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Posted on 04/19/2005 6:30:43 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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My labrador ate an entire rawhide bone, the kind that is knotted at each end, as one piece....
It came out as one piece too ;~D
I never gave him another one of those.
I give mine pressed rawhide. But its hard to find ones that are one roll, not with knots. She ate a whole on this weekend (but not in one piece!). It ain't a pretty sight...
Man. I hate to think of what might be in Stoney's gut. We have mostly always had female doggies, and they were more genteel and delicate (for dogs). Stoney, however, was in a huge litter and he had to grab food quick and get it down quick or lose out. Unfortunately, he doesn't have much discretion about just what is food and what is objects. He did snap up a candy wrapper that I accidentally dropped when I got out of the car and many things have disappeared around here. He loves Peeps, so a yellow rubber duckie would not have a chance on this place.
Kongs are great as chewies.
Occasionally, we get a Hartz stuffed animal for Tinker the Wonder Puppy, because he really loves them. Unfortunately, it's only a couple of hours before they're apart--he's going after the squeaky inside. So, we pick it up and throw it away the first time he walks away from it.
But he loves his Kongs--they usually last a couple of weeks, some longer. One has a hole that you can put peanut butter in. Drives him nuts.
One toy he loved a LOT was a hard yellow rubber blinky ball--when it moved, a light blinked inside. He had a hole in that one after about three weeks, so we tossed it.
Our Kongs later forever... but we go through the soft toys about as fast as you do. They have a good time with the squeakers. :~D
Hopefully it wasn't one of those foot-long ones that we give our dog from time to time...I can picture it now - OWOOOOOO!!!
It was a medium one - it was softened though ;~D
Ever since she was a pup, she could make quick work of any toy.
Bones get gnawed down to dangerous, razor sharp chocking objects within minutes.
Luckily, she knows not to mess with the babie's toys, and hasn't messed with the furniture. She has a KONG toy that she's works on, that's the only thing that's withstood her jaws.
After our lab does some dumpster diving in the kids toxbox while we are out of the house, our yard looks like a Peter Maxx colored plastic poop art festival. Barbie heads, Leggo chunks, bits of Barbie clothing, crayon chunks, and a collage of Fischer Price colors.
I'll have to tell you the story of my dad's springer spaniel that ate the plastic bag a newspaper comes in and it didn't digest and went thru and the last two inches of it got hung up (dingleberry) and she came hauling arse (literally) back thru their posh house slinging this plastic crap-soaked bag all over the place, wrapping around chair legs, table legs, slapping up against the doors and walls...my sisters and I jumped on chairs screaming (I was 9) while my dad comes running after her stooping trying to get hold of it and finally snatches it out of her with a quick yank and the dog yelped like someone had...well, pulled a bag out her rear. That was one of my favorite summers with him :)
when my lab was a year, she unknowingly grabbed a small piece of foil off the top of a grill (that had cooled) and consumed it. She was lethargic, salivating and had loose stools for a day; took her to the vet and they xrayed her. They didn't know what they were looking at and asked me if I had left anything laying around outside. Well, I had tossed oyster shells into a pile and she chewed on some of those but didn't swallow any; but I saw a bright thing on the xray and the doc didn't know what it was but I found out later. Foil doesn't break down.
I give mine two bones: indoors is a bleached bone, about 10-12" inch femur and the outdoor one is a 10" pressed rawhide. No fat or fillers or chemicals. She gets it taken away when she can hide the last bit in her mouth, about the size of a fist so she doesn't choke on it.
We also have done an analysis of a laboradors amazing skill at gripping a long log at it's center of gravity in one snatch. They seem to be able to judge exactly where to grab a log no matter which is the heavy or light end. We've tested this by checking the balance point of where they instinctively grab the log.
When I was a kid my dog ate a balloon string and all. It came out and was partialy inflated as it came out. We were afraid it was the dogs intestines coming out. When the string showed up we were greatly relieved. (So was the dog LOL!)
Our late, departed Golden Retriever, Prior Lake Jake had a peculiar fondness for Kleenex and toilet paper. He could find a tissue in my wife's nightgown, pull it out and swallow it in two seconds. He would also take a large bite out of the t.p. roll, which was amusing for a while. Other times, he would get the end of the roll and string it round the house. We figured there must've been something missing in his ration and he made up for it with paper.
Good toilet paper or tissues are a concoction of pulp mixed with creaping chemicals, wet strength resins, adhesives, retention aids, tallow, oil, and fragrances. Add on rates in total are around a hundred pounds per ton of paper. Had you instead purchased real cheap low grade toilet paper, the dog would have found it more tasteless.
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