Eat s*** and die, dog.
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I haven't slept since 2 days ago. Last night my pointer kept me up, wanting to go to the garden every half an hour, where he would moo like a cow whilst trying to poo out an imaginary house brick. His capability for balancing on his front legs, for extended periods, is quite impressive.
Feeling and looking like death (me, not him), I took the little sod to the vet this morning. It turns out that he has AGAIN eaten rubbish whilst out for a walk and has contracted pancreatitis. This is the second time in two weeks he's been ill due to ingesting crap.
So, as I was handed a £200 bill I was cheered with the news that having had pancreatitis once, he'll be more susceptible to it again. The dog's options now are that he can only ever have lead walks, or wear a cage muzzle. He is too old and greedy to learn not to eat things he finds.
Now, he is an active dog, so lead walks only won't be fair. He will have to wear a muzzle. Now everyone will think we've got an aggressive dog who needs muzzling to protect third parties, whereas in fact it is to protect him from himself. Tempting though it is right now, if I allow him to eat rubbish until he expires my wife would miss him.
Feeling and looking like death (me, not him), I took the little sod to the vet this morning. It turns out that he has AGAIN eaten rubbish whilst out for a walk and has contracted pancreatitis. This is the second time in two weeks he's been ill due to ingesting crap.
So, as I was handed a £200 bill I was cheered with the news that having had pancreatitis once, he'll be more susceptible to it again. The dog's options now are that he can only ever have lead walks, or wear a cage muzzle. He is too old and greedy to learn not to eat things he finds.
Now, he is an active dog, so lead walks only won't be fair. He will have to wear a muzzle. Now everyone will think we've got an aggressive dog who needs muzzling to protect third parties, whereas in fact it is to protect him from himself. Tempting though it is right now, if I allow him to eat rubbish until he expires my wife would miss him.
so called said:
By him a t-shirt that says "I eat s
t.
One of our recent additions decided to scoff Morphine tablets out of my daughters handbag last Friday night.
Now 140 quid lighter, we are hoping that he may have learned a lesson but we don't think so some how.
Oh, didn't mention, last week after being ill for a couple of days he puked up a grey sock. Not my size sadly, and there was only one.t.One of our recent additions decided to scoff Morphine tablets out of my daughters handbag last Friday night.
Now 140 quid lighter, we are hoping that he may have learned a lesson but we don't think so some how.
After growing up with dogs I finally bought my first one when I was 42.
Nothing has amazed me more than his ability to eat st.
I don't actually mean st, although he will eat that as well, but just things that are wrong.
We live by a large pool, duck/goose cack is his delicacy of choice, although at the weekend I caught him chewie g on a dead pidgeon .
EDIT; how do you spell pidgeon?
Nothing has amazed me more than his ability to eat s
t.I don't actually mean s
t, although he will eat that as well, but just things that are wrong.We live by a large pool, duck/goose cack is his delicacy of choice, although at the weekend I caught him chewie g on a dead pidgeon .
EDIT; how do you spell pidgeon?
God, I share your pain.
We bought a goat by mistake. Eats anything, but sts it out with remarkable ease.
Had an incident with a marrow bone that I left her with unattended for more than 30 seconds one evening.
Sod's Law: a massive shard slintered off and down the hatch it went. Panicking about peretonitis (sp?), general puncturing of insides, blockages, all sorts, off we went to the vet.
Turns out it was smaller shards rather than one large shard, and it had shot through to her nether regions surprisingly quickly. Vet offered to "fish them out" (
) - rang me again 5 minutes later, saying, "Are you alright if I give her an enema? It's just we've pulled out a hairball (?!), a fair amount of various plastics, a smaller shard of the bone fragments and what looks like part of a sock, but haven't reached the bigger shard yet".
Stupid goat.
(Dog, not vet!)
OP - if I saw your dog muzzled, I'd think that you were a responsible and considerate dog owner, rather than the opposite.
We bought a goat by mistake. Eats anything, but s
ts it out with remarkable ease.Had an incident with a marrow bone that I left her with unattended for more than 30 seconds one evening.
Sod's Law: a massive shard slintered off and down the hatch it went. Panicking about peretonitis (sp?), general puncturing of insides, blockages, all sorts, off we went to the vet.
Turns out it was smaller shards rather than one large shard, and it had shot through to her nether regions surprisingly quickly. Vet offered to "fish them out" (
) - rang me again 5 minutes later, saying, "Are you alright if I give her an enema? It's just we've pulled out a hairball (?!), a fair amount of various plastics, a smaller shard of the bone fragments and what looks like part of a sock, but haven't reached the bigger shard yet".Stupid goat.
(Dog, not vet!)
OP - if I saw your dog muzzled, I'd think that you were a responsible and considerate dog owner, rather than the opposite.
they have a dog who obviously ways like a goat (ie will eat anything). I read it twice myself before I twigged So, the little sod has been wearing a muzzle for a few days now, when out walking. He spends the first third of the walk trying to paw it off, the next third walking in front of me and stopping in the hope that I will remove it and the final third moping about in a generally disgruntled manner.
He doesn't understand realise that a muzzle is better than pancreatitis.
Eleven said:
So, the little sod has been wearing a muzzle for a few days now, when out walking. He spends the first third of the walk trying to paw it off, the next third walking in front of me and stopping in the hope that I will remove it and the final third moping about in a generally disgruntled manner.
He doesn't understand realise that a muzzle is better than pancreatitis.
He won't, unfortunately dogs cannot connect consequences of eating the wrong things. What type of muzzle have you got?He doesn't understand realise that a muzzle is better than pancreatitis.
bexVN said:
Eleven said:
So, the little sod has been wearing a muzzle for a few days now, when out walking. He spends the first third of the walk trying to paw it off, the next third walking in front of me and stopping in the hope that I will remove it and the final third moping about in a generally disgruntled manner.
He doesn't understand realise that a muzzle is better than pancreatitis.
He won't, unfortunately dogs cannot connect consequences of eating the wrong things. What type of muzzle have you got?He doesn't understand realise that a muzzle is better than pancreatitis.
It's a Baskerville size 8:
bexVN said:
Ahh, that's the style we recommend, it's just going to take a bit of time for him to get used to it.
One thing that I have been doing is removing it when he greets other male dogs. There are a couple locally that are a bit hostile and I wonder whether the muzzle would make them more so. I also don't want to remove my dog's ability to defend himself if needs be. I don't mean fight to the death, but on the odd occasion he's been bitten he responds swiftly in kind and that's usually the end of it.What do you think?
dudleybloke said:
My mates spaniel had a thing for eating stones.
Some dogs are just stupid I guess.
I used to have a Pug that ate stones all the time. If I ever tried to take them off him he ran away and promptly choked on said stone in excitement, so I just had to leave him to it.Some dogs are just stupid I guess.
I'm sure he only did it in the hope of a chase
dudleybloke said:
My mates spaniel had a thing for eating stones.
Some dogs are just stupid I guess.
I used to have a Pug that ate stones all the time. If I ever tried to take them off him he ran away and promptly choked on said stone in excitement, so I just had to leave him to it.Some dogs are just stupid I guess.
I'm sure he only did it in the hope of a chase
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