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!
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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
[...] we all know smoking is a bad habit (even those who do it!). However, dogs - especially puppies - will consume almost anything! This could mean a pack of cigarettes lying around the house or even butts from off the ground. [...]
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
[...] toxic and can kill a dog in less than 20 minutes, but Bella the dog didn’t know that when she gulped one down as her owner, an Australian rugby player named Jackson Crews, tossed her some of his [...]
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
[...] you have a dog that gnawed on your Playstation 3? Maybe your pooch decided to “play” with your new pair of [...]
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!