Don't you love puppies...

[FredPuli43]

My 3 month old Irish wolfhound pup enjoys playing with a nylon dog lead. This evening he was sitting with the end of it in his mouth, contentedly chewing; no sign of the other bit. "Daft dog",I thought,"He's finally bitten it in two" , and looked about for the other half while taking the few centimetres from his mouth. As I took it out, the end was slowly followed by the rest of it! He had swallowed it. Ah, well, at least there were no worms on it, so the worming must be working!

What daft things have your puppies done?

[woofgang]

One of mine swallowed a pink sock whole. When it came out, I thought he had passed a snake!

[abstibus]

Have you ever tried to take a half masticated fat ball (the kind you hang for the birds and still in the netting) from a Dobermann's mouth?
Yuk and double yuk.

[abstibus]

I should add about my JRT that got inside a pillowcase and ran around the floor. It was hysterical. The Lab pup got her head stuck in an empty cream carton.

[Quizmonster]

Irish wolfhound, Fred! What became of your love of Hungarian sheepdogs, the pulis? One has, of course, heard of wolves in sheep's clothing, but this seems a step too far!

[RATTER15]

My concern is that you allowed a wolfie puppy to chew on a lead! you could have ended up with a very sick puppy and a very expensive vet bill or even a very dead puppy!!

[woofgang]

yes have taken a fat ball out of a dog's mouth.....also parts of an aborted foal and a horse's jawbone. (not together)
once when we were staying at my mother in law's my dogs broke into her bedroom and came running downstairs carrying a pair of her knickers between them.

[FredPuli43]

What, you mean he might be dead from lead poisoning ,Ratter?

Must say, after 15 years of them, that wolfhound puppies are more of handful than most. I had one pair that ate a three piece suite; came back to find them lying in what looked like six inches of snow, the filling, and chewing on bits of frame, with the old miniature poodle looking at me as much as to say "Don't blame me! I couldn't stop 'em!" And as for 'floor length' curtains; they're inclined to think that means 'on the floor', and have a tug of war to see how hard it is to pull them down!

QM , I'm FredPuli in memory of the last puli, but haven't had one for some years. Stll like the stubborn, grumpy, mien of them of them though.

[wildwood]

Ratter is no doubt alarmed because nylon doesn't break down in the digestive system and can easily lead to bowel blockage, followed swiftly by excruciating pain for the animal and unless operated on instantly, death!

We lost two rabbits many years ago because they nibbled the plastic covering we put over the hutch at night.

[Tilly2]

I love all dogs, not just puppies.

[Psybbo]

A friend's lab ate a tennis ball, very expensive vet's bill after the op

[rsvp]

used to work for a vet - we operated on a dog owned by an extremely prim and proper lady - recovered a very risque and expensive pair of french knickers! Could have been awkward had we asked who owned them but we didn't!!!!

[lankeela]

I had a collie cross who took my mum's false teeth out of the glass by her bed and chewed them up. I also had a Smooth Collie who would pinch socks and swallow them, then puke them up all covered in slime. Once went to get a greyhound out of a kennel and I lost a glove as I was putting the lead on, couldn't find it anywhere then he puked it up - must have pulled it off my hand as I struggled to get the lead on.

Have to say I too was worried about your pup chewing a nylon lead as it could get caught up if swallowed and wrap round its insides. I

[FredPuli43]

Yes, Lankeela, well the lead is about 90 cms, a yard, long. I suppose I should be grateful that it's that long and there was still a reasonable length outside , to pull.You have to be on the alert all the time with any puppy, but I've never known a wolfhound of any age swallow such a thing. I'd have thought the retch mechanism would have cut in;it certainly does when I have an endoscopy and a long thin tube is put down my throat for a distance!

[SpikeyBush]

How can such an intelligent creature be so stupid? I should have named my dog Private Pike because of the number of times on each walk I have to utter the phrase "Stupid Dog" to her in the way Captain Mainwaring called Pike a stupid boy in Dad's Army. Typical example is when I was walking her through the main street in the town, there was another dog on the other side of the road. She was trotting down the hill looking at this other dog and not where she was going. BANG! She walked straight into an electricity pole.

Stupid dog! Your name will also go on the list.

[horselady]

My supposedly intelligent German Shepherd once carried home a fallen branch, I thought she would leave it in the garden, but no, it apparently needed to be taken into the house. It was wider than the back door and the next 10 minutes or so was very entertaining watching this idiot dog trying to fathom out how to get the darned thing through the door.