Dog ate chicken skeleton

[Roadtrip]

hehe.. yea.. full tummy means he won't eat until some comes out the other side. I bet he was in heaven tho.. thinking NOM NOM NOM.. then you went and gave him treats. LOL.

My dogie once ate whole coffee beans. I was making coffee and spilled a scoop onto the floor and he was RIGHT there snapping them up as fast as he could until I could get myself between him and the mess. Even with a stern NO he still managed to eat more then I would have like.

He also started raiding the trash and got an awful (I mean REALLY awful) case of the dogie do-do and had an accident in the house while I was at work. I cleaned the mess up. He just looked at me so pathetic and sad I couldn't be mad at him. VERY next day he does the SAME thing, but to a lesser degree, so he was perfect example that dogs just aren't that dang smart!!!

[FunSize]

I know one trick for making dogs throw things back up if that's every an option. A vet actually recommended it.

We did this for a big 100 lb newfoundland after she ate something she shouldn't have. We gave her a big tablespoon of 3% hydrogen peroxide every 5 minutes until she threw up. We didn't go beyond 5 spoonfuls though. luckily she threw up at 5. But she just kind of gurgled and burped for the first 4.

I know that if dogs eat something dangerous like a hook or sharp bones you probably shouldn't make them throw up. But remember the peroxide if the doggies get into other things that they shouldn't that can come back out the way they went in.

[NbyNW]

I wonder if something would work as a doggy laxative?

Last year our dog ate a whole mess of blackberries at the park. Very same night, he produced same mess of blackberries.

Knott, I hope your guy is okay.

[badger]

He also started raiding the trash and got an awful (I mean REALLY awful) case of the dogie do-do and had an accident in the house while I was at work. I cleaned the mess up. He just looked at me so pathetic and sad I couldn't be mad at him. VERY next day he does the SAME thing, but to a lesser degree, so he was perfect example that dogs just aren't that dang smart!!!

I could've written that myself! I have SO many stories!

my dog would have literally toppled you over to get at a moldy bun. It really didn't help that he had colitis, so when he was indescrete (which was far more often than I liked!) he inevitably had accidents at home. And these are the projectile kind that smelled worse than hell itself. I'd be literally gagging while I'm cleaning up. I know he couldn't help it and the pitiful looks he gave me...

I used hydrogen peroxide on him a couple of times before I discovered activated charcoal. Whenever I wasn't quick enough to divert him from eating god-knows-what, I gave him a capsule of charcoal and he never had any explosions. Whenever his tummy was gurgling, the charcoal settled it.

If it were my dog that ate the chicken carcass, I would've had to stay home from work and sit outside with him all day...

[lph]

What is it with the snatching meat thing? Our cat is an avid hunter and is quite, uh, "sharing" with the mice and occasional bird she brings home. Never growls over or hoards anything.

But yesterday we gave her the remains of some lamb chops we had had for dinner, thinking she would enjoy licking out the marrow and gnawing on the large bones. She went insane, and disappeared wild-eyed into the livingroom under the table to eat in peace, "grumbling" as she went.

So what does this mean - she's really meant to hunt lamb?

[KnottedYet]

Gross! Gross! Gross!

No sign of distress from the chicken bones, but I have been paying a bit more attention to what the dog produces during this chicken-bone escapade. This afternoon I found Something Else... and it was so obvious that I would have seen it even before I started looking for chicken bone bits if it/they had been there.

Gross! Gross! Gross!

My is vet closed for the weekend and I couldn't bear to wait 'til Monday, so I high-tailed it to PetCo and bought some broad spectrum de-wormer. I did google what active ingredients were needed before I shopped, and made sure I got something with those ingredients. Maybe it will work, maybe it won't. I'll call the vet Monday.

GROSS!!! GROSS!!! GROSS!!!

[NbyNW]

oh Knott . . . sounds like this is harder on you than it is on your dog!

[KnottedYet]

Oh, and for dog-raiding of trash cans and everything else they're not suppose to have, 4 words:

Cesar Milan: Dog Whisperer.

3 more words:

National Geographic Channel.

One of these days I'm just gonna have to buy a TV.
If only so the dog can watch Cesar Milan.

[bmccasland]

If your dog is literate, Cesar has books too.

I learned a lot from watching his programs. Cesar trains people, and the dog works out.

[Trek420]

One of these days I'm just gonna have to buy a TV.
If only so the dog can watch Cesar Milan.

He's on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP8sD...eature=channel

[KnottedYet]

Yup.
The only question we flunked is the one about pulling on the leash. My dog is crazy for smells, and as he's gotten blind smells have become even more important. On a 6 ft loose-leash I often waterski, but on a short leash he will heel nicely.

Mine knows humans are boss. He's Omega Dog. He gets out of anyone's way. I can take away his bowl as he's trying to eat, and I can pull treats and toys out of his mouth. We used to do the whole poke-pull-prod business so he wouldn't freak if someone grabbed him, but not for years.

I originally had him training to be a therapy dog, but his temperment was just too anxious to be calm away from my side. I was supposed to consider it again after he was about 5 years old, but lost the desire.

Now he's older, part blind, has tender lipomas here and there, and is having some trouble with his hips. He's still one of the sweetest Omega Dogs I've ever met.

But, boy Howdy, can he find a chicken carcass!

[NbyNW]

Cesar's stuff can be really helpful (I'm a huge fan), but I think a lot of his advice falls into one of two categories: 1) making sure the dog gets adequate exercise and 2) correcting problem behaviors as they occur. (While also being aware of what you are projecting to the dog) Which you have to be present for.

It's a bit harder to correct behaviors that occur when the dog is unsupervised. Adequate exercise helps, but it may be that further dog-proofing the garbage or finding a way to confine the dog to a non-chicken-bone part of the home when you are out would be most expedient and effective.

[KnottedYet]

Or I could take the garbage out when it's full of chicken-ey goodness!

[Trek420]

[url] Step One:
Never walk around or step over your dog. Walk through. The dog needs to get out of the way every time. Of course don't hurt Fido to do this, but at first slowly shuffle forward, hold your ground, and make him give way.

My mutt (who tends to think she's in charge of all she sees) knows many tricks. One of them is "excuse me". Whenever she's blocking my way I just say that command and she moves outa the way.

It's one of the first things she learned.

[lph]

My mutt (who tends to think she's in charge of all she sees) knows many tricks. One of them is "excuse me". Whenever she's blocking my way I just say that command and she moves outa the way.

It's one of the first things she learned.

Heheh. I read this as the dog has learned how to "say" excuse me - and you move outa the way