This morning, we discovered the carnage.Polaris had gone on a bender. From the debris, we deduce that she consumed:
10 chicken wing bones, Spicy Garlic flavor
1 small condiment-sized container of sour cream
2 slices of cheese pizza (dessicated)
3 slices of supreme pizza with banana peppers
1/2 a 12" Subway grilled chicken sub
And her stomach is not upset! I’ve watched her all day, concerned about the chicken bones primarily but she seems completely unaffected by her binge.
OMG!! I hate to laugh! She had her own little party! The pic link doesn’t work, is she a large dog?
Is cooked bones really as bad as they say? Any different from raw bones?
No-- she’s only 43 lbs. That’s one of the reasons I’m so amazed. The sheer volume of all of that food would make me sick.
The answer is-- it depends.
Bones aren’t bad for the dog if they’re just gnawing and chewing on them. If they’re breaking off chunks, that’s when you might have a problem. A bone splinter can stab their intestines and a chunk could get lodged in their gut causing all sorts of problems.
I was more worried about splinters than anything else. Wing bones are pretty soft and she should be able to digest them, so they (hopefully) shouldn’t get lodged.
The whole thing was my fault. The can got full so I took out the bag, tied it up and sat it next to the trashcan. If I’d been asked my thoughts on the matter, I would have voiced the opinion that she wouldn’t tear into the bag based on the fact that she never had before. I would’ve been wrong, too.
I imagine the temptation of those delicious stinks just proved too much for her.
Wow, she (and you!) are lucky. I’m almost positive my dog would get sick from all that. He’s gotten sick on much less.
Lots of people feed their dogs raw bones, because they’re supposed to be safer, but that’s up for debate. Depends on who you ask.
Lissa, I’m so glad Polaris is doing well after her binge. Are you sure she didn’t puke some of it up somewhere in a corner that you just haven’t found yet?
It’s my undertstanding that raw bones don’t splinter they was cooked bones do. After all, wild dogs eat raw bones all the time.
Is Polaris a golden retriever mix or a Nova Scotia Retriever?
My dog is 30lbs yet she sure knows how to eat. The 80lb doesn’t seem to be as greedy as the 30lb dog.
What a beautiful dog! I’ve heard the same thing about raw bones. For some reason just reading what she ate made me laugh out loud.
Speaking of pictures, her’s a pic of my dog.
How Do You Know if You Give Your Dog Enough Attention? 
I know- I’m corny. But it’s free to post your pics there.
I dunno. Everything Polaris ate sounds pretty good to me, too. (If it were fresh, that is, and not being consumed through a garbage bag.)
Rest well, doggie, and good vibes for your tummy.
Nope. I checked her “puking spot” and also her “I-can’t-wait-gotta-GO!” spot and there was nothing. She really does have a stomach of steel. I think I oughta join a carnival with her: “See the Amazing Dog Who Can Eat Anything!”
No one knows for sure. It’s a mystery for the ages. Even my vet is stumped.
As you can see from the pic, she has green eyes. Her tail is thick and bushy and curls up over her back. Her fur is reddish, and it kinks up after she’s had a bath (like she’s used one of those crimpers that were popular during the 80s.) There was a curly-haired dog somewhere in her ancestry. She’s amazingly agile (and she’s the only dog I’ve ever known who prefers to sleep on her back like a human.)
She was a pound rescue, abandoned right after birth. The staff never spoke to the owner. This is her as a six-week-old puppy. (Warning: incredible cuteness.)
Caridwen thanks for sharing that site. It’s awesome! I’ll have to post my kids on there. (That’s one cute doggy you have, by the way.)
My parents have a Norwegian Lundehund and she is the same; very agile, sleeps on her back. Small though so she insists on not only sleeping like a human, but sleeping with the humans. If you’re a human who then doesn’t sleep on his back and rather turns from side to side in his sleep you end up getting slowly scootched off the bed as the dog-shaped paperweight moves closer every time you turn away…till you fall off the bed. :smack:
My eldest dog, Bean, is a Norweigan Elkhound/Golden Retriever. She was Queen Victoria in her former life and is very careful of her dignity, which is why I think she’d never sleep on her back.
Here’s a pic of Polaris getting comfy on the chair with me in the library.
I don’t have a pic to post, but she sounds/looks very similar to my Ember, minus the green eyes (Ember’s are brown), the fur coloring (Ember’s is brindle brown with touches of red), and the ears (Ember’s are pricked up like a German shepherd’s).
We’ve always been stumped, as is her vet. Because she’s quite speedy and agile, I’ve always wondered if there was a border collie in her somewhere. I’m almost certain there’s some kind of shepherd because of her ears. Beyond that…???
Ember loves to sleep on her back too. We call her the “Gumby Doggie” because she comes up with the wackiest positions in which to snooze. She becomes very grumpy if you ask her to move. Nine times out of then she’ll arrange herself so that part of her Gumby body prevents you from moving. My silly baby girl grin
Our idiot 80-pound lab, Isaac, loves to sleep flat on his back. We call it his roadkill position.
And if dumb expression=happy, there is no dog in the entire universe more happy than our Rusty.
Hee!
Goofy dogs. Always a good thing.
Man, Dogster must be the friendliest place on earth. I posted a pic and a small bio of Polaris and when I came home a few hours later, I already had five invites to be “dog pals.”
I’ve never managed to catch a photo of Polaris in that position. She sleeps very lightly, and she seems to have an instinct for when there’s a camera in the room. (She wants to smell it.)
Is it a good thing that they sleep on there backs? Like a sign of contentment? Is there a problem if they do this? My 80lb great dane/rottie mix sleeps on his back, time to time.
Isaac sleeps on his back every evening. We’ve speculated on why he does that, because without fail, at least once a day, always between 8 and 10 pm, he rolls on his back for about 10 minutes. Maybe he’s airing where his equipment used to be? Or he digests his food better? I have no idea, but I’ve had many opportunities to photograph him that way. This particular shot was just the least dignified I could find. 
I don’t think it’s “good” or “bad”. It’s just whatever makes them comfortable.
Isaac needs to wear a pair of pants. Seriously.
The cat who owns me likes to sleep on her back, front paws crossed over her chest, back legs stretched out as far as they can go. Damn near gave me a heart attack the first couple of times I found her in that position, I thought she had died. Nope, she just likes to sleep on her back for some reason.
