well the sickness can be due to taking drugs when someone first comes out of prison. it very projectile very explosive and is there is usually a lot in one place the food is well digested but its has a bilely look to it. Apparently its known as "gadge sick" it when some used to prison quality drugs or no drugs for while over indulges in street quality drugs. Its the same with the poop it usually explosive and uncontrolled and will be some where were it looks like someone could not stop themselves. You can often find the under -wear with this kind and they and they don't care were they do it. As rule I don't worry too much about a fresh kickable human poo that has been hidden away in bushes it usually not a problem. Old poo is bad as it had time to fester and grow nasties so they are bad and I really really discourage and watch my dog if she finds anything like that. Fresh explosive poo or sick= bad kickable fresh= not so bad old poo/sick =bad My friend often says that looks like "gadge" keep away. I only have one dog thats interested and shes almost perfect now so i just keep my eyes open
Definitely not! Not all poo is created equally Willow is my little poo muncher. She's quite particular about freshness, and won't deign to sample anything but the newest offerings. She's partial to a bit of sheep or cow, but can just as easily walk on by (these days - not so when she was tiny). She's never been interested in cat, dog or poultry, and (other than one rolling incident that will stay with me forever) has never shown any interest in fox poo, either. But, human poo is the delicacy to end all delicacies.
Thank you everyone for your kind words of sympathy. I am SO HAPPY to say that Snowie is completely back to normal -- a relief! If it were just a regular epileptic fit, then it is alarming that it took so long for him to come round to normal -- 7 hours vs the usual 1-2 hours. Which is why I really do believe it had something to do with the poo, and there were no signs around the house that he'd had a grand mal seizure -- I'd expect to have seen scrape marks on the carpet where his paws would've been paddling away, or frothy goo on the carpet that comes out of his mouth when he's having the seizure. And I didn't hear his donkey moans when he's having the seizure. It just seemed like he'd been poisoned. I was so shaken when I was at the vet that I didn't think to ask her to take blood tests, and she's the kind of vet who waits and sees before doing anything, or she uses her experience to make an assessment and doesn't rely on tests. Snowie had normal poos today so no need for the antibiotic. Thankfully his first poo of the morning expelled the last of the human poo -- TMI? (As an aside, faecal transplants is a treatment used by some gastroenterologists to cure all sorts of diseases in humans!) @SwampDonkey your descriptions are spot on! The poo I see is diarrhea, often like mousse. And the foulest of smells. I wouldn't mind if it were the kickable stuff (okay, I would!), but the diarrhea stuff makes me very worried that the person was doing drugs or methylated spirits or worse, crystal meth (although I don't know if that is ingested; perhaps it is smoked?). On our off-leash walk this morning I didn't let Snowie near the place he disappeared to yesterday for his snack. And somehow I think he knew he was not allowed to go there, was cautious about stepping in that direction, kept turning to me and listening to me tell him he was not allowed to go there (I suppose it might also have had something to do with my very authoritative voice this morning, was taking no chances!).
Well can I be the first person to say that I found this thread marginally therapeutic At least I'm not alone. Since Nelson keeps eating cat poo that he finds around our plot, we've not let him run free at home. Instead we go for an hour around the forest trails, mixing in some retrieves, recalls and heel work. This has gone very well up until today..... I noticed Nelson sniffing around near one tree and suddenly he is there with some white paper in his mouth. I get closer and have to pull a piece of heavily poo-stained kitchen paper out of his throat/mouth. Someone had got caught short in the forest, and to be fair, they had done their best to cover things up with moss and twigs. I now realise that even though we are good mates, Nelson and me are at opposite ends of the poo-appreciation spectrum. He looked sooo happy with that pooey paper in his mouth, eyes wide open, tail wagging, it was probably the highlight of his day. I just hope he doesn't catch anything nasty. We will keep a close eye on him.
Glad Snowy is okay, Mabel will eat human poo given half the chance. I think we had a homeless person living in the woods and it got to the point where by I stopped walking through the top meadow. One day Mabel started gobbling at something in the grass. I reached into her mouth expecting to pull out bread or something like that but ended up with a squiggy mess in my hand. Yes you’ve guessed it human poo. I don’t know how I didn’t vomit. . Luckily I was right next to the brook so I could wash my hands. Disgusting.
Ugh! Claire - that's vile. Sometimes, dogs fail to reach the minimum standard required of a domestic animal!