The Most Shocking Things Ever Found Inside Of A Dog’s Stomach
As the owner of a two year old Golden Retriever, I can readily attest to the fact that most dogs seem to be part goat. In the two years I have owned my dog she has eaten:
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A bottle of thyroid medication - Countless dog toys
- Six inches of rope
- Entire boxes of Kleenex
- A container of butter
- Huge quantities of food at various times left on the counter
- At least six different pairs of Old Navy flip flops
- Dish sponges
- Shower loofahs
And that is just what is springing to mind, I’m sure I could double that list with some more thought.
I bring this up because of an article I read this week on a UK dog who has eaten 40 different pairs of underwear, a set of car keys, 15 different pairs of shoes, and more than 300 socks (something my Golden Retriever also loves actually, add socks to the above list). Luckily the dog made a full recovery, but it got me to thinking of all the crazy things I have seen on the internet about the crazy things that dogs eat. I did some digging and here’s what I found:
Jake and his 7-Inch Knife
Jake was a 12 week old Staffordshire Bull Terrier when his owner began to notice him acting a little strange:
Jake, a 12-week-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross from Merseyside, was taken to the vet after he started vomiting and trying to keep his body in a straight line.
X-rays indicated a seven-inch knife was running through his body, with the plastic handle at the base of his pelvis and the metal point at the top of his throat.
Vets at the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA) operated immediately and within a few days Jake had bounced back to health.
Jake had swallowed the Shappu 2000 knife whole, handle-first, at his home in Huyton.
Elsie and her 12-Inch Knife
The knife thing is actually pretty common. Elsie, a St. Bernard, was six months old when she swallowed a 13 inch long knife:
Jane Scarola’s veterinarian thought the X-ray was a joke. He’s seen strange items get into the stomachs of dogs before, things like kebab skewers and small utensils. But a 13-inch serrated knife that somehow was swallowed by a 6-month-old puppy?
That was a new one.[...]
Elsie, a Saint Bernard puppy, apparently had the blade between her esophagus and stomach for about four days before it was removed earlier this week in a 2-hour operation.
The puppy has an 8-inch scar, but is fine and back with her family.
Post surgery:
Harley and his 15+ Inch Choke Chain
Harley was 18 weeks old when she ate a 40 centimeter long choke chain:
A puppy called Harley has survived after wolfing down a 40 centimetre-long metal choke chain.
Her owner, Devina Alderson from Cambridge, said she saw 18-week-old Harley chewing on the lead, and then the next minute it was gone.
Vets had to carry out an urgent operation to remove the chain from the dog’s stomach, and she’s fine now.
“I think she may have a metal fetish because she tried to eat the scissors too,” her vet said.
George and the Car Immobiliser Chip
George ate a chip that rendered his owner’s car impossible to start:
Juliette Piesley, 39, had changed the battery in her electronic key fob but was then unable to start her car.
When AA patrolman Kevin Gorman arrived at the scene in Addlestone, Surrey, he found its immobiliser chip was missing.
Ms Piesley said her dog George had eaten something, and realising it was the chip, he put the dog in the front seat and started the car with the key.[...]
“They will now have to take George [the dog] with them in the car until things take their natural course.
The Lab Who Ate a Wii Controller
This lab ate a Nintendo Wii controller:
A three year old Labrador Retriever belonging to the Becknell family of Loveland, CO caused alarm when it began coughing up blood.
On taking it to the vet, an X-ray revealed a large mass in the dog’s stomach. After administering Syrup of Ipecac it began to vomit. Lo and behold out came a Wiimote. Marie Becknell commented:
“The Vet started massaging the dog’s belly and it just came flying out. I knew what it was right away by the color and shape of it. It was my son’s video game remote”.
All of this just goes to show that you have to be hyper vigilant about the things with which your dog has access. We are definitely still learning when it comes to our Golden.
Feel free to add the weirdest thing your dog has ever eaten in the comments!
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:22 am
That is really shocking news. I never came across such a thing before. It really hurts to see our member of family suffering. None should face such a situation anytime.
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
We were petsitting my sister-in-law’s Pug. I took him out to do his business and it got “stuck” upon further examination, it appeared that he had somehow eaten a chamois (one of those special cloths for drying your car).
I had to pull that chamois out of his doggie butt. The chamois was about 6 inches long or so. I can’t believe it didn’t stop him up and cause him to have surgery.
Doges will eat anything it seems.
Brian
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
LOL!!! And I thought my Miss Lucille had set some kind of record after eating precisely one of every pair of shoes and boots we owned! Great article, thanks.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:04 pm
And I thought my lab eating a bunch of AA batteries was bad…
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:07 pm
so my dog ate a light bulb
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:23 pm
My roomate’s dog Rosie eats screws. It makes it difficult to put thing back together.
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
our dog swallowed a 2ft piece of sting. the funny thing was he only pooped half at a time. so betweem b.m.’s he was runny around with a foot of string trailing his behind;-)
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm
Great article! I can relate. My lab, Jerry Bear, ate most of our household as a puppy including: sandals, shoes (the usual), two cameras, a pair of glasses, a bottle of prozac, and several christmas light bulbs- among many others. The christmas bulbs were the most alarming, but the most funny- we were doing the irritating untangling of the lights, and suddenly couldn’t find the replacement bulbs. Amazingly, he didn’t need surgery.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:00 pm
My retriever spanial mix, loves his waterballoons and crayons. He has also swallowed half a pack of hotdogs, each one going down whole. Immediately after the hotdogs he tried to eat a full pot of macoroni and it must have been all his stomach could take because all 4 hotdogs came back up, still whole.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm
I had a Chow/Husky mix. Everyday when I went to work she would take the couch cushions down, unzip them, then pull the stuffing out.
But one day she chewed up my lazyboy recliner. The next day I saw some of the fabric hanging out of her butt. I started to pull it out not knowing it was the whole height of the chair like 4′ long. It just kept coming out. She was fine and I wouldn’t have attempted if I known it was so long.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Rescued a dog who turned out to have a bit of separation anxiety. 85 lb German Shepherd/Bullmastiff/Staffordshire. The count before she settled down:
Remote control, telephone, corner of a table, about 20 books (including library books), countless rolls of toilet paper, a few pails of kitchen and bathroom garbage, the side of a bleach bottle (didn’t drink any bleach), a serving of ground beef (including the saran and liner, but didn’t care for the styrofoam), dozens of cigarette butts from the sidewalk, and almost an entire monster-bag of kibble, one of the ~20 lb variety (couldn’t walk properly and had to drag her bloated body around with her front paws for a day. She pooed about 7 times a day for 3 days) and a big pot of glue with a whole package of crayons. Her poo looked like frozen vanilla yogurt with smarties for a few days.
