I love my dog, I really do, but she can really be gross sometimes. For starters, even though she has free access to a nice fresh bowl of water at all times, she likes to drink from the toilet. It doesn’t even matter if the lid is down, she’ll nose it up and then go bowl diving. The tipoff is when you hear the lid banging back down.
Her other favorite thing to do is toss a wastebasket and eat the contents. We’ve had to move wastebaskets into closets for this reason. It gets worse. Among her favorite things to find in a wastebasket is used tissues, however her ultimate favorite wastebasket find is used menstrual pads (which she will then chew on). What the heck is up with that?
My youngest dog for awhile would eat poop straight from my older dog before it ever hit the ground. Nasty yes but saved some clean-up time. Dogs well their great pets and companions, but they can be gross.
On a side note…Watch out for your dogs eating the trash though it can be very dangerous. I have had to surgically remove tampons or pads that got stuck in dogs intestines on at least two occasions. They are drawn to them like bugs to a flame.
Before it hit the ground??? You’ve got me beat. My dog used to eat my cat’s…leftovers…and at one point my father suggested that we only buy food for the cat.
A couple of months ago, I walked into the sitting room and saw my dog lying on the carpet, making chomping and slurping noises. Realising I hadn’t given him a dog biscuit that day, I walked over to see what he was feasting on.
Turns out he had just thrown up, and was now recycling by eating it all up again. That really made my stomach flip over, and I had to leave the room and take some deep breaths before completing the cleanup job.
Oh, thank God! I thought my dog was the only who ate the cat’s er…um…leftovers. This has only recently started and I first noticed it three days ago. God, how revolting. Then he wants to lick our faces or hands. We of course are pushing him away.
Our neighbor has a great big German shepherd who looks truly ferocious, but is just a big ol’ teddy bear. Whenever my dog spots Vader, he runs for him. The next thing you know Vader is peeing and my dog is down THERE licking Vader’s privates along with slurping the pee. Thorough hosing down and shampoo follows this revolting action by the dog.
Yeeeach! My dog has improved immeasurably since we got him. He would drink out of the toilete and eat our used tissues, etc.
We couldn’t really blame him, though: we got him from a pound and he was in terrible condition. He no longer does any of this stuff, so he’s a good boy.
Eats his own poop, licks up dog pee, licks the toilet bowl, barfs and recycles, cleans himself, drinks old shower water, rolls in deer poop, musk, etc…, eats deer poop, picks up trash outside including old bandaids, gum, used Kleenex, you name it…
But he’s so cute!
I don’t have a cats because they scratch in their litter box and walk around on the kitchen counters with their poopy feet - and I just can’t stand that.
We had a dog named Molly…and 3 cats, and I used to wonder where all the cat poop (from the litter boxes) was going…then I found Molly with a fine line of litter on her wet nose…but her favorite treat was poopy diapers, she would dig them out of the big garbage can in our back yard and eat them. Of course this dog ate an entire giant super soaker water gun, a pair of water shoes, a huge ball, part of a sprinkler, a hose, and was working on the leg of a chair when we gave her to my poor unsuspecting sister…she called not long after and said “did you know she eats cat poop?” I of course told her I was unaware of Molly’s dietary fumbles…Margo
My cats don’t eat their own vomit, but they rejoice when they hear a cat-sibling wharfing nearby…they run to see who is first to get this treat…I can almost hear them yelling “yum! Hot lunch!” as they sit and wait for the cat to expel his partially digested Iams onto the carpet…sometimes they will begin feasting while the other cat is still wharfing…
But, I still love cats! Even if they think a proper way to great each other is to stuff their nose into their sibling’s wrinkly circle…
Margo
Ah, and lest we forget the noxious emissions that emanate after they’ve had a good garbage-looting fest. And when they toot and run away, leaving you to wonder when it will hit your nasal passages. Those things really should have vapors.
My current Beasts like to lick water off each other’s mouths after they drink. My Border Collie used to drink out of the toilet and leave water dribbles all over the seat…such a nice surprise. She also used to eat poop…but only frozen poop in the Chicago winters…we called them Poopcicles. She liked to carry them around in her mouth for a while, too. Savor the flavor, I guess. In the summer, they were too soft so she chose just to roll in them. She also had a fascination with watching the other dogs poop, but never tried the soft serve technique mentioned in another post.
The cocker used to get those long saliva trails which ended up in her long ears. Or she would shake her head and get them all over her head. Oh, and she used to rub her eye-boogers with her paws and lick them off. Mostly.
And then there are the wet spots on the floor or (yuk) your sofa or (yuk yuk) your bed after they’ve been tossing their salad.
I cannot count how many times I’ve been sneezed upon, although nothing can compare with having two dogs with kennel cough. I felt like Tom Hanks in Turner and Hooch.
Yup, my wolf-hybrid thinks cat turds are bon-bons. I was visiting some friends and Zen was in their back yard rooting around in the ivy. Only later, on the way home did I find out what he was rooting around for. He loosed The Belch of a Thousand Litter Boxes™.
I nearly lost control of the car due to violent gagging.
Zen also thinks the cat’s @ss is the cat’s @ss. He’ll jam his snout so far up Piewacket’s butt that he’s peeking out of the cat’s nostrils.
One of Zen’s stranger habits is crapping on bushes and shrubs. He definitely goes for elevation. Sort of hoisting the flag, as it were. I think he’s watched, 'Hang ‘em High’ one too many times.
OK, I just about wharfed and laughed my guts out at this. Please tell me that your location “In the South” means right next door to me in NC? Please? Damn, you cracked me right the hell up. Welcome to the boards
