Why do my dogs insist on eating the most dangerous things possible?

[tridim]

I just don't get it, today I came home to a chewed up triple blade razor.. Luckily the blades weren't swallowed. I hate to think what my dog's mouth feels like right now, I have a bunch of micro cuts on my finger just from picking them up. At least this wasn't as bad as my other dog who once cracked open a mercury thermometer.

Why the hell do they select the most dangerous items to chew on? It's not like I leave them within reach, they seem to search them out just to make me crazy.

[livetohike]

1. Add my dogs to the list

They ate the whole package of "Stop Leak" (the stuff for a car radiator). It was a little packet and I don't know which one, or if both of them ate it. It couldn't have tasted very good.

[skygazer]

2. Because they're dogs

I'm glad your dog is okay - what a crazy thing to try to eat. Mine used to do similar things, though. One of my dogs had a thing for electrical cords - she once chewed through the cord of my vacuum while I was using it! I was vacuuming away and the thing just kind of went vroooommm.... blah...

I glanced around and there she was with a big doggy grin on her Boxer face. How she kept from being electrocuted, I'll never know. ~sigh~

[SoCalDem]

3. Our labs ate the knobs off of the barbeque grill

and they especially loved the tv cables..:grr:

[TrogL]

4. Dogs do not have "theory of mind"

Dogs do things because dogs do things.

Cats do things just to piss you off.

[miss_kitty]

5. They are always tracking down new food sources

my gal was owned by a street kid, and she is FAST at scooping mystery eats up off the ground when we're walking. I don't catch her a lot of times and sometimes, the only evidence that she's made 'The Scoop' is leaves and sticks in her terrierist facial hair. Then I have to not laugh until I get her to spit which ever danger morsel (chocolate, racid food, cat vomit) out of her mouth. Then I have to throw it, or she'll try to scoop it up again.

[driver8]

12. Your dog is one of the cutest dogs I have ever seen!

What a great face.

[Bunny]

6. My puppy ate an ant trap. Had to give her syrup of ipecac.

She then chose my leather couch to barf her guts out on. Yecch.

[Hand]

7. Now, if you had bunnies, it'd be different!

:rofl:

[LeftyMom]

8. My rabbit used to do stupid stuff like that

He had a great fondness for electrical cords, but he'd also nibble any books or clothes left on the floor.

He died of a bowel obstruction from eating carpet fibers. :(

[caty]

9. Years ago I had an

American Doberman named Ben who weighed 130lbs. He ate five rose bushes. One day I saw him chewing on something in the back yard and when the sun hit it, it glistened. I went out to see what he had and it was a piece of glass about five inches long and two inches wide. I took it away from him and checked his mouth. It was fine. He also ate pop cans. He tore out and ate part of a screen and when he started on the aluminum siding, I gave him to a friend who lived in the country so he could get more exercise. He did about $500 worth of damage to my back yard and house and never seemed to be hurt by it. I think he was part goat!

[tridim]

10. I forgot about the pop can incident

One of them completely shredded a Dr. Pepper can.. The burrs that were left would certainly have caused intestinal trouble had she swallowed some. Luckily I think both of them are just chewers, not swallowers. Although I did find a cigarette butt in their poop once.

[caty]

11. I think Ben ate the pop cans.

All I ever found was the chewed off ends. The thing is, we didn't buy pop in cans and I never figured out how he even got them. He always seemed healthy and happy, so I guess there was no damage. He was one tough dude.