Great video! This thread makes me feel feel better (in a crazy way), because I'm not alone. We have Lily, a golden retriever, who just turned one. Her most recent snack was my piano bench. Tiger, an 11-year-old sheltie, is lucky to still be kicking. A few years ago, he got into the kitchen cupboard and ate two full bags of chocolate chips. I have never before witnessed what happened in our house that night and I hope I never see anything like it again. Now we keep baking supplies in a sealed tupperware container, so far so good...

Suzy Creamcheese wrote:How about generic Tylenol? Just FYI: if your dog does this, it is a guaranteed $1k layout to make sure he doesn't drop dead. After our dumb dog did this one evening, my husband said, look, I love our dog and all, but if he does this again, we're going to give him a kiss on the head and say, it's been great. See you on the other side, buddy.

Loki, to celebrate his 9th birthday, ate 20-40 200mg tablets of ibuprofen that he stole from my wife's purse, which he stole from the middle of the dining room table.

It shredded his insides, but luckily he escaped kidney/liver damage, and he's feeling quite a bit better now.

Sorry to hear but I sympathize. About 3 months ago, Boudreau ate 20 out of the 30 "calming" tablets I had purchased to help him with carsickness. I had given him a dose to try them out and see if they worked because I was having people over and he can be a bit rambunctious. About a half hour before people were due to arrive I saw him coming out of my room with something in his mouth. Chased him around the house til I could grab the bottle which he was still carrying and saw that the top was off. Panic set in b/c i saw that most of the pills were gone. He was certainly showing no signs of slowing down!! So much for "calming." I followed the Animal Poison Control directions and got him to "relinquish" the contents of the bottle and all was well. Pretty scary though!! And he didn't even catch a buzz as far as I could tell

New show on the National Geographic Wild channel:

My Dog Ate WHAT?

gleam wrote:New show on the National Geographic Wild channel:

My Dog Ate WHAT?

I assume your royalty check is in the mail.

Kitty has a penchant for leavy greens: carrot tops, celery leaves, kale...

eatchicago wrote:

gleam wrote:New show on the National Geographic Wild channel:

My Dog Ate WHAT?

I assume your royalty check is in the mail.

I sure hope so.. maybe it will cover some of these vet bills.

That would be an interesting way to generate content--have people submit stories of their pets' escapades and reward those selected with GC's for the vet of their choice

Appropriately, right after this the cheerios were thrown one by one to the subject in question:



<crunch, crunch, crunch, pant pant wag, crunch, crunch, crunch...>

I'm very pleased to report that Sir Hiss enjoys freshly cooked bacon. That's my boy.

Loki put a pretty huge dent in a can of wet cat food last night, but managed to not puncture it. Word is that he did try to eat several candles a week or two ago. Not sure if he was successful there.

gleam wrote:Loki put a pretty huge dent in a can of wet cat food last night...

Hey, my kitty used to do this too, in his younger days.
I have to keep shoving him out of the fridge because for the last few days I've had corn, romaine and a pineapple in there, and it's like kitty heaven. I think cornsilk is the new catnip.

Tomatoes. $4.50 per pound organic heirloom tomatoes.
3 of them. Vanished.

leek wrote:Tomatoes. $4.50 per pound organic heirloom tomatoes.
3 of them. Vanished.

Well, that's not exactly dumb of your dogs, actually . . .

aschie30 wrote:

leek wrote:Tomatoes. $4.50 per pound organic heirloom tomatoes.
3 of them. Vanished.

Well, that's not exactly dumb of your dogs, actually . . .

Seriously, they seem to know exactly what they're doing.

Check your sea salt container, see if it has tooth marks on the lid.

Jupiter ate a rubber exercise band. This one puzzles me - it is not food, was never food, did not contain food, was never in the same room with food. If he's branching out like this I don't know what we'll do.

leek wrote:Tomatoes. $4.50 per pound organic heirloom tomatoes.
3 of them. Vanished.

My dogs successfully ate every tomato in my yard last year and even poached some of my neighbors tomatoes through the fence. This year I have planted the tomatoes in containers and put them on the railing of my deck. They now have learned to climb on the bench around the deck and eat all the tomatoes. I am destined never to have "homegrowntomatoes." It makes them so happy-they run around with the green ones in their mouth in big circles around the yard.

