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Cocker Specific Discussion => General Cocker Spaniel Discussion => Topic started by: lescef on July 21, 2016, 10:37:22 PM
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Maddie is a dreadful scavenger and I spend our walks checking out the pavements and verges for dropped food rubbish. >:D
Tonight she picked something up. At first she wouldn't let us open her mouth, but then cooperated. She had a piece of bone wedged between her teeth in the roof of her mouth. We couldn't move it so rather than struggle in the middle of the street, decided to get her home. Got her on her the table at home, OH had to really hold her mouth open and I managed to dislodge it, then try and pick it out before she managed to swallow it. Hopefully, she hasn't swallowed any of it before we opened her mouth. Phew! I had visions of visiting out of hours vet.
Does anybody else suffer from litter ridden streets?
If I see the food and say leave, it sometimes works but her nose is just too efficient. The muzzle might have to come out again.
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Oh they really can worry you can't they? know what it's like with scavangers, Branston will leave it if I see the item of choice before him and tell him to leave, but when he is off lead anywhere but the garden his muzzle is a permament fixture. Yesterday whilst off-lead he found some poo - I think human but did not examine too closely :020: and all I will say is thank goodness for the muzzle!! :fear2: I ended up taking the muzzle off using a poo bag ph34r
Hope that Maddie is ok and has not swallowed anything harmful :luv:
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Hopefully Maddie didn't swallow anything.
My two are terrible for picking up anything and everything on their walks. Murphy got a small stick lodged between his teeth the other day that I had to prize out. And just today on a very short pavement walk I noticed that he was carrying something. When I investigated I found a tennis ball in his mouth. I have no idea where it had come from, it was only a short walk around the block.
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We have a problem around here with people dropping tissues and Dexter always tries to get them, not as worrying as a bone so I hope none was ingested.
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Henry picks up at least one tissue every walk. Luckily he'll drop it for a test, but still, yuck.
Being near a secondary school we have to watch out off discarded bones from friend chicken. Henry has also more than once picked up a, er, used latex product... :o
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Henry picks up at least one tissue every walk. Luckily he'll drop it for a test, but still, yuck.
Being near a secondary school we have to watch out off discarded bones from friend chicken. Henry has also more than once picked up a, er, used latex product... :o
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UGH!!!
All my dogs have gone mad for tissues! As soon as Humphrey sees me reach for one he's jumping up and he's forever stealing the packets. Its just the thought of them pinching used ones that people have thrown down that's so disgusting! :020:
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Lats year mine stole and swallowed a whole sweet-corn cob.
Someone just put down a plate at a barbecue.
Required emergency surgery to remove from stomach.
Fatal if it passes into the intestine.
Please be careful with these things.
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It's amazing that with everybody's stories, we don't all end up at the vets more often! >:D >:D
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Lats year mine stole and swallowed a whole sweet-corn cob.
Someone just put down a plate at a barbecue.
Required emergency surgery to remove from stomach.
Fatal if it passes into the intestine.
Please be careful with these things.
Sweetcorngate#1 and sweetcorngate#2 almost exactly 3 years apart....same dog!
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As some of you know Ollie was a rescue and seven months when we got him, I got a pack of three pork chop out of freezer at lunch time, they were on a plastic tray with clingfilm over. Just left them to defrost on side.
Got on with my afternoon at 5.30pm ish went to get dinner ready and defrost pork chops.
Yep not there......gone, search freezer thinking I had a lost it totally - even looked in all rooms in case I had placed them somewhere :shades: OH was told he was having something else and the story of the lost chops.
That evening OH closed blinds in lounge and bent down to retrieve a plastic tray, yep empty no chops and no bones.
Never known if eaten frozen or defrosted
Julie
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I bought a big beef leg bone with my weekend joint. I supervise these and maybe even hold the end.
This is partly about training out "guarding" because this is a very high value object.
My wife got it out of the freezer and the dog started work. I said that's an awfully big bone.
As the frost was licked away I realised she had given him our weekend joint.
I'll swear that dog kept looking at me with an "are you sure about this" face.
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Ooops! Did he get to finish it?
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No, I just swapped it for the bone and we cooked it.
He got some then of course.
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Aw I hope Maddy is ok.
Oscar is such a scavenger, literally anything, I picked out cat poo last week...! He also likes plants, there's a lady at the end of the road with a lovely front garden on flowers etc, it's as if he finds if a challenge to try everyone, We walks past (I try to steer him away with distractions) ripping the leaves and heads off them all, he doesn't eat them, it's as if he gets some sort of satisfaction destroying them! I'm not sure the lady who lives there is too happy mind! He peed on her shoe the first time he met her, luckily she likes dogs :005:
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Nobody could possibly not forgive Oscar anything, he's so,adorable!!!