Luckily she likes to chew these things up into tiny little fragments, so never any harm. The saran was… entertaining… on the way out.
December 3rd, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Not to discredit you, but I’m pretty sure the WiiMote thing was proven a fake.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:21 pm
My dog ate untold pairs of socks untold stuffed animals and once he even ate a fishing lure
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Golden ate 1/4 bag of cement on 2 occasions 1 year apart We gave him away and he came to visit. Almost died first time.
Dalmation used to eat the condoms. Funny to watch him run around with the bulby part swinging in the wind.
Doberman that liked used tampons. Really gross when she was done with them and had to pick them up to mow the lawn.
December 3rd, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I had a dog once that ate a ball-bearing that was about an inch in diameter. We found it in the yard a few days later.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:29 am
My dog at a pin cushion once. We took him to the vet and they said the best thing to do was just to wait and let them pass through. We were so worried about him, but he’s fine now and we’re all happy.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:46 am
[...] “My dog ate my samurai sword” might be truthier than you [...]
December 4th, 2007 at 1:20 am
My brother’s border collie ate a hole in the wall between rooms in his house. He patched up the hole– and the dog ate another hole in the exact same spot. I guess he just wanted a hole there.
My hound ate a 1-lb bag of chocolate, which was very concerning since chocolate is poisonous for dogs. We made him vomit it up, at which point he spent a few hours trying to outfox us so he could siphon the vomit right back up. He’s a classy dog.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:24 am
13 years in emergency animal medicine:
1. 15 good size rocks in a basset hound the first time…8 the second.
2. A knitting needle
3. Human Hair (girl in the family had hair down to her butt)
4. Cassette Ribbon
5. Pork chop bone stuck in the in the esophagus
6. Gorilla Glue (it absorbs water and expands)
7. Quarters, nickels, dimes, and pennies (none of which were used to pay the bill)
8. One dog has had surgery to remove socks no less than 8 times…when the owner asked how to make him stop eating them I told him to pick them up off the ground.
There are many more but these were some of the highlights. :o)
December 4th, 2007 at 1:52 am
Be careful of video tapes.
My year-old lab chewed the casing until it broke open and she got the tape. The trouble was that once she started swallowing it she couldn’t stop until she got to the end.
We didn’t know until a week later when I found her lying on her side trying to pass it. I had to physically pull it out and it was about two feet long and an inch thick of tangled tape. It hurt her coming out. God, we were lucky. She’s lying beside me right now…bless her furry little heart.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:56 am
The real question is… does the Wiimote still work?
December 4th, 2007 at 1:57 am
I had a golden a years ago who ate a washcloth…
We didn’t realise it until he threw it back up…
(I’m getting a little gaggy) and it looked like it had been in his stomach for quite a while…
yuck!
December 4th, 2007 at 7:14 am
all of these are funny, good thing the dogs are okay! my emily ate everything till she was about 4 years. a short list includes: lighters, bras, books, magazines, pens, and checkbooks. she chewed up, but did not eat, a recliner, birkenstocks, and comforters (she liked to unstuff them).
my golden, joey, has eaten the plastic bacon comes in. i know this, cause i found it, whole, while scooping dog poop.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:56 am
I thought my ddog was bad. Countless socks and underwer, so much so we have to buy new stuff every four weeks.
Ours has an obsession with tissues, specially used ones. But he also loves to eat pondweed, once he ate somuch his poop came out green for a week.
Hrs troublesom, but never eaten anything thats made him appear at the vets just yet.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:01 am
I had a miniature schnauzer who was secretely able to open zippers. My mom came over to my place and I took her out for lunch. She left her purse behind. When we got back, Belle had unzipped it and ate the breath mints and chewing gum from it. She left everthing thing else on the floor. My mom swore she left it zipped up. A few weeks later, the same thing, we went out for lunch, purse left at my house, and we returned to same mess. A few days later, I had my backpack unzipped and my granola bars were missing. Just to test her out, I showed her her favorite treats and put them in my backpack zipped up. Told her to go get the treat. I stepped back in amazement as she grabbed the zipper in her teeth and unzipped the bag. How she learned that, I don’t know.
December 4th, 2007 at 10:24 am
Among other things, during his 15 yr. life, my Golden retriever/yellow lab mix ate the following:
a sheetrock wall, his dog house, numerous dog beds, and a 40lb bag of food during one night.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Our Zed ate an entire space cake. Slept 48 hours.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
This article is so funny!
I as well have a golden retriever, and I love her to death, but good lord she eats EVERYTHING! We’ve come home and gone into the bathrooms and found rolls of bathroom tissue or paper towels half gone. Funny thing is she must have eaten it like spaghetti because it comes out the other end like a string! She’s eaten rocks,sanitary napkins, toys (hers and the kids’), socks are ever popular, and one time I dropped a chicken wing on the floor, and I’m guessing she wanted to get to it before I could pick it up or something, because she sprinted across the kitchen to get it and swallowed the thing whole, bone and all. We’ve been lucky enough that she hasn’t had any health problems, knock on wood. Its like she has an iron stomach.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
My lab/boxer/beagle mix has eaten:
entire box of (expensive) chocolates, cookie cake, 1/2 dozen donuts, several packs of cigarettes, used condoms, raw cookie dough, 2 cell phones, lamp/electronic cords, 4 or 5 remote controls, photo albums, books, LOTS of shoes, sunglasses, wallets (including drivers license, credit cards, etc. - but never the money?), iPod headphones (thank god not the iPod, it was my roommates’). Luckily she doesn’t eat socks or other soft things, just carries them around, but she has eaten zippers off of coats and other clothing.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
My cousin’s old Golden Retriever seemed to love eating everything except his kibbles. He’d go grab some random object and, if you managed to pry it out of his vice grip jaws, he’d immediately run to another room and grab something else. He would eat action figures, playing cards, drink coasters, shoelaces, bottle caps…if it was any less than four feet off the floor or wasn’t nailed down, this dog would eat it.
