Expensive bar of chocolate!!!!

lifecatalyst

Much as we love them, dogs do have some horrible habits don't they! I have to police mine in the garden or he jumps over the walls to get on the vegetable patch to eat the cat pooh :mad:

I'm trying to decide if it's worth the £20 to get a sonic cat repeller (do they really work?) or fence off the area......

He loves tissues also, so we can't leave them in bins.....although worse still is when he eats tissues he finds in the street :eek:

I adopted him from Guidedogs - he got rejected at advanced training so he nearly made it.....i just wonder how a blind person could have coped with him eating everything?

Shambler

I'm a lindt chocolate fan but 85% cocoa is too much for me to handle, 70% is enough

At least the dogs OK now :T

Maybe she thinks she is a chocolate lab :rolleyes:

tieg3

lifecatalyst wrote: »

I'm trying to decide if it's worth the £20 to get a sonic cat repeller (do they really work?) or fence off the area......

My nan has always sworn by rubber toy snakes in her flower gardens for keeping the cats off, so maybe worth a try first

foreign_correspondent

oh blimey,my dgs have never tried to steal chocolate or anything gross, although when I had my old dog she was a devil for stealing strong minty things - I once came home to find a shredded wrigleys extra packet, and a minty fresh, guilty looking dog, another time it was the the shards of smints packet!
Oddly enough the only other thing she ever chewed up was an envelope put through the door by my OH's mum, this was the only time she chewed the mail, imagine our surprise when we came home to find it shredded up, and our horror when we realised the envelope contained OH's birthday card and a £20 note, now finely shredded! Nice one doggo!

snipzychick

My oldest dog doesn't like chocolate(not that we've ever fed it to him) my son dropped some on the floor once and the dog had a sniff and turned his head away in disgust and walked away Mind you he doesn't even like proper doggie choc drops either. He isn't a greedy chap though he will only eat until he's full. He has stolen a cooked sausage once of the kitchen worktop :rotfl: We did leave him unsupervised in the room with it though very difficult for most dogs to resist that one :rolleyes:

ameliarate

My fell terrier ate chocolate from under the Christmas tree one year, including a large toblerone, a large bar of milk chocolate and a chololate orange. She was sick and sick and sick and sick and ............. I rang the vet who said I was lucky she was being sick and I know what she meant but she didn't have to clean it up! I haven't made the mistake of putting chocolate under the tree since.

frugallass

lifecatalyst wrote: »

Much as we love them, dogs do have some horrible habits don't they! I have to police mine in the garden or he jumps over the walls to get on the vegetable patch to eat the cat pooh :mad:

chop up fresh lemons and limes and scatter them in your garden, that should deter the cats from doing their nasty poos in your garden

sarah*a

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

oh blimey,my dgs have never tried to steal chocolate or anything gross, although when I had my old dog she was a devil for stealing strong minty things - I once came home to find a shredded wrigleys extra packet, and a minty fresh, guilty looking dog, another time it was the the shards of smints packet!

My pup has a thing for mints too - if I'm eating polos she practically drools on me :rolleyes: and DSD has to make sure all chewing gum is properly wrapped up and thrown away or pup has a field day rooting round the bin to find it

saveaholic68

Glad she is OK. I once left the room for about 5 minutes, and when I returned my black lab had climbed up onto a shelving unit we had (an annoying trick she learned, which meant all our ornaments had to be taken down), knocked a tube of pringles onto the floor, chewed through the tube and eaten the entire contents!! Must be a trait in labradors, they do like to eat anything going!

eyelinerprincess

ka7e wrote: »

My brother's dog (another Lab of course!) has been through it twice. First she found a wrapped box of chocs under the Christmas tree and scoffed the lot. A few years later she stole the Christmas cake off the kitchen worktop. The vet had to treat her because of the quantity of dried fruit she had consumed.

My dog once gorged herself on dry dog food to the extent that she couldn't stand up - we let nature take it's course. 17 poos and 24 hours later, she was fine. Obviously she is a Lab, too.

Mine (Lab too of course) decided to eat some painkillers (they were where we thought he couldn't get them, but if there's a will....). Mum called the vet, who told her to try and make him sick. Quite a few mustard sandwiches later _pale_ (which he munched quite happily and wanted more), plus whatever else we could find which may make him sick, he still hadn't thrown up. Vet concluded that since it was three hours, and he hadn't changed at all, he'd be fine, but not have a headache for a while.