So I came home from work, let the dogs out, fed them and let them romp about in the yard for a while until they felt like coming back in.
So, the Lab decided, once back inside, to abruptly hork up his entire dinner in the living room. On the rug, of course. He sniffed the pile briefly, then went to his dog bed and started energetically cleaning his personal dog parts.
The Rottweiler, never one to pass on an interesting stinky thing, wandered over to the steaming pile. And started eating it, delicately, one piece at a time.
Meanwhile I was cursing and rummaging around in the kitchen for plastic bags, paper towels and the pet-mess cleanup stuff. By the time I get back to the living room, the Rottweiler has almost cleaned up the pile, and the Jack Russell terrier mix is challenging him over the last few tasty morsels. So thankfully, clean-up was really minimal on my end. I let them clean it all up for me, then blotted the rug with enzyme cleaner.
All is well. The Lab and the Rottweiler are playing bitey-face on the floor next to me right now, the little JRT mix is back on the bed, having won the “I got the last piece of tasty vomit, hahahaha fuck you, big dogs” game (she usually wins) and there’s a clean, damp spot on the rug in the living room. I know, mindless and pointless, right? Despite that I love my doggies.
I have two cats. Now I have a dog as well. To my horror my dog finds that the “nuggets” in the kitty litter are VERY appealing.:eek: I believed he was a pervert, until other dog and cat owners told me this was not unusual.
Oh well, it gives me a really good reason to keep the litter boxes sifted at least twice a day.
Poop-eating beats barf-snarfing for canine revoltingness. Thankfully I have never had a dog that was interested in eating its own or other dogs’ leavings, though my spaniel Bubba once chowed down on deer poop and got rather ill as a result.*
That’s one of the best qualities about my dog - cleans up his own vomit. If only he would clean up the cats’ like he used to. He must be more discriminating now that he’s older.
We walk the rail trail and if I don’t watch her closely mine will eat the horse poop. It wouldn’t be too bad, but my girl is also a licker… (one of my friends said she was going to get me a welcome mat that said “warning, dog can’t hold its licker.” for Christmas, but then decided not to)
If eating vomit was the most disgusting thing I’ve seen a dog do, I’d consider myself lucky. My female cat is a puker, and when the two male cats hear the horking, they come running like their lives depended on it. I am far from grossed out; I consider it a valuable help in keeping stuff clean and free of puke stains.
Indeed. A friend of mine had two dogs, one of which was very into poop eating. The poop-eater would position herself directly behind the other dog when it was pooping and uhhh…sample the goods directly, as it were.
Strangely she seemed to have no interest at all in her own poo.
At least when they eat some disgusting shit it is gone (most of the time). Rolling in nasty stuff is the worst. My dog once found a frog that I had apparently hit with the lawn mower and had fermented to the proper degree to make the doggie equivalent of Axe body spray. While washing him a discovered that the smell of dried on frog guts is nothing compared to the smell of wet frog guts.
Late last fall my dog rolled in some fertilizer (we live on the edge of farm lands and we walk in the morning on the edge of farm lands) when we were out for our walk.
When we got home, without being told, she went straight for the bathroom and got right in the tub. So in her little tiny dog brain, she *knew *rolling in it meant getting a bath, and yet she still had to do it.
