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Posted by Paul Goulet (Member # 297) on 04-08-2003, 09:24 PM:

Thats right..My dog is a Dalmatian and her name is Two-Tone and last night before going to bed I took my socks off and put them on my bed. When I went back to get them, they were gone! I wasn't sure if I was going insane and left my socks somewhere else, or if I had a sock thief in the house until I got home from work today, and there in a pile of regurgitate [puke]

food, were my socks!! My Dog ate my socks! Both of them!! This isn't really anything new with her. When she was a puppy she did eat many socks and a few leash's also.
My question is, has anyone else's dog eaten socks or any other household items??

Paul Goulet

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 04-08-2003, 10:17 PM:

If she is still a puppy, she is probably still teething. I guess it hurts when they go through that stage, so they will chew on anything that is handy.

I doubt if she ate the whole thing. If you look around in her secret little hiding place, you might find what is left, if anything other than a pile of barf.

Give her some hard food to chew on. That might help. Vets have a medication that you can schmeer on her gums that will ease the pain a little for them.

If she is not a pupply, she is probably bored out of her skull!That happens to dogs as well as humans. They can also get very depressed.

In any event, you might want to discuss it with the vet to see if you can come up with a way to break the habit that has apparently formed.

Just my opinion....

But yes....dogs will eat anything! You name it...if it fits in their mouths, they'll eat it. Some of the stuff they eat will make you [puke]

Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 04-08-2003, 10:20 PM:

One of my friends in Los Angeles was a raging pot-head. Actually, MANY of my friends in Los Angeles were raging potheads!

Anyway, this particular friend had a German Shepherd that found his stash one night while he was out on the town. The dog ate ALL of his pot and then ate an entire roll of toilet paper and the contents of a small jar of Vaseline petroleum jelly.

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 04-08-2003, 10:21 PM:

Dogs DO love vasoline... [Smile]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-08-2003, 11:36 PM:

Dogs love ANYTHING that's smelly!

Not to say that your feet stink but, as you know, a dog's sense of smell is more acute than a human's. They LIKE stinky stuff. To a dog, a big pile of shit smells like "Chanel No. 5"! A pair of sweaty socks smell like lunch!

I've heard of this before. The dog will usually puke 'em up or shit 'em out. On some occasions, the dog will have to go to the vet and have an operation to get the socks out because they block the digestive tract. I saw on TV, once, where a dog ate a whole box of "Brillo" pads! (Soap-impregnated steel wool for scrubbing pots and pans.) They actually saved the dog's life!

I agree with Paul. Check to see if the dog really ate the whole thing and check to see if the dog is cutting-in its new teeth

If the dog has a habit of doing this after it grows up you will have to watch it closely to see that it doesn't bite off more than he can chew... literally! You don't want the dog to end up having an operation (or worse!) just because it couldn't stop eating smelly things!

Often animals will do things like this because they are "bored". (Or as bored as an animal can be.) If you give them some attention, supervision and enough activities to keep their minds busy they will usually grow out of the phase.

I had a cat, once, which liked to lick the emulsion off my film!
I once brought a batch of (B/W 35 mm still photo) negatives home from the lab and left them on the living room table one evening. I went to bed, thinking nothing of it. In the morning I found them scattered on the floor with almost all of the images GONE! Just blank film! The damn cat must've though they tasted good because almost an entire roll of film had been licked clean!
Needless to say, I had to keep my photo stuff in a closed drawer from then on!

Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 04-09-2003, 12:13 AM:

I've been thinking about getting a dog, but I would have to dog-proof my house. We had a pair of basset hounds when I was a kid. Those hushpuppies would chew up all kinds of stuff. One of the dogs reduced my straw cowboy hat into a yamulka. Lost some shoes and a good number of toys to them as well, along with a school library book I had to pay for out of my allowance! [Mad]

Dogs sometimes like to eat their own poo, but they seem to love cat poo even more. We would catch the dogs raiding the litter pans for "tootsie pops." I remember one of the dogs jumping up on the couch to greet my dad. He remarked, "hey, this dog smells like he's been eating cat shit." Then he looked closer and saw the kitty litter gravel on the dog's lips. "He has been eating cat shit!"

