Cocker addictions/fetishes !

[Harry Blue]

Harry has several fetishes/addications:

1. Frisbees: he stands staring at the fridge because the frisbees live on top
2. My bras & pants - worn only, are often found on the landing or stairs, or in the garden.
3. Pens - no pen must go unchewed
4. DentiStix - at no other time is he so well behaved as when I have a DentiSik in hand.
5. Flashing red ball - that also makes siren an crashing noises - it will keep him entertained for hours!

We have a very special spaniel.

[teapot]

Tia absolutely adores cheese and tuna so when I make a tuna and pasta bake I have a very willing 'helper' ! 

She is also addicted to socks and OH has to run the gauntlet every morning to try and put his socks on before being stolen, and come wash day no matter how careful you are how come there is always 1 sock 'missing' ! 

Also on the list - chicken wings
                       baked potatoes (this is a new one, she adores the smell of baking potatoes)
                       underwear
                       poo bags (especially if pinched from OH's back pocket)
                       tissues

I'm sure the list will get longer as she gets older 

[Winnie]

Winnie's main fetish is food, food and more food.
She particluarly loves cucumber, and in the summer at a 'Pimms and picnic' she went around all the disgarded Pimms cups seeking out the cucumber slices 

Her 'comfort blanket' is her lead....well, any lead... we have a selection. They get carried around the house (she has to find one every time she is excited) and one goes to bed with her every night. When she is bored she chews it. At dog training a couple of weeks ago she embarrassed me by chewing right through her lead - so I had to put a knot in it  I now have a chain lead, and take the knotted one along for her to play with.

Also, I cannot leave any papers on the floor - she immediately curls up to sleep on them! I once found that she had taken a customer's order off the table, and gone to bed with it - luckily it was just crinkled so I didn't have to ask them for a replacement  Magazines etc. all become temporary beds.

[Emmylou]

Molo has a used tissue fetish    He will raid pockets and handbags for them, and he has got so obsessed now, that he will leap upon anyone who blows their nose and steals the tissue off their nose while it is being used - eugh 

So glad I'm not the only one with a dog who does this  Ursa used to come running when she heard me blow my nose, and Joy, who I swear is Ursa reincarnated, does the same! Gross! 

Ha Ha - this is exactly what I was going to say about Cosby.  Obviously he is obsessed with all food (and I mean scariliy obsessed), but used tissues are the obvious wierd thing that stands out.  You cannot leave them anywhere as he will steal them and eat them.  He goes through your pockets and can sniff them out at within a 10 mile radius   It does make blowing your nose very difficult - you have to do it standing up or he steals the tissue while you're doing it

[joanne_v]

Lilys favourite items (in order of importance)

her mummy 
her daddy
her big brother
any other hooman
water-the more the better
worn underwear (usually pants) 
sardines (sounds like she is yelping when the can gets opened!)
my glasses 
tissues
plastic bottles
carrier bags
cats (for barking at)

[Kimberley]

Coco is anything he can get his sticky mitts on, since Saturday alone I have lost 5 tea towels (chewed), two dusters(shredded) , open mitt(un-usable had to through them away) , he chewed up a black kong.

When I opened th tumble dryer he stuck his head in the drum and fished out one of the eco drying balls, I did managed to get that back.

And I'm only up to Tuesday, what more does the week hold for me, but thank goodness he doesn't do major damage, I believe Coco was put on this earth to torment me  but he's a the lovable rouge...

[gayle1]

Ella likes;

grapes
sweetcorn

both of the above she will 'steal' from the fruit basket/bin so we have removed all temptation as poop the next day is, uh, interesting!

plastic bottle tops
chicken
pate on a kong
choc buttons hidden inside an empty toilet tissue roll so she can fight them out
other dogs

And last night Rio and I were scooping out pumpkins for halloween and Rio being only 10 kept dropping bits of pumpkin all over the floor and Ella being Ella, was hoovering them all up, raw. When I was cleaning up the mess she was 'telling me off barking' for not leaving them on the floor for her to eat up. 

My cats love the toilet tissue shredding trick, its often draped and shredded all across landing and down the stairs and one or the other of them sits there looking sheepish.

[tracyd]

Bailey loves fruit too.  Not sure if dogs are supposed to eat grapes though.    Im sure i remember reading somewhere that raisins and grapes were toxic to dogs     Im sure someone on here will know

[gayle1]

I think your right on that.
I read somewhere that certain fruit was not to be given to dogs, can not remember where I read it though.
That is why the fruit basket is out of reach now.
She was growing almost obsessed by them, red in particular so stopped getting them in for awhile and started the pate on a kong thing, now when I get them I keep them out of sight!

[tracyd]

good thinking.  Have to keep things out of baileys reach too. Left a chicken to cool on the kitchen table last week forgetting how good at jumping he is.................................     Lets just say we had a vegetarian meal that night! luckily i got to him before he discovered the bones! 

[Holly]

Beatle...
Obsessed with tennis balls to the extent that we have to hide them. If she gets one she tries to bury it usually under the sofa cushions and then she digs it up again...then she buries it..then she digs it up.. get the idea   There's only so much of this the cushions will stand!
She finds tennis balls that other dogs have lost and carries them home triumphantly then gets really upset when I have to take them away.
Other than that it's water. We live in an area that flooded very badly this year.  All her favourite walks were under water...she didn't see this as a problem but if she thought I was going up to my neck in flood water so she could swim everywhere she was wrong, very, very wrong!
Tissues, preferably used ones
Loo rolls and kitchen rolls
Pens
Anything from my pockets
My mobile phone
Garden compost..I don't what's in it that she loves but she will dig it out of the compost bags, pots, anywhere preferably when it's been raining and she can then run across the kitchen floor

In spite of this she is

[popsy]

Have you got all day 
poppy will try and get anything she not meant to have 

She does like to chew coat hangers, runs off with my mum and dads glasses they have to hide them when she goes, she will sit and wait for a plastic bottle as soon as its finished its out of your hands, tea towels she loves to tug, etc etc etc etc

i wont go on 

[phoenix]

Feathers..........Bobby always smuggles in a new long wing feather from pigeons or magpies. He holds it in his paws and chews for ages. Woe betide anyone who tries to remove it without decent bribes. He caught a bluetit at 12weeks old and lay holding it between his paws  completely entranced. He occasionally pounces one of our pet chickens when I'm careless, and sits on top of them licking their feathers.

[juliaanne]

In order of importance, Roxy's favourites below:


Humans
Socks, clean or dirty it doesn't matter, we've never had so many odd socks!
Plastic bottles, even better if they have water in them
Sheep poo
Fox poo
Knotted hide bones
Any kind of soft toy, they all end up like glove puppets once she's removed the stuffing and adorned the house with it
Tissues/kitchen roll/toilet paper

[Cath]

For Tilly it is balls of any description or anything that anyone might conceivably throw for her, she will even go and do her little shuffly backing up and play bowing dance in front of old people with walking sticks on the off chance that they might decide they want to play fetch with it