And I do mean everything! Sticks, leaves, grass...if it can be picked up, he'll eat it. He inhales his meal in 5 seconds and then acts like he's starving trying to get more. We started adding green beans to his food to try and fill him up, but then he discovered beans come from the garden, so he started pulling up the plants eating beans, stalks, leaves, roots and all. He rips corn stalks out of the ground and eats them. Grabs tomatoes off the vine and down they go. Take him to the lake for training and he eats dead fish, weeds, muscles...anything laying on the shore. Vet bills are adding up, 10 months old and already treated for giardia twice because of his eating habits. He's a hunting dog, so I don't want to have to keep him on a leash. I suspect that when he makes his first duck retrieve this fall, all he will have when he gets back to shore is a few feathers that he didn't swallow. This dog would out eat a 400 lb pig. The good thing I can say is that he is not protective of food, we can take it out of his mouth, put our hands in the bowl, even the other dog can start eating his food...never a growl. Anyone else ever deal with a dog like this? With all the dogs I have owned, never one like this. If I fed him everything he wants he would be the largest dog in the world. The American Water Spaniel breed standard is 45 lbs max for a male, and I'm having trouble getting him under 50.He's on the left in the picture.
The Dog That Eats EVERYTHING!
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That's some funny dog!!!!
I have one dog who eats almost any kind of food, but he doesn't do what you describe. I do use a "slobowl" to control the speed of her intake but that's the only thing I control. She does eat weird things in the yard here and there; sticks/branches mostly. But it's only sometimes and probably on a day when she is bored.
She sleeps weirdly, though............
Scout eats just about everything. Rotten dead things found on the trail are immediately consumed. Fortunately, she rarely throws up...
She also latches onto anything found while walking the neighborhood and refuses to give up her treasure. The little mutant once grabbed a used napkin on the road and laid down. The Mrs placed a salmon treat on her snout trying to get her to let go, but no dice!
She also latches onto anything found while walking the neighborhood and refuses to give up her treasure. The little mutant once grabbed a used napkin on the road and laid down. The Mrs placed a salmon treat on her snout trying to get her to let go, but no dice!
I love those dogs/Puppies some will test and eat everything I had a English Springer that would eat most things. Even if it is a hunting dog, you still can use a leash and have to train the dog. As you say, vet bills are expensive and if the dog eats something solid, it may cause and obstruction and would need surgery or worse.
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Our first Greyhound would hardly eat when we first rescued her. Gun show buddy had a Greyhound rescue and he had 6 of his own! Kara did not know how to jump in back seat of pick up with back door open. She also did not know how to climb stairs. Took us couple months to get her used to everything. Once she discovered baked chicken breast mixed in her kibble she ate ok. Our vet told us someone had broken both her back legs most likely for insurance money. Baseball bat was what that person needed. She turned out to be a Very sweet hound but pancreatic cancer cause her to be put down. Tough time
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Yup, eating the wrong thing has me so concerned that got pet insurance for this one. I have a feeling that they are going to regret giving me a policy!
Hey! Food is food, whether you recognize it or not. My dog love to eat rabbit pellets, so much that she has quit chassing the creatures that give here the tasty delights. What I hate is getting licked in the face and smelling rabbit ****.
Scout treasures goose poop.
I keep my lips shut tight when she gives me "kisses"!
I love that stupid dog...
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Ughhh...and right before dinner!Scout loves goose poop!
I keep my lips shut tight when she gives me "kisses"!
I love that stupid dog...
As a general matter, I like dogs better than I like people. Dogs are honest to a fault, they don't lie or cheat, (though one may on occasions steal) Dogs are not fickle or vengeful.Scout treasures goose poop.
I keep my lips shut tight when she gives me "kisses"!
I love that stupid dog...