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 04-09-2003, 12:24 AM:

Dogs will also eat grass. They do it because they don't feel good, and they WANT to puke, just like a person who is exceedingly drunk. Remember the times you jammed your finger down your throat to enhance the puking? Well, dogs can't jam their paws down their throat, so the eat grass instead.

There are home remedies that will make you puke your brains out if you eat something nasty that is bad for you. Same difference.

Bobby said:

quote:
"Dogs sometimes like to eat their own poo.."

True. One leading reason is if you disipline the dog too harshly during the house-breaking phase, they will become afraid. They know it is wrong, and they would rather "hide the evidence" by munching it down insead of getting their ass beat.

Remember, generally a dog will not mess in their own bed unless there is no other choice. So, you make your house seem like a huge doggy bed. Give him a place to "have an accident" in case you can't take the dog for a normal walk on schedule. That little emergency place you make for your dog will probably be the only place it will use in event of an accident.

Problem solved. [Big Grin]

Contrary to popular belief, dogs are very clean animals if you take care of them.

Now you have to make sure the dog is taught the simple fact that those little crunchies in the kitty box are not doggie treats. [Eek!]

Posted by Andrew Duggan (Member # 1302) on 04-09-2003, 02:05 AM:

No animal in it's right mind, human, canine or otherwise, is dumb enough to get near *my* socks, let alone eat them [Wink]

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-09-2003, 02:16 AM:

Yeah Paul... you NEED to wash them once in awhile...so they are NOT so "attractive"! [Big Grin]

>>> Phil!

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 04-09-2003, 03:18 AM:

Phil, the only time I have to give my Beagle a bath is when he gets into something he should stay away from. Other than that, he just washes himself - just like a cat. The only grooming I have to do to him is to brush his fur so he does not shed so much, and keep his nails trimmed.

Years ago, I had another Beagle. He got off the leash one time and went out inspecting something. I think it was a cow. When that little hound came home, he was covered with cow manure. He welcomed a bath. Actually, he stunk so bad that the preliminary wash was with a garden hose.

Here is something of interest:

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."
Anonymous

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
Ann Landers

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
Ben Williams

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
Josh Billings

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
Andrew A. Rooney

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."
M.Facklam

"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
Sigmund Freud

"I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl."
Penny Ward Moser

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."
Robert Benchley

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."
Franklin P. Jones

"If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise."
Unknown

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money."
Joe Weinstein

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
Anne Tyler

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
Robert A. Heinlein

Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 04-09-2003, 04:25 AM:

Not just socks and dope ,the pup's now carrying a concealed weapon.

Take a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/2931179.stm

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-09-2003, 06:05 AM:

No Paul, I was referring to the "other" Paul...and his socks... [Big Grin]

>>> Phil

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 04-09-2003, 10:22 AM:

"So you need the affection of an emotionally shallow animal?"
Robert de Niro in Meet the Parents

Posted by John Spooner (Member # 1565) on 04-09-2003, 01:30 PM:

I have 3 dachshunds, and virtually everything 6 inches or lower has been eaten or chewed. Socks, shoes, underwear, electric cords, chair legs and so forth have torn or bear teeth marks. Max, my miniature male is a chewer and there are holes in the bed linen, pillow cases and my good trousers.
Whenever there is a litter of puppies, the puppies chew on anything, learning well from their parents.
On a trip to Melbourne once, I went to use the cb radio and could not transmit as the dog had chewed the microphone cord, another dog bit through the power lead of an associate`s photocopier when it was on (240 volts in Australia), and did not receive a shock.
They love to shred paper, so the floor is always covered with small bits of paper.
Dachshunds can be destructive, but they are very loyal and highly entertaining.
Jonn Spooner.

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 04-09-2003, 02:35 PM:

Beagles are great dogs. Very loyal, too. They are self-exercising, they love kids, and good watchdogs, up to a point. That make alot of noise if someone approaches the owner if the owner is not aware of being approached by a stranger. They love attention, and they will take the owner for a walk. Sometimes I think my 22-lb hound can tow a tank! He is going on 16 years old now, and everyone still thinks he is a puppy.

The only downsides I have experienced with Beagles is that they are "sniffers" and when they start sniffing, they quickly and completely become totally unaware of their surroundings. They have to be on a leash at all times while outside. They have been known to dig themselves out of a fenced yard.

