Readers Respond: Dietary Indiscretion - Tell us the worst thing your pet has eaten

Finally, pets eat odd things because ... well, who knows? Some articles of ingestion will remain a mystery. Please share your stories and warnings here. You may help prevent an emergency.

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I have a 3 year old Westie, Meagan. In the years I've had her, she's eaten so many things....eye glasses, shoes, furniture, cords... The worst so far was a bottle of Tylenol she chewed and spit out. 2nd worst is part of a thermacare patch (they have iron in them so they can be really poisonous to dogs) 3rd worst is a toad...totally bad. And most recent would be a whole entire volcano taco from Taco Bell. I was doing laundry and she managed to get it off the table and eat it in the 30 seconds I was grabbing hangers. Geez.

—Guest Michelle

shoes, florescent crayons, and more...

Our Brittany Spaniel would eat shoes, but never a whole pair. Just one of each. She once ate florescent crayons and the neighbors asked what was glowing in our backyard at night. She also ate a salt and flour clay project that one of my cub scouts had set aside to harden. She promptly threw it up, and when I reprimand her, the cub scout reminded me "She's only human!" My Jack Russel terrier has eaten our couch, and has attacked many throw pillows. She would eat any human food offered to her; loves fruit and vegetables, but bananas are her favorite, and she can "hear" you peel a banana from the next room. We stopped using tinsel on our Christmas tree when our cat decided it was a tasty treat. (Silver tinsel hanging out of a cats' behind is never a pretty sight!)

—Guest mombenne

the crazy thing is!

I have 2 yellow lab puppies - Misty and Daisy. They both are a little over a year old now and they seem to love eating their collars off one another when they are playing with each other. Like really eat the collars until there is nothing left. I have had to by 6 in a year! No trips to the vet yet, every thing comes out fine!

—Guest lab lover

Kahlua

My mother was making kahlua for christmas one year, and after stirring in the coffee, they left it out on the back porch to sit. (I don't know why, I've never made it before.) After a few hours, they went to bring it in and found about 3/4ths of it gone! The family dog had been outside, and when she was let in she started bouncing off the walls. It didn't take long for my family to figure out what had happened, and they rushed to the vet's to get the dog's stomach pumped. It was the worst christmas ever, with everyone too worried about her to celebrate. She ended up fine, and lived a long, happy life after the experience, though we made sure not to let her near kahlua again. As for the 1/4 barrel of kahlua left? My father put it in bottles and gave it to extended family as a christmas present. It was the most expensive booze anyone ever tasted!

—Guest Bailey

An expensive and sore experience

When I was a kid I was thrashed for stealing a five pound note my father had left on the breakfast table. I hadn't stolen it. The next week, two ten pound notes went missing. Again I was thrashed. I decided to investigate. I went into the remote part of the garden where we threw our Dachshund's poo. Using tweezers I dissected them and found two fine metal lines consistent with the ones put into bank notes. I showed my father and he offered the dog more bank notes - she was very keen to gobble them up. My father lost the money and I got a very sore butt. And he didn't apoligise!

—Guest Prue Ramage

Icky foodstuff

My dogs eat any kind of poo - it is disgusting. They are not fussy - sheep poo, cow poo you name it. Their own if you don't watch them. It is disgusting and anything they don't eat they roll in. I do feed them and feed them well I don't get why they do that.

—AnnMcCarthy

That's not food, cat!

My cat has a taste for plastic bags. He loves the things..chews big holes in them. I can't put bags in the trash can, line his litter box, or keep anything around in a grocery bag or ziplock. You don't realize how many things come wrapped in plastic until you have to keep every spec out of the cats reach! He will eat the plastic off of anything.

—Guest Shelby

Please dont throw your beer caps!!

My name is Sooner, I am a Basset and my doc just had to remove a beer cap and the end to a screw driver!! Don't ask me what I was thinkin!

—Guest Sooner

DURA-FLAME LOG

I read the response on here about the dura-flame log. 2 of my dogs, that have never consumed inappropriate items did the exact same thing, they tore open a dura-flame log and ate part of the log. We have to the same conclusion that the log was not toxic, and this was 3 years ago, and the dogs are fine. But it was very weird that our dogs ate this, as our dogs generally understand quite well what is theirs to consume and what isn't.

—Guest Jamiedolan

DURA-FLAME LOG

While pregnant with her first litter, our beautiful black lab Allie ate at least half of a dura-flame log. To get to it, she had to open the sealed cardboard box. I rushed inside with what was left of the paper and called my vet. After reading the ingredient list to him, we determined that nothing in it was toxic. He did say she would likely be constipated. I also called the duraflame company to report this. They agreed that it wouldn't hurt, said they had never heard of a dog doing this before and said she would like be constipated. She suffered no ill effects at all, delivered beautiful puppies and would likely it one again.

—Guest helen lockwood

doggie treats

I have a few guinea and chickens, and every dog I've had since, loves their droppings. In the winter, if there is a piece frozen into the snow, they will claw at it to get it. If they have been roosting in the trees at night, both dogs will be going around under that tree for treats in the a.m. nope, doesn't bother me because I notice my dogs have never had worms. has to be something in those treats that takes care of it, I guess... And squash - every night, they would dig a squash out of the bag and in the morn, there are two squash, half eaten with bunch of peel laying around. I swept it all up, next morning, same thing. But I was told that squash has a lot of protein, so it must be that they are after, even tho I feed a top of the line dog food to them.

—Guest pj3

What is the weirdest thing your dog has

My little maltese/cross puppy decided to join in fun while we were playing cards sitting around the coffee table on the floor with a bag of wine ... adamant, he grabbed it, growled when we took it away and settled for the left over "slap chips", with a extremely annoyed look on his face.

—Guest Rina

Not a Bright Idea

When my beloved English Springer Spaniel was only about 4 months old, she ate a broken lightbulb. Amazingly, she suffered no repercussions, though I was frantic until speaking with her vet.

—CMaclean

Capri Sun Oragel

My beagle puppy chewed up a Capri Sun and a tube of Oragel - the stuff used for teeth pain! I am sure she was walking around with a numb snout for awhile!

—Guest C

My cat will attempt to swallow anything

The only thing that has gotten caught in his digestive tract (requiring surgery) so far was a large piece of velcro. He will chew up and eat any piece of string (drawstrings off pants have gone missing), ribbon, paper, hair ties, leaves, small toys, earrings, whatever. He has ingested additional velcro (I never expected him to chew the velcro from the fabric where it was attached) and a thick fabric strap with a metal snap-button attached (once again, didn't expect that). I now have an eagle eye for spotting anything within his reach I'll know he'll try to eat; once has to be vigilant with a cat like this. Decorating the Christmas tree requires a lot of thought. He has no sense of what is poisonous to him, either... if I let him out on the porch he'll launch at the azalea, which of course is toxic. He also tried to eat a live wasp once... that was bad. Thank goodness he's such a sweet, goofy cat, which makes him most lovable. (My husband may or may not agree.)

—Guest kate