our silly springer ate Brillo pads

[goddess40]

After $250 at the vet they seem to be passing okay. She doesn't really chew her food so I'm sure she bolted the Brillo pads as best she could but you'd think one would be enough.

What's the weirdest think one of your beasties have eaten?

[livetohike]

1. Stop Leak!

That stuff one puts in a radiator to stop it from leaking. I have two dogs, so I'm not sure which one or both did it. It was in a little plastic packet 2"x2" and it's some sort of aluminum powder. I wasn't even sure how much of it they ate, because it also got into the carpet.

I never took them to the vet. That was four years ago when they were puppies. Neither got sick.

[goddess40]

3. I went to the vet with her because of the metal fibers

but she ate my son's wallet a month or two ago and that went through fine. About two weeks ago she also ate the metal expandable watch band from my mother's watch and since it didn't show up the x-ray it must be in the backyard some where.

[livetohike]

7. Dogs are something aren't they?

I'm sure that watch band passed through....I was really worried about my two over that Stop Leak, but we've had dogs our entire married life (almost 33 years) and figured we would take them if they appeared sick.

Metal fibers are another issue though. It's a good thing you took her.

[radfringe]

5. bet it helped with housebreaking...

no surprise "leaks" on floor... :rofl:

[livetohike]

6. We were cracking jokes about it at the time

:rofl: How is your pup doing??

[radfringe]

8. our Pup

need to feed her some STOP LEAK...

we had a 15 day streak going of NO ACCIDENTS, then she went to vet to be spayed and it's been back to square 1 again...

did get 3 days late last week... ohhhhh wellll - and just where do you get that STOP LEAK stuff anyways??? :rofl:

[livetohike]

9. Awww, she'll do fine with the house training

If only there was something safe for dogs.....it would make a good selling point :rofl:.

[radfringe]

10. she's 6 months old now

we've had her since she was 8-9 weeks.

she should be trained by now... she does "ring" the bells hanging on the door when she wants to go out, and we respond IMMEDIATELY - but 1/2 the time it's AFTER she has gone on the floor

[livetohike]

11. Don't worry. Just go back to basics

Going out immediately after eating, first thing in the morning, last thing at night, after playing in the house....

She'll be fine :-).

[sazemisery]

2. My dining room window sheers. Shredded them!

[KC]

4. I'm glad

my dog isn't the only one who thinks he is a goat.
Mine ate a gauze pad, tried to eat the cat food can from the trash. Anything he finds goes into his mouth.
He's worse than a toddler !

[japple]

12. My dog eats the cats' toys, esp. favoring the little furry mice.

After she "skins" the mouse, she eats the cardboard inside. My brother's 3 shih tzu's love to eat chap stick, antibiotic ointment, anything they can reach that's in a tube, cell phones, remote controls. They eat a high quality dog food and get treats and chew bones frequently, but I think it must be in a dog's nature to eat weird stuff, like catbox crunchies.

[CottonBear]

13. My neighbor's boxer ate a roll of duct tape.

The poor animal had to have surgery to remove a portion of its intestinal tract. :(
BTW, the dog survived just fine. I can't imagine that the duct tape tasted good at all. :(

[China_cat]

14. My sister's dog ate her hearing aid.

Besides being a huge expense that the insurance wouldn't cover, it also meant surgery for the dog because they couldn't afford to leave the battery in her system long enough to pass.

[RebelOne]

15. My sister's pit bull ate some fluorescent light bulbs.

And amazingly, there were no ill effects. His stomach must have been cast iron.

[Tammie]

16. Nylon knee-high

My dog ate a nylon knee-high......twice! The first time I knew he did it and the vet said to give him hydrogen peroxide to get him to throw it up. Yep, he puked it out all right. The second one I didn't know he even ate. He was acting under the weather and I was taking him to the vet but walked him first and he pooped and something shot out his ass like a projectile. It looked like an interal organ so I picked it up put it in a bag and off to the vet we went. When the vet inspected the "specimin" with his gloves on, we discovered it was a nylon knee-high. My dog Andy was a real character!

