My dog ate....

Perhaps he/she is underfed?

My wife's cooking.

My yellow lab has eaten:

cat poop/kitty litter combo

my bike shoes

2 sets of my iPOD ear buds

my couch

a few blankets

the top of a water bottle

my back pack straps (from 3 different back packs)

gum out of my purse

a few cliff bars out of my purse

her dog bed

dog toys

my bagel

and the list goes on....

My CAT has chewed thru a pair of my shower shoes and my HRM strap....(!!!) As well as poked holes in my leather gloves with his tiny sharp teeth!

My other CAT will try to eat whatever I am eating, regardless of what it is... Lettuce, olives, any type of meat or bread... anything crunchy, anything salty...but nothing sweet, and nothing citrusy...   

I forgot about the time Bella got into the trash right after I had cleaned out my fridge.  She ended up eating an old block of Velveeta cheese and cashews- what a combo!

Her tummy didn't feel so good after that...

Oops- DP!

Of all the dogs I have had I have some memorable eating stories

1. The better part of a naugahide recliner
2. A pan of browning hamburger (still sizzling) from the stovetop
3. Some vintage Rolling Stones albums
4. Various varieties of poo (goose is the worst)
5. I had an absent minded roommate in college who would put bread in the toaster and wander away....my dog would wait in the kitchen for the toast to pop and would steal it from the toaster. My roommate would come back, forgetting he had already made toast, and begin the cycle over......
6. My new skinny, fast black-and-tan/lab mix actually caught a squirrel the other day. I never let him get around to the actual eating....but he was quite proud of himself.
7. During hunting season we have to deal with the dogs sneaking off to visit gut piles left in the woods (yuck)

Man, now I don't feel so bad about what my dog eats.  I think I'll give her a pig ear when I get home.

But, along with the cat litter that she has managed to get out from underneath a table, the most amazing thing is this:

She managed to eat 2 sandwiches out of zip lock bags WITHOUT putting a hole in the bag.  She managed to open up the ziplock and get the sandwiches out.  they were the zippered kind! 

She's espcially fond of bread.  She ate a loaf of bread once and it took about 2 days before it made it's way out.  And, in case you weren't sure, Q-tips don't digest very well!  They come out the same as they went in.

My friend's beagle, Cali eats everything- its really a joke game now that we play "what things did cali eat to make her butt explode?"

She ate a tube of Clinique lipgloss, plastic and all.  Being a good friend, I replaced the tube for her owner and Cali then proceeded to eat only half the the second tube before memory set in.  She's learning.

Heh...

My first dog was only a chewer for a little bit...but she got my bike gloves.  She's been smart enough ever since to NOT chew things.

My second dog (Sweetie) got out the first couple of days I had her and I came home to a house where anything and everything within snout reach had been pick up, shaken around, and thrown.  She had chewed on my favorite Red Sox hat.  I almost renamed her Yankee on the SPOT.  I at first thought it was ruined then realized she made it "vintage" for me.  She also chewed up a cardboard box that had a wine/oil decanter in it.  The wine/oil decanter went mostly unscathed except for some teeth marks on the cork.

Needless to say, these dogs do NOT get the run of the house yet!  Maybe someday.  But the separation anxiety was too apparent!

Anyway, they don't really chew stuff when I'm around.  I can leave things all over the floor in my bedroom (sweaty or otherwise) at night and they don't touch it.

In the last few months I caught Sweetie chewing on a plastic stool in the backyard, but I think she was egged on by a visiting dog.  Obviously if HE was chewing on it, it must be tasty, right?  She's also been seen eating poo in the backyard a lot lately.  And NO she's not underfed.  It doesn't matter how much I feed my two dogs...they ALWAYS want more.

So, I guess I'm lucky!  I had another visiting dog that chewed up anything and everything.  You had to keep her in your sight all the time...and sometimes she'd manage to chew something in sight of you and you wouldn't even notice!  I definitely consider myself lucky....

My lab, God rest his soul, ate only expensive shoes, the bottom 2 steps in my in-laws brand new home before they were my inlaws, a wicker couch,  the usual socks and undies, spiders, any food item on the floor, in your hand or on the table, his own poo when we tried to put him on a diet, I could go on and on.  However, by far the nastiest thing he ever ate was my daughter's poo-filled diaper from the trash.  We didn't let him kiss us too often and he had stinky breath, but he was the best dog in the world.  Made it to 14. 

I was just 21 when I got him, and didn't think cage training was humane.  I"ve since changed my mind!

When I was a kid my granma was cooking a roast and a small fire started in the oven.  We called the fire brigade who came over and put it out with the foamy stuff.  The roast, avec foam au jus, was thrown outside, where it was later demolished by our 1/2 lab 1/2 beagle mix.  She didn't even get sick from it.

My older cavalier Jasper once fished a used condom out of my roommates trash and ate that (ewwwwwww).  How do I know?  I found it once it came out the other end.  I was so embarrassed to have to tell my roommate to dispose of condoms some other way, or pick his trash up off the floor.

My younger cavalier Kingsley decided to wait until I had 8 people over for a nice dinner party to come marching into the living room with my black thong in his mouth and dump it on the carpet in front of everyone.

 Dogs can be so embarrassing!!

my dog loves the taste of underware.  Not mine, just my fiance's.  He also enjoys eating the crotch out of her pants.  He doesn't just chew it, he consumes it.

there was also the time he are an entire tube of KY jelly....  He was quite regular for a week or two.