The Dog Ate My….Rubber Duck?
We already know dogs have been known to eat homework, or so kids say, but what else do they get into.
In the UK PDSA Petaid Hospitals released a list of the ten strangest items that have been removed from dogs that have visited their clinics.
The top ten list in full is:
1. Ten-inch tent peg2. Christmas decoration (star shaped)
3. Kitchen knife
4. Alphabet fridge magnets
5. Man’s wig
6. Ann Summers underwear
7. Bell
8. Fishing hook
9. Socks
10. Rubber duck
PDSA senior veterinary surgeon, Sean Wensley, said: ‘There is a medical term for pets eating strange objects – pica.
Since dogs, especially young dogs, use their mouth to investigate sometimes items get swallowed accidentally. It’s always a good idea to keep an eye on puppies and young dogs so they don’t get into something they shouldn’t. Having plenty of dog toys around is a good way to keep them busy, and safe.
PDSA Petaid Hospitals provide free veterinary care to sick and injured pets of those unable to afford veterinary fees. What a wonderful thing to do, kudos to PDSA.
* The mischievous boy above is Gunner, luckily he spit out the cushions after chewing.
Abby once ate STEEL WOOL! Luckily it passed on it’s own – after a long three days in the vet hospital getting barrium and xrays. That was probably the most expensive steel wool I’ve ever bought!
OMG Koda has eaten or at least tasted a wide variety of things. She has eaten half of an old leather baseball she dug up, squirrels, and she attempted to eat my old friend’s cell phone, toy lightsaber and basicallly ate her 2 dollar bill. And her socks. (We found out not to long after that that Koda has a sock fetish -_-)
Thanks, now I know what else to keep my dog away from!!! At first my dog, Hercules, ate socks and shoes, now its more toys and the container that we keep his treats in.
my dog chili eats EVERYTHING she can get her mouth on. She is 3 yrs’ old and still does it. The best was a gold necklace. the vet said it would probably pass and after following her out and checking her poo for 3 days it finally did. let me tell you a dogs digestive system really puts a shine on gold.
Freedom ate my husband’s Christmas gift from my parents, a crisp $100 bill. all we found was a fourth of it. Maybe next time he’ll listen to me when I tell him to put it someplace other then his chair.
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Love our rescue.
Mommy said my my first 2 years I ate everything. I ate half a dozen comforters, slippers, sneakers, dryer sheets, tissues, & the same throw rug from Target a dozen times because Mommy kept stupidly buying new ones.
Mommy says I still suffer from COPD (Compulsive Obsessive Popping Disorder). Balls of any kind are popped within seconds. Toddler Aubrey got a bunch of kickballs for one of her Christmas gifts. I snuck thru Grandmom’s legs & was in ball heaven in the yard. I popped, destroyed, & ripped every one of them!!!
A couple of days ago my aunt & uncle got a 2 1/2 yr. old male Siberian Husky named Tweek. They got him as a playmate for there 4 1/2 yr. old female Siberian Husky named Tundra. After his first night at my aunt & uncle’s house, my uncle woke up to find that Tweek had ripped a plastic bag containing alumimum cans to shreds & ripped another plastic bag containing garbage to shreds as well. I guess the phrase ” terrible twos” doesn’t just pertain to children, but to animals too.
A kitchen knife!
Wow! Makes my three Dogs seem quite sensible by comparison. They usually just stick to shoes, socks, clothes..um…The Walls, the floors..
Yes…welll. Maybe not so sensible after all!
Jarvis the Dober-goat loves to eat gum. Wrapper and all!! He’s also chewed to ruin: one couch, one mattress, countless socks, stuffed animals, and slippers. Just yesterday, he was headed out of the bathroom with a (new and unwrapped) feminine hygiene product!
Mom was sitting outside with the neighbors when I was about two and she thought that she saw me with a pine cone in my mouth. She reached into my mouth and pulled out a SQUIRREL’S HEAD! Talk about surprised. Hee! Hee!
I love to chew on anything left out that Im not supposed to chew on. So far I destroyed 1 sweather, 1 sleeve of a bath robe, 1 corner of comforter,1 collar and sleeve of a jacket while in my cage(only cause I couldnt reach the rest), and 1 camerecorder video tv wire. The strangest thing I think though was when I ran to my bed and mom went over to see why I was so excited and I had 2 AA batteries in my mouth. Craziness I love to chew anything.
OMD!!! My dogs have eaten: socks, shoes, plastic bags, baseboards, doors, furniture, clothes, tennis balls, the big plastic cooking spoons….I could go on and on!! My son’s Siberian Husky swallows everything she gets, if she sees you coming toward her to take it away she swallows as fast as she can!
My little 7 lb. shih-tzu is only 6 months but he eats everything. Leaves, sticks, anything in the yard. I’ve had to make him “leave it” with cigarett butts, bottle caps anything that fits in his mouth. His craziest trick though is gnawing buttons off my shirt while layingin my lap! He’s so little the things he swallows worries me he won’t be able to pass them.
I work at an Animal Hospital in our area(Peora) and we have had some of the strangest thing ate! We had a Rott eat a steel toed work boot, we had a Giant Schnauzer that had a table cloth, hankie, tennis ball and pantyhose all taken out of his stomach at once, we had a Peek-A-Poo that ate a string of X-Mas lights and recently had a Golden eat gorilla glue.. They eat the wackiest stuff.. Crazy kids..
wow!
Natcho ate 5 remotes. and only the power button!
Silly dogs!
We had a Rotweiller and at 2 or 3AM I heard this strange sound it was him chewing on my cars fender…. my mom was just laughind to death…….
Whle my dog has been destruction free, some of her pup pals have not! Fred the Basset loved panty hose (why didn’t his poop came out nicely encased?). Lara likes drywall and the corner of EVERY single new rug that came into their house.. Newman likes shoes, but ONLY the very expensive leather ones (showed good taste in more ways than one!)
One of my former dogs, Oreo, ate a $5.00 bill and left just enough of it to let me know what she’d done. Toby has chewed, but not swallowed remote controls, books I haven’t read yet, comforters, etc.
Somehow between all of them they destroyed my leather recliner by chewing the back of it. Toby eats checks if he gets a hold of them. That one really hurts. But fortunately he’s never had to have anything removed by the Dr. He has a cast iron stomach I guess.
Among the fosters, I’ve had one who tried to eat a ceramic swan, another loved nylon knee highs, and most recently, a current foster ate crocus bulbs – yes, they’re toxic.
Thank goodness my own mischevious crew stick to things like entire loaves of sourdough bred (dainty little Annie), white chocolate popcorn that I thought was safe in it’s tin (Again, Annie) and gingerbread man shaped and scented candles (Rocke).
I ate an entire rose bush when I was younger….dagger like thorns and all!!! Mom couldn’t believe that I didn’t bleed from the thorns!!! {:+)
Wasn’t there supposed to be an additional line to this?