[Grateful for Hope]

17. My daughter's cat Trouble

used to eat nylon knee-highs. He would pass them eventually. Fortunately, he has out-grown this!

[Beaverhausen]

22. Oh my god!

your post made me :rofl:

[erinlough]

18. My Cat did this....

It completely wormed him, although I would never recommend it to anyone!

[MountainLaurel]

19. My silly springer

Always used to tear things open and spread them strategically around the apartment. She could distribute chewed-up bits of an entire roll of toilet paper so equally that you probably could find the same number of bits in each square foot. We kept finding red hots until the day we moved. The only thing she ever ate was a bottle of Rimadyl, which involved a three-day stay at the vet and a $1000 bill.

Our golden, however, is a different story. His poop is like an episode of CSI: It contains evidence of all crimes committed in the prior 24 hours. He is particularly fond of earplugs, paper products like tissues, and plastic bags. I blame it on an early potty training experience.

[samplegirl]

20. My cat ate a thin peice of wire.

Boy was I worried. He swallowed it before I could get it out.
But all came "out" well.

:hi:

[LostinVA]

21. Our cat was puking foil last week

He's amazingly perfectly fine.

I can see the dog eating foil, but I expect cats to be above that.

[Greylyn58]

23. While this wasn't weird...

it still concerned me when it happened.

When Sheridan was still a puppy, about 14 weeks old, my husband and I left to visit a friend. I, unfortunately, made the mistake of leaving a roll of paper towels and a bunch of bananas too near the edge of a kitchen cabinet.

When we came home, paper towels were shredded all over the kitchen floor making it look like it had snowed. The only evidence left of the bananas were a few peels. I, of course, got upset thinking that the bananas might harm him.

So I called the local emergency vet and told the woman who answered what had happened. After she stopped laughing, she told me it would be okay. The only problem he might have was some stomach upset and diarrhea.

Which did happen... :( but he soon recovered. Oddly enough hates bananas to this day. :rofl:

[Codeine]

24. My snake ate a sweatshirt.

It was wrapped around a heat rock and one of her teeth snagged it while she was downing a rabbit. She only eats comfortably when nobody is near so I didn't know about it until I saw the last bit of it slide down her throat.

It passed without incident about two weeks later.

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My cat ate a whole clove of raw garlic and wanted more. As if his breath wasn't bad enough.

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My GF's dog ate an entire athletic shoe. The vet said it would pass and it did; loads of chewed rubber bits and an intact shoelace. :crazy:

[katamaran]

25. We have one dog who is a walking disposal

We have one dog who is a walking garbage disposal. Of our four Bernese Mountain Dogs, Sera is the one who eats the weirdest crap:

- She ate a whole box of Kleenex and pooped white puffballs for a week. It looked like Frosty the Snowman was dumping in our yard.

- At last count, four socks. Three thrown up. One, a very tall sock of my dad's, came out the other way. We watched her one day and noticed she was straining to relieve herself. So we got a rake and dislodged it. One long sock came out. Mom considered washing it and giving it back to dad as a lesson to stop leaving his nasty, stinky socks on the floor.

- The thick nylon cord for a bath scrubber. Complete with the plastic ball. That came out the back way much like the sock.

- Various used feminine products. Nothing like looking down in the yard and seeing an old pad lying there. And it had been at least a week since any were used.

- No more rolled rawhides in the house because as soon as we turn around, she tries to swallow them whole to keep them away from the other dogs. It's amazing how far down a dog's throat my arm can go to grab them.

- At three months old, one of my bras. Half of it.

- Rocks, sticks, dead birds, dirt...anything we tell her to drop, she immediately drops down the back of her throat.

But at least she makes us laugh. Even if she's part billy goat.

[Beaverhausen]

26. LOL! Your post and that photo made me crack up

what a character!!! She is gorgeous!