Crazy Things Animals Eat (With x-rays) From Vets!

[HenryisBlaisin]

I had one dog eat (and promptly barf) a whole 12-ounce Coke can. HOW it didn’t slice him to ribbons on the way down or back up is a complete mystery, since he chewed it first. He never ate another aluminum can, but he was an incorrigible tin can chewer (though he never tried to swallow any) and would steal one at any opportunity.

Also had another one swallow a whole knee sock, which resulted in the hugest pile of (blue wool!) dog barf I’ve ever seen. We also caught the same dog (Beagle) just in time as he started in on a pair of panty hose. He loved socks…

[RacetrackReject]

I had a Siberian Husky eat a needle. The x-rays are on file at my vet’s office, but I should definitely see if I can at least bring home a copy…lol.

I was sewing up a horse blanket and someone let the dog inside, so I stuck the needle into the blanket and played with the dog a bit. After doggie was put back outside, I went to finish sewing and the needle was gone. I took the Husky immediately to the vet and yep, there was the needle.

[Foxtrot_s]

Just today with my dog at the vet’s - showed a photo of a lab that had eaten a box of staples - they fed it with cotton balls to collect them up and then did surgery. Labs are such garbage guts. We were joking, partly seriously, to feed the lab a magnet, like they do cows.

[Auventera_Two]

Wow all these stories and photos are crazy!

Last week we came home to find that one of the dogs had eaten about half the wall board on the back porch, and then vomitted it all back up. There was shredded, puked up wall board everywhere. It took my husband and I an hour to clean it all up. We also found a bunch of horse hooves and grass.

That dog will eat ANYTHING that doesn’t eat him first. He eats those butterfly hair clips like candy. I have to be so careful not to leave a hair clip anywhere. He likes it that they crunch I guess. That dog is constantly finding something to pick up and eat.

My SIL’s black Lab ate an entire large stuffed animal and when she got home from work, she said there was fluffy poop everywhere.

[monstrpony]

Oh, dear. I think I’d be afraid to xray my 15 month old lab/boxer-or-GD pup. We already know he eats rocks, as we found out when he was neutered and pooped a bunch out while in the clinic. Has also barfed some up. He’s also fond of chewing anything plastic (gutter downspout diverters, plastic garbage can lids, the handle off his jolly ball, etc.). Also took all of the insulation (styrofoam and batting) out of the ceiling of the “dog cave” under the house.

Just yikes.

[irkenequine]

Last night in the dark i was crawling into bed and put my shoulder in barf–it was a whole Squeaker from a dog toy. When I was done cursing and whining that I had to change my dang-sheets and how come these daggone-darn worthless pups couldnt eat edible things, I thought of this board

[Simkie]

While not dangerous on the level of others on this thread, my dogs got into one of those 20 lb bags of rice once. I had a couple of inches of rice ALLLLLL over my kitchen floor (it was like a sandbox!), and the dogs had eaten a bunch–it came out of both ends for a couple days and was seriously NOT FUN.

When I was a kid, one of the dogs SHREDDED a king size down pillow. She sure had fun, and there was about a foot of down all over EVERYTHING. I cleaned it up, and thought I’d done a really good job…until my mom came home and opened the closet. It was full of down that had blown in from under the door. Busted!!!

[amastrike]

Some of these things amaze me…

My mom’s old Golden ate everything. EVERYTHING. And being a nursing home dog, he had some unique opportunities (ie, used colostomy bags). :dead: He loved eating my mom’s knee-high stockings. I’d pick dog poop up out of the yard a couple times a year, usually ended up with a good half dozen pairs every time.

My Lab has a sensitive stomach, anything odd results in vomiting and/or diarrhea. So one evening he starts puking… and puking… and puking. Figure he just ate something and will get over. Continues puking into the next day. When I got home from school I took him into the yard to potty and he puked again. This time I saw what was happening–he got something partway out, it got stuck, and he swallowed it back down only to throw up again. Next time I grabbed it, absolutely terrified he was throwing up his own intestines or something, and pulled and pulled and pulled. Entire pair of pantyhose, one leg at a time. Terrible.

He also likes to eat money. If I leave my purse unzipped within reach he’ll sneak into it and take whatever he can get. Ate $40 one night :(.

[PiaffePlease]

[QUOTE=CarolinaGirl;5869740]
So… don’t let your dogs lick spoons.[/QUOTE]

yeah, I think thats what alot of us are taking away from this. That and dogs arent the brightest. Nine handballs?!? My dog tries to play with golf balls if he finds them, but I take them away because they are the perfect size for him to swallow.

[Mara]

[QUOTE=amastrike;5877527]

He also likes to eat money. If I leave my purse unzipped within reach he’ll sneak into it and take whatever he can get. Ate $40 one night :(.[/QUOTE]

My cocker spaniel ate my paycheck once. In fairness to him, I had it in a coat pocket that often held treats, so I’m sure it smelled yummy.

[AliCat518]

Ugh…i’ve found my thongs in piles of poop while mowing the yard. Our dog apparently used to eat them (whole) and just poop them right out.

