Comments on: Bad Chappy!

By: ELAINE

ELAINE — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:24:42 +0000

For the New Year! 2010! Can’t believe no one has pulled this question up for two years. I hope this goes through. Our Weimeraner as a one year old puppy ate a container of spackle which turned into a rock in his stomach, and there was no way to pass it after $1,700 for surgury. His original parents decided that they couldn’t supervise him the way he needed to be. I found their posting for a good home so we bought him from them for $500. He originally was a $1,500puppy. Then the $1,700 they spent on surgury.
We had experience with correcting misbehaving dogs.. Which backfired this time because our other weimeraner picked up the new dogs love of eating papertowels and tissues, tasty, tasty tissues from our colds.
One night I had to work midnight shift and Grayson wasn’t acting right, so I took him to work with me I am retired now but it didn’t go over to well when at 2am he threw up a whole pair of my husbands hanes size 38 underware. How he got it down his throat I don’t know.
But needless to say a memo went out that no one was allowed to bring their dogs to work anymore. (I worked for the State Police).
I thought the next summer that my husband was really enjoying my garden tomato’s until one day I brought in 6 tomatos, within a hour they were gone my husband wasn’t home. I put a tomato down on the floor and stood back in another room our normal culprit just sniffed it and left the room our original dog came in and gulp down the tomato in three bites.
We had to be careful about everything just like haviing a toddler. Trash cans had to be behind a closed door or cabinet. If food was left on the sideboard it was our fault if one of them got it, everything goes up high.

Last night for new years eve I made my husband cupcakes using the silicone cup cake holders. I left them out to cool. We decided to leave them out because we were going to bed. Grayson stays in a large bathroom at night with his own comfy bed. We put him to bed. In the Morning half the cupcakes were gone, he found a way to open the door (it’s the lever type of door knob. The problem… not only the cupcakes were missing but the silicone holders were also gone. We used two spoons of epsoms salt in a small bowl of milk (he loves milk). He lapped it up while I put on a leash. My husband immediatly took him out he threw up about 6 times the epsom salt should also help him poop. But we will have to keep him on a special diet and keep an eye on him for days as long as he is pooping and able to vomit, I don’t have to take him in to the doctors office.
I think my point is that once they pick up the habit of eating strange things it’s up to us to look at his environment from the level that he can reach and protect them from themselves.
Oh our original dog Elliott started gaining weight big time, we couldn’t figure out why, until one day I followed him out side, we have a areaway well to the crawl space under the house. I area we lived in at the time was rich in little lizards and little frogs. The frogs would jump in and couldn’t get out, he had an open salad bar everyday with a new supply. and he would dig holes to find the lizards. From then on out he had to wear a muzzle any time we let him out. We found out that the frogs have a chemical on their skin that can be like LSD. So we had a frog eating overweight drug addict, for a while. We put a cover over the well area. Once they start eating strange things I’m not sure that you can train it completely out of them we have to dog proof our house and make sure they have lots of safe toys like Kongs to play with. Hope this helps someone.

By: Norma

Norma — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:57:29 +0000

Oh, BROTHER!!! (I'm tempted to say "where art thou," but somehow that doesn't seem to fit). Yikes. What a tense waiting game! I hope it all, um, ....works out. Norma's last blog post..31. You Gotta Work on that Pickup Line, Bub

By: Coastergirl

Coastergirl — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:28:56 +0000

I know it is hard not to worry. Those little stinkers get into the weirdest stuff. My little 5lb yorkie has a BEAD fetish – yup, beads.

I found this out the hard way – I fell asleep on the couch and had left my beaded tee shirt on the back of the couch when I put on my robe. I woke up in the middle of the night to run to the potty, and on the way to the bathroom, I stepped on something – oh well…later. After I came back into the den, I looked – all little beads and sequins EVERYWHERE. She ripped off ALL the decoration from the shirt – and about 1/2 of it was on the floor… and no thread…hmmm

A month later, she did the same thing, ripping off dangles from a bag – seed beads strung with a spangle at the end…ugh….no threads again –

needless to say, no beaded knit items and no more decorated items…

I hope it will all come out in the end…(sorry for the pun) – I will keep Chappy in my puppy prayers!

Coastergirl’s last blog post..Whip it up Wednesday!!!

By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:21:18 +0000

This is really gross, but hopefully re-assuring. We used to have a dog who passed condoms. Same kind of material. I’d worry more about the chemicals on the glove (which are most likely all over your mom’s living room anyway) than the glove itself. Latex seems to pass through their systems quite easily.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:39:43 +0000

Poor Chappy, it seems a trait with spaniels, only happy unless they are carrying something in their mouths, especially with things they shouldn’t, a guy at work brings his cocker spaniel in with him most days and we have to be so careful what falls on the floor otherwise she’s running off with it. Hope the glove comes out the natural way and Chappy doesn’t suffer any discomfort

By: Ruth

Ruth — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 05:05:39 +0000

Ewwww – naughty dog! Our Irish wolfhound gnawed several small cedar trees in our backyard down to little nubbins when she was an adolescent – and pooped sticks. Never had a problem. Sending prompt peristaltic thoughts Chappy’s way….

By: Minnie

Minnie — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:15:00 +0000

i can definitely sympathize. my friend has a hoover for a dog (he’s a black lab, lol), who ate a silicone cupcake liner. with the cupcake. it fell off the table, and he snapped it up before anybody could get it away from him. it finally showed up a month later (in tiny little bits all over t he yard, lol). he never showed any discomfort, so the vet said wait it out.

good luck to chappy! tell him i said he’s a dork!

By: Chappysmom » Update

Chappysmom » Update — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:09:59 +0000

[...] things first: Chappy seems to be fine. It’s been about 12 hours since The Incident and he’s his usual bouncy self. I haven’t seen any, er, solid evidence of the, um, [...]

By: Terby

Terby — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:53:11 +0000

Oh no! I hope everything moves through quickly and the way it’s supposed to. Not fun…

By: Carol

Carol — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:58:37 +0000

Ooooooh! And ewwwwww! How goes the poop-watch?