One day he decided to eat the metal clasp off his leash. He got a trip to the vet’s office and Cousin was told the dog would eventually pass the clasp. Well, it passed…and right after it was cleaned off and restored to its original place onto the leash…the dog ate it again and it eventually passed a second time. Dogs seem to have a taste for their anal excrement.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
My rottie apparently ate an industrial size brillo pad and barfed it up the later that evening. How the hell he ate a brillo pad almost the size of my head I’ll never figure out…
December 4th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
My dog has eaten and chewed up a lot of things such as eye glass repair kits, 4 mattresses (he chewed the corners up), whole packs of gum (foil and all), sock fuzz (an entire sock on one occasion), crayons, candles, a large variety of different types of candy, and candy wrappers. I did notice one thing that someone wrote which is disturbing, the lady whose dog liked used tampons YUCK if you flushed them like you’re supposed to you wouldn’t have to pick them up out of the yard. That’s absolutely disgusting.
December 4th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Our family has had several animals who have eaten odd things on numerous occasions. Every time we take one of our pets in after having ingested something it shouldn’t have our vet says that they had a “dietary indescretion”. Makes you wonder how these knuckle heads (canines and felines)survived long enough to become domesticated!
December 4th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
My family once had a black lab…
It ate my uncle’s parakeet - whole. It came back out whole, too.
December 4th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Crazy stuff!
I think I’ll be keeping my Wii controller off the floor from now on.
December 4th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
you can’t flush tampons.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:30 pm
My miniature pinscher has swallowed at least 3 dozen golfballs whole…kinda scary but im getting use it it, i think she is too
December 4th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
My golden retreiver ate a mach 3 razor when he was 1. I got home and founf plastic pieces all over the floor. I assembled them like a puzzle and found it was the remnants of the razor, except the blades were missing. I took him to the vet and viola, there they were! 3 razor blades in his belly. After surgery, I had an entire cup of things such as squeekers out of toys, wood chips and fabric and of course 3 razors. He is going to be 6 this year.
December 4th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Love the “dietary indiscretion.” My wife had a Seeing Eye dog, a black lab named Vinnie, whose life consisted of such indiscretions. Cell phones, his toys, part of a washing machine, and lots and lots of chicken shit. Couldn’t get enough of the chicken shit. We spent lots of time at the ER, but he lived happily to a ripe old age.
December 4th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
My son’s 1 year old Chocholate lab ate my Ugg boots, everything but the sole. He ate a retainer,cups,5 leashes, 2 chocolate easter bunnies, a bottle of motrin,a dog bed, a dead bird (whole), flipflops, crocs, squishy pillows. You know the ones with the little white microbeads inside….he pooped out a “snowstorm” of beads for a day. The worst was a soccer ball, two surgeries (and $3500) later he is surviving. His appetite has decreased.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
My Siberian Husky was constantly eating electronics in the house. Cordless phones, cell phones, remotes. We would always catch him in the act before he devowered the whole thing, except one time. One of our remotes went missing for a couple days and we didn’t see any remnants of one being chewed, until I was picking up the poop in the backyard when I ran across the digit pad entangled in Bears poop. Not sure where the rest of the remote went I can only speculate that he must have eaten it all.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I know when my mutt Sam has had success at the lake. I find the beak of some poor hapless duck on the dining room carpet (why not on the kitchen tile?) the next morning. More disgusting than the deer hooves.
December 4th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
my dog has eaten
2 ipods
countless shoes and flip flops
3 school projects
socks and hats
2 carpets
1 cell phone
about 30 pens and markers
1 wiimote
1 WHOLE stick of butter
2 lbs of raw meat
anything left on the counter
wires
an h2o mop
about 10 dvds
about 15 cds and their cases
and the legs of every chair, table, and railing spindle in the house.
December 5th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Our chocolate lab once ate a sleeping bag… it was quite entertaining when he was passing the zipper yikes! luckily it was a children’s sleeping bag! he also loved scented soap, and if he was upset at you he’s pick through the entire laundry basket until he found your favorite piece of clothing, destroy that and leave everything else intact. What a dog
December 5th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
I once found a entire washcloth in a pipe of dog poo in the backyard. I don’t know how it happend but the dog never gane any indication of a problem. It is amazing it passed whole without a problem.
Theat same dog would also chew up coke cans until they were just bits of aluminum but never had any cut on the gums or lips, I again don’t know how they do it.
December 5th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
My dog ate a long, LONG length of yarn. The resulting poops trailed behind him like sausage links for a couple of days. It was actually kind of funny.
December 5th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
My dog is into bloody tampons and butter too. She always leaves the tampons in bedrooms
December 5th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
my bro’s dog ate an inkjet cartridge. Thankfully, the ink started to leak inside the dog so we noticed qiuckly. However, upon an x ray at the vets, we also found a key and a cell phone battery in there, which could have been very dangerous.
December 6th, 2007 at 11:04 am
I have worked in veterinary medicine for about 8 years now and have seen a thing or two pulled out of dogs before. We had a beagle that ate beer bottle caps, lab that ate a corncob, rottie that ate a swimsuit, a mixed breed that had surgery three times to remove river rocks he eaten, and countless other dogs that had toys removed from their intestines. My own great dane had exploratory surgery three different times after eating pennies, ceramic plates, tupperware bowls, and other misc. garbage. But wait!!! Let’s not forget our feline friends! We did surgery on a cat and pulled out a huge wad of tinsel from a christmas tree.
December 6th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Between my husband and I, when our border collie was a puppy we had to leave him for about 4 hours with our shifts (I was a nurse). He managed to remove the first 6 inches of the carpet next to the front door as he waited for our arrival home. Very entertaining (not) to put one’s foot down on the blue string coming from his backside and watch him walk away…
He also loved used kleenex and scoffed boxes of the stuff, also loo rolls off the wall, 1/2 a roll at a time.
Also Lego, various bits of metal and plastic toys, socks, underwear, the smellier the better.
December 10th, 2007 at 5:58 am
My dog. an australian blue heeler once ate a container of green food dye. Poop was bright green for several days and slowly faded over about a week
December 17th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Have a cat who will chew cords(over $200 so far), eat Polly Pocket clothing, Barbie shoes, cell phone antenna… he has to bathe me several times a day. We put him on a raw meat only which has helped…. a little. He has to really chew it apart. I still see him hovering up carpet pieces and knitting yarn, rubber bands…
December 18th, 2007 at 9:03 am
When our Golden Retriever was unable to hold down water we took her to the vet. An x-ray confirmed she had eaten a watch, the usual small rocks and twigs, but what caused the obstruction was a hair scruntie. they did surgery and she had a full recovery!
December 18th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Cash, our PitBull Terrier has consumed many things.
