Whippets Eating Plants

[Linbin]

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Pax has been sick 3 times today and I think it is because of the plants, leaves, bushes, flowers he is always eating in the garden. :x Zulu, does everything Pax does but tends to spit his out.

I am forever having to take bits of greenery out of his mouth. I have checked on the internet for the really poisoness things and even pulled up our rhodedendron when we got him because it said it was harmful to dogs.

Does anyone else's dogs do this and are they always okay after they bring them back up. He looks a bit sorry for himself at the moment but I know he will be back out there soon chomping on something.

 

[k4tie-d]

my 2 are shocking for eating random rubbish in the garden, i think i have pulled leaves, wood, stones, concreat, tar, dasiys, dandilion clocks are the worst, worms, slugs, ruby even ate her own poo :x :x :x

not been sick with anything as far as i know, im dreading taking them to the beach, what they might find there :x

 

[Cornish]

Ben is like that, anything even a wasp if he can catch it.

Leaves, green or crispy, grass, flowers and weeds, even bits of twigs that got blown down in the heavy bank holiday weather.

Snails, slugs, worms, he even tried a frog but it jumped away... then the games began with barking and wotnot :lol:

We are forever sticking our fingers in his mouth to fetch it out... :x

 

[alilemur]

My 2 eat grass like cows sometimes, particularly in the morning and then end up being sick. They are quite choosy about the type of grass/plant they pick and they have phases of doing it. I was under the impression that this was a form of self-medication and being sick is the goal e.g. if they have a dodgy tummy.

Alison

Willow & Buffy x

 

[alfyn]

Over the years,i've come to the conclusion that you're better off letting them get on with it & the novelty soon wears off.The more you try to stop them,the worse they get

 

[Rosie]

Over the years,i've come to the conclusion that you're better off letting them get on with it & the novelty soon wears off.The more you try to stop them,the worse they get

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Am glad you said that as that's what I'm doing unless it is something obviously going to harm them . Skye has had all kinds including the obvious grass and flowers and bird poo :x but I decided very early on that I wasn't going to spend all summer fishing bits out of her mouth and I agree they have to explore these things and then the novelty wears off

She hasn't been sick though, perhaps Pax has a bit of a bug

 

[k4tie-d]

Am glad you said that as that's what I'm doing unless it is something obviously going to harm them . Skye has had all kinds including the obvious grass and flowers and bird poo :x but I decided very early on that I wasn't going to spend all summer fishing bits out of her mouth and I agree they have to explore these things and then the novelty wears off

She hasn't been sick though, perhaps Pax has a bit of a bug

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or he has eaten a bug, iv heard slugs and snails can ive them an upset tummy

 

[oakmoorehill]

A pup I bred last year died from rhodedendren poisoning . The woman didn't realise that she was eating the buds of the rhodedendren bush until it was too late to help her.

I didn't find out until about a month later when I saw the owner at the hound show and she said about it

 

[code_veronica]

My pippa used to eat goose poo at the park, i taught her to leave it by walking her over it and giving a quick jerk on the lead and saying NO!

After a week of this training she doesnt eat stuff off the floor now!

Our CollyXSpringer used to eat bags full of grass, We got worried about this and took her to our vet (different vet to the one who said Pip was starving) He said that eating greenery was due to a stomach imbalance, not so much an upset as just a bit of a jip.

He said it was comon for them to throw up, but the real cause can't realy be determined! he thought maybe they had bad stomach acid and this was a way ofsettling it.

He advised giving our dog some Lactol when she seemed to be eating it a lot as I know when bad acid attacks i always drink a pint of milk and it helps a lot.

She seemed to stop after the regular milk.

If it persisted he said to bring her back so they could check for a bacteria in the stomach that causes stomach acid, but luckily Holly was ok!

Kind of rambled there but maybe that could help!

Hope they dont eat anything too discusting!

 

[AnnSa]

Kaya is my worst one she has eaten some disgusting item's

but she is very rarely sick........little gut bucket :lol:

 

[Suerose]

Reassuring to hear that it isn't just Grace (9 months old) who eats everything she takes a fancy to in the garden. Fortunately I don't have any rhododendrons, and I try to keep her away from ivy too which is said to be poisonous. She has got into the habit of bringing a snail indoors after her last-thing-at-night excursion into the garden. Before I got wise to this there would be little snail trails all over the place on the sitting room floor in the morning! And she tries to eat goose and sheep poo in the park, or cow poo in the fields. Yuck. I'm trying the 'giving her a sharp tug' treatment - nice to know that it worked for someone. Too often I am just that second too late and it has already gone down. The only thing that has really upset her has been some slimey stagnant water that she got out of an old half-barrel - she had dreadful diarrhea after that. She is a bit inclined to sick up some yellow bile first thing in the morning, but I'm giving her a bit of live yoghurt at the same time as my early morning tea and that seems to sort it.

 

[Linbin]

Thanks for your advice everybody. Pax has been sick twice more so it could be a bit if a tummy bug.

I have given him a bit of rice and chicken for his tea which he wolfed down (so obviously hasn't affected his appetite) and will give him the same for his breakfast.

He is zonked out in his bed now with Zulu cuddled in playing nurse. Hope he's lots better in the morning. I hate to see them ill.

 

[tracy]

Mabel sends her brother lots of gentle hugs and would like him to know that she also eats everything she can fit in her mouth

hope the wee chap is better in the morning x

 

[dunno]

Nellie is a great gardener!! so far she has eaten my willow tree, ate my green beans which I had lovingly grown indoors then put them out in pots, she had them within an hour. when we go for walks she eats daisys, they are the nice things, the list is endless for the nasty stuff.

 

[*Lesley*]

Its a puppy thing lynne they all do it unfortunatley :x :x he should grow out of that and then the really nasty stuff starts,long dead things, fox poo ect ect, they are lovely aren't they bless em :wub: :wub:

 

[Linbin]

Oh my goodness, I'm not used to all these strange eating habits of whippets, the worst the chihuahuas eat is the odd blade of grass.

Looking forward to the fox poo :x He has tried to eat dead voles but I retrieved them from his mouth in time :x :x .

They have practically chewed through my mallow bush the little sods and the grass is strewn with half chewed twigs, flower heads and the stones they attempted. :wacko:

 

[tracy]

ahhhh - you have so many treats to come ......

a few days ago bean and talulla dug a vole out from under a stone, raced around doing a wonderful victory dance and as it screamed for its life the ever delightful bean ate the poor thing alive (w00t)

mabel and ghille watched on with interest........

watching and learning from the masters )

they also all eat ANY poo they can find on walks - usually after they have warmed it up by rolling in it :- "

enjoy!!

 

[Linbin]

ahhhh - you have so many treats to come ......a few days ago bean and talulla dug a vole out from under a stone, raced around doing a wonderful victory dance and as it screamed for its life the ever delightful bean ate the poor thing alive  (w00t)

mabel and ghille watched on with interest........

watching and learning from the masters  )

they also all eat ANY poo they can find on walks - usually after they have warmed it up by rolling in it  :- "

enjoy!!

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Ugghhhhh!!! :x

Free to good home - 2 whippets - will eat anything!!

That is awful, specially the bit about the live vole. I thought it was bad enough when my cat does stuff like that. Pax does love horse poo on walks.