The weirdest thing your dog ever ate

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    The weirdest thing your dog ever ate

    What is it?  Mine could be a drinkable yogurt container.  Darby swipes these all the time from my toddler when he's done wiht them.  I really didn't think much of it and allowed her to lick them clean and then tossed 'em.  Well I missed one last Sunday and she chewed it to bits and ate most of the bits!  Of course, I didn't see her do this and she came to us vomiting severely... just white foam.
     
    After a very long trip to the emergency vet it was determined she ate something (I do suspect it was the yogurt container) that irritated her stomach and intestines which caused them to swell- you could see on the xray that the stomach was very swollen- could see the folds!
     
    What a booger. She's on the mend now. 
     
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    Aw, glad Darby's feeling better!
     
    Russell's eaten plenty of things he shouldn't but nothing weird - weird for a dog, anyway. But the weirdest aftereffects of his eating something was when he was a puppy and somehow managed to eat so much toilet tissue he pooped out a white turd made completely of paper.
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    pooped out a white turd made completely of paper.

     
    At least it was rolled up.
     
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    The other day I caught BOTH dogs eating potpourri (the kind made of sticks and leaves).  Jack was fine (I guess after an entire sock potpourri is kid stuff), but Sally yacked all over the bedroom floor.
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    One day at the dog park Max stopped to poop ... and it kept coming ... and coming ... getting longer and longer.  When I went to pick it up, I discovered he had swallowed one of my new purple shoelaces. [:D] I just decided to by a new pair. I sure wasn't about to rescue it.
     
    Joyce
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    My irish Setter, Boots ate Brillo pads TWICE.  One he got off the counter top.  The other time he actually got the box and ate two of them.  A few times he got into my Mom's purse when she came to eat supper with us and ate her pack of double mint gum, wrappers and all.
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    Wolfgang has eaten rocks and books. Tasha has destroyed many, many things but in her seven years never eaten a single inappropriate item (to my knowledge).
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    Well, since Zoe hasn't eaten anyting I would consider really unusual (she takes a liking to goose poop in the summertime though), here is a story about one of my cats:
     
    One evening I decided it was bill-paying time, so I had a stack of bills and envelopes and stamps and brand new address labels I recently orderered.  When I was finished, I put it all in pile on the coffee table and went to bed.  Next day, I'm cleaning out the litter box and a piece of poop reads ..my last name, followed by address, city state, zip....  She got into the address labels on the coffe table and there it was in her poop!
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    Sigh, aside from BIG pieces of furniture, the worst had to be having to call credit card companies and ask them to reissue since Thor decided to eat DH's wallet one nite, and everything in it.....I'm sure they've heard a lot of reasons, but, the dog ate my credit card probably isn't near the top of the list.....
     
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    the dog ate my credit card probably isn't near the top of the list.....

     
    That is funny.   Would hate for that to happen here as hubby has all kinds of passes into chemical plants, cards certifying he passed the tests to get into others,  cards showing he is qualified to haul certain things, etc.  how he would hate to have to replace all that.
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    Lucy has been pretty good. She does her fair share of chewing, but no eating.

    Our Dalmation on the other hand... I can recall the wooden spoon he consumed when a pup, and the howls when he pooped splinters. He ate several feet of that rope stuff that was in the binding of our comforter. Spent a lot of time *helping* 12"-18" sections of that stuff to be passed. Good times!

    Let's see... After about the age of five, he finally grew out of his puppy chewing stage and pretty much just stuck with eating anything that was food. Or had been near food. Or looked like food. Four whole filet mignon - including the toothpicks. Several pounds of bacon (that got him his first attack of colitis). The tator tots off the top of a tater tot casserole - while we had a guest. She still laughs about how he'd quietly slink to the kitchen, grab a couple tots, the go back to his "spot" like he had never left. Then start the whole process over when he thought we weren't looking. Hmmm... about 1/3 of an Irish cream cheesecake. You knew who the dog lovers were that Christmas. We were the ones that just cut off the part the dog ruined and dug in. The non-dog people wouldn't touch it.

    Oh, I could go on forever!
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    Dylan our boxer that passed three years ago ate our kitchen table!!!!!!!  I mean it!!!
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    Sequoyah ate a small American flag and pooped stars and stripes on the lawn. I told her how unpatriotic that was, and she has not tried to eat Old Glory since...
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    Gobi ate my wifes drawing charcoal, and some of her art students crayons, we didn't notice until a day later until he went poop. Then it was..."what the hell? why is it blue?" 
    Almost forgot, he ate my leash for my surfboard, that wasn't so bad, just little chunks of soft blue rubber coming out, he also ate a bar of stickybumps, that wasn't good, the vet actually gave him a laxative.
    I understand though, surfwax smells soooo good. It was my fault for leaving it out.
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    None of mine have eaten anything unusual.  At least that I know of.....  But, working at a vet clinic, we've retrieved a lot of interesting things.  We pulled 3 golf balls out of a lab.  The owner played fetch with golf balls so you kinda had to expect it.  We have also gotten, greenies (the old ones, the new ones disolve quickly) panty hose, a bra, panties, a quilt, rocks, stuffed animal parts, shoe laces that tangled, a rope bone, sea shells, and candle wax.  I'm always amazed at the owners responses, it ranges from shock to the knowing response of  "yeah, he does eat those from time to time".