Well Penny has had a right treat the last two days!! Yesterday we were out walking in one of the smaller green spaces we go to when we don't have much time and Penny was off ahead, suddenly I noticed she was gobbling something down. Luckily she is not the type to eat dead things so I knew it was only food, but nonetheless I rushed over and shooed her off to find the remnants of some sort of tuna and sweet corn pasta in the grass.... No idea what it was doing there.... A spilt picnic perhaps, but it's not the sort of place you would go and sit down to eat something... Very strange. Tonight we are walking in the usual field and off she rushes to the middle and is gobbling something up again! I rush over to hear and there is an entire sliced loaf of bread scattered around in the grass!! She must have gobbled almost half of it by the time I manage to catch hold of her and get her back on lead! Oddly enough this is the THIRD time we've found a loaf of bread in that field, it's really weird! Every now and then we'll be walking round and there's some slices of bread in the grass! It doesn't even look like it's old crusts someone has put out for the birds... It's whole slices of bread, and there's often the bag nearby too! Am I wrong in thinking that bread can be quite bad for dogs? I know raw dough in particular is really bad, but how about bread? Sometimes I give her the small corner of my toast in the mornings, but tonight she's eaten almost half a loaf :-\ last time she had a few slices her poo was a little loose the day after, I'm fully expecting something similar tomorrow. Luckily she doesn't seem to get that affected by random foodstuffs, she generally has quite a good stomach.
Re: Mysterious food.... How odd , although a couple of years ago , we kept coming across food left at Golitha Falls nature reserve , turned out it was someone leaving scraps for wildlife, deer and foxes mainly but Sam was also the devils own for gobbling it quickly . I do worry a little these days with some weird people doing weird things , so I have enforced the LEAVE command , it works most of the time Don't worry too much about the bread , she might have wind but should be okay
Re: Mysterious food.... Oh she gets wind anyway so we can cope with that hahaha! I do worry sometimes that it could be malicious... I was walking along the pavement once and there was a pile of wet dog food in the middle of the path! Luckily as she was on lead I could pull her away before she got more than a sniff. Earlier this year there were some warnings posted on the Facebook group of the dogwalkers group at one of my local parks about reports of someone leaving sausages laced with nails and water bowls tainted with antifreeze around :-\
Re: Mysterious food.... It's bizarre how often you find random food lying about. You're never aware of all the discarded food in the world untill you get a Labrador!!!! Cooked bread wouldn't be a problem. Except from a 'junk food/kilojoules she doesn't need' perspective. I hate it the most when people leave cooked bones around... And one does always have the poisoning thing at the back of the mind....
Re: Mysterious food.... Found a chicken bone in our front garden this morning, which is weird because we don't buy chicken with bones in! It must have been brought there by a fox, or our cat Fergus. Penny went straight for it of course as we headed out for a walk but i managed to stop her from getting it. People treat our front garden like a rubbish bin!
Re: Mysterious food.... Oh the dreaded gobble....been there, done that too many times to count. Simba ate a whole loaf of bread off the counter with no ill effects, so hopefully Penny will be okay. I hate the cooked bones, too. Usually Simba sniffs them out from around a garbage can. Ugh. Leave it doesn't work to well for those. If it's too big to crunch right there he will proudly carry it home and no amount of wafting a treat under his nose will shift it. However I usually find once he gets home and settles down to chew it, if I open the closet where I keep his food and treats he is up in a flash to come see what he might get...
Re: Mysterious food.... Dexter will find bones of unidentified animals in the desert....some of them are big he's a divil for playing keep away though so on that walk he's on a long line but it's left trailing.Thankfully my clicker retreive work throughout the summer brings him charging back to me with the bone in his mouth BUT....he darts around just out of reach .....he hasn't worked out how to judge the distance with the long line on .....yet : so I can reign him in! ;D Angela 1 Dexter 0! Lauren he's chomped down on a chicken carcass he dug up on the beach once....he crunched a fair bit down before we caught him but he was ok....hope Penny is,birds drop bones in the garden sometimes too
Re: Mysterious food.... I remember the chicken episode.... It's just horrible when they find Mystery Food...it inspires an stomach-turning blend of disgust and anguish.
Re: Mysterious food.... No she was fine! No ill effects from the bread thank goodness! She's really funny though, whenever we used to cook oven chips inevitably we would drop one when scooping them off the oven tray onto the plate and Penny would be in there like a shot! She only has to hear the spatula on the oven tray and she looks on the floor! Recently though she's just stopped going for them. If we drop any food on the floor now she just stares at it until we say she can have it or pick it up. So strange because we haven't taught that, she just learned it on her own!!
Re: Mysterious food.... They are funniostiies aren't they? When I open up the 'kong conveyor belt' on Saturday eve for the weeks kong productions .....Dexter sits on his bed waiting for something to drop....when it does he comes and inhales it up ...he then returns to his bed and stares at the spot where the drop occured as if something else is going to magically appear there again! Penny is really clever teaching herself such lovely manners,glad she wasn't ill after the bones x
Re: Mysterious food.... For us there are two things guaranteed to being Simba running from any corner of the house: the sound of the knife being sharpened as Mark gets ready to carve some roast or another, and the sound of the popcorn hitting the pan (we cook it on the stove)....
Re: Mysterious food.... Some of the London streets we have to walk on are really, really terrible for discarded food. The street between my house and the vet's is particularly bad. Several take away restaurants...I think there is so much food there that Charlie has actually got quite fussy. He'll go for the chip shop (he once got a fresh chip) and the butcher's (once got an unidentifiable bit of raw meat) but turns his nose up at the rest. Very thankfully... Added: to avoid the risk this sounded smug - I'll just add that heaven and earth won't stop him sticking his nose deep inside a whole, rotten seagull though...
Re: Mysterious food.... What is it with rotting seagulls? (And stinking fish too in Molly's case.) Molly is a fussy eater - I've never had a dog like it - quite embarrassing when she turned her nose up at the treat she was offered by the assistant at Pets at Home - but just a whiff of rotted flesh on the beach and she's off.
