Oddest thing your dog ever ate

[hedgehog]

We had a dog that ate the couch.

[geardaddy]

1. An unopened can of tuna.

[Wait Wut]

42. What kind of dog?

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]

47. Yellow lab mix.

He also ate a plastic jar of peanut butter, except for the hard plastic cap.

[Scuba]

2. Aluminum cans. She shredded them, but didn't swallow.

[hlthe2b]

3. The left and only the left shoe from six pairs of Dansko clogs

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]

6. expensive shoes!

[hlthe2b]

11. Tell me about it!

No one need ever doubt how much I love my girlie! She did test me early on.

[ohiosmith]

4. My roommate's drum heads.

In the mid-sixties in the Hollywood Hills.

[dana_b]

5. the remote control

and no, I didn't push on her belly to change the channel.

[bluesbassman]

7. Needle and thread.

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]

8. kitty chocolates

She won't leave the litter box alone

[RZM]

9. Wasn't my dog

But I once saw one chow down on a nest of newborn mice. It wasn't a pretty site.

[Populist_Prole]

10. A toad, in one gulp.

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]

12. 2 dogs, 2 stories

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]

13. Mardi Gras beads - I'd say we have a winner!

[mythology]

14. My food fixated husky ate

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]

15. A party.

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]

31. I LOVE that story!

She was probably thinking, "How nice of them!"

[siligut]

35. What did you do for the party?

Funny story, it sounds like a sit-com scene. So what did you end up serving for your guests?

[chrisa]

16. My baby boy likes to eat the limbs off of chewtoys

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]

17. Mine not so much but I do recall an internet story of two dogs that crawled inside a dead elk.

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]

18. Sink sprayer...

entire thing.

[chrisa]

19. The bathroom floor

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]

20. A box of 200 paneling nails.

They were everywhere on the x-ray from stem to stern.

A whole lot of Metamucil later, he was fine.

[doc03]

21. My dad's dog would dig potatoes out of the garden and eat them n/t

[baldguy]

22. The wall in my kitchen.

Opened a 1ft x 2ft hole down to the studs. Then she started in on the studs. Pit Bull puppies need chew toys.

[femmocrat]

24. And she looks at you with that expression, and you will forgive anything!

Who, me? LOL

[siligut]

36. Is that ottoman duct taped?

Orchid is certainly a beauty.

[baldguy]

51. She's an interior decorator at heart.

Unfortunately, her style consists of chew marks on the furniture & little pieces of her toys scattered about.

[femmocrat]

23. One of the corgis used to love nylon footies.

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]

25. Long ago, my roommate's Lab ate our pot plants

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]

38. You meant to say potted plants, right?

[Motown_Johnny]

41. Well, they were in pots... yes.

5 gallon buckets actually, but close enough.

[Major Nikon]

45. Did you follow him around with a baggie for 3 days?

[Motown_Johnny]

46. Nope... no freaking way!

But I do understand where they came up with that bit.

[nolabear]

26. Best story ever about an acquaintance's Golden.

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]

59. Kind of like, "Don't tutch the but." n/t

[Angry Dragon]

27. fiberglass insulation

and a bottle of tums

[mrmpa]

28. Two and 1/2 loaves of sweet bread that my Mom had sitting on the radiators to rise before baking....

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]

29. A whole basketball

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]

30. One of those ant poison traps from the countertop......

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]

32. an unopened tub of chocolate frosting

she licked a hole through the foil and licked it clean

[Juneboarder]

33. Broccoli stalks

She begs for them every time I'm cutting broccoli - weirdest thing ever lol

[surrealAmerican]

49. My dogs love broccoli ...

... 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]

34. A sweatshirt. The UC Riverside logo was still intact when he passed it.

We told the neighbors that he ate a sweatshirt and took a sweatshit.

[mojitojoe]

37. $40 of Godiva chocolate. Christmas presents that my wife left laying out.

It damned near killed her. Not the chocolate. Me.

[hedgehog]

39. The same dog that ate the couch also ate the Easter

chocolate for our six kids one time. He skipped the jelly beans!

[elleng]

40. A bowlful of macadamia nuts!

On to the vet for her! My mother had such strength, to put up with that!

[Wait Wut]

43. Let's see...

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]

44. I had a dog that tried to eat my house

[kcass1954]

48. Sweet Samantha was a lab-weimaraner mix who licked the paint off the back door.

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]

50. My 2 year old daughter's socks. Then he'd crap 'em.

75 pound male German Shepherd.
He loved that girl.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

52. Rat poison

We had a narrow escape with that one...thankfully

[hunter]

53. My kid's $300 retainer.

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...)

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[guitar man]

55. A plastic freezer bag

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]

56. My dog chewed the water faucet off the side of the house

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]

57. A Persian rug, cabinet doors.

[Initech]

58. Mine ate a glass water bottle.

[murielm99]

60. Her leash.

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.