He likes things that crunch. Like… oh, Plastic Bottles, Soda cans, entire logs of firewood.
He seems to also like canvas- converse shoes, baseball hats, beach towels of various sizes.
I believe he has also eaten every dog toy we’ve given him- squeaky balls, canvas cat-shaped dolls, retriever rolls…
Oh. and a RAT.
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:45 am
I took my black lab mix into the vet because I had noticed she was not eating and drinking for a few days.She seemed weak.I thought she had gotten the steak bone she ate stuck in her somewhere.Well it turned out she had swollowed 2 nice size sharp and jagged rocks that were cutting an bruising her intestines.She had them removed earlier today and is doing great. I get to take her home tomorrow. If she even looks at another rock I’am gonna slap her!!lol
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I own a 1 year old German Shepard straight from Germany.I’m not sure if the whole thing of dogs eating household items is true or not but, my dog has never got close to any of these things besides Human consumables.It might be that my dog was trained well or that dogs that are breed in America are a bit more indulging to Household items.I say none the less that these are great stories to have read.Thank you for entertaining my mind.
Sincerely, Richard.
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:28 pm
My one-year-old Neapolitan mastiff has eaten used tampons on two occasions, used condoms, latex gloves, and chicken bones. He happened to crap out one of the tampons in front of some curious bystanders at a local park…quite humiliating, I can assure you!
January 11th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I have a Golden Lab that’s a glutton. She was vomiting bile so we took her to the vet. Apparently the xray showed a foreign object in her stomach so we were concerned and allowed an operation to remove it…nothing was found and I’m out $2,000.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Help! My puppy must’ve swallowed the plastic cap on the spring door stoppers. I came home today and noticed TWO of the doorstoppers no longer have the white caps… will this get stuck in her? She is a 25 lb pit bull, maybe she has wider intestines than a small pup??? She has pooped 3 times since I noticed they were missing but I did not see any white plastic pieces… anyone know anything to help me? Not sure if I can afford to take her to vet for xray or whatever they would do.
P.S. 2 months ago she found a white tissue in the parking lot, when I tried to pull it out of her mouth, I realized it was a CONDOM, my hands jumped back because I got grossed out (since it was in the parking lot not mine) and she swallowed it. I had to induce vomiting, and sure enough- Yes it was a condom- not a tissue like I thought. YUCK!
February 17th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I have sleddogs who love to eat anything. Simba just had his second intestinal obstruction surgery. The first time he ate a rope toy, the second time a dish towel. I’m writing this as I just watched Duke eat a towel. I tried giving him a bunch of peroxide to see if he’ll puke it up. I sure hope so, because surgery is super expensive.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
our 16 lb mini schnauzer just puked up a good part of a rug yesterday. low and behold… there was a metal bottle cap intwined in the rug! he seems fine, playing and running around like an idiot….
here’s the problem. we havent had any bottled beer in our house…. so we can’t figure out where it came from.
he also seems to have a fettish for the pea gravel that is in our back yard. i’m scared to know what else is in there after reading this!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 am
I just pulled an 18″ long stick - a pussy willow branch - out of my Saint Bernard puppies throat and stomach. He started throwing up his food tonight, while he was itching his back. He threw up a little in the house, went outside and started throwing up, and I noticed he had a little stick in his mouth, so I reached in to pull it out - and kept pulling… He is fine now - eating and drinking. We called the emergency vet - they said keep an eye on him, but if he’s eating, drinking, and there wasn’t any blood he should be fine. Both my husband and I are still speechless. The only thing I can think of was that it was a freak accident while he was playing down in the field this afternoon.
Because my last Saint puppy died of complications 3 weeks after having successful sock removal surgery (he ate 5 socks - the last one did him in) we have been very careful about where this one goes, what is around him, etc. Our new guy is also not quite like the puppy who died - he doesn’t just grab whatever, run and gulp things down so you can’t take them away.
The only non-food items the new pup has eaten are gravel from the dog yard (since covered up with straw), and part of a string cheese wrapper. He doesn’t seem interested in socks, shoes or other puppy favorites.
When our other puppy ate socks we never left them lying around, btw. He stole most of them from our 3′ high clothes baskets, or the top of the dresser before they were folded. Before the socks - at least 2 sanitary napkins (we now have covered garbage cans, too) dental floss, a toothbrush, numerous paper items, 1/2 a flip flop, gravel, several dead mice courtesy of the cat, a small plastic bag of screws, and I’m sure there is more. We didn’t leave stuff lying around either - but if something fell, he would snatch it. Oh, I forgot, he ate the internet twice, the phone line once, and pulled the unused TV antenna off the roof using the wire that ran up the side of the house.
Hopefully the stick, as shocking as it was, will be THIS puppies only brush with something so wierd.
Our mastiff-newfie mix, now almost 8, had a leather fetish. He ate a leather headband, 1/4 of a leather couch cushion, and several leather bookmarks. The leather strip around the ankles of 3 pairs of tennis shoes. He left the rest of the shoe alone. Also an entire leather belt, which he unthreaded from a pair of jeans. He was also a gravel-eater as a puppy.
I am still quite horrified by the stick.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:51 am
My chihuahua ate about a cups worth of carpet foam that she had shredded. My parents were remodeling their home and had to rip up some carpet, and let some foam exposed. Wow diarrhea and vomiting all night long. She liking hiding tampons in my shoes after she would mutilate them, ate leaves, sticks, pine needles, Popsicle sticks (all lead to vomiting)loved shredding toilet paper (would not eat it) and emptying every uncovered trash can. she turned 18 months old though and all of that stopped.
March 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
My Chow/Lab mixed is barely 1 year old yet, and i woke up to find that he ate the pillow case to his 3 ft. body pillow i put in his cage for him. It kinda freaks me out. Jack [my puppy] has eaten a bottle of sleeping meds, and a roll of tin foil. His eaten powers cords to almost everything in my room. candles, fake flowers, my Jr. year yearbook, shoes, socks, and a 1lb thing of cat nip. I always thiught he was just being a puppy and chewing on everything, but after i realized that hes EATING it and not just chewing, i kinda dont know what to do. He’s my baby and Im scared.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
So far the only things that my dog Bramble has eaten which I really don’t approve of is that cats food, which is now on the kitchen counter top by the bar and cat poop straight out of the litter pan and I caught him in the act of doing that and I scared the daylights out of him. I gone for 12 hours a day so who knows if he still does. Thank goodness he doesn’t give kisses.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:46 am
So, All yo guy’s dog’s are puddies compared to mine.. My dog ate a cat, beer bottle, beer can, zippo lighter, and a carton of cigarettes!
