Let’s face it. Being a lab owner requires patience, diligence and above all a sense of humor. If you didn’t laugh at the crazy shit they do you’d be pulling your hair out.
You know, if you have a lab they’re highly motivated by food. The first time I took out the clicker and paired it with a green bean, Delilah about lost her mind. She was so fixated on the green bean, she couldn’t see anything else. Thankfully we’ve come a long way since that initial pairing, but anyone that knows Delilah knows if she had her druthers she’d eat until she exploded. Which leaves us with an interesting question.
How do you know your dog has a problem with food?
You sit down to make a list of all the shit she’s eaten and you’re like…..I can’t even remember.
Really? You’re going there? After that plate of Nachos you inhaled last night? Whatever Mama. Remember payback is a bitch and so is Karma and I know there’s a Human Shaming blog hop somewhere in your future.
So here for your reading pleasure….
The crazy shit my dog has eaten:
- Packing peanuts
- plastic tooth picks
- used tissues
- make-up remover cloths
- acorns
- wood bark
- packing peanuts
- Jojoba oil
- Bisquick
- a container full of vitamins and supplements
- baker’s chocolate
- 3/4 pound of butter including wrappers
- what was left of a bag of potato chips
- a plate of shaved corned beef
- pancake batter from the bowl
- a hot dog out of a pan
- cooking oil from out of a pan
- coffee with Bailey’s and cream
- dog poop
Shit she’s tried to eat but been caught or deterred from eating:
- 7 pounds of frozen chicken necks
- a can of crisco
- chicken from the pan
- a dog treat from Sampson’s mouth
- a rack of deer ribs
- a sandwich baggie full of ham
- an M&M chocolate bar
Of course, there’s always the stuff you THINK she might have eaten. Like the time I called Hubby at work, practically hysterical because I thought she ate a metal fork.
I found it in the bedroom, she’d licked it good and clean too.
And then there was the time last week when she got up at 2:30 in the morning to dig at the carpet in the den.
She wouldn’t be deterred and kept returning to the same spot. When Hubby came home I mentioned it to him and he said he’d dropped the chip bag the night before. Her lab nose knew that there was a corner of a chip wedged under the heater.
Of course we gave it to her. I mean, she earned it after all.
Can you think of anything I’ve forgotten? Do you have a Devouring Delilah? How do you manage a food obsessed dog?
Many thanks to Jodi Chick from Kol’s Notes for the awesome blog idea and intro.
Well, Delilah sure likes her ‘found’ food! Cocker Spaniels are almost as good food thieves as Labs. If they were taller they’d match Delilah.
This is awesome!!! We used to have a German Shepherd Puppy…she actually ate part of the drywall! I had to call a contractor to repair it before my husband returned from his business trip!! She also ate several parts of the couch! Oh…and a pair of my glasses…chewed beyond recognition!! Gotta love our pups!!
Jeanne with Chloe and LadyBug
That is a well impressive list. Play bows we are at the heels of a master or should we say mistress. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly
You forgot to mention she ate hubby’s watch case! Lol!
Mity once ate a childrens mitten, he was out on a walk with my mum on her mobility scooter and picked it up and started throwing it around (like he sometimes does with socks, when he wants to be chased) just before my mum could get off her buggy to take the mitten off him he swallowed it down in one a bit like a seal does with a fish. Needless to say he went to the vets, who couldn’t believe the size of the thing he had swallowed.
He’s also stuck his nose into paint, which we washed out of his mouth. Then there was the three chocolate oranges (over 3 different Christmases) and the bag of his food he got into when he ate so much he got to the point that he came and found us and showed us what he had done as if to say please stop me I’m full.
Reading that last bit it could sound like we ignore Mity when we are watching tv. We don’t he just often choses to sit in another room as it can be a little cooler, it just happened that this time he wasn’t snoozing!
