My dog ate my...

What is it with dogs and stones?? We were camped on the shore of Lake Superior............beautiful CLEAR water. Sam, the English Setter, saw us collecting wave polished rocks and actually stuck his head in and brought us a couple of beauties. He is 12 now and the most loyal friend I've ever had.

I always ask Dr. Fred, our vet north of Centerburg, for stories of unusual cases he's worked on. Last one was a case of acute gastric distress in a Lab. Opened him up and found 2 pairs of women's underwear and a sock lodged just below the stomach. The Lab survived.
Dave
 
Remember those contraceptive sponges that were popular in the 80s? My little weener dog ate one of those once (out of the trash). Stopped her up tight with a proximal bowel obstruction. Fortunately I am a veterinary surgeon so I was able to remove it without the embarrassment of someone else doing it. Dog was no worse for the wear after surgery.
 
Our last Newf, Kodiak, liked to eat most thing. Rocks, remotes, phones, sneakers, slippers, rawhides he would devour in about 5 minutes. Ate the bill off my favorite baseball cap, the doormat that used to be by the front door, the leg off the coffee table, the corner of the stairs, Christmas ornaments, etc, etc.
We put a solar light out in the back of the dog's yard in a spot the flood light didn't get to; he ate that too, including the battery. I don't know how in the Hell he survived, but he did.
Passed of old age a while ago and I miss that big lug every single day.
 
Friend from work asked me to go duck hunting. He said to bring my lab. He would drive his new Ford PU. When we got there he made the decision to leave Thunder in the truck, I tried to tell him it was not a good decision. The dog ate both door pads off the truck trying to get out.
 
Had a Schnauzer, Madison. Never chewed on anything except her food, asked to go out and asked to come back in with a single bark, never ran away, almost never left the unfenced yard, bark at strangers only. Always obedient. I hated putting her down. If only the kids could have learned so well!
 
Ate all the ice cream......Noooooooo....that is crossing the line :(

That would be a time-out offense for puppy dog or maybe I should be in time-out for leaving some ice cream in the carton!!!!!!!!

Our lab will start bugging us about 8pm every night and not let up until we get her a dish of ice cream.
 
Bless your heart, it is us who are sorry for you.

No need to feel sorry for me, I have a cat! I live in town and a dog is usually trouble with neighbors and I'm afraid I'm too lazy for a dog. The cat is a house cat that does not go out and giving my neighbors I wish I could say the same.
 
Not My Cats

As a kid my neighbors would hire me to dog walk and look after their pets when they traveled.
One neighbor had a pair of Siamese cats named Mrs. Robinson and Pyewacket. I went to feed them and clear the kitty litter after school and found them staggering in the remains of a bottle or two of liquors they had knocked to the floor. They were trying to clean themselves and got quite snockered. We got them to the vet passed out cold. Happily the cats survived but I had a mess to clean. TiaMaria is some sticky mess when half dried on a tile floor.
 
This sounds like something from a Cheech and Chong movie but a pitbull I once had, according to my ex-wife, ate her wedding ring. The one with the diamond on it. I followed that dog around for 3 days and finally got it back...unharmed. Of course I had to listen to the "I told you I wasn't crazy" line. (She really was tho! :eek:)
And then there was Roscoe...
 
Two summers ago my neighbor asked my wife if she would mind watching her dog when they went on a week long cruse, They have invisible fence so all she had to do is let the dog out awhile and then back in. Of course this task was passed on to her loving husband ME. few days before they were to return I opened the door and the dog flew past me into the center of the yard to do his business. In its mouth was an Adult Toy. It took me awhile to get Jake to release it and it was quite chewed up. I wrapped it in paper towels and placed it in the center of their Kitchen Table. When they returned they thanked my Wife for taking care of the dog.. When I saw Tony the husband a day later he couldn't keep a straight face and I couldn't stop laughing... Kim the wife couldn't look at me without turning crimson red...
 
I'm sure you've all heard the old "the dog ate my homework" excuse. My daughter is a teacher and she had a very embarrassing incident. At the time she was paid by check. She left it sticking out of her purse and put it on a kitchen chair. Our dog couldn't resist and pulled the check out of her purse and started chewing it. The dog destroyed enough of the check so it couldn't be cashed and my daughter had to tell the people at school that her dog ate her paycheck. Apparently they got a lot of mileage out of it and wouldn't let her forget it.
 
One time years ago I went Razor Clam digging in WA. Due to come home the next day I cleaned and carefully hard froze my catch in several ziploc bags. Dry ice in a cooler got them back to N. AZ still frozen.

Later, back home, the cat hung out and watched me chop and prepare one of the portions for making chowder. I made the error of giving her some bites. The next day I saw her on top of the refrigerator trying to get the freezer open. Cute, I thought, but she'll never get that door open.

Went to Phoenix that next Friday to visit family and left the cat in the house. When I came home Sunday found one very happy cat. Freezer section wide open and only the two ziplocs that had previously contained my clams removed and on the floor. Bags ripped open and not a clam or drop of juice in sight.
 
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