What's the strangest food your pet has eaten?

ejr · Post by **ejr** » May 12, 2007 9:23 am

flyboy55 wrote:We once had a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever. He was a dedicated food stealer. No combination of discipline or training (either us or him) could break him of the habit.

He'd strike like a Great White shark - coming from nowhere to hit fast and hard. He once nabbed a sandwich right out of my brother-in-law's hand (a man known to wave his hands around when he talks and eats). The same BIL also lost a chunk of syrup-laden pancake on the way from plate to mouth in the same manner.

But the problem was Oliver (the dog) was about as discriminating as a shark. If it looked or smelled remotely like FOOD he would wolf it down as quickly as possible. As a result he swallowed small toys, clothing (underwear I'm talkin - ughh!) and dish rags.

His best trick was to gobble down the plastic scouring pad we kept by the kitchen sink. He pooped it out a few days later and by the look on his face it wasn't near as much fun coming out as it was going in. Served him right is what I thought.

All these things might have killed him, but they didn't. After a few emergency vet visits, we learned how to administer our own home-grown vomit inducer. More mess on our kitchen floor but fewer vet bills.

He lived a long, exciting life. I'm sure he's stealing food in doggie heaven now.

My best friend has a Toller too! And she too eats just about anything and everything. Boy, glad to know someone else knows this wonderful breed!

Also had a roommate whose cat loved Campbell's Tomato Soup. She would come running when you opened a can of it. And even though we used a non electric can opener, she knew. And she knew when we were opening something else and would not come running. Once, my mother was over, by herself, having an air conditioner installed in my room, and she thought the cat had snuck out of the apartment because she could not find her. So...........she went and opened a can of Tomato soup, and immediately found the cat!

Mplsfins · Post by **Mplsfins** » May 12, 2007 9:47 am

Well my Toy Female Schnauzer at her afterbirth. My 8 year old Male Schnauzer used to eat poop of anykind until we got that stopped. My 4 month old TOy Schnauzer is starting to like eating carpet but I am trying to stop that also. My cat will eat anything but his food and is especially fond of mouse heads.

caly · Post by **caly** » May 12, 2007 10:12 am

My little Jenny (6 pound 12 year old cat) loves anything tomato and cantalope.
Harry (sail on bubbers, May 3/07)

loved grainy things. He would swat at your arm for Mulit-grain Tostisto's.

NotJust64 · Post by **NotJust64** » May 12, 2007 10:18 pm

I have a cat that will sit and literally drowl for corn husks.... Being from NJ, we have the best corn in the world and when summer rolls around and I start a husking, he sits and waits for me to drop one corn husk on the floor and he's off with it.

Must be a form of kitty catnip or something ?

Blondn6ft · Post by **Blondn6ft** » May 13, 2007 7:54 am

The dog, a retired K9 German Shepard, eats anything you give him, watermelon, cantalope ... cat poop ... and lately ... his own poop !! If you are not right there to pick it up ... he dumps it and turns right around and grabs a bite!! UGH !!!

The vet says it won't hurt him ... it just has people gross out factor !

Blondn6ft · Post by **Blondn6ft** » May 13, 2007 7:55 am

NotJust64 wrote:I have a cat that will sit and literally drowl for corn husks.... Being from NJ, we have the best corn in the world and when summer rolls around and I start a husking, he sits and waits for me to drop one corn husk on the floor and he's off with it.

Must be a form of kitty catnip or something ?

OMG ... Tiki, my black cat, does this too !
Hahaha ... yet Kona doesn't like them at all.

Cubbie Bear · Post by **Cubbie Bear** » May 13, 2007 1:14 pm

my dog ate the neighbor boy. We blamed it on coyotes

pojo · Post by **pojo** » May 13, 2007 11:57 pm

Where should I start..... my childhood pet (english springer spaniel) would eat Glass, Razor Blades, Paintballs, sunglasses, and most important my fingers! No, No... I wasn't trying to stick them down her throat.... when she was p***.... she'd go for hands!

That was a good days work!

