My dog has always been fairly well disciplined and not a crazy eater. Untypically of the breed, if there's food in her bowl but she hasn't had a walk and you know what then she doesn't eat her food. She comes back and attacks breakfast after exercise. Also she's not been a great beggar and stealer. But in mid life (5) she has suddenly become a really bad food thief. This is coincidental with the return of teenagers in the house who take stuff out of cupboards to sate their starvation during exam revision and then leave them vaguely lying around with an "in a minute" response to "please can you clear that up". Only the dog hears this request and heeds it.
This is now an issue because in the last 24 hours she has eaten an entire tray of chocolate brownies cooked by my daughter and a large packet of milk chocolate digestives, a pack of bacon, a large piece of cod and, oddly, a cooling bowl full of asparagus in butter.
There are two things they say dogs must never eat. Chocolate and raisins. At Christmas she ate an entire tray of mincepies and half a Christmas pudding and now this. People say "OH MY GOD SHE WILL DIE" but she just goes into an absolutely blissful post-binge snoring state, lying upside down with rolling eyes and legs in the air, making a noise like a warhog. Today she is very well and when I took her for a walk first thing there was no ghastly aftermath of the excesses of the night before.
So what's the story on these so called toxic foodstuffs* and what should I be doing (apart from ensuring no food is left about).
*given she eats highly degraded roadkill, steals rubbish from the bin if she can, licks her own bum and will gladly eat fox and badger poo, I think choc / raisins are the least of our concerns.
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warhog. heh. That's exactly what she is. Fighting pig. No, WARTHOG.
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i am NOT giving her a pill to make her barf up that lot so I can clean it in a competitive event against her attempt to re-eat it.
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theombromide, I believe, is the choc issue
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Had a lab. List of crimes against humanity include the ingesting of:
An entire Christmas cake, a chocolate log and a Christmas pudding all in one sitting.
Two full paper bags of fudge, including the paper. (Rum and raisin & vanilla cream).
A box of leftover sliced beef in oyster sauce.
A punnet of white grapes.
32 cupcakes my older sister made for her birthday ceevratiobs at school.
Joint of beef brisket.
About 800 (possible exaggeration) sausage rolls intended for my granddads funeral.
Untold bags of crisps left by unknowing visitors on sofas.
There are so many more. He was a proper eater.
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Potatoes are also bad it seems. Uncooked ones.
The quantity vs bodyweight makes a difference.
But you can google all that shit (the size and stank of her shits must be horrifying).
Also: did you mean warhog or warthog?
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Story on toxic foodstuffs is... she'd have to eat her body weight to make a difference.
Labradors are amateurs at the food hog game.
I once left the contents of a trip to the Calais supermarket out (chocolate and cheeses), the cocker ate so much it whined when you touched his stomach. He couldn't move up the stairs.... lots of water and bin bags worth of poo later (you have NO IDEA how much poo there was, it was horrifying fascinating!) he was fine.
first hit on google... and that is likely to be conservative...
"Approximately one pound of milk chocolate is poisonous to a 20-pound dog; one-half pound for a 10-pound dog. The average chocolate bar contains 2 to 3 ounces of milk chocolate. It would take 2-3 candy bars to poison a 10 pound dog. Semi-sweet chocolate has a similar toxic level."
What is she? 30- 35 kilos?
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That's quite a list.
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labs will eat anything, my parents have eaten whole tins of quality street including wrappers, easter eggs out of the box, whole cakes in fact anything that isn't put away that is not above work top height is fair game to them
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Thanks. Heh.
She is reasonably lightweight. Just short of 30kg
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I once knew a lab who got into the bowl of easter eggs and was shitting shiny and colourful silvery wrappers for a week. She also ate candles which would pass but took a while and then come out in a clump.
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Tilly passed a whole gardening glove recently.... I had to help by giving it a pull as she crouched around the garden trying to pass it.
#joysofpetownership
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also i was once walking one of the labs (now no longer with us) and noticed something hanging out of the rear, on closer inspection it was a sock which was causing some discomfort, i think it took him about 10 minutes to pass it all
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I had to help by giving it a pull
oh my god the dog is giving birth to a human hand!
oh no, as you were
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I know Tilly and Misty's poos.... they are speckled with bits of brightly coloured rubber where they are destroying kong toys....
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The woolly/fluffy poos are disgusting, from when he's been gnawing on / destroying stuffed toys and ripping their guts out.
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Like doggers, we had cockers who put labs to shame when it came to indiscriminate bingeing
the highlight being the Christmas Eve our doggo polished off several bowls of those foil wrapped liquor chocolates that looked like mini wine bottles that were left out on a table at my parents annual chrimbo eve party (it was the mid 80s, they were the height of sophistication*). She spent Christmas Day lurching from side to side, probably drunk, and then shat out seemingly endless amounts of liquor infused liquid turds speckled with the foil paper. It was epic. If it hadn’t been Christmas Day she defo would have been taken to the vet to have her stomach pumped
Re the enquiry as to toxicity, I had always thought that some dogs had the sensitivity and others didn’t. But that could be urban legend. Certainly my whippets have always enjoyed thieving grapes off the kitchen counter, despite the breed’s alleged indifference to food, and lived to tell the tale
* perhaps
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Our cocker-mix managed to actually steel the steak of one of our guests plate when he turned to pass on some veggies.
Many a steak has gone missing from the kitchen counter.
Also: many a crotch has gone missing from underwear not properly stowed in laundry basket. Disgusting.
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mine stole a whole roast chicken from the pan, boiling hot, and hid it in the cat flap tunnel then strolled round the kitchen looking absolutely not guilty.
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What they said, my old lab stole my sister's giant dairy milk bar one easter. looked a little down and out for a day or two but otherwise fine. The cat kept looking at him with unbridled jealousy
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