Yikes Delilah, your sure not a fussy pup. I didn’t see cat poop on that list. We are still laughing 🙂 xxoxx
Mollie and Alfie
Didn’t she eat the chocolate covered popcorn? lol Delilah sure has varied tastes. Our golden ate a lot of weird stuff, but Delilah has him beat, (well maybe not the glass ornaments but everything else :)).
Oh gosh, as soon as I saw your title I had to come over and read immediately. Especially since I caught Luke drinking my coffee this morning….black coffee even! I can’t believe all the things Delilah has eaten! I thought beagles were food motivated, but they actually stick pretty much to food items only, other than the cat poop Mollie mentioned above. We have an old cat that refuses to use the litter box, so it’s a constant battle of who gets to the cat poop first. LOL (sometimes we even win)
I thought Luke ate a rock last week, and I can’t tell you how much time I spent searching in the snow for that rock (I finally found it)! He also loves tissues and toilet paper. He’s getting taller every day and trying to get up to the counter already, so I think we’re going to have our hands full with him! 🙂
Oh that so describes ME! I’m 99% blind but I can smell a crumb from a mile away. Mom calls me her human garbage disposal. Too bad I’m short though. It sure would be fun to reach the top of the table where all the goodies are.
Torrey likes to eat, but she keeps it to actual food items. That would freak me out to have a dog that ate weird stuff. You are tougher than me.
Bailie is very food obsessed since she comes from a 14 pup litter. She is getting better about slowing down her eating but she still puts everything in her mouth. We think it is part puppy behavior and part just the need to eat everything. Last week at the office she attempted to eat a push pin and a button. Thankfully, Mom has a close eye on her and got both out of her mouth before she swallowed them. She also ate the stuffing out of her stuffed duck which resulted in her pooping out white fluff for a day which Mom found somewhat amusing since she could relax knowing it had passed through and not gotten stuck. It is something new for us since Katie and I are not like that.
WE see NOTHING wrong with your MOST impressive list of Noms.. Devouring Delilah.
HERE are a couple of thingys that our PEEPS have eaten… Be prepared to SHIVER..
Brussels Sprouts
Asparagus
pomegranates
HEAD LETTUCE
Onions
and…. GASP
Grapefruit
BLECH BLECH BLECH
The toothpicks must have been scary. 🙁
I’m guessing the cooking oil in the pan wasn’t hot yet, huh? Phew…
Toby has a nose/food memory like that too. He’ll move furniture out of the way to get at one lone piece of kibble that must have flew out of his crate toy during the day after we come home and let him out.
lol, gambler is the same way eating all kinds of stuff. Glory is a food hound and just loves her food but she doesn’t scrounge like gambler does to find food or to eat stupid stuff.
I even tried to eat shit and told mom I was recycling but she said NO NO
Lily
She must have really hard working stomach enzymes to digest so many things. Or do they all just get turned into, you know, shit and expelled?
The collies are all extremely food motivated! They will steal anything they can get, including things they shouldn’t have. So we have to be very diligent, as there are five of them and two of us! lol
Well u could also have a pug or bulldog
Retro Rover
Oh my gosh! Haha! My Lab mix loves food but he doesn’t really get into too much. He did eat a brownie right off of a plate of one of our guests one time. He also stole a muffin out of a bag when we left him in the car for about two minutes. The bag looked untouched, but the muffin and wrapper gone.
Now, my cat on the other hand, is another story. Absolutely psycho around food. I can’t even begin to tell you how nuts he is. He got into a container of Advil and ate some of that, got sick. He ate a whole corncob, literally the cob. We assumed it was the dog until our cat was puking up massive amounts of cob. The list goes on and on for that one.
Fun post!
I’m honestly too mortified to list all the shit Emmett’s eaten. He is maniacal about food and anything even remotely food-like. Among the best-of-the-worst: a condom found in the park (I can’t think about that for too long or else I’ll barf), a Christmas wreath of evergreens and holly berries and wires holding the pieces together, two loaves of zucchini bread cooling on my mother’s kitchen counter, a full box of Crayola crayons, and now I have to stop because it brings on too much anxiety! However, we JUST experienced a new one for us that appears on your list. I just posted about it, but Cooper ate a full bottle of complete health supplements last night. We’re in the midst of the aftermath now…
Chips… Mmmmm. Last winter, Cupcake dug and dug at the snow in the same spot every time we went out. Eventually, she dug up some frozen, soggy potato chips from the fall. Ugh.