He ended up dying right after surgery to remove a whole corn cob from his intestines.

[Tap2Tango]

[QUOTE=Simkie;5875093]
While not dangerous on the level of others on this thread, my dogs got into one of those 20 lb bags of rice once. I had a couple of inches of rice ALLLLLL over my kitchen floor (it was like a sandbox!), and the dogs had eaten a bunch–it came out of both ends for a couple days and was seriously NOT FUN.

When I was a kid, one of the dogs SHREDDED a king size down pillow. She sure had fun, and there was about a foot of down all over EVERYTHING. I cleaned it up, and thought I’d done a really good job…until my mom came home and opened the closet. It was full of down that had blown in from under the door. Busted!!![/QUOTE]

If you think rice is bad, try a big bag of flour!!! The Samoyed my family had when I was a kid ate a bag of flour once. I have never seen an animal crap so much in my entire life! Imagine a beautiful, fluffy white dog covered in explosive diarrhea!!

[Auventera_Two]

The bags of rice flower remind me of our Blue and Gold McCaw. Came home one day and he had opened a 25 pound bag of sunflower seeds and had left a pile of sunflower seed shells, piled up perfectly neat in a big pyramid shape. :lol: He was back on his cage looking totally innocent.

The African Grey had surgery to remove a large sliver of wood from his crop. It punctured all the way through and was sticking out his chest. He was freaking out trying to pull it out. So mom and I rushed him in for emergency late at night. Trust me, a ticked off parrot with a spear sticking out his chest is not something you want to be in the car with. And my mother wasn’t too happy either. He was about 1 year old and she’d paid over 2K for him in the egg. He grew one red feather in the center of his chest where the surgery was. It’s like a horse growing white hair on the scar. 20 years later, he still grows that one single red feather.

Over the years that bird has eaten so many christmas presents it’s not funny. He is way more destructive than 10 dogs combined. He shreds the toilet paper, rips out the carpet pile, eats magazines, curtains, couch cushions, socks, ink pens. If you let him out of your sight for a minute, he’s shredding something. Thankfully only the one surgery though! In theory the bird should live to be 80 so that means I’ll end up with him when he’s old and senile and crabby. Perfect. Ugh

[Mara]

[QUOTE=Tap2Tango;5879630]
If you think rice is bad, try a big bag of flour!!! The Samoyed my family had when I was a kid ate a bag of flour once. I have never seen an animal crap so much in my entire life! Imagine a beautiful, fluffy white dog covered in explosive diarrhea!![/QUOTE]

When I take the dogs in the car with me on any trip involving a grocery stop, I’m always very careful to put obvious temptations in the trunk.

I did not think flour would be appealing.

I was wrong. I made one stop between market/home; in the 5-10 minutes I was out of the car, Lance opened a 5 lb. bag of flour and got it all over the car.

My boss’ Lab once ate several pounds of Ghirardelli Dark chocolate, individually wrapped in Mylar. That necessitated a trip to the emergency vet on Christmas night. She said the x-rays of his intestines showed wrappers, wrappers, gas, wrappers, wrappers, gas. . . There was another Lab there at the same time who’d eaten a Christmas ornament, and a German Shepherd with a bone lodged sideways in his rectum.

[Holly_Jeanne]

my neighbors plus

My neighbors’ Rotty ate a string of their outside Christmas lights one year (yes plugged in). She lived to tell about that but, sometime later she came home with a bag of cocaine (owner was a retired police officer and knew what he was seeing). A week later, she disappeared never to be seen again.

Vet was about to do exploratory surgery on my cat after almost a week in the vet hospital with no diagnosis. I kept telling him he had swallowed the rubber tip of a pacifier but they couldn’t find it on x-rays. He finally threw it up.

Stray Aussie we took in ate the carpet on the stairs, even after she had been well fed and caught up on weight. We finally found a farm home for her.

I bought a house that has a “sun porch.” Shortly after I got two puppies, I renamed it my “doggie wrecked room.”

[Renn_aissance]

I have a new line. “Dumb as a duck.” Holy cow, eating one nail is something, eating two nails is stupid…

Totally unsurprised that a Golden Retriever was on the list.

[Belleaphant]

I’ll never forget the night I worked at a vets and we got this emergency call. Someone’s dog at a box of tampons (tampon,applicator,plastic…everything). They brought him in as soon asap, just as his stomach was about to burst (literally). I was betting it was a lab…but nope…a shepherd. Silly puppy, those things expand! (ps they were super absorbancy…eek!)

[PaintPony]

When I was 5 I knocked out my 2 front teeth. To keep my teeth from growing together I had to wear a retainer/spacer.

The retainer had 2 porcelin teeth on it. And it had to be taken out in order for me to eat.

I’m sure you see where this is going…

I was at a b-day party and took it out to eat cake. Next thing I knew my friend’s cocker spaniel had eaten the fake teeth right off the retainer.

Not the whole retainer - just the porcelin teeth! :eek:

And being a 5 year old I was VERY upset about it. (I think my parents were upset too - I’m guessing those fake teeth were expensive).