The dog ate it

[alabamagal]

I think this would have driven me absolutely nuts.


www.foxnews.com/health/2014/09/04/surgery-on-ailing-great-dane-yields-43-12-socks/?intcmp=latestnews


I've had dogs chew on things, but never eat them.

At what point, after replacing so many socks do you begin to wonder where they went.  Did you just keep blaming the dryer?

[NoNamePerson]

Heck, our 5 lb. chiwawa ate a wheelbarrow once. At least that is what my son told me when it went missing. Dog barfed it up down the street   

[achelois]

Everybody knows that socks usually escape through the dryer vent at night, so the dog probably would not be my first thought for a culprit. 

Dogs prefer homework. This has been well documented by generations of school children. 

If I had males in the house, I would look at them with suspicion before accusing my sweet little dachshunds.    Heaven knows, when my kids were teens, they ate everything. 

[CarolinaKat]

My dog ate most my favorite bra when I was in HS. I am still annoyed about that. She left me the underwire and the band and the metal adjusters....


Her mother ate 6 inches of metal gutter... She tore the downspout off the roof when she was 'teething' and we found all but 6-8 inches of it. We figure about 6 inches ended up ingested. She also are part of Dad's extension cord (thankfull it was not plugged in!) and several garden hoses. She was like a little chewing machine with a stomach of iron.

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Never had my lab actually digest socks, thank god.   She's eaten just about everything else, the damn dog has Pica.

Latest one was she ate an entire corn cob, I am pretty sure she didn't even chew. Didn't have so much as a stomach ache.

[giramomma]

Sept 4, 2014 8:17:33 GMT -5 alabamagal said:

At what point, after replacing so many socks do you begin to wonder where they went.  Did you just keep blaming the dryer?

We blame underpants gnomes.

[alabamagal]

Well I have a dog that is 1 1/2 years old.  The puppy phase was tough, we nicknamed her destructo puppy.  She chewed/ruined at least 3 bras, 4 electronic power cord, 1 satellite remote, one 6 pack of paper towels, and multiple dog toys.  She doesn't really eat them, just chews and destroys and leaves the evidence around the house.

If I had that many socks missing, I just would think I would go nuts looking for the missing ones.

[Abby Normal]

One of our dogs was an eater in his younger days.  Had to have emergency surgery when things got stuck.  You would not believe all the crap they pulled out of him.  We used to joke that they needed to put a zipper in him.  He had another incident a few years later, but we recognized the signs and rushed him to the vet.  They were able to keep him hydrated and lubed up enough that he managed to pass it.   

He's out grown most of it. We still have to keep the bathroom doors closed and the kleenex box away when we aren't home.  Kleenex is definitely the favorite.  You eat one and other pops up.  When it stops- eat the box.

My coworker wanted to adopt a young border collie.  I told him they were great dogs but they needed a job and she'd need to be crated when they weren't home for her own safety.  He didn't believe me even though I compared it to having a 5 year old on speed.  Things went well enough for the first week.  Then he walked into my office after lunch and showed me a picture.  She had competely destroyed the couch and there was stuffing everywhere.  I have never laughed so hard.

[CarolinaKat]

Sept 4, 2014 11:06:39 GMT -5 Abby Normal said:

One of our dogs was an eater in his younger days.  Had to have emergency surgery when things got stuck.  You would not believe all the crap they pulled out of him.  We used to joke that they needed to put a zipper in him.  He had another incident a few years later, but we recognized the signs and rushed him to the vet.  They were able to keep him hydrated and lubed up enough that he managed to pass it.   

He's out grown most of it. We still have to keep the bathroom doors closed and the kleenex box away when we aren't home.  Kleenex is definitely the favorite.  You eat one and other pops up.  When it stops- eat the box.

My coworker wanted to adopt a young border collie.  I told him they were great dogs but they needed a job and she'd need to be crated when they weren't home for her own safety.  He didn't believe me even though I compared it to having a 5 year old on speed.  Things went well enough for the first week.  Then he walked into my office after lunch and showed me a picture.  She had competely destroyed the couch and there was stuffing everywhere.  I have never laughed so hard.

