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my sausage dog use to do this, check it out i found that her breed have an enzyme difficiency thats why they do it.
our dog sam pyrenessex collie used to raid the freezer i came home once to find a loaf of bread (frozen)open few slices missing,tub of margarine open the remains of two blocks of cheese(large)one was edam he ate the whole thing including the wax and packaging, half eaten pack of frozen sausages.
and who says dogs arent clever he obviously fancied a cheese and sausage sandwich ! <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

my bulldog used to gnaw on bricks and carry them around as if they were bones <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

The weirdest thing that my dog has eaten to this point is the empty hulls of sunflowers. Now I have to put them in a baggie and throw them away in the kitch basket so she doesn't dig them out. She is a real sneaky dog. I caught her on our kitchen table one day sun bathing when I came home from work. Last Halloween we gave out baggies of candy and a week later I was cleaning under our bed and found an empty reese's wrapper, jack in the box taco wrapper and other various things that she has stolen and put in her hide out. I love her to death though, she is about 18lbs and is a Chi/Dat mix.

Several years ago one of my roommates was keeping her boyfriend's dog at our house - a Chesapeake/Golden Lab mix. She ate a candle, a can of turpentine (and was FINE) and about a third of our couch. After the couch incident, the dog was returned to the boyfriend's house....where she proceeded to eat the bumper off his roommate's car.

I went to get the mixed nuts off the counter and have a few. There was a tiny puncture in the top and the inside was all wet. It seems our lovely smart dog figured out how to open the lid, eat her fill, then close the lid. We've caught her doing the same thing with storebought cakes (removing the lid just enough then munching down a cut side so it didn't look like doggie bites). We were outside gardening and happened to catch her through the window!

The cat, on the other hand, swallowed a long length of ribbon. It did not come out all at once and the vet advised us NOT to pull it. Needless to say she was in the carrier until all of the ribbon made it's way out.

ExoticPetsEditor, judging by your picture, you may be familiar with this problem....I have very long hair and I shed. There were a few instances where my dog inadvertently ate strands of my hair, and being that individual strands of hair are quite thin, they can be difficult to expel....I imagine it was a similar scene as the ribbon... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

My miniature poodle loves cucumbers and will steel them right out of your hands! As soon as he smells them, he dashes to wherever they are and waits for a treat.

We have seven dogs, and our shih tzu cleans up all the other dogs' poop in our yard. We've lived here 5 years and have NEVER had to clean up anything out there...

One of our dogs also eats the nuts that fall out of our trees, shells and all...

just a quick note from a newbie who wears "dog trainer" and "breeder" as some of my hats--- GRAPES ARE NOT GOOD FOR DOGS. a few occasionally maybe, but lots are a bad idea. some dogs might be okay but too many can be deadly!

wow, guys - really wild!

(and I thought my Bichon Frise was a 'fringe dweller' for loving little pieces of cantaloupe melon and seeded cucumber bites!)


Although, I DID have a Yorkie 15 yrs, that for some odd and unknowable reason, his reason for LIVING actually, was empty toilet paper rolls .

He was SUCH a little hamster! - he never ingested them, but HAD to chew them up into tiny little pieces. He would unfurl a LARGE roll of toilet paper to get to the roll.

I left him with some lovely dog-sitting friends one weekend that I had to travel out of town on business- I forgot to mention the "rodent" issues of my dog and they forgot to close their powder room door.
Things apparently got very very quiet in their house....and when they realized it was " too quiet"...went into the front hallway to find a tiny Yorkie in the middle of a very large nest of billowing TP...an entire roll 'just for HIM.....happily chewing the cardboard tube to confetti!

In his mind it was better to chew than to fade away...lol!
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I had a Malamute who LOVED raw brocoli and when left in my mother-in-love's garage for a day managed to some how eat a pair of men's extra large leather work gloves. We did not know this until 2 weeks later when he began regurgitating in our kitchen and we thought he was seizing and was going to die. This long slimy cylindrical green thing came out and after closer inspection by the DH we figured out what it was. It took us awhile to figure out where he must have found them.

A friend of our's had a Husky around the same time that ended up at the vet with a bowel obstruction and having surgery that cost quite abit of money to save the poor dog. Imagine my friend's express embarrassment when the vet notified her upon picking up her dog that he had managed to eat a used contraceptive sponge and in the process it had swollen in his digestive tract to obstruct it.