March 26th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
My stepdads dog once drank stain remover, and another once at ten packs of Cheese Puffs.
Yeah, and buckets, cat food tins(THE ACTUAL TIN), A whole chicken, and a frozen duck)
April 13th, 2008 at 10:33 am
our 8 yr. old bull mastiff always ate socks.She had eated whole loaves of bread, crayons, etc… last week she threw up 2 socks and a pair of underpants. They found she had a sock lodged in her intestines and removed it successfully. It was in her for a week and the toxins must have gotten in to her abdomen. She died 2 days ago. Please be careful. The older they get the harder it is to pass this stuff. We are devastated. It did not need to end this way.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
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May 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
So, does anyone know if that parakeet that ladies dog ate whole then came out whole was alive afterwards?
..cos thatd be amazing..
May 13th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Well, I am quite surprised about some of the things since it seams quite impossible.
My dogs already destroyed cloth, stocks, stuff toys, car toy, a sofa, books, mobile phone …
But until today, since I am still learning new abilities of my dogs, they never really eaten anything.
May 30th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Elvis my weimie ate the whole back of my sofa, the best part is my father in law was sitting right next to him sleeping, and never noticed. Came home yesterday and my rescued 10 month weimie(Pearl) chewed the end of my new leather sofa. She swiped a whole pizza of the kitchen counter last week and chewed up and ate a tennis ball. Gotta love em.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
mymale great dane diesel ate the picinic table, the dine room table all 4 corners 10inches gone, 6 evergreen trees (Abrovities)his plastic rubbermade dog house,the foot board of my bed,the pool filter,a rake ,shovel and hoe handle,not a piece of lawn furnature is left,half a side of the jacuzzi,every windowsill in the house,the swings and slide on the swing set, the shed door.his mate partner Gretta ate every cell phone.house phone, remote, lighter,and hair dryer left unattended. plastic bottles and cans, the cable wire,needless to say i don’t think i should breed them. i can only imagine what the puppys would devour.
June 9th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Hi my dog ate two of those sponges that you buy that expand in water, that was about 4 days ago. I noticed tonight that she hasn’t eaten anything today, I gave her a little water to see if it was really in her and it seemed to expand and a bunch appeared near her ribcage. She is an older dog and Im worried. I dont have the money for the vet. I was wndering if maybe someone could give me some advice, do you think she’ll pass it??????
June 10th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
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June 10th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
My 80lb. Lab/Shepherd mix ate a one pound bag of Hershey’s kisses. With no opposing thumb, had to eat the foil wrapping as well…she had shiny poop for a few days, but never got sick.
July 15th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
My dog ate plastic one day without me knowing. So today I took him out to use the restroom like normal. At first it was a normal BM then I started seeing poop wrapped around some plastic. It got stuck so there he was sliding all over the ground and grass trying to get it out, which it could not do on his own. So finally I had to make him sit down and step on it so it would come out. Then I had to get a leaf and pull the rest out. Finally I noticed that it butt was bleeding a little. But I think he’s going to be fine. I am just so happy that it passed, and I hope it was all of it cause I don’t know how much he ate. I never seen him eat it.
July 21st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
[...] dogs can do some surprising things, as we discovered the next morning. Sammy threw up again — three times — and each new [...]
July 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Uh, where the hell are you from? You CAN in fact flush tampons.
July 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Mike, you should probably take her to the vet.
Unless it’s those small, animal sponges for kids, those seem small enough to pass.
Better safe than sorry.
July 31st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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August 4th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
One day I woke up and I saw sweet little gray fluffy terrier dog swallowing my little sisters hamster whole. It was a disturbing thing to wake up to..
August 7th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
It is actually my husband’s dog but she has eaten:
a tub of butter
anything left on the counter
several cardboard boxes
a remote control to a tv
several plastic baby food formula containers
baby food
several bottles and nipples
a pacifier
4 bibs
several baby outfits
underwear
shoes
towel
plastic bottle of green tea
wooden necklace
and legos…..(enough to build something awesome)
This is just a few of the things that come to mind first.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
When I was kid, we had two miniature schnauzers. We would put the male on a lead and the female would usually stay close. One night she went to the neighboring farm while the male was tied up in the yard. She consumed several cow patties and then proceeded to roll around in them for awhile. Feeling bad for her brother at home, she brought one home for him to enjoy also.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:41 am
My four year old female Beagle,ate a popcycle stick and all. Will this pass,or what should we do?
August 14th, 2008 at 2:13 am
i have a 7 month old puppy that had eaten these… a piece of cushion, a 5 dollar bill, the curls on a bathroom rug, a laptop charger, an ethernet cord, a reciept. plus some of her own “outside business”.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:28 am
i also forgot the socks
August 19th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
My dogs eat paper towels. Any paper product actually. I guess I’m lucky LOL!
August 20th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
My German Shepherd/Newfoundland ate a jar of jam. He ate the parafin on the top of the glass jar, the entire contents of jam and the glass jar. Fortunately he survived the eating of the glass and lived to be 11 yrs old. In his younger years he would chew the rubber bumpers on my 83 Mercury Lynx.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I had a cocker spaniel growing up that would steal things but not eat them. He would just take them into the back yard and put them on a pile. His favorites were underwear from the hamper! Our neighbors thought we were crazy… at any given time there were 4 or more pairs out there. The best though was the $250 he took when my mom was running a business out of her home and was counting her daily take at the kitchen table. We noticed that a stack of bills was missing and, sure enough, there it was on teddy’s pile in the back yard! All there, not chewed at all!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
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August 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
When I was younger my lab ate my sister’s friends winter glove, the mom was upset when she couldn’t find it and that day we found it one finger at a time, it was funny. I now have a choc lab collie and he is a rock eater only one a day. My female collie ate my shoes but she was considerate enough to eat them in pairs, never singles. how nice of her I guess they weren’t her style. Come to think of it they were all quite uncomfortable too. Maybe she did me a favor. My favorite is the dog who ate the christmas tree. How do they do such things and live to tell about it????
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:56 am
i caught my puppy chewing up the bathroom rug, again. but i dont think anyone else knows. and also ate a roll of tape.