However, you don't want to piss off a Beagle. (it is hard to do that anyway, they are almost unpissable) as they have been known to rip the pisser a new asshole. If the pissee (the Beagle) does this, the pisser deserves it. But yet, I have never heard of a Beagle attacking his or her master. Be as it may, as with any dog, it could probably happen under abusive situations.

When in the house, they want to be in the same room with you. Poopers will come into the computer room, coil himself up in front of my feet under the desk, and zonk out. If I get up and leave the room, within 2 minutes he is following me.

Dogs are great. A friend of mine who lives in Evansville, Indiana was a K-9 cop. He said the best partner on the poilce force was his K-9 friend.

Recently, a police dog was killed in Everett, WA during a police chase. The police officer who maintaind the dog as his partner was in tears.

You read about things like this all the time.

Anyway, if you ever get a dog for a pet, do alot of research. Some breeds of dogs are undesirable for certain enviroments. Example: You don't want to get a pit bull if your house has toddlers. Some pit bulls and others as well will see the toddlers as "snacks"...you get the point.

OK, I could not resist. Here is a picture of my little Pooper. [Big Grin]

[ 04-09-2003, 03:53 PM: Message edited by: Paul G. Thompson ]

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 04-09-2003, 04:24 PM:

"Dachshund" is German and means "badger dog". They were bred with the pointy snout so they could be inserted into the badger`s tunnelly lair to extract the badger.

Posted by Paul Goulet (Member # 297) on 04-09-2003, 05:16 PM:

To answer a few Questions..
**Two-Tone isn't a puppy. she is 6 years old.

**And yes, she did eat both socks, the WHOLE sock!

**I think she ate it out of boredom, she is usually alone during the day for a few hours. However, I do leave the TV on for her when I'm Not at home (The Animal Planet channel, of course)

**I should buy her some new toys..I think she ate all the other ones!

quote:
Yeah Paul... you NEED to wash them once in awhile...so they are NOT so "attractive"!

..I'll try that and see if that works!

Here is a picture of the "Sock Thief"..

Name: Two-Tone
Female: White & Black Dalmatian
Date Whelped: 03/12/96

Posted by Bruce McGee (Member # 131) on 04-09-2003, 05:43 PM:

Pooper looks like the best dog, Paul. I love dogs.

I own cats. I treat them like dogs.

Last summer, I lost my cat. She was 19 years old. She is buried in the yard in a spot where she used to like to go and sleep. I hope she is happy there.

After I got over the shock of her death, I was moving furniture around one day. I moved my big 1960-era RCA color TV and found a ton of socks and underwear where the TV had been. The TV had sat there for almost 15 years. I had no idea that she had been hoarding socks. Funny thing, she had snatched mostly clean sock pairs. All that time, I thought that I was just being awfully hard on socks, and that my washing machine had been eating them.

I threw the socks out. She had done something else all over them. I'm amazed that I never noticed a smell...

Posted by Bernard Tonks (Member # 809) on 04-09-2003, 06:36 PM:

Knife-swalling puppy bounces back to health.

A puppy has bounced back to health just days after swallowing a kitchen knife the length of his body.

Jake, a 12-week-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier cross, was taken to the vet when he began vomiting and trying to keep his body in a straight line.

X-rays showed why the puppy was so reluctant to curl up - a seven-inch knife was running through his body, with the plastic handle at the base of his pelvis and the metal point at the top of his throat.

Jake had swallowed the Shappu 2000 knife whole, handle-first, at his home in Huyton, Merseyside.

Vets at the nearby People's Dispensary for Sick Animals hospital operated immediately to remove the knife and Jake was back to his playful self within days.

Senior vet Christina Symonds said: "The knife went from his oesophagus, passed behind the larynx and right through his stomach down into the bowel.

"Dogs are always swallowing strange things, from kebab sticks to corn-on-the-cobs to tape cassettes, but this was particularly unusual because it was such a large knife in a small puppy. It really did run the length of his body.

"If he had swallowed the knife blade-first, it would have caused more damage but then again he would have stopped before eating the whole thing!"

Owner John Mallett, 22, said: "When the vet told me it was a knife I was in total shock. I couldn't understand how he could fit it in.

"He's come through the operation really well and he's totally back to his old self. The PDSA did a really good job and I'm just pleased and relieved that he's OK."