SharkOnLand · Post by **SharkOnLand** » May 14, 2007 1:02 pm

Honestly, actual pet food is pretty damn weird. Little chunks of who-knows-what....

freaky4tiki · Post by **freaky4tiki** » May 14, 2007 3:39 pm

my cat was eating ants on Saturday....

what I call earth friendly pest control!

Tequila Revenge · Post by **Tequila Revenge** » May 14, 2007 3:49 pm

wild turkey poop

they think it's candy

CUparrot · Post by **CUparrot** » May 14, 2007 3:57 pm

I think a better question would be what *hasn't* my lab eaten? She ate a Nylabone chew toy once--meant to be a non-edible toy, BTW. She ate a red plastic chew toy once, too--saw red pieces in her poop for days. We evenutally had to stop giving her non-edible chew toys.

Pretty much any kind of "people food" she's up for trying.

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » May 14, 2007 4:01 pm

We have 2 labs and a weimaraner...there is nothing in our house (including the house itself) which is not considered food by at least one of them.

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » May 14, 2007 4:19 pm

Ever heard the expression "Egg Sucking Hound"....?

It's true..

Puncture holes on both ends....shell intact....but empty.

Magoo...my "Basket Hound" as my son called him.....( 1/2 Bassett, 1/2 Beagle....all hound)

freaky4tiki · Post by **freaky4tiki** » May 14, 2007 4:43 pm

Conolulu wrote:Ever heard the expression "Egg Sucking Hound"....?

It's true..

Puncture holes on both ends....shell intact....but empty.

Magoo...my "Basket Hound" as my son called him.....( 1/2 Bassett, 1/2 Beagle....all hound)

that is WILD....

(

basket hound

)

Conolulu · Post by **Conolulu** » May 14, 2007 4:54 pm

freaky4tiki wrote:
Conolulu wrote:Ever heard the expression "Egg Sucking Hound"....?

It's true..

Puncture holes on both ends....shell intact....but empty.

Magoo...my "Basket Hound" as my son called him.....( 1/2 Bassett, 1/2 Beagle....all hound)

that is WILD....

( basket hound )

Chris was ...6 then. Had to count back ...and I tried to tell him what Magoo was...but he insisted that's what he was...

Somedays I miss them being little...

ToplessRideFL · Post by **ToplessRideFL** » May 14, 2007 5:09 pm

ummmm this sounds tame compared to your stories.... My dog eats dog food. I dont allow him to have people food. He is so good that if something drops to the floor and he goes for it.... if I say stop .. he does. He'll even spit it out if he hasnt swallowed it.

He has a sensative or "old" stomach... and I have taken that chance once too often.

Although he would especially like to thank whomever fed him shrimp, meatballs and chix wings last year @ the phlocking.

It was the first people food he had in 8 years! LOL

horseyparrot · Post by **horseyparrot** » May 15, 2007 9:19 am

Ohhh boy. Let's see here.
My dainty, sweet female horse likes French Vanilla coffee..she will actually slurp it out of her feed tub. Found out b/c I set my cup in there once while i was getting something, came back to find she'd knocked it over in the bucket and was slurping away. Always told her if we won a championship I'd buy her Starbucks...(i think she knew i'd spoil her regardless...no championship,lol)

My "Piece of work" male horse likes a lot of things. Particularly Beer, Rum and Coke, (he'd be SUCH a good Parrothead) lemondade (snapple, naturally), iced tea. Ate an ice cream cone once, too. And gravel. He's a weirdo. He'd get lemonade after a big win.....I wasn't old enough to buy beer back then!

My parent's dog ate a bedsheet. (yes, he's a lab). It turned into a very expensive bedsheet, as they had to open him up and surgically remove it. He also ate a woven throw rug once, and ropes of it came out afterwards......THAT was bad.

But the kicker is my dog. (this is so embarrasing). SHe's normally very good, but one day behind my back she must have gone 'trash can diving'....and the long and short of it was, she attempted to eat a tampon.....but the string wrapped around her tongue, and it was hanging down the back of her throat. The vet had to knock her out to figure out what it was.....and when they removed it, they said the room cleared out.

I will NEVER live that one down......if that's not redneck, then I don't know what is!!

PS- she too, likes beer.