Oh my gosh! Silly dog!

We had friends that spent $1800 to have a corn cob removed from their dogs stomach.

I'm glad we haven't had this happen with Jupiter. Yet. Fingers crossed!

I know what to do_sometimes wrote:

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Sonny can't have any soft toys, especially the squeaky ones. He will work relentlessly to get the squeak. Many a morning I have spent pulling remnants of chew toys out of his butt.

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 Exactly!

Our oldest Dachshund had so much fun with them...the living room floor looked like it was covered with snow. But I realized that, one of these times, I would not find the squeaker before he swallowed it & I stopped buying them.

We have found ONE type of hard rubber bone that is fairly safe.

flan

Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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We had a dog that LURVED dryer sheets! He would inhale those like cotton candy! And, he ate rocks from time to time too, lol.

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Dryer sheets, huh?

Did they make his breath April fresh??

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Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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We had a dog that LURVED dryer sheets! He would inhale those like cotton candy! And, he ate rocks from time to time too, lol.

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Dryer sheets, huh?

Did they make his breath April fresh??

 

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 Or maybe something else smelled like fresh linen?  

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I'll bet that dogs poo was static free!!!!!!!!!! 

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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When Layla was little she ate one of DN's $200 boots. DN cried.

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I remember that, NJN.

Silly doggy!

I bet DN remembered to keep her closet door shut, after that happened. 

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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She does. Layla pooped blood for awhile after that. They told us the tanning chemicals in the leather is what makes them poop blood. Sheesh, that dog has eaten more stuff. She's eaten three dog crates. Yes, the whole crate. She's eaten window screens, a Bose surround sound speaker, and numerous other things. We have found that if we leave the back door open for her to go in and out she is fine. The first thing we are going to install when we buy our own house is a doggie door.

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If I remember correctly, most dogs out grow the chewing stage once they hit around 2 years old.

She's got to be getting close to that, right?

Now that I think back on it, when Jupiter was younger, she nibbled some drywall in the family room.

And chewed a couple of corners off the coffee table, in the family room.

But, now that she's older, she hasn't done anything like that. I think she's out of that phase. 

Sam is three. He ate a pillow last week..well....he tore the stuffing out of it.

Bad doggy. 

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just Czech wrote:

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Sam is three. He ate a pillow last week..well....he tore the stuffing out of it.

Bad doggy. 

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Naughty Sam!!!

But, he's so darn cute! 

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He may be cute, but he's a little stinker.

Yet, the cat can keep him in a corner for an hour.. 

Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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just Czech wrote:

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Sam is three. He ate a pillow last week..well....he tore the stuffing out of it.

Bad doggy. 

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Naughty Sam!!!

But, he's so darn cute! 

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He may be cute, but he's a little stinker.

Yet, the cat can keep him in a corner for an hour.. 

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LOL!

Silver-1

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LOL! Daily too!

Poor Sam, he came over to me whimpering a few minutes ago, Silver scored again. 

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Every one of our dogs eat all the fluff out of stuff too. We stopped giving them those toys.

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Yes, not to be a downer.

But my sister's dog ate fluff out of her comforter.

Three surgeries, costing over $7000...didn't save poor Frank.

It's a sad way, to lose a dog.

(As much as we laugh at some of the dumb stuff our dogs do/eat...we really need to be careful of what they can get in to.)

I'd hate for any of our dogs to suffer such a sad fate. 

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Yep. Hemi would tear them up and leave the fluff all over. He never ate it. He just shredded it. But once we got the pups they would shred and eat. So we just quit getting them. Now we just buy dog approved toys. Tennis balls, Kong balls, and the hard plastic chew bones.

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Better safe than sorry, NJN.

Jupiter unstuffed a couple of pillows, back in the day. But she didn't eat the fluff either. It just made a mess.

And thankfully, she hasn't done that in quite a while. 

Kong makes great dog toys. Expensive, but worth it.

We get Nylabones for Jupiter, and they last for a while, too.

She won't chase a ball. Lazy doggy!

But, she loves a good game of tug of war, with a rope. 

I can't play it with her. She can pull me right off my feet.

weltschmerz wrote:

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Now, my BFF's dog, Karma, a lab-pit mix is really smart.
She figured out how to open the fridge and ate an entire Thanksgiving turkey. Talk about sick!
Another time, she opened the fridge, took out a dozen eggs, very gently, and put them in a circle around her doggie bed. Didn't break a single one.
I wonder what the thought process behind that one was.

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 A snack for later?

Maybe she wanted to make eggnog!

Who knows what goes through their doggy minds!

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Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Yep. Hemi would tear them up and leave the fluff all over. He never ate it. He just shredded it. But once we got the pups they would shred and eat. So we just quit getting them. Now we just buy dog approved toys. Tennis balls, Kong balls, and the hard plastic chew bones.

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Better safe than sorry, NJN.

Jupiter unstuffed a couple of pillows, back in the day. But she didn't eat the fluff either. It just made a mess.

