[Paine in the Neck]

The dog had not been fed for 45 hours and was eating plastic bowls, cigarette butts and drinking dirty water. Clarke, who had celebrated his birthday just the day before, was cooking lamb and had left his kitchen door open.

I could write a decent murder whodunit off of this.

[lastchance]

I doubt it was just hunger that caused this behavior. I would not be surprised to learn the dog had a serious illness that caused brain damage.