One thing I'm still learning to deal with is street treats. You know, that thing your dog finds on the sidewalk, or the grass, or the street, that fascinates him and he wants to roll in, chew, or eat it?
The chewing and rolling in I kind of have down as Kody is doing pretty well with the "leave it" command. The eating is tough. Today Kody found what I think was an old chicken bone the birds had dropped. They also drop bits of broken glass, but luckily Kody isn't interested in that. Anyway, it was a small piece of bone, or whatever it was, but he was able to crunch and eat it fairly quickly. I think my offer of a treat to trade actually made him swallow it faster.
I was so mad. Not because he was bad, but because now I'm kinda freaked out. What if this is the chicken bone that kills him? I'm hoping it was old enough or small enough that it's fairly digestible since he got it down so fast, or that it wasn't a chicken bone at all. But these are the times of stress. All you can do is hope and wait and try to relax. Be aware of the dog so if something goes wrong you can get him to the vet fast.
It's hard to learn that you don't have as much control as you'd like to have. Luckily, dogs seem to make it through eating stuff off the ground on a fairly regular basis.
Yea my dog enjoys going after the “droppings” of other dogs. I do my best to keep him away from it but sometimes it’s hard to see and he’ll go right after it and try to dig in.
I can usually pull him away before he actually east it, but it’s still pretty gross.
That’s one thing I don’t have to deal with and I’m so glad. Although if there is horse poop around he will definitely go for that. It’s like candy to them.
My dachshunds aren’t so much poop eaters, but they do find wonderful things on the road on their walks. Once Harvey found a piece of pizza and started to carry it home with him! Another time he found a whole muffin in a bush and started to inhale it. I had to grab it back out of his mouth *lol* “Leave it!” is definitely a good command to know.
Yea we were walking at a camp ground the other day and Tucker comes out of a bush with a full sized half frozen hot dog in his mouth.
He was not pleased when I made him drop it.
My Lily doesn’t like to munch as much as she likes to roll in stuff that smells so bad any normal human would wear a gasmask. Since she’s a long-haired doxie – it becomes a huge bathtime issue – first her – then me!