Have Mouth Will Eat - Top 10 Weirdest Items Found in Pet's Stomachs

Funny thing about kids and dogs - most of them will attempt to eat most things that are 'not on their plates - or in their bowls'!

I recall my mother recounting to others the many horror stories about her kids and the family dogs ... 'if you think your kids/dogs did something real stupid, just wait til I tell you what mine did.' The way she tells it -  if we could not make whatever it was disappear because  it would not fit up our noses,  we simply got rid of it by popping it straight into our mouths and swallowing!

For Kids : the Top 12 Things that are the hands down winners for 'Shoving Up Your Nose' are:

- buttons

- bottle-tops
- thimbles
- stones
- food
- dead flies and moths
- anything round
- anything square
- anything long
- anything short
- anything soft, hard or gooey
- anything new and never seen before

Dogs on the other hand thank heavens, are not properly equipped to 'shove stuff up their snouts' - but, some of them  are seriously challenged and  'dumb' when it comes to what they will 'eat'.

Now, I subscribe to the newsletter of wonderful vet Dr Andrew Jones who you can find here at Veterinary Secrets Revealed -  and what sparked this post today was what he sent to my in-box this week, an interesting article  titled - Top 10 weirdest items removed from pet's stomachs.

After reading Dr Andrew's newsletter and in-between the odd under the breath snigger,  I kind of felt that perhaps  two recent posts I wrote about 'Am I Ready To Have A Dog Or Cat' and 'Planning To Have Children? Then This Is A Test You Must Take' -  should absolutely have included a 'Glossary of  Unusual Nose and Stomach Foreign Objects' together with some instructions on what to do about them if they suddenly made their way up the noses or into the stomachs of a child or pet on your watch!

Anyway, here they are - Oh! and if you have any 'nose or stomach  foreign object stories' of your own, please, let's have them ...

For Dogs : The top twenty list in full is:

1. Ten-inch tent peg
2. Christmas decoration (star shaped)
3. Kitchen knife
4. Alphabet fridge magnets
5. Man's wig
6. Ann Summers underwear
7. Bell
8. Fishing hook
9. Socks
10. Rubber duck
11. Baby's dummy
12. Golf balls
13. Coins
14. Balloons
15. Metal ball from a computer mouse
16. Shoe laces
17. Power ball
18. Corn on the cob
19. Needle and thread
20. Box of chocolates

In closing,  let me say to all you adults reading this who are having a laugh or scoffing at the stupidity of kids and dogs - please, oh please take a quiet and private moment to reflect and remember some of the really 'dumb ass' things you have managed to do ... AS AN ADULT! .. LOL ...

Celebrate and Enjoy Life with ..  if not a Clear Conscience then at least ...  Clear Nasal Passages!!

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This is just plain hilarious - do dogs go  to heaven?..personally I hope so!

As a chronic animal, in particular, dog lover, I would choose to believe (Oh, and I do) that all my beloved pooches have gone to heaven...well at least to 'doggy heaven'.

A friend sent me this amazing 'every picture tells a story' tale about two churches that face each other across a busy street.  They got locked into a debate on whether or not dogs go to heaven....

Here is the result of  this fabulously funny pictorial debate.  ...Enjoy!

Day 1 - Church 1

Day 1 - Church 2

Day 2 - Church 1

Day 2 - Church 2

Day 3 - Church 1

Day 3 - Church 2

Day 4 - Church 1

Day 4 - Church 2

Day 4 - The  'Final Word'

Oh No!  do you think they would dare start over again, this time about Rocks?  The mind boggles and I just love it.

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Don't you just love animal humor, especially when it is served up to take the mickey out of us humanoids.  This little beauty about dogs and light bulbs found its way into my in-box and then just as quickly made its way onto this page.

These classic and well thought out K9 responses are so well suited to each breed.  If you own any of the dogs mentioned below you will no doubt agree that yep, that about sounds like a '......' - enjoy.

Oh, and if you have any animal tales of your own then share them. Send them in and we will feature them and you, if you wish, right here on Daily Screw-Ups.

So - How many dogs does it take.... to change a light bulb?

1. Golden Retriever: The sun is shining, the day is young, we've got our whole lives ahead of us, and you're inside worrying about a stupid burned out bulb?

2. Border Collie: Just one. And then I'll replace any wiring that's not up to code.

3. Dachshund: You know I can't reach that stupid lamp!

4. Rottweiler: Make me.

5. Boxer: Who cares? I can still play with my squeaky toys in the dark.

6. Labrador: Oh, me, me!!!!! Pleeeeeeeeeze let me change the light bulb! Can I? Can I? Huh? Huh? Huh? Can I? Pleeeeeeeeeze, please, please, please!

