There’s that question again! Last week, we asked pet professionals and friends online: “What did your pet eat? Tell us about the pet! What was the outcome of the incident?”
This week, we’re back with more of their amazing answers!
Trillium Schlosser (Oregon) A whole cantaloupe. I had 8 billion cantaloupe starts all over the backyard.
Jeanne Brennan (California) Trillium, it took a sec to understand the ‘why’ of your last sentence.
Dawn Elberson Goehring (Hawaii) My eight-pound dog ate half a can of peanuts. She had no teeth, so pretty much swallowed them whole. Then pooped out a Payday!
Rose Wardian (Washington) Our Chihuahua shows zero discretion when it comes to putting something in his mouth. I just shake my head and wonder how he is not dead! The latest thing that really baffled me was the half a corn cob hiding under a chair. He had taken a whole ear from the bag. Ate all but half of the cob—silk, husk, ALL OF IT!
Isabel Alvarez Arata (Texas) A bag of hotdog buns.
Sue Heron (Florida) Ugh, a thick rubber band while grabbing a whole thing of asparagus off the counter! I freaked and had to text my friend who works at the vet to find the dosage for peroxide.
Meira Frankl Trainer (Quebec) My previous foster, a pitty, ate a large bag of bird seed. It came out her back end EVERYWHERE!
Glenda Lee (Maine) One of my GSDs ate a 10-dollar bill.
Erin Saywell (Indiana) WHATEVER SHE WANTS!
Photo by Erin Saywell
Jeanne Brennan OMG. My co-worker had a pit bull that would steal knives out of the wooden block on the counter. He’d then proceeded to run around the yard with his “knife of the day” in his mouth. We all (roommate and other house visitors) worked at the local animal shelter—where else would we find these bizarre creatures? Whenever we were at her house, we knew to look out for Stewart. Nothing scarier than having a gray, badly crop-eared pit bull come running at you enthusiastically with a large knife in his mouth. He was so goofy—and a submissive grinner.
Julie Ellingson (California) 12-pound Cavalier. Two pounds of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Twelve hours at the vet’s. $1000+ bill. “Beware the Patty Snatch” became the family motto. Patty was both sweet and rotten for the next nine years. She made our hearts go pitter pat. Forgot to mention: said little dog leaped onto the counter to snatch that bag of chips. She was athletic about the leaps!
Jacqueline Mason Munera (Florida) Pot cookies, of course … LOL! I had no idea what was going on, just that she couldn’t stand up or walk. I got her in the car to rush to the ER vet. My son was visiting, so had him drive. I showed him a chewed up plastic bag that I was taking to the vet’s just in case it helped dx. “Oh. Hmmm, yeah … That bag had pot cookies in it.”
Sara Maynard (Trinidad and Tobago) I had heard a few times about giving a dog who was destructive due to boredom a coconut to husk. (We had tried Kong toys, walks, training, etc., but they didn’t work.) So I was telling my vet that my dog needed something to keep her occupied when he told me the same thing—get a coconut for her to husk. Off I went immediately with dog in car and stopped by a vendor to purchase one whole coconut. (I live in the Caribbean, so there are vendors in stalls not far from the clinic.) I took Sophie home, handed her the coconut. She was an English Bull Terrier, so they have that egg-shaped head and a very strong jaw. Five minutes later I walked outside to find my dog looking up at me with an entire coconut stuck in her mouth and her upper and lower teeth firmly implanted in the husk. Within 15 minutes, I was back at the vet’s telling him he better not charge me for this … LOL. He managed to pry open her mouth and get the thing out. After that we went back to the Kong toy.
Sophie managed to also remove one car bumper and bite numerous hoses (both at my house and at the vet’s), RubberMaid chairs (the ones at the vet office were her favorite), multiple frogs that we saved her from, a car multilock, the car headrest, all of our car mud flaps, the door to the garden electrical panel … to name but a few items. The vet literally kept her vet cards on a clipboard near the desk, that’s how often we were there. Oh, and I forgot, she also got hold of a full case of malted milk (small kids’ packs) in my kitchen, and she punctured almost every carton, sending the liquid across the floor, walls, and ceiling, and her to another vet visit.