A whole package of sun-dried tomatoes. He's very thirsty.

-Dan

dansch wrote:A whole package of sun-dried tomatoes. He's very thirsty.

-Dan

I can tell you now, you're gonna have a fun time picking up after him in a day or two.

Kitty likes my Relaxing Tea and tried to gnaw right through the dried-up bag. Turns out it not only includes catnip but peppermint too.

He also has a taste for fennel fronds, apparently. I read online that they have incredible laxative properties. With fronds like that you don't need enemas.

Pie Lady wrote:With fronds like that you don't need enemas.

http://instantrimshot.com/index.php?sound=rimshot

Here all week, folks!

My passport.

Oh Ann!

@Suzy Creamcheese ... I have a greyhound too!

This morning, I made some hard-boiled eggs. I filled the kitchen sink with water and dropped them in to cool. Walked into the living room for two seconds and heard the "click click click" of claws trotting on hardwood, followed by a clatter and a splash. Junebug, my greyhound, had jumped up and grabbed an egg out of the sink. She then slinked into the bedroom and "guarded" the egg in her bed until she knew I was no longer mad at her ... then, of course, she ate it ...

But the most !@#$%&-ed up thing she ever ate? A live bird ... It was about 6:30 in the morning, and I was taking her for a walk before I headed to work. I didn't notice that a robin had landed on the grass in front of us ... But Junebug did! She lunged forward, and with a quick, sickening "crunch" had the bird in her mouth. I screamed a couple times, but she just gobbled it down, oblivious to my horror.

The rescue agency warned us that you're not supposed to run a greyhound right after it's eaten ... But I made her run home that day, because that was the only way I could get home fast enough before I projectile vomited. Afterwards, my boyfriend calmly sat with her and picked the feathers out of her teeth. When I was finished getting sick, he told me, "Sweetie, chill out, she's a dog."

I called in to work that day ...

Romi got into my baking supplies. One box Matzoh meal (I didn't know I had it, must be VERY old) and lots of different colored "decors" on two separate days. Matzoh day was also Christmas decor day, and the next time he got Birthday, 4th of July and a touch of Easter. His paws (and excrement) were very unusual colors for several days after that. And of course, there was the middle of the night follow up when the dietary indiscretion made its way out of the dog in a mostly liquid and quite fragrant fashion. DH spent a good bit of time yesterday and today putting more child locks on our cabinets.

Georgia Eats $10,000 Worth of Diamonds at Jewelry Store

I think every home cook should have a dog. It doesn't matter how badly I screw up, my dog always thinks I'm the greatest chef in the universe.

Independent George wrote:
I think every home cook should have a dog. It doesn't matter how badly I screw up, my dog always thinks I'm the greatest chef in the universe.

I got into cooking for Pebbles (my lovely sheltie) some time ago and took the whole thing very seriously. I even got some recipes made for her, used top quality grass fed meats and the best fish we could get, put all the sort of vitamins and minerals in and spent as much time in the kitchen for her as I did for our meal. The result? She smelled it, looked at me puzzled and decided not to eat it. I tried several times, with different ingredients, and she still would not eat it. My cooking, she looks suspicious, but as soon as kitty gets out of the litter box she runs there. I had to accept the fact that my dog prefers cat poop to the food I make for her and move on with life!!

Sent to me this morning by Ed Cilley, video guy:

theskinnyduck wrote:I got into cooking for Pebbles (my lovely sheltie) some time ago and took the whole thing very seriously.

A fellow tribe member:

Who made a dog's dinner of cooking supper for one's corgis? Queen's shock as beloved dogs are fed reheated meals instead of freshly cooked

As far as the Queen is concerned, nothing but the best will do for her beloved corgis.

Indeed, staff often joke that her pampered pets eat better than the human members of the Royal Family.

And last week According to sources, the Queen, who is on holiday at Balmoral, was furious when she made the discovery while dishing up her pets’ supper one evening.

So fond is the Queen of her dogs that she insists on serving their supposedly chef-prepared dinners herself.

But on this occasion it became apparent that the meal had been frozen as it had not properly thawed in the middle.