My office-mate wanted a husky. I TOLD him it was a very bad idea, seeing as he lived in an apartment with no yardf and both he and his roommate worked full time. He didn't listen to me. So Smokey the husky puppy came home with him one day (cute as a button). Somewhere around month 5, my coworker went for a shower and when he returned, Smokey had ripped up and eaten a good chunk of the roommate's leather sofa and was de-stuffing it!

[Abby Normal]

Sept 4, 2014 12:12:07 GMT -5 CarolinaKat said:

My office-mate wanted a husky. I TOLD him it was a very bad idea, seeing as he lived in an apartment with no yardf and both he and his roommate worked full time. He didn't listen to me. So Smokey the husky puppy came home with him one day (cute as a button). Somewhere around month 5, my coworker went for a shower and when he returned, Smokey had ripped up and eaten a good chunk of the roommate's leather sofa and was de-stuffing it!

And let me guess- it was the dogs fault...

[CarolinaKat]

Sept 4, 2014 12:21:44 GMT -5 Abby Normal said:

Sept 4, 2014 12:12:07 GMT -5 CarolinaKat said:

My office-mate wanted a husky. I TOLD him it was a very bad idea, seeing as he lived in an apartment with no yardf and both he and his roommate worked full time. He didn't listen to me. So Smokey the husky puppy came home with him one day (cute as a button). Somewhere around month 5, my coworker went for a shower and when he returned, Smokey had ripped up and eaten a good chunk of the roommate's leather sofa and was de-stuffing it!

And let me guess- it was the dogs fault...

Actually, the guy owned up to it being his fault for not watching the dog. To the roommate, yes it was the dog's fault. So the co-worker made new living arrangements ASAP to a house with a 8ft fence going around the yard

[Tennesseer]

My childhood dog enjoyed eating Christmas tree tinsel. Her bms were all sparkly and festive.

[Abby Normal]

Our cat used to eat tinsel.  But she would throw it up.  It doesn't look so good then.  

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

DH wants a Huskie and I told him no way. He can't even handle owning a Labrador and an Aussie. I told him he'd be a Huskie's "bitch".

I said we can get another basset hound. They eat, sleep, drool and poop. So it'll be just like having another husband.

[Abby Normal]

There is family in our neighborhood that has three huskies.  You see them out walking all the time.   DS was out running the other night and they had a forth.  Apparently he stopped her and told her we had a  sled they could pull come winter.  They are great dogs not as high energy as aussies and bc's, but they tend to be wanderers when they get restless- rather than destructive.


  

[achelois]

Sept 4, 2014 12:28:54 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

DH wants a Huskie and I told him no way. He can't even handle owning a Labrador and an Aussie. I told him he'd be a Huskie's "bitch".

I said we can get another basset hound. They eat, sleep, drool and poop. So it'll be just like having another husband.

Or a baby. Babies and bassets, at least, are portable. 

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

Babies and bassets, at least, are portable

Our basset was 55 lbs, he wasn't portable anywhere unless I used a forklift!


Such awesome dogs though. The only downside of basset hounds is they have a rather unique natural scent. Hound smell can be a bitch to get out of your furniture.

[shanendoah]

Our Aussie ate socks and underwear, and whatever he could get off the kitchen counter (including my steak). He also like chewing on electrical wires, which was a problem. We lost him after he ate about 1/3 of a bath towel. He had to go in for surgery, which went fine, but about 12 hours later, it went septic.

This, of course, has made us extra paranoid about what our current dogs eat. Sometimes I have to question our intelligence, because the dog we got after the Aussie was our Beagle. Talk about an eating machine.
As a puppy, she was known as the destroyer of all bedding. At 5, she still likes to "hold" blankets in her mouth, and will destroy any pen or pencil left within her reach. She knocks over the recycling bin on an almost nightly basis, even though everything gets cleaned out before going in the bin.
Today, she is not feeling well, almost certainly because she ate poop yesterday. She's got a slight fever, was shaking a bit earlier, and has NO INTEREST IN FOOD. (If it weren't for the snoring, and the fact that this has been going on since about 6 months after we got her, I'd think she was dead.) Luckily, these bouts only last 12-24 hours, and we've learned a quick way to check her hydration levels, so we know whether or not she needs to go to the vet and be put on IV fluids.

