Weird Things Pets Chew On

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 5:13 pm

What are some of the weirdest things that your pets like to eat or chew on that aren't meant to be their food? Here's what my dogs have eaten/chewed up:
Both: Kleenexes (Aggie eats the old ones, Diana steals them out of the box)
Aggie: The linoleum, my stuffed bug dolls, my pillow and sleeping bag (she would suck on them like pacifiers), pens, my pads out of the trash can
Diana: Dirt, her own fur after it's been brushed off, these gumball things from gum trees, my Sailor Moon doll (that was when she was a younger puppy), Aggie's legs and ears (Diana treats Aggie like prey instead of another dog), a bunch of paperback books one time, a dead baby bird

I'll add more if I can think of them later.

yoshmaster5 · Post by **yoshmaster5** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 5:20 pm

uh... my cat.

hairballs
plastic
pencils
hair

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 5:26 pm

Rex: (when he was a puppy) stuffed animals (I lost a lot of the stuffed animals I had had since I was a baby to that dog), action figures, toy dinosaurs, books, anything remotely edible

Sugar: underwear, socks, pens, pencils, paper, rodents (I know she hunts them, and my mom says she kills and eats them too)

Em · Post by Em » Sat Oct 25, 2003 6:45 pm

Honey: Nothing even when she was a puppy

Rona: the wodden Table and Chairs adn my tag off one of my rug's

Sussie: Anyting she can get her teeth on at the moment wood, tissues used or not, Rona's tail , ear's and fur

ParaKiss_Groupie · Post by **ParaKiss_Groupie** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:25 pm

My dogs: Me and my friends. They always attack us! It's playful with me and some of my friends, but one of my dogs hates a certain one of my friends. He tries to eat him every time they meet. It's hard holding his huge ass back, too.

Luchia Nanami · Post by **Luchia Nanami** » Sat Oct 25, 2003 11:38 pm

My kitty used to chew on me.

My hair, arms, legs, etc. What a brat he was.

For some reason he also loved baby food O.o He'd chomp away on that stuff any chance he got.

Lucied · Post by **Lucied** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:36 am

My dog likes to chew on vacuum cleaner extensions =\

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 8:49 am

Lucied wrote:My dog likes to chew on vacuum cleaner extensions =\

That's interesting, Diana is scared of the vacuum cleaner, and Aggie used to be scared of it.

Starscream · Post by **Starscream** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 2:52 pm

Our cat, Rydia:

Anything string-like: this includes blinds draw-strings, Gameboy Link cables, extension cords, video game controller cables, shoe laces, bits of string, etc.

Me (arm, leg, and fingers, and the occasional top of my hand)

Plastic clothes hangers (we don't have wire ones anymore)

My computer/bookbag shoulder strap

Boxes

Paper (then she'll sleep on it)

The covers

And, of course, her toys (mouse, balls, etc.)

Lucied · Post by **Lucied** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 3:05 pm

Rainbow wrote:
Lucied wrote:My dog likes to chew on vacuum cleaner extensions =\
That's interesting, Diana is scared of the vacuum cleaner, and Aggie used to be scared of it.

Yeah, my dog's scared of it too when it's turned on, but when it's off he likes to have an early supper >_<

Parallax · Post by **Parallax** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 1:56 pm

When I had a cat, she used to chew on my fingers or my ears.

It was rather embarrasing to say the least. (It had my late grandad in stitches!!

)

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 2:51 pm

Actually, both of my dogs have put their teeth into me at times, but I didn't mention it because I thought it was normal.

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 6:56 pm

Aggie (the one who reminds me of Miaka, not the one in my avatar) has eaten some surprising things without getting sick:
1) a whole half of a chocolate cake (AMAZING that one didn't make her at least a little sick, since chocolate's supposed to be bad for dogs, this one was before we got Diana)
2) a whole bag of dog biscuits this morning while I was at my weekend job and my mom was taking Diana to the bank with her (so we know which one did it)

Jeff · Post by **Jeff** » Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:56 pm

My dog digs through the trash to tear up my mom's used tampons

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crazydiamond · Post by **crazydiamond** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 12:05 am

Jeff, that is VERY WEIRD.

Um..our cat mauls syrofoam. We have what we call "worm coolers" which are these little syrofoam coolers that we keep worms in for our fish, and the corners are all chewed up. This one time we accidentally left a piece of syrofoam out on the porch and when we came back, it was EVERYWHERE. I don't understand why it's styrofoam. She used to tear open bread sacks, but we got her off of that really quick.

Sailor Europa · Post by **Sailor Europa** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 11:25 am

Well, my two hammies, Alexiel and Fudge, like to chew on the bars of their cages.
They also like to nibble on pencils, the buttons on a remote and/or video game controller, the telephone cord...buttons on my shirt...um...
I think Fudge actually once ate ham. o.O;

Post by **Tiff** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 9:20 pm

Jeff wrote:My dog digs through the trash to tear up my mom's used tampons .

Jeff, that is VERY WEIRD.

Actually, it's not. When I lived at home, I used to have to throw my feminine stuff into the big trash cans in the kitchen because our dogs would try to get it them while we were at school/work. Dogs are attracted to the blood smell, I think. I've heard many stories of dogs going after those sort of things. It's probably the wild side of them.

Rainbow's chocolate cake story made me think of when one of our pomeranians actually OPENED my dad's gym bag, took out a saran wrapped brownie, unwrapped it, and ate it whole. For a dog that small, i'm amazed she didn't get sick. My familiy refers to this as "the great brownie caper" XD

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 9:39 pm

Diana (the dog in the avatar) once tried to take a grilled cheese sandwich out of my hand. Of course, that was probably because I was looking away, but still, it's surprising when Diana tries to steal food because she's, well, at least not as interested in it as Aggie is.

Of course, Aggie ate pancakes off my plate when she was a puppy, but I was only 8 then, and she was an impish pup. I guess both of my dogs can be audacious when it comes to sneaking food, even though Aggie's done more escapades it could just be that she's older than Diana. While Aggie is more food-obsessed, Diana is more assertive and has more drive to be top dog and test boundaries.

Dinozore · Post by **Dinozore** » Sun Nov 16, 2003 9:52 pm

Like Tiff said, if you think about it that behavior makes sense...

Our older dog has more than once eaten an entire batch of cookies, and other stuff. He's big enough to reach the tops of tables on his hind legs, so he's eaten unprotected food since we got him.

My brother's dog used to eat the shed hair of our older dog, along with just about everything else. Never did figure out why.

writergirl · Post by **writergirl** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 9:32 pm

My 6 month old cat chews on EVERYTHING I'm not even kidding!

Book corners, especiallly my 150 dollar book I had to buy for college (there's no returning it now.)

My feminine products, i mean he'll jump INTO the trash just to get them, and only them, even if there's food right there.

The radiators... no not kidding, metel... I'm afraid if it's turned on he'll burn himself!

The blinds for the windows, on a number of occasions I've had to disentangle his little teeth from the strings.,

(any kind of strign but that's not weird for a cat,)

He'll take clumps out of his litter box (thank god I broke him of this) and bat them around the apartment, I don't know if he chewed on them or not... god I hope not

And last but not least, my boyfriend's big ass shoes. almost like a puppy would....