Disgusting? What's that?

[SamSpade]

I'm convinced that if dogs could talk, they would not understand this word.

Of course, everyone has dealt with their dog trying to eat their own vomit within seconds of ralphing it up.

But I've recently had my garden ravaged by something eating every leaf in the garden, apparently unsatisfied by merely consuming all the vegetables. So I resorted to using that nasty deer/pest repellent stuff. If you've never smelled it, it's basically rotten eggs with lots of capsaicin (the stuff that makes jalapenos hot). I try to go easy on it, because a) it's really putrid-smelling and if you get it on your hands, it doesn't wash off easily and b) it really ain't cheap.

So I go down to the garden with my sprayer and spray LIBERALLY all over the leaves.

Only to turn around and find both my dogs happily LICKING IT OFF the plants!

They're both wagging their tails and looking up at me as if to say, this stuff is *really* good Daddy - thanks!

I chased them away, threw a couple green tomatoes across the yard for them to chase down and within minutes they'd forgotten all about it. I was so sure within seconds they were about to roll all over the plants.

I mean, this stuff REALLY reeks. And they were slurping it down like gravy.

 

[Pete]

Well dogs will lick each others asses and gobble a turd. After eating a steaming lincoln log rotten egg pepper spray probably tasts like caviar. :shrug:

 

[virgovictoria]

Well MOST dogs EXCEPT VV'S PRINCESSESS will lick each others asses and gobble a turd. After eating a steaming lincoln log rotten egg pepper spray probably tasts like caviar. :shrug:

:fixed: Too early for turd eating thoughts....

 

[buddy999]

Well dogs will lick each others asses and gobble a turd. After eating a steaming lincoln log rotten egg pepper spray probably tasts like caviar. :shrug:

And the rumor is that dogs have the cleanest mouths of all animals.

 

[Sharon]

Of course, everyone has dealt with their dog trying to eat their own vomit within seconds of ralphing it up.

Bear won't eat vomit and he also doesn't eat poop. In fact, he's so good that if I see/hear him starting to get sick in the house, I'll tell him to "hold on" as I open the door and then he'll run outside to

It's all in the training.

 

[virgovictoria]

Bear won't eat vomit and he also doesn't eat poop. In fact, he's so good that if I see/hear him starting to get sick in the house, I'll tell him to "hold on" as I open the door and then he'll run outside to

It's all in the training.

We say "Hold On" and get a towel - can't quite get all the steps and can't be off leash... so, it works...

 

[Sharon]

We say "Hold On" and get a towel - can't quite get all the steps and can't be off leash... so, it works...

Good girls!

 

[John Z]

That reminds me of growing up; we had our family dog along on a vacation, and we were on Mackinac Island (MI). Lots of horses there, and no cars. Well, as we're walking along, our dog encounters a big pile of horse plop and just casually takes a big mouthful and keeps walking! To a 12 year old, this was the funniest thing I'd ever seen!

 

[Pete]

That reminds me of growing up; we had our family dog along on a vacation, and we were on Mackinac Island (MI). Lots of horses there, and no cars. Well, as we're walking along, our dog encounters a big pile of horse plop and just casually takes a big mouthful and keeps walking! To a 12 year old, this was the funniest thing I'd ever seen!

Which beggs the question; Is cross species poo nibbling less or more disgusting?

 

[Ponytail]

Which beggs the question; Is cross species poo nibbling less or more disgusting?

It was just last week that my co-worker came across a website showing people getting off on eating each others poo.

Pete, if you can think of it, there's a website for it, each more disgusting than the next. :shrug: I guess "disgusting" is relative.


I vote this thread to be "thread of the day".

 

[SamSpade]

Which beggs the question; Is cross species poo nibbling less or more disgusting?

Somewhere in my vast library, I've got an article which attempts to explain this. The gist of it, is this...

Dogs have GREAT noses - and some animals have pitifully inefficient digestive tracts, especially carnivores. As a consequence, some of their droppings - to a dog's nose - still has lots of good stuff in it. The canine version of the "5 second rule". To a dog, it's like eating a stale Twinkie or Halloween candy a year later - not great, but - *still* good.

The article went on to explain why, then, cat litter droppings were especially good to a dog, because cat food itself is very high in calories and fat, and a huge portion of that goes unabsorbed by the cat - so as much as a third to half of the dropping is - to a dog - "still good".

I don't get the "rolling in it" thing, though. When they were pups, they could almost ALWAYS find a rotten *worm*, carry it around and roll in it. If I hurled it out into the back yard at night, they could still find it. And I have to be careful cleaning out the pool skimmers, because anything I find dead in there is gonna be dog blankie.

 

[jazz lady]

But I've recently had my garden ravaged by something eating every leaf in the garden, apparently unsatisfied by merely consuming all the vegetables. So I resorted to using that nasty deer/pest repellent stuff. If you've never smelled it, it's basically rotten eggs with lots of capsaicin (the stuff that makes jalapenos hot). I try to go easy on it, because a) it's really putrid-smelling and if you get it on your hands, it doesn't wash off easily and b) it really ain't cheap.

So I go down to the garden with my sprayer and spray LIBERALLY all over the leaves.

Only to turn around and find both my dogs happily LICKING IT OFF the plants!

They're both wagging their tails and looking up at me as if to say, this stuff is *really* good Daddy - thanks!

I chased them away, threw a couple green tomatoes across the yard for them to chase down and within minutes they'd forgotten all about it. I was so sure within seconds they were about to roll all over the plants.

I mean, this stuff REALLY reeks. And they were slurping it down like gravy.

I used the same stuff on my front flower beds after the deer chewed up one half of it with the same reaction from my dogs. No, they won't eat the nutritionally complete and expensive dog food I buy but are in heaven scrounging for rabbit turds and licking the rotten egg concoction off my plants.

 

[John Z]

It was just last week that my co-worker came across a website showing people getting off on eating each others poo.

Pete, if you can think of it, there's a website for it, each more disgusting than the next. :shrug: I guess "disgusting" is relative.

Well, there's the one that Don & Mike like to bring up:

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