Ruby DOO Please Make My Life More Difficult!!!!!!!!!
Okay, I challenge ANYONE to name one critter -- other than a two-year-old -- that can complicate your life MORE THAN A PUPPY CAN!
So, it's along about 4 p.m. Hotter than a three-dollar cookstove outside and passing warm here inside the Funny Farm, with the AC set at 80 and struggling to hold the temp in the back of the house at around 82. Cassie and Ruby are crapped out on the cool tile floor. I've been working like a stevedore all day and am thinking...ahhh...a late siesta! Nice idea.
So we decamp to the bedroom, where I go to lift their royal highnesses onto the bed.
That's when I notice half a dollar bill laying on the floor.
Uh oh.
The only dollar bill in the house is an origami butterfly a friend made from a bill. It was SO cute I glued it to a little strip of that flat rubbery magnetic stuff and stuck it on the fridge, where it clung securely.
So it appeared.
Evidently, the butterfly, like other dollar bills in my possession, took flight.
Frantic search of the entire house reveals nary a scrap of the other half of the bill or of the piece of magnetic rubber stuff.
Dayum. Call the vet. His assistant says "uh oh." I think heaven help u$!
Pretty quick she comes back on the phone. "Doctor isn't worried about it but says you should feed her two pieces of white bread to bind things together. It should pass in her bowel movement."
I don't eat bread. It's off my diet. And boy, do I ever not want to go out in the rush-hour traffic in 110-degree heat!
"Would you ask him if white pasta would do?" A couple of days ago I cooked up a whole package of rigatoni and froze it, in a half-dozen baggies, to use as MREs when I'm recuperating from the upcoming surgery.
Mumble mumble in the background. "Sure, that will work! Call us in the morning to tell us how that works out."
Heh.
So, instead of napping, we're munching macaroni, one piece at a time. This is making the dog very happy. The human? Maybe not so much.
:-D
What's the most bizarre item your corgi ever ate?
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Comment by Vicky Hay on July 23, 2014 at 1:57pm
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@ Jen, Yuki & Ellie: Yipes!!
The most ordinary house & yard plants turn out to be toxic, or at least potentially so. Walt the Greyhound once munched some pod things from a yellow oleander. OOOO-leeee-annnder! Holy mackerel Called the vet in a great sweat. He said to stuff the dog with bread soaked in hydrogen peroxide to make him barf the pods up. It worked. But it was distressing. For the human, at least.
BTW, I found this pretty useful site on the topic of what dogs can and can't eat: http://www.candogseat-this.com/
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@ Lawren & Teddy: To coin a term from the vet's office..."uh oh!" That must have been an eyebrow-raiser, when you found it!
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Comment by Yuki & Ellie on July 23, 2014 at 12:11pm
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Haha, Ruby sounds so much like my Ellie it's almost uncanny! :) Ellie will shred anything, and I do mean anything, that is made of paper or cardboard.
Toilet Paper + Cardboard Roll? Check!
Paper Towels (both soiled and clean)? Check!
Boxes? Check!
Money? Check!
Homework? Check!
She also takes great delight in eating crayons, the occasional plastic children's toy, any stuffed cat/dog toy, and the oh-so-delicious treasures she sometimes sneaks out of the cat's litter box. The scariest thing she has eaten, though, are the berries from the Boston ivy that grows all over my house. Since we didn't plant it, we didn't know what it was and I was mortified when I found out that the berries are toxic. Luckily, she apparently didn't eat enough to suffer any symptoms. Now the berries get snipped off before they have a chance to develop fully!
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Comment by Denis J. on July 23, 2014 at 7:31am
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Wally does love Toilet Paper rolls but the Paper Towels rolls he just love to bring on the front entrance carpet and rip it to shreds. I'm not sure about what he finds appealing in widelife waste but I assume some of the leaves or berries that are being eaten creates an interesting smell for him.
But even during winter he'll go at them but they're easier to spot in the snow. :)
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Comment by Lawren and Teddy on July 22, 2014 at 9:16pm
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Teddy once ate a half box of Tagalong girl scout cookies. He ate a fair amount of the box and plastic packaging as he had to rip his way into the box.
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Comment by Lemmy Winks on July 22, 2014 at 8:56pm
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A 3 year old child ;) -_- I'd much rather be potty training a puppy...seriously.
As for the eating thing : an entire small grocery bag, which we discovered he'd eaten when he passed it all as one solid movement. Being a male dog though, I find it weird that he will eat "waste" from my daughters diapers... which *yak*
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That's interesting, Denis, about the deer scat. My last German shepherd was downright obsessive about horse mounds. Cat mounds...sure: cat's an obligatory carnivore and probably dumps out plenty of protein. But horses? deer? What about digested leaves and grain could possibly appeal? Urkl!
Had a cat once that grabbed one end of a TP roll, carried it down the hall and into the living room, merrily unrolling the ENTIRE roll of paper and dragging it all over the house! :-D
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Sir Wally the Third (bow down as you're not worthy) ate a few odd things.
* Fuzz from a tennis ball
* Toilet Paper
* Styrofoam plate from a steak packaging (mostly just ripped to shreds)
* Cat Poo
* Deer Poo
* JackRabbit Poo
* Other Dogs' Poo (only if it's really worth it)
* Fresh long grass leaves after a morning mist at Sunrise (it's almost poetic).
* Stuffing from the boxspring (ripped corner)
I'm surprised a flee market of disgusting objects doesn't come out of his bowels sometimes.
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LOL! Oh, absolutely, furniture is normal. In fact, it may be de rigueur!
Anna the GerShep once ate a sewing needle. At night, of course. Unknown whether the thread was still on it, but apparently not, because if it had been, she wouldn't have lived to old age. Cost over $200 just to walk in the door of the emergency vet. Then they wanted to have a special X-ray machine or MRI thing (whatever) DELIVERED to the veterinary from somewhere on the other side of town: 2 grand for starters, and then upwards. I said no thank you, I'll take my chances. Prayed the dog would not get thread wrapped up in her gut. She didn't. It dissolved in her gut and she was fine.
Luckily, yours didn't either. Any kind of string, thread, yarn or the like is extremely dangerous for dogs. Or for you, should you elect to swallow such a thing.
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Comment by Linda on July 21, 2014 at 10:47pm
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Oh my *giggle* sorry, it's not funny.
Let's see....my 1st Irish wolfhound ate a pair of hand dipped bees wax candles, wick and all. Luckily that passed easy with all that inside tummy temp melted wax. Max, the corgi, ate a calming collar for the cat. FYI...if you ever need a calming collar for cat or dog buy Sargeants brand. I called the 800 number and was connected to an on-staff vet immediately. First the collars are made of plastic not latex and the calming stuff, lavender, is all natural...nothing harmful at all. But I did have to check his poop for a couple of days to see if he was pooping out any purple stuff...the collars are purple.
I think that is about it for weird stuff...shoes, phone books, cakes (provided by the cats), Kleenex..that kind of stuff is "normal". Does the footboard off an antique bed, 2 trunks, crosspiece on a kitchen table, chair legs from kitchen chairs and fireside chairs and woodwork count as normal or weird?
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