7. German Shepherd: I'll change it as soon as I've led these people from the dark, check to make sure I haven't missed any, and make just one more perimeter patrol to see that no one has tried to take advantage of the situation.

8. Jack Russell Terrier: I'll just pop it in while I'm bouncing off the walls and furniture.

9. Old English Sheep Dog: Light bulb? I'm sorry, but I don't see a light bulb!

10. Cocker Spaniel: Why change it? I can still pee on the carpet in the dark.

11. Chihuahua: Yo quiero Taco Bulb. Or "We don't need no stinking light bulb."

12. Greyhound: It isn't moving. Who cares?

13. Australian Shepherd: First, I'll put all the light bulbs in a little circle...

14. Poodle: I'll just blow in the Border Collie's ear and he'll do it. By the time he finishes rewiring the house, my nails will be dry.

15.How many cats does it take to change a light bulb? Cats do not change light bulbs. People change light bulbs.

Off To Find A Ladder

Make-over Mutts

I came across a fabulous site today called Maverick- Home of the World's Funniest Pets. These guys have got some excellent calendars featuring dogs, pigs, cats and guinea pigs.

My personal favourite was the Make Over Mutts a Father & son team, Bodgett and Scarper, painting, papering, sanding and making over a country house...

You just have to get over there and take a look.

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Bob The Railway Dog - National Railway Museum

A Shaggy Dog Adventurer

I truly believe in the amazing intelligence of the humble household pet and am constantly amazed at some of the highly intelligent things that dogs (and at times cats) do.

Each exhibiting an individuality that is purely their own.  There are the heroes who save lives and the defenders who protect.  There are the humorous and the fun loving show offs.

There are those who have little or no idea that they are dogs (or cats) they just figure themselves to be 'extraordinary hairy humans'.

This post is about one of those extraordinary dogs. This one was 'an adventurer'.

This remarkable and quirky Australian tale is about a shaggy dog and his incredible love of traveling hundreds of thousands of miles on trains.

Only screwing-up once by responding to the sound of a steam whistle by mistakenly jumping on a steamer in Port Augusta, 'Bob the Railway Dog' spent his life traveling at times up to 150km from home before 'jump changing' engines at a passing loop and heading home again.

Bob's story began in the late 1870s

In a sheep van bound from Terowie to the Flinders town of Quorn, here was a puppy who would make history.   He was one amongst 50 to 200 other dogs (although it is said that there is a 1924 story somewhere that suggests there were more like 900 dogs).

After the sheep van arrived at Terowie, a porter named William Ferry happened to spot this puppy, he made the decision to exchange another dog for him, named him 'Bob' and the rest, as they have reported in the various re-tellings of this quirky tale......is history!

Immediately 'Bob' was taken from the sheep van -  he began his railway career.

He was, from that minute, known as 'Bob the Railway Dog'. His proud owner trained him to do all manner of tricks and, later when he became a guard on the narrow-gauge Northern Lines,  Bob would travel thousands of miles with him in the guard's van.

When his owner William Ferry became Assistant Stationmaster at Petersburg, 'Bob the Railway Dog' who loved the sound of the engine whistle and the rattle of the wheels, and now well and truly committed to his daily train riding routine,  simply continued to ride the trains.

He took his seat on many an out or homeward bound train, sitting up front on the coal heap in the tender, and travelling hundreds of thousands of miles. According to the Petersburg Times 'he lived on the fat of the land, and was not particular from whom he accepted his dinner'.

Bob was a seasoned and experienced train traveller - so much so that he quite often travelled interstate.  He would bark happily and wag his tail. Children when they saw him would call out "There's Bob,  Good old Bob". Bob continued to ride the engines all over South Australia for many years and was guest of honour at the Melbourne Exhibition. It is told and re-told that  Bob had been seen at Hawkesbury River station, as far north as Queensland and at Oodnadatta and in Western Australia.

Bob spent his last days on the Silverton Tramway Co.

He died in the 1890's at, they say, the ripe old age of 17 years. It is reported that his body, which had been preserved,  stood for many years in a glass case in the Exchange Hotel.

Today his collar can be seen at the National Railway Museum with it's inscription on a brass plate that says 'Stop Me Not'.

I applaud you 'Bob'- the steam lovin railway dog.  I read your story and I smile, I think about your story and I still smile. What spirit, what an incredible sense of adventure.....what a dog!

I would love to have known you!

If you have a story of your own you would like to tell us about a dog or cat please let us know - leave a comment or Email Me Here

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