Three times Tatze has eaten things which are not food. Once, at doggy day care, she pinched her harness off the side and ate it (the whole thing except the plastic clips, including the metal bits). Her dog-sitter said she had chewed it up, I didn't realise she had eaten it 'till it came out of the other end in pieces. The second time was when my niece's twins (10 months) came to visit and I popped her in the crate when it was time to feed them. She was quiet, as she always is in her crate. I forgot she had her harness on and, once again, she ate it, all except the pastic clips. An anxious wait ensued and, after three days, she was sick and threw it up - I had a yukky jigsaw puzzle to do to check it was all there! Yesterday I put her in the car crate with lead on - not thinking. Yep, she ate it, leaving just the metal clip. Now another anxious wait : ??? :-\ Has your dog eaten any non-food items? My niece's Springer does it a lot, but I know it can be a real danger :-\
Re: Eating things which are not food Oh no, not again! Fingers crossed the lead reappears in the same way the harnesses did. Is Tatze feeling OK? I've no experience of non-food items being eaten - Molly specialises in decaying creatures.
Re: Eating things which are not food Oh no! Worrying times. I suppose though, less worrying if you know other things have made it out the other end ok though? Charlie is a big chewer, but doesn't seem to actually eat much of what he chews. With the exception of wood. He will eat sticks. Less so these days, he does seem to be growing out of it.
Re: Eating things which are not food Tatze, I think you have an excessive fondness for dog walking equipment.... My previous dog ate many, many things that were not food. Plastic bags, stockings, plastic containers, part of the vacuum cleaner, toothpicks....and stuff I have forgotten. He had a serious obstruction once at the age of 12 when he ate the stalk off a watermelon.
Re: Eating things which are not food Oh you tinker Tatze ;D ;D My last Lab girl Tess was a demon for tea towels , oven gloves, basically anything that smelled of food , she was also very partial to socks . I came into the sitting room one morning , she had a piece of a £10 note sticking out of her mouth , she gave it to me and I found the rest in bits in her bed, but some missing, presumed eaten . Our bank couldnt exchange due to missing bits but gave us a form for the Bank of England . I filled in the form to add to the bits of bank note, one question was : Please explain what has happened , my reply was " My Labrador ate this " Next question was : If parts of the note are missing, explain what has happened to them , my reply was " Inside above named Labrador " . They sent me a lovely crisp £10 note by return , with a note that simply said : Keep this note away from Tess please ;D
Re: Eating things which are not food That's a lovely story Kate. Rachael? A watermelon stalk? Seems like an unlikely culprit for causing an obstruction. I guess its more stick like than vegetable like, but all the same
Re: Eating things which are not food Yeah, it was at his 12 birthday party. He ate a bit of watermelon rind that still had the stalk on it.... He had also eaten sausage rolls, chips, cake, fairy bread, cheese twisties and party pies. On his chart at the vet's (where he spent a week on a drip, oral paraffin and drugs to get his bowels moving) it said "Owners have fed dog sausage rolls, chips, cake, fairy bread, cheese twisties and party pies". Implied was "and therefore are not qualified to own any living animal".
Re: Eating things which are not food The good news is that he was ok and lived on happily for two more years. But he never was allowed near another watermelon!! The problem was that he was old and his digestive system was not up to the task of moving on a fibrous mass. Gave us a horrible scare.
Re: Eating things which are not food Oh this thread has had me laughing and I'm so sorry because it's not funny at all and I hope the complete leads appears very soon and Tatze is ok x It was Rachael and Kate's stories that made me laugh x
Re: Eating things which are not food Good, I meant it to be funny ;D (though it was of course very much the opposite at the time!).
Re: Eating things which are not food [quote author=drjs@5 link=topic=6076.msg79359#msg79359 date=1400518214] Oh Gosh! I bet the vet made you feel a wee smidge guilty?? [/quote] No - he was lovely. I phoned in a panic and he said 'it's a case of wait and see, keep an eye on both ends for it coming out and keep a close eye on Tatze for lethargy etc'. So, we wait. Last time it was 24 hours, then she threw up the whole thing. The time before that it 'came through' over the course of a couple of weeks!
Re: Eating things which are not food Oh Mags, poor you! She certainly keeps you on your toes. One of my previous labs ate both front safety belts in our land rover, he also destroyed the bit that the belt clips into, and swallowed most of the webbing. Just two stumps were left sticking out of the floor. We had left him for twenty minutes, and he had never touched anything in the vehicle previously. He was absolutely fine, but our bank balance wasn't. No vets bill, just the cost of new safety belts! That was the day we started crating our dogs in vehicles.
Re: Eating things which are not food Still no sign of the lead, she has eaten, pood, drank, walked and played as normal so I shall continue to worry and wait. Lat night I kept imagining she was barking, and rushing down to a fast-asleep dog : The thing is - when she ate the first harness (and I didn't know she had done) it took all week for half to come 'up' and the other half to come 'out' - all was in pieces :-\ The second time all came 'up' and it was only in a few, longer, bits. I just hope it was small bits this time :-\
Re: Eating things which are not food Fingers crossed! I'm sure it will be fine. We've had harnesses and a seat belts too - definitely not a cheap chew
Re: Eating things which are not food The lead is still inside her :-\ She continues to eat, poo, wee, sleep and play completely normally. She had her usual hoolie round the res with best friend Zaba for an hour this morning, back to my house for us Mums to natter and drink coffee and for the dogs to roll around playing bitey face. I have been putting extra salmon oil on her food - her poos are firm and pick-upable, as always. Come on lead - get OUT!!!
Re: Eating things which are not food Little monkey. Glad no troubles so far. Hope it makes an appearance soon. :-\
