for anyone who has or has had a dog who will eat anything!

[kerrybelle]

I have a Bullmastiff who's always burping, especially after he drinks water. I love him anyway!

[newfsmith]

As a vet tech, I frequently brought home discarded pets. My kids used to ask 2 questions, "Do we get to name this one or does it come with a name already?" and "Why do all of our pets arrive with funny haircuts?". Our first dog, "Puff", who looked very much like the dragon in the movie The Never-ending Story; arrived 2 days before my son's 8th birthday. While I was outside setting the picnic table, Puff ate 7/8ths of the birthday cake I had spent an hour decorating to Josh's specifications. Having been a stray, he showed no ill effects, but it did take a couple of days for Josh to forgive him.

[Running Mommy]

That was pretty darn funny! I have a great dane, and yeah, she burps! In fact she waits till she's right up next to my face to burp... nice!
The worse thing she did was eat my son's gingerbread house. He was devastated, but not as much as I was when I had to try to get the hard candy stains out of my beige berber carpet! DANG DOG!! I STILL have stains! But she's our baby, so what are you gonna do??

[wabisabi]

As a recent new owner of a fox terrier (I previously posted a picture of my expensive PI bike shorts with the crotch eaten...) I laughed pretty hard, if somewhat ruefully. Today I found a pair of my Patagonia underwear in the yard,although they seem OK. I am embarassed to say that mine actually sleeps the same way as described, only under the covers. Fortunately, she is also incredibly smart and cute.

[nuthatch]

OMG! This was hilarious! It's so enjoyable when it happens to someone else (my Jack Russell is a kitchen dispose-all).

My sister has a story of her pup, a sheltie, who would eat ANYTHING. One day she looks over and sees something hanging out of her backside. It's a string. Yes, the pup had eaten a tampon and it was working its way, undigested, through the system! UGG!!!

[kerrybelle]

Worst I've had, out the backside of my dog, was long pieces of grass/weeds. Couldn't imagine a tampon!!

[ladyjai]

had a dog that ate a bar of soap when we were camping. she also loved sticks of butter and loaves of bread.

Of course, one of my favorite stories with her doesn't involve food. She was in the tent trailer with us. (She is a golden retriever). Unlike most dogs, she doesn't launch into a barking frenzy right away when something happens. she watches (or in this case, listens carefully). She waited until it was obviously coming in to invade our campsite and barked, loud and hard and mean. The nasty odor of a skunk began wafting towards us, and several groans and moans filled the trailor.

The best part? the next morning, we found a perfect circle on the ground where the skunk sprayed. he was so scared, he never had a chance to lift his tail! he peed his pants! I bet you that skunk thought twice before scavenging a campsite

[corrine]

Oh my! This one had me laughing so hard I had tears running down my face... Thank you!
Our dog, a very sweet girl Pit Bull burps all the time, but it's the farts that will clear a large room very, very quickly!

[Lise]

OK, you started it, not me. But now that you have...with Orphan Annie, we had to put sanitary napkins in a jar with a screw on lid because she would get into ANYTHING else! Pull them out, eat them up, leave them around the house. I guess it's an animal thing, blood, etc, but JEEZ! My poor brother.

She once ate a ham slice in the packaging, just like the leg of lamb described above. Also, an entire pound of sugar-free, coffee flavored, individually wrapped candies. Sugar-free candies have an effect on the intestine if eaten in sufficient quantities. A dog with the runs who's also pooping out foil bits and cellophane.

Still, I like the image of the dog nipping at your hand while you try to pull a tampon out of her butt the best of all.

What were we saying about cross-posting with the guys' cycling board? L.