Oh, Delilah! I must say my Lab Maya is not that bad. There has been at least one bad episode when she was a pup and picked up a glass bottle lying in the grass on our walk. The bottle was broken and she cut her tongue. She didn’t even notice. And luckily the cut wasn’t that bad. Lately, she’s gotten into the habit of picking up the acorns on the sidewalk as we walk. Luckily, she tries to crunch on them first, then spits them out when she realizes they’re no fun to eat. You’d think she’d learn that all those round things on the sidewalk are all the same thing. Dogs. They’re just funny. Gotta love ’em.
Luckily we’ve never had a dog that would eat anything and everything. Our beagle was a total chow hound, but she would only eat food items. She would never try to eat a tissue or something like that. With Rita, she’s really fussy so it’s a challenge just to get her to eat her dinner sometimes! She’s never stolen a piece of food. The only bad thing she ever ate was the dead gophers at the beach. (***massive shudder***)
Hahaha! Thanks for the laughs! My dogs have eaten some crazy “shit” too!
When our 11 year old Lola was in her prime, she ate a whole tray of cookies that was cooling on top of the over, soup out of a pot on the stove, half dozen bagels, halloween pack of Resse’s Cups, bar of soap, kitty litter, cough drops… this list goes on! We’re smarter this time around so Lucy hasn’t gotten into as much, but she did eat an entire stick of butter in one bite recently! So gross!
Packing peanuts twice?! Separate incidents?
Moses’ non-approved eating keeps mostly to plant life – grass, sticks, bark.
Alma, on the other hand, is much more mischevious. She’s stolen:
– kibble from other dogs’ bowls while visiting them
– whole bag of brown sugar from the counter, consumed on a friend’s couch
– a jar of peanut butter from the counter, consumed on the spare bed
– french fries from the front of the vehicle, consumed in the back seat
– a Wendy’s frosty stolen from the coffee table, consumed behind the couch
That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Needless to say, we worked on this and also don’t give her opportunities to steal food!
haha! Oh my dogs are the same way!!!! Half the time I will go to see what they are chewing on, and have NO CLUE what it is or where it came from !!
Like where do they even find these things! LOL
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Shadow once swallowed my Dad’s hearing aid. She was only about 7 months old, and it was the Saturday just before Dad was going back home to Falls Church, Virginia. He had taken the thing out of his ear because it was buzzing and driving him nuts. He had put it in his lap for a moment, sparking Shadow’s curiosity. She “stole” it from his lap, and when Dad tried to get it back from her, she swallowed the thing whole — battery included. Though our vet had Saturday hours back then, it was way past the time he had closed. So I called our trainer who gave me the pet poison hotline phone number. They told me to try mixing some hydrogen peroxide into a bowl of milk. It worked. I was able to retrieve Dad’s hearing aid about 20 minutes later, with the battery still intact inside. We all felt sorry for her — she was miserable after lapping up the milk-peroxide mixture — but we were relieved that the hearing aid had not travelled further down her throat and into her stomach or colon.
Too funny, having labs I totally get it. My list for all f them would be pretty extensive too. The worst is avocado pits.
Kol (the little bugger) once ate all the hand carved knobs off my antique wood dressers… and the legs of the coffee table. Le went through a phase where no undergarment was safe and he holds a special place in his heart for hockey mouth guards.
At a family gathering I put out jalapeno cheese, horseradish cheese, and shrimp etc. The following WEEK my Lab had the runs. Why? Someone (husband who shall remain nameless) was feeding her food she should not have eaten. Guess who had to clean up. Never again will I trust them alone with food.