Caught You...

[AccountingDrone]

Every been lonely in a crowd? Puppy might be lonely because no one is paying attention to him. Perhaps bored would be a better word.



I don't think would have that same effect as using the TP on the outside.

Well, it is high in fiber ...

[Ironclad Alibi]

According to the vet, she does "not" have a problem, she's just "lonely" (I work from home and home school the kids, there is someone here 24/7, just how is she lonely?????)

Every been lonely in a crowd? Puppy might be lonely because no one is paying attention to him. Perhaps bored would be a better word.

We've had him for 3 weeks now, and thus far, he's eaten: 1 full roll of toilet paper (Got home one day, and the toilet paper in one of the bathrooms was just gone.)

I don't think would have that same effect as using the TP on the outside.

[Juggler]

I have a cat who chews on anything neoprene, foam or solid. Yet he ignores latex of silicone rubbers. Go figure.

[Midorikawa]

My favorite was the year a string of Christmas lights disappeared from the tree. The family had no idea what happened until the dog pooped rainbows. What gets me is that the dog ate the first light and decided it was so delicious that he needed to eat every last one of them, one by one...

Epic. So glad I work in an office by myself. I'd be getting strange looks from coworkers about now. Growing up, we had a lab who'd grab stuff off the kitchen counters and eat it. She'd eat entire loaves of bread, even as a puppy. Because she was well trained, well exercised, and well fed, she wouldn't eat strange things, but she would lay on anything soft.

When she was about 3, we noticed bald spots on her elbows and chest, so we took her to the vet. The vet said it's because she's laying on hard surfaces. She's long gone now, but we still don't know whether it was the couch or the beds that were too hard for her. :-P

Have a puppy now (posted about him a few times in Off Topic) who's turned into an eating machine. We've had him for 3 weeks now, and thus far, he's eaten:

1 Wiimote (destroyed the power button and IR lens. IR lens is gone, as is the front of the controller, the rest still works, surprisingly.)
1 Wiimote condom (Don't tell me you don't call those silicone covers condoms too. :-P)
2 pairs of the wife's shoes
1 full stick of butter, wrapper and all
2 tennis balls, shell, fuzz, everything piece by piece
1 full roll of toilet paper (Got home one day, and the toilet paper in one of the bathrooms was just gone.)
various other smaller items.

[EricKei]

Yes some dogs.. will eat anything that doesn't eat them...my folks had a dog.. you could put a plate of food on the floor and she wouldn't touch it... how ever if it was a wood... oh it was sooooo toast... lol

...What sort of food, exactly, were you leaving out that the dog was afraid that the food might eat him...?

[Kimmik]

My favorite was the year a string of Christmas lights disappeared from the tree. The family had no idea what happened until the dog pooped rainbows. What gets me is that the dog ate the first light and decided it was so delicious that he needed to eat every last one of them, one by one...

Damn so much for the new keyboard.... hopefully monster comes off the gaming keyboard.. and now the wee one is awake... stupid coughing fit...

Yes some dogs.. will eat anything that doesn't eat them...my folks had a dog.. you could put a plate of food on the floor and she wouldn't touch it... how ever if it was a wood... oh it was sooooo toast... lol

[Andara Bledin]

According to the vet, she does "not" have a problem, she's just "lonely" (I work from home and home school the kids, there is someone here 24/7, just how is she lonely?????)

Your vet is broken, get a new one.

However, as to your dog, does she get enough exercise and outdoor time? She could be restless.

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[Teefies2]

The first 6 months we had her, aka "The Puppy" (she was 11 weeks old when we got her & we have 2 other dogs, so she will always be "The Puppy"), she ate - and I mean ATE - 7 sets of Venetian Blinds. Basically all the blinds of all the windows in our house, including the one set we replaced, until we figured out that she thinks they're tasty! Our vet hates us now ;(

Now that we've wised up and don't have blinds on any of the windows. she merely eats .... the couch, the carpet, the bedspread, shoes, the table, purses, and anything that isn't nailed down. According to the vet, she does "not" have a problem, she's just "lonely" (I work from home and home school the kids, there is someone here 24/7, just how is she lonely?????)

[Zoe Hates You]

My husband's old lab ate an incredible array of things, beginning in puppy days with whatever drywall he could reach when he stuck his little nose between the bars of his crate.

My favorite was the year a string of Christmas lights disappeared from the tree. The family had no idea what happened until the dog pooped rainbows. What gets me is that the dog ate the first light and decided it was so delicious that he needed to eat every last one of them, one by one...

[Racket_Man]

when my golden retiever was still an older puppy (11 or 12 months old) he chewed half of a rocker off the bottom of a rocking chair. still to this day I swear if it does not try to eat him he will try and eat it (and yes he HAS eaten poop before. not sure if it was his or some other dogs) as in dead birds dead bunnies, sticks, etc.

[Andara Bledin]

I think Labs are part beaver and it's just never been verified.

My aunt had a black lab/retriever mix and he never chewed anything.

Actually, there's only one dog I can recall that chewed much of anything, and that was a 1/4 wolf part terrier (or something) mutt who liked to pull things out of the trash can and shred them. It was usually paper towels, she knew she wasn't supposed to, and it was obvious that most of the time she was doing it for the attention. Silly puppy.

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[chainedbarista]

on the boxer eating flip flops, it might have to do with the scent of your feet; they may remind him of the scent of a rawhide on some level.

[RayvenQ]

Couldn't you have tossed them to her?

Slips of paper aren't great for tossing, making paper aeroplanes with however...

[Jetfire]

My parents have a Sammy (Samoyed Husky) at home. A few years back, mom had had a mastectomy, and was recovering from it before getting implants. Until she got implants, she had fake ones to use.

One morning she was getting ready for school (She's a high school teacher) and she couldn't find one of her fake boobs. She looked everywhere, and was running late, before she finally found someone with a new chew toy.

She still gets a kick out of telling the story about how she had to call her principal one day because "Her dog ate her boob." (Though personally I suspect she was late because it took her that long just to stop laughing about the situation. )

[Gaki]

It was probably the way he said it but I got the feeling the guy didn't even HAVE a dog.

My two dogs to date have eaten:

Over fifty tissues and tissue boxes
Several novels
Several newspapers
A magazine or two
Five ball point pens
A plush of Dilbert (from the comic)
Several of my socks
annnnnnd...that's about it I think.

My dogs are really well trained now, pretty much the only things they'll attempt to eat are paper towel tubes but that's 'cause I let them. I could leave pretty much anything on the floor and they'd probably lay ON TOP of it rather than chew it. Silly dogs...

What I don't get is that our Rewards cards can save you TONS OF MONEY on gas, so why in the hell wouldn't you get ANOTHER one? And some ladies lose the big cards so they constantly (CONSTANTLY) use the tiny cards because our card is pretty much the only one that people put on their car keys instead of their house keys. It makes sense since you ALWAYS have your car keys in the GAS STATION. But whatever I suppose, if he can't handle one tiny dangly off his car keys then that's fine I guess but at least keep your card (as well as the rest of your wallet) away from your dog's mouth.

Oh yeah, and I love the stories from all your dogs!