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My ate WHAT???
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My ate WHAT??? So, I have a labrador. Aspen is 11 years old and still a freak. And, she will eat ANYTHING that remotely resembles food. Here is a list of things she has eaten in the past month. Keep in mind that I try to be very careful about what she is allowed to get into!! But she is still outsmarting me from time to time, and of course I can be absent-minded at times. About 3 lbs of food in one sitting - she was so full she waddled An entire pound of RAW rice (does not expand, just goes through) 2 lbs of raisins (which can be poisonous, but she suffered no ill effects, I suspect because she did not chew them, just wolfed them down as fast as possible) miscellaneous garbage rotten banana peels out of the compost And again, that is just THIS MONTH. Over her lifetime, she has eaten many things that are almost unbelievable. 12 dimetapp extentabs (hey, they are candy coated! $2400 at the emergency vet) 498 ibuprofen (I'd taken two, and left out the bottle. $4000 at the emergency vet) a tablespoon of wasabi - AFTER she'd already tasted a little bit licked non-chew pepper spray off my fingers an entire bag of miniature Reese's peanut butter cups - including foil and papers (didn't need the vet, she passed it all, and there was not enough milk chocolate in it to hurt a big dog) jalepenos swiss chard stems This will eat anything - except oddly, raw mushrooms. She does not recognize those as food. And she will not eat things that are not really food. Once she got a pair of candles that smelled like apples, but after she bit into them she lost interest. What is funny is that people ask me how I keep her so thin. Most older labs are fat. Well, I don't feed her that much, duh! And when she gets an unplanned meal I'll cut down her rations for a few days. I'm just waiting for the day that I come home to find her dead from eating too much of something. Then again, I know that there is no other way she would want to go!  |
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I had a black lab, Baby, when my daughter was born. The dog loved to catch. One game we played was how many pieces of food I could throw to her at a time and have her catch them without dropping. I'd start with one, then two, etc. Her record was twenty-three pieces caught in her mouth without dropping any, probably not chewing before she swallowed them either. As my daughter learned to feed herself, she'd fling her hands around in the high chair. Food flew everywhere. I never once had to clean anything up off the floor because it never hit the ground. The dog sat right there waiting for a piece of food to go flying. Have tongue, will use it. Repeatedly.
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 Pounds per meal? That's an amazing amount of food, for such a healthy looking dog. Especially at her age. And an expensive one, at that.498 freakin' ibuprofen? Those things are nasty. And pepper spray? Crazy. She is a freak. Does she take after anyone in the household? 
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@lake - Oh, Aspen would love me forever if I gave her a peanut butter jar like that! She destroyed a few beds in her younger days, but now her exploits are confined to chow hounding and destroying dog toys. Anything with a squeaker will be immediately shredded and de-squeaked, and then de-stuffed. @Daphne - they do make a wonderful vacuum cleaner! I was making dinner at a friend's house once, and without realizing it, I was just leaving the few fallen bits of food on the floor. Eventually he bent to pick them up, which is when I realized - there is no dog here to clean up after me! @hard - She will eat literally as much as she CAN. Until the food is gone, or until she simply physically can't eat another bite. Wolves are used to binging when food is available, but she takes it to the extreme. And when I come home to find her so stuffed, she is greeting me at the door expectantly. It's dinnertime!! She has been remarkably healthy, other than what my friend calls her suicide attempts. Other than those two times, she's hardly ever been sick, and certainly has no major health issues. For an 11 year old dog she is very spry. When I got her, I did not know nearly as much about dogs as I do now. I had my choice of two puppies in the litter. One was soft and sweet and liked to be cuddled. The other was affectionate and wiggly, and kept running mock play attacks on my shoelaces. Yes, I should have known she would be a freak but she was irresistable. She still is, she's a wonderful dog and I just love her to bits. She loves that I feed her. 
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HI Sanseriph! Nice to see you on here again!! XOXO
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By the way, Aspen managed to get into the trash again today, and at 1/2 a loaf of moldy bread. Ick!
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