jeano
Posted : 4/12/2006 1:47:37 PM
Oh Christine, thanks for the good laugh this morning! I have to agree, labs are the most creative in eating strange things! Retrievers in general seem to live for their stomachs. I think the funniest thing about labs and retrievers eating weird stuff is how CHEERFUL they are about it. You come home, and they've got (for example) green latex paint on their chins and they are so HAPPY to share their latest fun thing with you.
Hunter dog, who was Chesapeake and Australian shepherd, was the dog who ate an entire bottle of Tums. He was minty fresh for 24 hours and kept waking me up that night burping and farting.
I've told some of these before but......Stevie and Hunter came in one day from getting into the garage and drank and drank and drank and drank and drank and drank and I said, "WHY are these dogs SO THIRSTY?"
I went into the garage and found about fifty tootsieroll pop sticks, a few wrappers, the big plastic bag that had held about 200 tootsie roll pops.....and that was all. YOU'D be thirsty too if you ate that many tootsie pops (and their sticks and wrappers)!
This isn't MY dog but this happened when I was a kid. My friend Cindy had a gsd. I've forgotten his name, we'll call him King. One day we were out in the yard, the laundry was fluttering from the line, and King horked up an entire set of suspenders! Her dad came out and said "I was WONDERING where those were!"
Sadie (lab/elkhound/mutt) would eat the bathroom soap. She'd sneak into the bathroom and steal the soap from the holder and eat pieces off it.
When I worked in a park it was back before the flip top lids on cans stuck to the cans. Remember when you pulled them off and they came completely off? People threw them on the ground all the time, and for some reason, wild animals eat shiny things. The main animals that died from eating these things were raccoons, coyotes and kingfishers. The kingfishers died because they saw a shiny fish-like object in the water and would dive to get it--except the water was generally too shallow. So I spent a LOT of time picking up pounds of flip tops.
Well, Sofia and Athena were like that. They'd try to eat bottle caps, tin foil, anything shiny. Broken glass even! Ole (my son) and I had to do some serious training with them to make them leave things like that alone! This is just another reason coydogs are not for everyone! Little rascals!