Dusty bin

[Elmo]

Elmo isnt bad, just the dead mice and voles lying around from when the cats hunt is his biggest sin 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

[Karma]

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!!!

 

[jennycockerspaniel]

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?

[Karma]

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!!

[Potter]

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.     We've often said that we don't need a proper shredder, we should just do the organic thing and pass it to Daisy.   

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......! 

Kay and Daisy

[teapot]

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.    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