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-09-2003, 07:53 PM:

My mother would say, "See!! Look what happens when you run with sharp objects!!" [Big Grin]

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-09-2003, 09:13 PM:

If my dogs ate my socks at the end of a long day it would kill them.
Mark

Posted by John Spooner (Member # 1565) on 04-10-2003, 10:04 AM:

Dear Micheal (Gisela).
Thank you for the information regards the German details about the dachshunds.
What other names are they called in Germany, I have heard of them being called "teckels", anything else?
The burrowing instinct is very strong in my 2 miniatures, if they find a rabbit hole they go straight into it, they constantly bark when underground to tell where they are, coming out only when THEY are ready.
Being short- legged scent hounds they can follow a scent with ease, once they find a scent they are like Paul T`s beagles, they mind goes entirely on the scent, so they cannot be walked off a leash in the city near roads.
Hope to learn some more details from you.
John Spooner. (the skunk).

Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 04-10-2003, 01:06 PM:

Actually the term "Dachshund" is rarely used in German. They are mostly called "Dackel". Pronounced like "duck", not like "deck".

Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-11-2003, 04:22 AM:

One evening a few years back my cat, Mogzilla, started taking an interest in the glass of whisky I had just poured myself. She sniffed at it quite intensely, and must have inhaled some fumes, because she was walking around quite unsteadily for the next hour or so! I don't think she actually swallowed any, which is just as well: that alcohol concentration is bad enough for human livers, and in a feline one I'd guess it would probably cause fatal alcohol poisoning.

The cat had good taste, though - the dram in question was of cask strength Talisker, the bottle in question having been given to me by a friend after I removed a virus from her computer.

Posted by Phil Hill (Member # 371) on 04-11-2003, 04:28 AM:

One of my ferrets used to love my Rum & Cokes.... He would not leave me alone if he saw I was drinking one! I couldn't even sneak one....

I never gave him enough to fuck-him-up, but he was such a pistol!

>>> Phil

Posted by Lindsay Morris (Member # 1430) on 04-11-2003, 07:23 AM:

Dogs seem to relish smelly stuff and roll in the most foul smelling stuff they can find after you have just bathed them.
Whether it is their way of saying "I didn't want to be washed" or it is the need to rid themsleves of the soap or doggie shampoo odour I have no idea.
We have a 18 month old ACD (Aust Cattle Dog) and it just cannot go past any dead goannas laying in the bush or roads without doing a shoulder roll in the carcass and then prancing about almost saying "I smell lovely". We almost fall over with the smell and go get the hose.
It also loves the smell of feet and gets to my toes when I kick off my scuffs and goes over each and every toe licking meticuosly. Frequently when I cannot find my scuffs they are in her bed and she often sleeps with her nose inside them... yuk even I can't stand the smell somedays.
There is a bit of Dalmation in the ACD breeding which gives them their sometimes spotty look and after all the things this pup of ours has eaten in 15 months I am not surprised Paul's ate his socks.
Ours has demolished plastic buckets and plant pots and the bits just go straight thru... must have an iron gut these dogs. It ran into a plastic garden sprinkler one day, snapping it off at ground level. When I went to repair the break there was about a foot of the thing missing and dog's teeth marks all over it. No prizes for guessing where the chewed up bits ended up... in the dogs droppings.
While I am typing this she is sleeping on my feet "gotta be crazy I am a Cattle Dog"
Lindsay

Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 04-11-2003, 03:16 PM:

Along time ago, a Beagle I had knocked over a full can of beer. It lapped up the full can's contents. I noticed something wea wrong when he tried to walk. His rear end would catch his face.

Beagles have not been known for coordination anyway. He acted like he had 10 feet completely out of synchronization with each other. [Big Grin]

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-11-2003, 04:17 PM:

I have had several dogs that really LOVED to drink beer. I think they like the taste but don't have the perception to tell if they are getting drunk until it's too late.

One dog would drink practically a whole six pack of beer by himself. He would get all "wound up" and want to wrestle and chase us kids around the yard. He would get so out of control we had to lock him up until he finally slept it off.

The other would drink beer out of a frisbee and then want to play "catch". After the first frisbee full of beer he would start to make these great, flying leaps like you see those championship frisbee dogs make on TV. Then he'd get more and more drunk. Before long, he'd hardly be able to walk and he'd lie down somewhere and sleep for the rest of the day.

As far as I can tell, I don't think I've ever seen a dog with a hangover, though. [Confused]