One of my favorite dog stories is that I was doing a service call at a house in a very remote area. I came up the dirt drive, parked my van and between me and the front door was a dog on a heavy chain. (I hate chains on dogs) I walk up to the dog, like we were best buddies, tugged on his ear, and gave him some pets. I walked up to the house, knocked on the front door and when the owner opened the door, he was in shock. The first words out of his mouth was, "How did you get past the dog?" Perhaps if I had known that the dog had a bad reputation, it may not have worked out as well.
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Simple," the more I'm around people the more I like Dogs"
Our dogs are relatively normal, but we have a cat that loves shoe strings and dental floss. Have to keep shoes away from him or he will eat the strings. We also have to flush floss down the toilet or he'll get it out of the trash and eat it.
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I've had about a dozen dogs in my lifetime and generally they were the most lovable and honest creatures God ever created.
I did have one terrier, however, who considered the waste-can in the bathroom her personal q-tip buffet.
I did have one terrier, however, who considered the waste-can in the bathroom her personal q-tip buffet.
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Had a dachshund once who would eat an entire bowl of food but if there was one pea mixed in, it would be polished and left in the bowl.
We had a lab who would do that too. I told my mother, "If the dog won't eat them, neither will I." Strangely, she didn't argue.
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This cocker was bought at the insistence of wife and daughter from a pet store in the mall. I was in the book store and they went in the pet store. They came to me saying you have to come and look at the best looking puppy. I told them " you Never buy a dog or cat from mall pet stores". They insisted so he went home with us after I told them he's your dog. Things were fine until one evening I had gone to bed and wife was downstairs watching tv. This was way back when the rabbit dolls were " the thing" for women and hers was sitting in a chair beside the tv. Was just about asleep when I heard this " sailor language" and running downstairs. Got up and went downstairs to see what was going on. Wife had a broom in her hands and a I'll kill look on her face. She asked me where the little #*@-er was as she was going to beat the @+*- out of him. Had a wing chair with a skirt that went to floor in downstairs hall and was standing beside it wondering what had happened and where he was. All of a sudden he flew out from under the chair and got between my feet looking up with a " save me " look on his face. Wife came around and saw him and still wanted to beat him. I picked him up and asked just what did he do? She said she was watching tv and Corkey was also watching as he would. Said he got up went over to her rabbit dolls, looked at her, cocked his leg and peed of rabbit. I had to bite my lip to keep from LOL. After that he was my Dog. He went everywhere with me, flea markets, gun shows( made lots of friends) and to MVCC events. As for eating anything he jumped of the dining room table while we were at work and ate a whole package of chocolate covered nuts! Our vet said chocolate is very bd for dogs and to watch him. Daughter had a pat rabbit that was house broken. He would go to back door and thump on floor to go out. He'd go out do his business and come back on porch and thump to get in. Very good rabbit as he knew his name and liked to be held and petted. Wife and daughter had gotten some early pepper spray and one left the can on dining room table. Wife and I got home from work, opened back door and were hit with a strong smell of pepper spray. Well Corkey had gotten on table again and bit into can of spray. He was yellow and the rabbit was so Po'ed he was thumping in his cage wanting to go out. Anyway Corkey got to go on the USS Sequoia as our group was using it for our display at Jamestown MTA. He got to sit on the president bed and had free run of the boat. His demeanor went down and ended up biting a few people and after he bit me he had to be put down on vets recommendations.
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When I was a kid dad bought a couple of those short haired pointers for quail hunting. Those dogs would dig up, chew up and swallow small rocks (you could see the pieces in their piles of poop). Later, when we moved to WV they would eat coal out of the bucket by grandma's cook stove. They'd pick up a piece of kindling and chew chunks off it to swallow. So smart in some ways, so dumb in others.
My dog "Buddy" leaves peas in the bowl too. Don't know how he does it. They're mixed with the gravy, other vegetables, and meat. I call him "The Wonder Dog". I wonder how he does certain things and what he'll do next 
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He sure does not look like it, but I think he is part goat...
My currrent dog will eat anything that I will except honey.
Sounds like some kind of canine obsessive-compulsive disorder. Ask your vet about it. I would do an internet search too.
