of mass destruction all on their own.
We have a young lab who we are puppy raising to hopefully one day be a guide dog for the blind. She has chewed on nearly everything she can get her jaws on. My God, the things we find half eaten are amazing. Furniture, shoes, garden stakes, the pergola posts, maple tree, any cardboard box, empty toilet rolls, garden spade, bbq wheels, brooms, vacuum hose, tennis racquet, lawnmower handle, also a door stop, dvd’s, magazines and a book I was half way through and of course all her millions of soft toys.
We bought the last lab because she didn’t pass as a guide dog and she wasn’t half as bad as this new one.
The lab pup lost her baby teeth about 4 weeks ago now and I thought the chewing would stop too but no, she finds new things every day and where she drags these things out from I don’t even know.
Sorry your laptop got destroyed, it’s pretty funny though. I can just picture it happening too.
But, you gotta love em, they are so adorable and you can never get mad at them. They sit there with those big sad eyes and suck you right in.
My suggestion is to buy baby gates for every room in the house you don’t want him in. I did that and there’s no problem.
Your dog needs boundaries and plenty of other things to chew on when you aren’t home. Get some of those everlasting chews or stuff a kong. If it’s hot where you are right now and he is in the yard then freeze up a treat for him in a container the night before. I add some of the dogs kibble, water and beef stock. They take hours trying to get to the kibble and it keeps them amused and cool at the same time.
Good luck with your boy!
My dog has eaten a hole in my mattress about the size of a steering wheel. He has eaten a dozen pens and pencils, two pairs of Crocs, numerous stuffed animals, a huge hole in the wall, three pillows, a ceramic cat, Pepsi cans, numerous cables and cords, bills and checks, two blankets, wallpaper, sticks and stones, and bugs
I have a dog that ate the sheet rock off of an entire wall, chewed a hole through the door, and ripped off all of the window sills ….and that was in one setting.
My undies, lol. So annoying and gross, i never leave my clothes on the floor anymore. Your dog sounds like a termite.
Nova (Siberian Husky) had the record – 5 pounds of sugar – whole bag in one sitting; numerous full sheets and blankets; a 2 ft chain of small Christmas lights (bulbs and all – last Christmas tree ever). It all came out the other end – twisted and …. but no diarrhea or blockage (Pure luck – whew). Oh – did I mention the wasp nest? With wasps … the other dogs really hated her as Nova would purposely stir up wasps to gobble them as they emerged (while the rest of the dogs fled into the house for safety). I guess insects are good protein.
Darcy (Siberian Husky) was right up there – no fruit, especially citrus (grapefruit was number one), was safe no matter where I stored it. Darcy got into the refrigerator and ate a CASE of Concord grapes. She cracked a coconut and ate it, she even ate half a Pineapple (real, whole type) before I caught her. And the apple, nut, pear and plum trees were sheer heaven in fall …. well, actually year round as she ate the tree limbs too. One minute there would be a 6 ft limb on the back deck, within minutes it was down to a pile of leaves. I couldn’t figure out who was doing it but one day I was picking up when Darcy came up and kissed me then jumped into the hazelnut tree. A minute later a 3 in diameter, 8 ft limb landed on my head – which Darcy then dragged off. And then there were the 2×4′s she ate …. except I had no extra wood in the dog yards and have never figured out where the hell those 2×4′s came from before Darcy demolished them. I finally learned I could keep her entertained for hours with a bag of sunflower seeds in the shell – she would crack each one and eat the little meat out.
There is one worse thing – pray your dog doesn’t discover faucets. Floods are not fun and I have yet to find a faucet they can’t turn on – with or without handles.
All I can say is that often those most trying pups mature into the nicest adults if you and the dog both survive “puppyhood”. Hang in there!!
My dog likes to rip soda cans to shreds, she also has a taste for rocks and other stone luckily she hasn’t really chewed them. I saw her chewing as very dangerous because she also gets into things like chocolate. One time she ate 2 lbs of chocolate while I was out, my roommate came home before be didn’t bother to call me, thank god I got home before it was out of her stomach. She was acting funny and if i had waited to get to the vet she would be dead, I did the peroxide. So I couldn’t constantly risk losing her because I go out. I now have a basket muzzle for her with the front blocked off. It is big enough and allows her to drink, and keeps her safe. I would recommend you do this to prevent him from eating something that could kill him.
Lettuce.
And she enjoyed it.