August 24th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
My parents had a older lasa apso that ate every pacifier he could reach of my sons when he was little. I was buying 6 or more a week when my Mom was doing daycare for me. Finally put them on a cord and clipped them to my sons clothes and the dog just took the clip and all. He also loved to eat all my sons teething toys. The dog never touched anything else. I got to the point where anytime anyone went into town it was a standing order to buy a couple more pacifiers. He always took the pacifiers behind my parents bed and chewed them up there. Target and Walmart were having problems keeping them in stock. Was real glad when my son was finally old enough to break the pacifier habit. The funny thing was that dog loved my son and stood guard over him all the time.
August 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
First a side note: tampons can be flushed but it’s not recommended because it could cause problems with the septic tank.
I can’t believe some of the things your dogs eat! My Izzie, a puggle, chews up more things than eat them (shoes, shoe laces, leather leash and collar, towels/washclothes/blankets). She does eat some of the towel/blanket fibers because she poops up the strings. It’s really gross because she’ll have string hanging out of her butt and I have to pull it out or it will stay there for awhile.
I also had a cocker spaniel when I was pregnant that got mad at me because she could smell the baby on the crotch of my underwear. She chewed the crotch out of EVERY pair that I wore, and tore up the wicker clothes basket to get to them too. Once the baby was born, it stopped, and she loved Rachel, going to far as to growl at family who wanted to hold her.
I also had a kitten that ate the arm of my couch. She went to the vet after not eating and throwing up for a few days. The string from the fibers wrapped around her intestines and she almost died. I must’ve been crazy because I spent almost $800 for her surgery and then turned around and gave her to the pound because she hissed at everyone!
August 27th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
My 13 year old boarder terrier ate one of those curly elastic shoe strings about a month after we got him (he was only a couple months old). We had to give him ipicak to make him throw it up…I never saw such a sick looking dog!
August 30th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
My friend had a weimaraner pup that she brought to class during our senior year of college. I knew this pup had eaten a couch and a phone book, but the best by far was (sorry this is so gross) a used condom. Of course, my friend did not know this until “Hansel” pooped it out during a critique in front of most the class and the professor. When I saw her 5 years later I asked if she still had Hansel. She squealed “Why does everyone ask me that?!!”
Gee, I wonder?
August 31st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
honestly, if a dog poos a used condom during class, they might want to see it again. XD
September 1st, 2008 at 2:58 pm
My dog ate a couple pairs of my panties. We’ve since gotten a hamper with a lid.
September 6th, 2008 at 1:47 am
at least he doesnt eat shoes
September 8th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Recently, my dog swallowed (there was no “eating” involved) a nice pair of underwear. I’m not trying to indicate that he knew they were of high-quality. Fortunately, in three days, I found them! I think he felt much better. I know I did.
September 8th, 2008 at 9:30 pm
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September 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I had a border collie/lab mix who ate a bag of chocolate covered expresso beans. He bounced off the walls for a day. He ended up fine, but I was sure mad at his $7.99 treat. The funniest thing was when the cat ate the elastic from a pair of children’s panties. He snapped himself in the butt and yowled every time. I did get it out for him and yes he never did it again.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
I have a year old German shepherd / Chow Rescue. I was warned before adopting her that she was a chewer! I thought well maybe that will be motivation to keep my 3 year olds toys picked up, well she don’t chew toy’s or shoes she likes eating the toes out of my husband’s socks (the newest ones she can find!) and she likes to put holes in my underwear! Oh the joy of reaching in the drawer and putting on a clean pair of underwear(in the dark) the going to the restroom later and seeing that they have little holes and runs in them!
October 14th, 2008 at 8:32 am
my dogs havent eaten anything in a while, but i am currently wondering if she has eaten anything else, knowing the little one, she eats stuff she is not supposed to, although, she did steal some food off of my computer desk one night.
October 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am
I’m disgusted by how many people said their dogs ate used tampons!!!
Do you just pull them out of your vaginas and drop them on the floor? How hard is it to put it in a bin out of your dog’s reach?
October 26th, 2008 at 12:00 am
i just explained it in my name
November 1st, 2008 at 2:28 am
we need help our dog has a thing hanging from its stomach we have no idea wat it is and now shes growling at us and she wont walk it wasnt there before and we think shes not having birth.
November 8th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Dogs chew or eat things they shouldn’t because of boredom and seperation anxiety. WALK and exercise your dog EVERYDAY. When I say walk your dog I don’t mean your dog walking you. Be the pack leader and a real responsible dog owner.
November 11th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
To date, my wonderful 2-year-old bloodhound has eaten/destroyed:
-innumberable amounts of socks, underwear & bras.
-christmas bulbs
-the wood door & cover from a hot tub!
-3 sets of blinds
-probably 15 pairs of shoes
-slippers
-trim off the wall
-chewed through 2 dining chair legs
-ate every knob off the kitchen/bathroom cabinets
-a shower curtain
-a rug
-chicken wing bones
-an entire pizza off the counter, still in the box
-2 leashes, 3 collars
-cat litter (ewww!)
-pillows
-blanket that used to line her crate
-kleenex, to this day the boxes are upside down so she doesn’t realize they’re in the room
-paper towels, toilet paper, napkins…
The list could go on&on&on…but no vet visits for any of this just yet!
November 18th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I came home yesterday to find that my boxer puppy ate my christmas tree lights….now i got to take him to the vet, after I had told my girlfriend that having a christmas tree with a puppy that likes to chew loose wires is not a good idea.. but did she listen? Noooooooooooooooooo. Now my wallet is going to pay for it, and so close to christmas.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Tampons should be at least placed in a sealed trash can if not a toilet. Same with the used condoms. Remember when we used to hide such things?
Beware of the Chicken Bones, my neighbors have been sharpening them and leaving them on my door step for my dog.
December 6th, 2008 at 12:39 am
My dog eats my earplugs (the foam rubber kind). I find them in the yard a few days later. I just throw them in the laundry (in a mesh bag), wash in hot water and bleach and reuse them. Waste not, want not!
December 14th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I just returned from taking my 20lb mini schnauzer in for emergency surgery. He snatched a corndog out of my son’s hand and swallowed it whole. I immediately threw him in the car and had the vet meet me at their office (after hours) where he jumped right in and did surgery. Weird thing is that the stick had turned sideways and was about to perf his stomach wall just as the doc cut into him. I got to check out the X-ray films as the doc was taking a look at them. The stick didn’t show up (wood) but there was metal and other stuff in his stomach. The vet asked me what it could be and I had not a single word asnwer for him. Stick is out and the other stuff is small enough to pass.I’m 1K poorer but the puppy is okay. How am I going to neatly package this story for an email to my hubby who is in Iraq?
