Readers Respond: Icky Things Pets Eat - 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.

Related Reading: Pets Eat the Ickiest Things

Tell us what happened

labrador birth control

My 3 year old female golden lab ate an entire month of birth control pills with most of the hard plastic packaging. Was she ever sick...for days but managed to pull through

—Guest molly

socks

My weimerana fudge used to jump up and munch socks, off the washing line. You would hang up a pair, and there would only be one left hanging when you returned. We would find the missing socks deposited in a parcel of poo on the lawn a few days later.

—chandelierlady

Icky things pets eat

During one of the Cicada invasions-my cat and I were out in the yard doing yard chores. I heard a crunch crunch noise. Looked around and saw cicada wings and legs sticking out of cat's mouth. Ick. Result was a creeped out human. Cat was fine. A nice little snack for her.

—Guest INGBET61@yahoo.com

Deer Tail

My black lab was a master hoarker. She would ingest the oddest things then about 12 hours later hoark them up. Her crowning achievement was an entire deer tail. She came across a deer carcass and pulled the tail off, when another dog approached her she swallowed it whole! I brought her home and went to work expecting her to be extremely ill while I was gone and anticipating a vet visit and a major surgery. When I was greeted at the door by a very happy girl, I immediately went on a search for her regorgitated mess...found the tail completely intact and brought up whole on my bed. If you'd dried it off it could have been put right back on the deer!

—Guest Tam

Icky things my dog ate

Sadly, I think I can top everyone here. My dogs, during a trip to the beach, ate AND rolled in the sludge from an RVs sewage tank. Beyond disgusting! It tops all of the other gross things they have ever gotten into

—Guest Juniper pearl

cat chewing on toilet brush

I do believe he is using it as a tooth brush. It sits by his feed bowel. He uses it after he eats.

—Guest jerry whiyehead

cat chewing on toilet brush

I do believe he is using it as a tooth brush. It sits by his feed bowel. He uses it after he eats.

—Guest jerry whiyehead

Anyone want some of the floor for supper

My great aunts dog LOVES floor tiles, toys, the Christmas tree, Candy, Flowers, Dead Rodents, Cat food, Grass, Trees, Dirt, Rocks, and anything plastic. My dog likes Pads(Unused, thankfully.), Candy, Socks, Shoes, Plastic, Bees(I imagine that is quite a painful snack.), Bugs, Wood, Vomit, Cat poop, Grass, dirt, Cat food(What is it with dogs and cat food!?), Blankets, Carpet, Toys, Milk, Eggs, Chocolate, Bacon, Hot Dogs, Ham, Fur, Fish food, my glasses(Most expenisve snack ever.), Cardboard, Cookies, Onions, Bugs, Sheets, Undergarments, Pencials, Our couch, Sticks, Her pee pads, Hair, Her brush and Comb, Hairteis, Rubber Bands, And of course books and anything Paper.

—Guest Molly

Hard to explain to my Granndfather

My dog loves pads- Luckilley she chews UN - used ones.

—Guest Molly

Bats? Yum!

My small silky terrier ate a bat. He left a whole torn wing on my walkway, and blood was every where- including his face.

—Guest That guy

Worst thing Emma Ate...

Emma, our English Setter puppy, ate an old phone jack off the wall. At the time, we didn't know what was wrong with her. She was nervous and kept wanting out but would not go to the bathroom. Quickly she was lathargic. The vet did an X-ray and saw a jumbled mass of metal. She was in surgery immediately. The vet showed us what he had pulled from her stomach. We couldn't imagine how she had ingested such a big jumble of plastic and wires. She was still in danger. The phone wire had traveled thru her bowel and into her colon. Because of the risk of severing her bowel by removing the wire, it would have to pass thru naturally. Emma was in intensive care for a week and had to eat small portions of soft dog food every few hours, so not to stretch her bowel. The wire had left small slices that need to heal, and we didn't want to risk of rupture. So thankful to our wonderful vet for saving our beautiful Emma's life!

—Guest Michele

He eats everything!

My 8month old puppy, Jace, will eat anything. We have to be super careful what we leave near him. When crate and house training, he ate his puppy pads. The list so far: Nerf darts, toy stuffing, wrapper from a chocolate cupcake, plastic grip off the pet nail clippers, pencils and erasers, leather anything, carrots, peas, snap peas, plastic darts, litter-covered cat poop, bark, part of our wooden deck, part of our screen door, our comforter, magic cards, cigarette, and tries very hard to eat just whatever we leave in his range. So far, diarrhea is the worst thats happened, but we are really anal about keeping things away from him now. Stupid dog, lol.

—Guest Jace puppy

my 3 boys

My catalan sheepdog chewed so many things as a puppy including books, mouse cables and shoes... he ate horse poo once, which came back whole seconds later, not plesent to watch.. My terrier x used to strip the fuzz off a tennis ball then chew the rubber into tiny pieces. He chewed up all his toys, except the solid rubber ball. My staffie ate the eye of a stuffed toy sheep. And a door frame, until we painted it with curry paste, making sure he had plenty of water. He once had a nylabone toy which claims to be indestructable but he'd hardly chewed it at all and shards came off and got stuck in his intestines, luckily it came out with laxitives. WARNING Nylabones are NOT indestructable as they claim to be!

—Guest catalina

The Worst Thing My Dog Has Eaten

MY great white Pyrenees puppy, of 6 months, ate (there are three women in the house) one of our bloody pads from the trash, WHOLE, and then barfed it up the next day. It was a bloody, brown, VERY icky mess. My dog is pretty much a billy goat.

—Guest Aimee

Condoms

Our 5 month old lab/plott hound mix is currently on her 3rd USED condom. We think we hide them but somehow she manages to get into the garbage and ingest them. It's truly revolting to see that in her droppings. :(

—Guest rvr5269