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Cocker Specific Discussion => Behaviour & Training => Topic started by: ludo on February 15, 2008, 11:24:58 PM
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Does your cocker eat all manner of things they shouldn't - Dax is a bit like a hoover :005: he gobbled a lollipop wrapper today - down the hatch it went before I could stop him and you would think it was a roast beef dinner to see him chomp! :005: Back to the rubber gloves ... need I say more? :005:
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Yep...we said we should have called Lola "Womble " as she eats anything in her path..we dont go for road walks we go on scavenge hunts >:(
neither of mine even look where they are going they are too busy looking at the ground to see what they can eat ::)
Lola ate a slice of cheese from a cheeseburger still with the sellophane wrapper on :o before i had a chance to swop it she swallowed it :-\
it did come out the other end though ph34r
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yuk - the other end :005: I guess it's the gun dog instinct - you're right - the nose is generally glued to the floor but then he stops and sit and have a good look round about floor height - then off he goes again - nose down of course! :005:
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My last cocker Groove ate a whole sock once, we had to assist when it naturally found it's way through >:(
Eric is also like a hoover, he'll have a go at anything and as soon as he realises that you have caught him it goes straight down the hatch. I have nicknamed him Mr Snuffleuppagus (for those that remember sesame street) because of the way he goes snuffling around the ground looking for goodies :005:
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Millie swallowed a whole Ferraro Rocher (sp?) the other day, complete with foil wrapper and paper cup ::).
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sounds like you all have my dog!
Roxy also walks round with her nose on the floor mouth open, ready to hoover stuff up, she particularly likes tissues but will 'drop' them for a treat! anyhting edible, forget it! she has eaten sweets, wrappers and all, they all seem to come out! ph34r
The other week I gave her a loo roll inner bit to chew and rip up and she ate it!!!! Stupid pooch!
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OMG this so reminded me of when we looking after my mates dog. She ate a carrier bag and the first we knew of it was when it began to make a reapopearance but got stuck. She was running round the garden in a blind panic and all we could do was stand still as she wouldn't let us near her. When she hurtle passed my OH stood on the bit that was out and thankfully the rest made a reappearance. Once I got over the shock and we checked she was ok I fell apart laughing and was incontrollable for the rest of the night :005: :005: :005: :005: :005: :005:
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Charley is very particular about what he eats, fortunately. He's not food orientated and his staple diet is Frolic. This is always on tap and he can eat it as he wants, I top his bowl up every couple of days. I always give him something that I'm having in the evening and he often won't eat all of it if it's too much. He likes turkey, and I usually give him the breast as I find it too dry. He will eat so much, and then leave the rest until later.
Charley is not overweight.
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Rupert dug up a piece of soggy bread the other day that some animal had carefully stored, but I have found if I give him something to carry on the way home like an old glove he is so intent on carrying it that I can get him past old bits of food or plastic.
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thank god - I thought it was just Bracken !!!
She never looks wheres she going when out on lead walks, just bimbles along with her head down and following her nose - the rubbish shes picked up on walks and I've had to get out of her mouth before she swallows it is unbelievable!!
Her fave thing is dead mice left out by the neighbourhood cats tho, specially in the morning when they've been on the hunt all night urrgghh!
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Coco ate 2 of those fat balls you put out for the birds last week - I think she ate the green plastic mesh bags too although I have yet to see them reappear. :-\ Her poo was full of bird seed for a couple of days though ::) :005:
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the glove is a good idea ;) but I really think Dax would eat it :005:
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I'm going to try the glove thing too. Eric has a really bad habit of picking up discarded tissues when on walks, eurghhh!
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Anything and everything here too ::) ..trouble is it really worries me when we are out, they gobble something up in a split second and I dont know what it is.
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Same here! :lol2: Oscar loves to munch on tissues, it was worse when my hubby had man flu and Oscar kept trotting around with snotty ones in his mouth! :P
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Elmo isnt bad, just the dead mice and voles lying around from when the cats hunt is his biggest sin :005: As a litte wee pup he would pick up cigarette tabs and fag packets outside our work...infact anything that was lying but luckily hes grown out of it :D
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Honey just gets worse - she regularly picks up a "tasty" morsel when we go for a walk..... normally poo of some variety, or scraps of food left lying, or bits of rubbish.... but last night's walk topped the lot...
She polished off a pigeon foot.... ::)
I noticed it hanging out of her mouth, but would she come near me???? Of course not!!! Not even for liver cake!!! It was confirmed as a pigeon foot by the pile of pigeon feathers nearby - obviously a fox had got a pigeon, decided it wasn't going to eat the foot.... so Honey eats the part disguarded by a fox!!! No wonder she never eats all her food!!!
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Jenny is always looking for something to eat Because bins are not emptied weekly black bin bag in next terrace to us had ripped open ,caught up with jenny and she was just swallowing something . Went to bed a nd was awoken with jenny vommiting blood Went to emengcey vet and she had steroid ,antibiotic inflammertry and sedative . Jenny now s seems alright we are just hoping it is ana inflamed stomach. Has any of yours dogs been poorlyl from scavenging?
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I do worry that she will make herself ill, but so far she has escaped unharmed.
There was a thread under health last month about Jura who had eaten some chicken out on a walk, which had been laced with fox poison - she was very very poorly, and was lucky to pull through.... :'(
I just wish I could stop Honey scavenging, as the woods we walk in do have a lot of foxes, and backs on to houses for a fair part of the walk - it wouldn't take much for one of the house owners to try and "do something" about all the foxes.... though it is a very popular walk for dogs and families, so hopefully anyone would think twice!!
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In my "life before Daisy" (a very dim, distant memory now), I had elegant wastepaper baskets in each and every room, which really didn't feature large in my daily life. :-* However, they quickly became a source of fun and enjoyment to Daisy, who likes nothing better than taking each and every item out of the basket and shredding it into a million pieces. :shades: We've often said that we don't need a proper shredder, we should just do the organic thing and pass it to Daisy. :005:
So, I have had to scoop up all my elegant wastepaper baskets and replace a mere fraction of them with bland, functional, closed lid variety. This was an expensive move and also one that Daisy watched with great interest. She's working on it. She's working on it......! :005:
Kay and Daisy
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We have another 'hoover' here. Tia will try to eat anything especially if it is accidently dropped on the floor. You have to be quick in this house otherwise it's either eaten or stolen. Yesterday she oovered up a piece of beetroot that OH dropped on the floor and last week she slurped up someones left over hot chocolate they had discarded on the playing field. Before OH could get there it was gone. :o Fortunately there were no ill efects.
How do you tell a cocker some things are poisonous to doggies ::)
I now carry disposable gloves in my handbag to retrieve undesirable items fromTia. Last time I used them was for a dead bird ::)