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We just adopted a 4-year old Newfoundland -- she's is
gorgeous and sweet as can be, but she has a fondness
of boxes (18 oz. boxes) of Special K cereal! Twice in
a week she has picked up a full and sealed box from the
lower shelf (bad place, DH!), taken it upstairs, ripped
it open, including the cellophane bag, and helped herself
to a few servings! Today when I got home, she had hidden
the rest of the box under a pillow on the bed...

She definitely thinks she's a person and not a dog. Maybe
she is!

And an update on Coco's weird eating habits:
she has added a 5-lb. bag of flour, which she carried
unopened up to our bedroom, opened it, and
left it all over, but put the bag in the bed (again).
My husband was terrified to get home and see her
with white crusty stuff all over her mouth -- thinking
she was really sick -- then he found the flour trail!

Junebug - our Lab - was sneezing from the flour.

OK - everything's going UP HIGH.

My dog eats blackberries off the bush! It is so funny how gingerly she picks them so as not to get stuck!

She also will jump up and pull a pear off of our small tree! So funny watching her have tug of war with a pear tree! She takes a bite and then plays with them like it was a ball. TOO FUNNY!

My old dog used to love a bit of salad. That's true that is.

A purple sock. It came out the other end shaped like- well you can imagine perfectly well what shape it was.

He does pinch foil wrappers too- they make clearing up the garden a sparkly experience. Oh yes and balloons. A rubber glove. And a condom <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

This thread is amusing me greatly.

My parents have a beagle/bassett mix named Taffy, and several years ago, she got into my stepdad's bag of Tootsie Pops. I saw her laying on the floor, wrapper discarded next to her, with the stick between her two front paws, licking it like a person would lick it.

Hilarious.

So I asked, "Hey Taffy, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop?"

She never did answer.

But that is, by no means, the weirdest thing she has ever eaten. She has eaten some disgusting things.

our neighbor's dog once gave birth to 3 puppies. after 2 days she ended up eating her own litter. its gross! they found the dog chewing bits and pieces of the 3 puppies.

Thank goodness she was okay... My dog ate a paper plate with brownies and saran wrap. The whole darn thing and it wasn't a small plate either. I was scared the plastic could have caused some serious issues but she was fine. She will eat ANYTHING.

My dog has eaten pooh.... yuk!!!!! Now whenever we go for a walk and he stops to try ot sniff another dogs pooh, I say NO! and pull him along... YuK!!!!!!!

That is called cophagia (I'm not sure of the spelling), and I had a dog that did that - and another one that preferred to peruse the cat litter box for his "treats". When they do that they are looking for something that is not in their diet - and they're also just plain weird! There are pills you can buy to feed to keep him from eating his own, if that is a problem. Otherwise, just keep scolding him when he tries to do it while you are taking your walks. <img src="/images/graemlins/rolling.gif" alt="" />