December 16th, 2008 at 1:16 am
I’ve had my four month old mini dachshund puppy for about two weeks now. So far she likes to tear chunks out of my memory foam pillow and eat them. Her poo looked really funny. After a few days of getting on to her with no luck, I threw it out. One night she was chewing on the tag to a pillow and gagged on it and puked everywhere. She has an obsession with paper. She ripped open my Christmas present while I was out of the room and ate part of the paper. She eats napkins paper towels, and just yesterday I had to open her mouth and pull out an entire kleenex, whole. She was trying to swallow it before I could take it from her. And today after blowing my nose she stole the tissue but I managed to get it from her. Basically, if it’s on the floor she eats it. If it’s ouside on the ground she eats it. If we drop something on the floor she’ll run and try to get it before we can pick it up. And she’s learned if she takes the time to chew I take it away from her so she’s started swallowing things hole. She’s carried off my camera, in the case and two of my brand new bras. Luckily she brought them to the living room and I cought her before much damage was done. And of course my good shoes. She also likes to sit in one spot on the floor and chew on the carpet. It seems like she always has something in her mouth. I also have 3 year old american bulldog, but can’t think of a thing he’s eatten that he shouldnt have other than today when he grabbed a package of replacement christmas lights that had fallen on the floor. Luckily he dropped it when I frantically yelled at him not to eat it! My boyfriend was able to grab it before the mini weenie did. My friends mini dachshund puppy (my pups brother) is the same way about eatting anything on the floor/ground. He carried in a lug nut from the shop the other day and was trying to eat it. While staying with my aunt, her rat terrier got into my suitcase.. it was only unzipped a couple inches and pulled out everything that wasnt clothing. He ate part of a magic eraser box and tore apart all the sopping bags. He also got in the trash and ate used pads and toilet paper.
December 26th, 2008 at 2:52 am
My Boxer Lab mix ate a the bones from a deer head. It was the sickest thing I have ever seen. he was throwing up the teeth from that thing. He sneaks away and eats whatever he can find. He has a thing for pillows and socks also. He has eaten 1 shoe from 10 pairs (always the left shoe) when he figured out how to open my closet.
December 30th, 2008 at 3:01 am
My family’s golden retriever and yellow lab mix, Mac, ate some pretty strange things back in his younger days. My sister had “donated” one of her old stuffed cats. We would play tug of war with it, saying, “Mac, get the kitty!” He tore it to pieces. Then, someone had the bright idea of pointing at a real cat and saying, “Get the kitty.” From that day on, Mac played tug of war with numerous kitties, flipping their limp bodies into the air after breaking their spines. He wasn’t trying to hurt them; he just thought he was playing. He never actually ate them, but this seems close.
He would also come out of the woods from time to time, carrying the remnants of various animals, which was apparently his equivalent to the grocery store. Squirells and rabbits weren’t shocking. However, my ex-boyfriend says he’ll never forget the first time he came to meet my family. As we came down the 1/2 mile driveway, we saw Mac bounding toward the car with a big chunk of deer in his mouth. Chances are that he found one dead in the woods, but Josh is still convinced that Mac hunted it himself.
December 31st, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Last night my daughter come running in to my bedroom with our 8 week old boston terrier, Oreo. The pup was choking on a MARBLE. I tried to do a hymlich( not sure on the spelling) type manuever on him. No luck. So, I tried to do the sweeping action in his mouth (like a child) and only pushed the marble further. He was getting air now. He began vomiting but it wouldnt come up. The little guy is at the vet as we speak. Since the marble is glass it won’t show up on x-ray. The marble is too big for the pup to pass. If it makes its way to the intestine it may wind up killing some of the intestine and maybe Oreo too.I guess he will be out of surgery later today. My daughter felt so terrible she threw all of the marbles away without me having to tell her to.
Hopefully this will be our one and only ordeal!
January 16th, 2009 at 2:07 am
my dog has eaten, aluminum foil left on the counter from a sub. Just the other night he got my husbands leather cell phone case. He pooped it out today. Gum with xylitol which was a hefty emergency vet bill. Chocolate, since then we’ve learned to just give him peroxide to puke it up. Socks underwear paper bags plastic bags. We are missing a Bluetooth and we are starting to suspect Scout. Let’s see what else. He loves to get into laundry and eat the leather tag off the back of my husbands jeans. Oh! And my birth control!!Haha! That was a funny call to the vet.
January 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
My aunt owned a German Shepard and as a puppy had eaten an iron..I was amazed.
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:28 pm
My bichon frise Aspen has ingested 2 pairs of gym shorts, a sweater, countless socks, and an enourmous amount of wrapping paper.He barfed most of it up, but the wrapping paper was showing up in his poop for ages!
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:35 pm
My friend Sarah also has a Border Collie named Ringa who showed up from her evening romp through the woods that surrounds our neighborhood carrying a massive leg of deer! I am also told that the next morning she returned with the deer’s head and antlers! This all happened when she was a puppy of eight months, I can’t believe she lugged those deer parts all the way home!
February 20th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
We have a 7 month old Rottie Pittbull mix. She is absolutley the friendliest and happiest dog we have ever met. She is a rescue dog. We got her at 3 months old. The person her former owner only fed her 1 cup of dog food a day therefore, she would rummage through trash or anything she could could get her mouth on because she was starving! The first couple of days we had her she was pooping out glass and other weird things. Now she is very healthy and active.
Unfortunately she chews on everything and we need to be very careful about what is left on the floor or she will get it! She will get in the trash if it isn’t locked away (she likes used tissues too). She has a chewed a few pairs of shoes, chewed a vacuum cleaner cord in half, she likes all paper, books, crayons, pens, all of the kids toys, metal, all plastics, suit cases, fabrics and likes to pull out stuffing from dog beds, pillows and stuffed animals. We try to keep as as many dog toys available and tennis balls. She is getting better. We always praise her when she chews on her toys and if we see her attempt to chew on something other than one of her toys we immediately take that item away and give her one of her toys.
She is also teething; we have found 3 of her teeth on the floor!
We found that sometimes she chews because she is board so we take her outside to run. She loves running and it really tires her out, then she isn’t bored and she stops chewing.
Praise your dog and give them their own toys and exercise. Then, you will all be happier.
