Being cross with your dog

My Ivy went into my birthday gift bag and ate boxes of orange creams while I was out for my birthday breakfast. A mad dash to the vets, who was happy enough not to give her the meds to make her sick because there wasn't a lot of chocolate consumed just a lot of the orange centres. She did warn me she would probably be bouncing off the walls for the rest of the day with the E numbers she had in her though.

The first one was fair game … dropped on the floor as the clothes were taken out of the washer but the second was cheekily snatched from my daughter’s hand ….. and she swears that Tilly smiled as she gulped it down as she tried to grab it back!
Lots of very bad words were uttered!

Our last dog (not the stealer of chicken) would look guilty even when she hadn’t done anything.

If anyone made a hideous stink (I know some GNers don’t like the F-word) we’d say to her, ‘Pooh - was it you?’ and she’d slink off and hide behind the sofa*.

Very unfair of us when we knew it wasn’t her - hers had a distinctive ‘bouquet’.
*It was a very comfortable hiding place though - we kept an old, folded baby-size duvet there for her.

Oh wow - cute indeed. But honestly, the sock thing is just so bad! and easily avoided.

…… some dogs learn from their mistakes! 🤣

Fleurpepper

wow what a cutie. But ... put the shoes away, and more importantly, the socks. One of DDs ate one of sil's sock that he leaves all over the bedroom- on a Sunday. A VERY expensive trip to the VET, ad a VERY unpleasant and dangerous time for doggie- and all the upset.

Fleurpepper
This is Tilly looking rather sorry for herself during her SECOND out of hours expensive trip to the emergency vet after yet another sock swallowing episode! 🧦🧦

What a lovely pic, Maw!
Our first dog (RIP, 🐶) certainly knew when he’d been a Very Bad Boy.
I once left a dish of cold chicken pieces on the kitchen island (as I thought, out of reach) while I nipped to the shop (a quick walk away) for onions.

Came back to find the dish gone. Thought I was going mad - looked in the oven and fridge, etc., in case I’d put it there. No sign.
Eventually found both the empty dish (licked clean) and the dog (looking extremely guilty) curled up under the table.

To be entirely fair, it was largely my own fault for leaving such temptation under his nose, so to speak.

I had a friend who was working in the Antarctic. One day he returned to his tent to find that one of the sledge dogs had destroyed the book he was reading, mainly the end of the book so he didn’t know what happened (and, back then you couldn’t Google things). He’d taken everything from inside the tent and moved it outside: the book was the only thing that had been damaged. He said the dog had to be told off but he was secretly quite impressed with him, albeit being annoyed about the book. Mentioning this many years later I question my memory of it ( eg why wasn’t the husky tied up: surely there there other people around?) but it’s definitely what he told me and it always stuck in my memory. He was doing research on the ozone layer.

Years ago we had two police dogs, one working, one retired plus a rescue German Shepherd girl. The boys were understandably very well behaved but the rescue girl was not. We had friends round and I’d bought a lovely M&S cheeseboard with seven or eight cheeses on it. I left it on the kitchen surface and went into the living room. All of a sudden I heard a loud crash. It took me no longer than five seconds to get back to the kitchen and in that time, rescue girl had eaten every bit of cheese, even one wrapped in foil. She was, as they say, as sick as a dog that night but I shall never know how she ate so much in just a few seconds. Meanwhile the two police dogs looked horrified at me shouting at the top of my voice. They took themselves upstairs away from the trouble lest they should be accused of being in on it.

Is he burping a lot? 😀

Quokka

Callistemon21

Yet they can hold on to a tablet even if it's concealed in food, then spit it out!

Oh yes!

Yes, I had to run my finger right down the side of his tongue, that’s where he hides things. Yuck. He does have fresh breath now though.

Quokka

Callistemon21

She looks like my friend's shih Tsu

She is ShinTzu x Yorkie x Chihuahua

That is quite some pedigree!

Callistemon21

Yet they can hold on to a tablet even if it's concealed in food, then spit it out!

Oh yes!

Callistemon21

She looks like my friend's shih Tsu

She is ShinTzu x Yorkie x Chihuahua

Yet they can hold on to a tablet even if it's concealed in food, then spit it out!

Oops! Have you noticed Casdon that if you ask ‘what have you got in your mouth?’ they start chewing faster.

One of DD's dogs managed to open the fridge and pinch chocolate. She's a very greedy dog.
She survived.

She looks like my friend's shih Tsu

My spaniel is in the doghouse yet again tonight. He’s just snuck upstairs into my son’s bedroom and eaten Gaviscon by opening a new packet. Cue Google, looks like it’s not dangerous, but oh the stress - he will eat absolutely anything that could remotely be edible.

Thank you Calli - just a mongrel

She's gorgeous, Quokka 🙂

One of DD's dogs used to take shoes from the rack, he never chewed them but would carry them outside and leave them somewhere in the garden.
He only seemed to take the shoes of visitors 😀

The shoes were in the shoe rack!

Luckily she never actually seems to swallow what she chews - when she got the remote I spent hours gluing it together to check every little bit (including the battery) was there.

Phew!

Next door’s dachy pup actually eats socks so you’re right Fleur very dangerous. Happily her instinct is to bury things - in the garden, in her bed or under my pillow.

wow what a cutie. But ... put the shoes away, and more importantly, the socks. One of DDs ate one of sil's sock that he leaves all over the bedroom- on a Sunday. A VERY expensive trip to the VET, ad a VERY unpleasant and dangerous time for doggie- and all the upset.

In a moment of madness I adopted a one-year-old puppy. She chews everything up, steals my shoes and buries my socks in the garden, comes in with a muddy nose and muddy feet, then stomps all over me and wants to give me kisses.

Just as well I love her to to bits - and she makes me laugh so much.