Wanted - Canine Bandit

[Patihum]

Figured I'd put this post here because at the moment I'm more than a little perturbed at one of my dogs and think he's a pest. Just went out to put him up for the night and found he'd vomited. Counted 12 cherry tomatoes (some of them were green) and at least two large ones in what he'd left. Evidently he'd been grazing in the garden. Wyatt is 1/2 Airedale and 1/2 Lab and 125 pounds of love BUT I'd rather eat the tomatoes myself.

[JamesL]

Love the mugshot. I assume he is in the "tank" this evening to "dry out"?

[Patihum]

Wondering just how many he's eaten that I don't know about. He can cool his toes in the pokey until I work on the gate - the only place he could have gotten in.

[livinonfaith]

Bad, Bad Dog!

(But he's just so darn cute. How can you stay mad at him?)

[ginger2778]

So I guess he's in the DOG HOUSE?

Marsha

[Rockporter]

Did he eat the plant?
http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/animal...s/tomato-plant

How many green tomatoes did he eat?
http://www.petpoisonhelpline.com/201...onous-to-dogs/

Sorry to hear about the damage.

[Patihum]

Rockporter thanks for the link - I wasn't aware that there could be a problem with the tomatoes themselves. The green cherries he ate were mostly whole. The big ones had already blushed. No evidence that he ate any of the plant. The fact that he vomited probably saved him from having any more problems. Glad to report this morning that he's bright eyed and bushy tailed even if he is put out that I won't let him out of the pen.

[sfmathews]

Dog shaming, love it!

[matilda'skid]

He looks like he is sorry.

My dog ate something nasty out of my "compost" that I had in a big trash can. It was a slimy stinking mess because I just dumped kitchen waste and didn't do it right. He had a nasty lump. I chased him and he just ate it faster. It cost me $308 for the emergency vet and overnight stay to save him. He might have survived but I had daffodil bulbs that I was planting and didn't know if he got those or not. He was vomiting, drooling, shaking and hyperalert so I rushed him to the afterhours vet.

[Deborah]

Gosh ! You sure made the right decision to get him to a professional immediately. Glad your friend's OK !

[Labradors2]

I bet it was the Labrador component of his heritage that caused him to eat those green tomatoes. Twelve of them! What a little piggy!

I had a lab who couldn't tell the green from the red, and she used to wake me up at 3 am with the dreaded Urka Gurkas and up would come those green cherry tomatoes....


I still miss that dog.
Linda

[Patihum]

He's at it again! Only this time it's apples! There's a dwarf apple tree out front and I keep finding him gnawing on one. How on earth do you stop a really BIG dog from helping himself to the goodies?

[shelleybean]

Well, at least he knows to eat seasonally. That's something, i guess.

[bcday]

LOL. For weeks during the summer, my two border collies would graze on the fallen crabapples under my flowering crabapple tree. The area under the tree reminded me of a cow pasture with these two black-and-white critters walking around under the tree, noses to the ground, looking for crabapples. They never got sick on the apples but I was always worried about them scarfing up one of the yellowjackets that were also enjoying the crabapples.

[Labradors2]

Tell me about it. Chloe was into apples in a big way, so we pruned the lower branches of the wild apple that drops bucket loads of windfalls every day. My first task every morning is to pick them all up and put them in the composter before she can help herself. She has now discovered the joys of "pick your own" plums!!!

The fruit appears to go right through her, undigested. However, I worry about fermentation in her stomach and possible bloat, as well as all the wasps and hornets that are feasting on the fruit!

Linda