February 24th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
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February 24th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
I have a 9 month old Staffordshire Bull Terrier Tyson and he is very well behave doesn’t chew anythin maybe when he was younger his toys and he liked tissue but he never ate it he like to play pulling games with you, but I thought the reason he was so good was because he had lots of toys but that’s not really the case because my mates Rottie ate a whole in the wall in the kitchen *dont ask me how* but then I realised her dog never got taken 4walks and I think she was takin her frustration out on the wall, so I think the reason my puppie Tyson is so well behaved is because I walk him before I go 2work, go home on my luch break walk him, then I walk him as soon as I’m home and last thing before I go to bed, if you people are able to try walkin them more times a day if not just longer walks on you’re usual outings I think you’ll find it will help and make sure there tired, It’s kind of hard to get my pup tired as his very high energy, I also thought when the first time I left him there would be no house left because he has bad seperation anxiety but his was brilliant bless him, but defo try the walks I hope this will help you because I can’t imagine how worried you would be feelin when you find out you’re babies have eaten things. x x
February 24th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
Also can I just say Chicken bones and Lamb bones are very bad 4dogs as they splinter if you want to give you’re dog a bone go to the butchers and ask 4 cow bones usually butchers will give them to you 4 free but if not there less than £1 you can get knuckes for 50p but I wouldn’t really advise you givin you’re dog any bones, I suggest you throughly walk you’re dogs as long and as often you can because when a dog is tired the last thing there doin/thinkin of chewin things trust me my Staffordshire Bull Terrier Tyson doesn’t chew things as his always having vigorous exercise, when we first had him he was 5 1/2 weeks old very early to have a puppy but I had him because I knew he would be looked after and have a home for life *not puppy syndrom* I admit he would chew paper but wantin you 2play with it to but as soon as he had his injections and was able to go on the floor outside for walks it all stopped, I hope this information is useful I would be proper stressin if my dog ate such things, to be honest I just thought we we’re lucky but It’s because we did the right things for him sub-conciously walking him about 4times a day and yes I work full time so this can be done It’s just whether you want this chewin to stop and take the dogs out, and tampons aren’t supposed to be flushed but should be in a been wrapped up away from Children and dogs plus way from every1 else because dogs are like children there into everythin lol. x x
March 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
My 10 pound dog has a paper and bodily fluid fetish: tons of panties, used condoms (which are gross coming out the other end), used tampons, whole boxes of tissues, magazines, pens, and the most interesting thing she would routinely eat when she was a puppy (6 lbs) were whole packs/boxes of matches!
Oh, and she also managed to consume a whole tube of peanut butter flavored dog toothpaste. That’s the only thing that really made her sick!!
March 10th, 2009 at 8:05 am
I thought that our blue weimaraner ate a lot of things. We had surgery for a rawhide, which he doesn’t get anymore. He ate an entire pot of chili one night, that was stinky. I think he has learned now not to counter surf, hopefully.:-)
March 24th, 2009 at 8:52 am
Wow, they will swallow anything and everything. My wheaten terrier is two and a half and is post-op two days from surgery to retrieve leaves and “some pink cloth thing”. The house is dog proofed but watch for things outside!! On a warm day in the backyard (after the snow melted) she managed to find lots and lots of “treats” which cost me $2,1000.00!!
I was told by the vet that she could be a repeat offender, YIKES!
March 30th, 2009 at 8:08 am
Great article. My dog just got a surgery last month due, he had swallowed two socks and his stuffed toy. Glad to know my dog isn’t the only dog that eats socks. The house is dog proof but SOMEHOW he manages to get to socks every once in awhile. I would wake up with a pile of throw up with a sock in it. I don’t understand why he would eat it, I feed him everyday!
April 26th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Back in the 80`s I had a Rotty named Teufel. He had eaten, $30 cash and a Casio watch. He also tried to eat a rock but he got caught in the act.
April 26th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Our Perro de Presa Canrio ate the mail man.
April 26th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Matty was afraid of the hair dryer so we would put it on the bed when we left for work to discourage him from getting up… guess he had enough and faced his fear by devouring the hairdryer. Chewed it well, thankfully, but did hack up a huge ball of copper wire bits that he placed right at the front door to say “See, this is why I don’t feel good.” Needless to say, we don’t care that he gets on the bed when we are gone… and fortunately that is his only undesired behavior, so we have decided to live with it lest we be cursed with worse.
May 6th, 2009 at 11:09 am
My neighbor’s dog managed to eat in one piece an entire 3′ x 5′ area rug!
May 19th, 2009 at 1:31 am
I have 2 terrior rescue dogs both about 5 years old. O’Riely (a 30lbs Welsh terrior) has eaten countless mice, birds, beer bottle caps, socks, leather shoes (the right ones only, mostly in black), paper, bills, coins, knee highs, socks, underwear, a bottle of Loratadine (knock off Claritan), a candle, plastic bottles, plastic bottle caps, receipts, fur off of his toys, toy stuffing, squeakers…
Our other dog James (a 70lbs Airedal) has eaten, tissue, toilet paper, dental floss, used sanitary napkins, a battery, tape, hair, dog fur while trimming the other dogs, and as of yesterday a wild bunny whole (and possible still alive).
Between the 2 of them they have also caught and killed mice, a squirell, a possum (they do play dead!), birds, a skunk, and who knows what else.
Peroxide is a good way to get all dogs to throw things up, especially works on small dogs…we learned this early on.
(I am currently up with James who ate the bunny about 12 hours ago and decided to throw up now)
May 20th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
DOG PROOF YOUR HOME! they are just like children and you are entitled to make sure they can’t get things that would be dangerous if ingested!
I have a boxer, notorious for killing her toys in no time flat… she can crush, destroy, and eat a tennis ball within an hour. She kills the squeaker in every squeaky toy and then un-stuffs them…
She chewed the door way in our apartment (my roommate had locked her in the garage alone and she has anxiety issues).
My brother’s dog ate a cell phone, remote control, fishing lure, baseball caps, socks, shoes, the leg off of the dining room table, etc…
Be careful what you leave out, especially around puppies.
AND take them for walks and runs as much as possible!!!
When they’re tired they sleep instead of chew…
If you were locked in a house all day with nothing to do you might chew up the walls and furniture too!
May 21st, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Petie my boxer puppy has eaten two rocks and lots of foil (makes for sparkly poop) but nothing else so far (he’s still young..)
Riley my older boxer has eaten a wad of paper towels, a bottle of vanilla extract, a roll of pennies (we watched nervously as he “decreased in value” over the next few days)a four- foot length of string from the carpet that was not so much fun on the way out, all the fragrance samples from several magazines (interesting breath that time) several rosebushes, thorns and all, and my paycheck.
and that was all before he was a year old.