And thankfully, she hasn't done that in quite a while. 

Kong makes great dog toys. Expensive, but worth it.

We get Nylabones for Jupiter, and they last for a while, too.

She won't chase a ball. Lazy doggy!

But, she loves a good game of tug of war, with a rope. 

I can't play it with her. She can pull me right off my feet.

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 DH won't let us play tug of war with the pups.  He says it teaches them it's a game and it's fun.  He says then what can happen is they can see a child's scarf or something whip by and they grab onto it mistakenly thinking it's a game.  That's when kids get hurt.  Not sure if that's a true theory or not but it does kind of make sense so we don't do it.

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I think he's overly cautious, NJN. Not that it couldn't happen.

But, I've never heard of anything like that happening.

Jupiter will bring Wayne the rope. And lay it on his lap.

That's her way of asking to play. (They only play tug in the backyard. Never inside the house.)

If she brings it to me, I just say, "No thank you." And she doesn't press the issue. She'll wait for Dad to get home.

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Isaiah (RIP) once stole my jalapeno mac and cheese. That was the very last time he ever stole my food.

Worse than him though was a cat (Oscar) and a rat (Ben) I had in high school. They would work together to steal food. Ben would steal food right out of your mouth and take it to Oscar then they'd share it. Once, Ben snatched a fried chicken breast off my mom's plate and took off. Him and Oscar huddled up in a corner and shared it. Oscar would hiss at anyone who came close to try to grab it back.

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LOL! That mac and cheese burned him twice, no doubt!

Ben and Oscar sound like they were a dynamic duo!

Or, should that be, demonic?! 

How funny!

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Aksel hasn't eaten anything he wasn't supposed to and hasn't chewed anything up that he wasn't supposed to. The one exception is doggie beds. He thinks they are just a big fluffy toy and he destroys them instead of sleeping in them. We gave him some blankets of his own instead - he leaves them alone. He isn't even 2 yet. He destroys squeaky toys in seconds. He is a rat terrier so it's a breed trait to seek and destroy. Lol. He won't rest until he pulls all the stuffing out.

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 Once, when we first got Layla, I left her in the living room on her bed.  The bed was tan.  Our furniture is dark brown.  I woke up the next morning to find dark brown fluff strewn from one end of my house to the other.  I immediately thought my furniture was gone.  Turns out the stuff from the dog bed was also dark brown.

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Mellow Momma wrote:

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Aksel hasn't eaten anything he wasn't supposed to and hasn't chewed anything up that he wasn't supposed to. The one exception is doggie beds. He thinks they are just a big fluffy toy and he destroys them instead of sleeping in them. We gave him some blankets of his own instead - he leaves them alone. He isn't even 2 yet. He destroys squeaky toys in seconds. He is a rat terrier so it's a breed trait to seek and destroy. Lol. He won't rest until he pulls all the stuffing out.

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 Once, when we first got Layla, I left her in the living room on her bed.  The bed was tan.  Our furniture is dark brown.  I woke up the next morning to find dark brown fluff strewn from one end of my house to the other.  I immediately thought my furniture was gone.  Turns out the stuff from the dog bed was also dark brown.

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 Hahaha!!! I would have freaked out!!! 

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 Oh, I did.  Seriously did.  For a minute.  Or at least until I realized my furniture was okay.

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Layla chewed through the blinds. When we first got her she chewed through EVERYTHING. Now we've adjusted. Locking her out of our bedroom at night made her go nuts. We have to let her sleep on our bed or she freaks. Her only bad habit now is when she gets really excited she pees. If DH and I have been gone awhile she will pee when we get home. And every time DN comes over she does it too.

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 That seems a little odd, NJN. Have you asked the Vet about it?

I thought that was something that puppies did.

Or, little, high strung dogs.

I didn't think bigger dogs, did that.

Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Um, this is Layla. She is the very definition of high strung. She doesn't like to be let alone. She will not stay in a crate. She cannot stand to be out of our sight. She's a good dog. Don't get me wrong here. But yes, she is very high strung.

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Oh, roger that.

I get her, and Carlee confused.

Layla is the black one, and Carlee is the brown one.

Right?

(Fingers crossed.....or, I am very confused.) 

Fort Worth Mom wrote:

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Nobody Just Nobody wrote:

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Layla chewed through the blinds. When we first got her she chewed through EVERYTHING. Now we've adjusted. Locking her out of our bedroom at night made her go nuts. We have to let her sleep on our bed or she freaks. Her only bad habit now is when she gets really excited she pees. If DH and I have been gone awhile she will pee when we get home. And every time DN comes over she does it too.

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 That seems a little odd, NJN. Have you asked the Vet about it?

I thought that was something that puppies did.

Or, little, high strung dogs.

I didn't think bigger dogs, did that.

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I know quite a few dogs who do that. Bigger dogs. My mom's spaniel did that. She was always so happy to see me, that she literally couldn't contain herself.