Just to give you an idea of the size of what I’m talking about—it’s the entire coconut. LOL. I had one today.
Photo by Sara Maynard
Toni Vignogna (California) A friend’s beagle came over for Thanksgiving. We caught him on the counter, chowing down on the turkey. The faster we ran towards him, the faster he ate it!
Marni Dlin (Alberta) I had a Bernese Mountain Dog, Terra, and she used to steal underwear and bras off laundry lines. The best part was there was this guy at the place we lived who was a bit of a nasty sort and she’d always throw up the laundry on his shoes.
Marilyn Marks (Connecticut) A day-care dog ate his peoples’ underwear and their engagement ring—separate incidents, same dog, a Bernese mountain dog—and pooped them out at day care.
Toni Vignogna This is the guilty face of a rotten little dog! She munched on my prescription glasses several times until I couldn’t fix them anymore. I dug out an older pair and she also managed to destroy them. Now that I carry insurance on my glasses, they don’t seem to taste as good to her.
Photo by Toni Vignogna
Jewels Eilmes-Daly (Washington) My cat’s favorite no-no is eating plastic bags. It doesn’t matter where I hide them, he’ll find them!
Sarah Adams (Oregon) Pirate loves jalapenos. Once at a dog show, people had been eating nachos, and I put down a plate for him that had some leftovers on it. He went past the chips and cheese and ate the jalapenos first. He likes pepperoncini, too, but that’s not quite as impressive.
Timothy Page (Oregon) Sarah, must be a chihuahua. My chihuahuas eat spicy food—not just jalapeños, but also serranos. My dogs don’t seem to have any problems with it. I think, just like with humans, once their digestive system is accustomed, they do just fine.
Sarah Adams: Timothy, he’s a Staffordshire bull terrier.
Marcy Rauch (New York) I came home from work one day to find my Aussie foaming at the mouth. Momentary panic ensued until I saw the cabinet under the sink open and an entire box of Brillo empty. Fed her a bunch of soft white bread to soften its path (vet recommendation), and watched her like a hawk. She ultimately passed the Brillo, and I used to kid that she was shiny and clean inside and out.
Eileen Anderson (Arkansas) Clara ate the hat off a rather large Santa toy when she was a teenager. Hat was probably 4–5 inches long. I called the ER vet and they said not to induce vomiting; it would probably go down. I didn’t see it come out but I guessed I had missed it after several days passed. Then she vomited it up TWO WEEKS LATER. Poor girl. She can’t have been comfortable.
Tamara A Howard (New Jersey) The most amusing was Sir Clyde who loved the squeaky in toys and would promptly disembowel them for it. One fine morning as number two was in progress one squeaker found the exit, just not before getting “sphinctered,” causing it to SQUEAK!! A moment neither of us will ever forget.
Jett Wyatt (Arizona) Jester got the big canister of Jelly Bellies out of the middle cupboard, got it into the living room, unscrewed the cap and ate, best guess, about a half pound. When I got home, he’d already thrown up the rainbow and was lying in the living room with the canister between his paws guarding it from the other dogs.
It was the only time he ever declined dinner.
Abigail Witthauer (Alabama) This is the face of a dog who has never stolen food in his entire seven-year life but yesterday decided to sneak and eat approximately six cups of high-protein ferret food and told no one. Then proceeded to drink an enormous amount of water (because so much protein) and to show the exact symptoms of a splenic tumor rupture and to be rushed to the vet and be hospitalized for tests and to make his mom cry all day long then make a miraculous recovery after farting and pooping a lot.
He has no regrets. I’m exhausted.
Photo by Abigail Witthauer/Roverchase Foundation
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