My Terrier will destroy tennis balls and stuffed dog toys, but that's about it. We do have to remind Pop Tart that if she wants her stuffed toys to not be chewed, she cannot play with them with the dogs.

Our Lab/Pit mix, whose jaw was big enough and strong enough to take off an arm? He only liked chewing two things- wooden spoons (probably because the wood held the scent and possibly taste of food) and hardback books- something about the binding glue just called to him. Luckily, those were things that it was easy to keep out of his reach. (Though that was because he didn't climb on things or stretch. The Beagle has learned that she has a longer reach with her tongue if she bends backwards to get something...)

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

My basset hound liked to eat wooden spoons.

I'd come home to wood chips all over the kitchen floor. I kept thinking it was our lab because she liked to try to get things off our counter and no way a basset hound could be tall enough to reach up there.

Then one day I watched him do it. I told Midnight I owed her an apology.

Our Aussie likes to eat crayons. I couldn't figure out where all the crayons were going till she walked by crunching on sky blue.

[Abby Normal]

Sept 4, 2014 14:22:38 GMT -5 NomoreDramaQ1015 said:

Our Aussie likes to eat crayons. I couldn't figure out where all the crayons were going till she walked by crunching on sky blue.

I'm so glad our aussie doesn't eat things. But the thought of her pooping rainbows does make me laugh.

[alabamagal]

Sept 4, 2014 14:19:39 GMT -5 shanendoah said:

This, of course, has made us extra paranoid about what our current dogs eat. Sometimes I have to question our intelligence, because the dog we got after the Aussie was our Beagle. Talk about an eating machine.
As a puppy, she was known as the destroyer of all bedding. At 5, she still likes to "hold" blankets in her mouth, and will destroy any pen or pencil left within her reach. She knocks over the recycling bin on an almost nightly basis, even though everything gets cleaned out before going in the bin.
Today, she is not feeling well, almost certainly because she ate poop yesterday. She's got a slight fever, was shaking a bit earlier, and has NO INTEREST IN FOOD. (If it weren't for the snoring, and the fact that this has been going on since about 6 months after we got her, I'd think she was dead.) Luckily, these bouts only last 12-24 hours, and we've learned a quick way to check her hydration levels, so we know whether or not she needs to go to the vet and be put on IV fluids.

OMG, that describes our beagle/basset hound mix to a T.  He had an eating disorder - he would eat anything and everything.  We could tell when he ate something that didn't agree with him, becuase he wouldn't eat.  He ate several small creatures in our back yard (moles maybe) and would get sick for a while, then back to sull speed eating.  He would also eat poo and get sick.

He got up to 65 lbs at one point and we had to put in on a diet/exercise.  he was not a happy dieter.  Got him down to 45 lbs.  He died at 9 years old, likely due to heart condition from being overweight

[Spellbound454]

My girl is particularly partial to paper money.

She will pinch it off the table and tear it up. Must like the smell I suppose.

None of her toys have any stuffing in......She has ripped holes in my cushions.....and eaten the straps off shoes.

I dread to think what she has got in her stomach....sometimes she'll rip something up and you don't find the pieces.

[Abby Normal]

Sept 4, 2014 16:29:33 GMT -5 Spellbound454 said:

My girl is particularly partial to paper money.

She will pinch it off the table and tear it up. 

That is a BC with very expensive taste!  Thank goodness mine sticks to kleenex.

[ZaireinHD]

dogs - pfft!!
GET A CAT!!
then don't have to be concerned about such things

[bobosensei]

My little chihuahua mix has eaten holes in several blankets before.  My best guess is that because they were on the couch that DH was somehow getting food on the blanket and she was chewing those spots.

[CarolinaKat]

Sept 4, 2014 20:59:19 GMT -5 ZaireinHD said:

dogs - pfft!!
GET A CAT!!
then don't have to be concerned about such things

LOL, Have I ever told you about my junk mail shredding system?

Step 1: Sit junk mail in the wingback chair
Step 2: Sit on couch
Step 3: Watch as all the kitties turn the junkmail into kitty confetti



Also there was the time that Ball was playing with a condom wrapper in the livingroom, that was pretty embarassing...

We are not going to talk about the horde of straws that are stashed around the house either