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Hides my face in shame...

Disposable heating pad and 6 cigarettes (over the course of 2 days)! We had guests over that smokes and he would steal them from their pockets, purse and used butts outside. After some weird trembling that happened a few days later (he didn't have any immediate signs the day he ate them), we took him to the emergency vet. Vet said the amount he ate wasn't toxic so she said he was fine. We took him to our regular vet to make sure everything was okay and he thought it was just stress from all the guests. So all is well in our house. But man, our cocker spaniel gets into a lot of stuff he's not suppose to get into. Our other dog doesn't even phase her when she sees new stuff. Our cocker is just so curious and hungry.

We were joking the the trembling was from nicotine withdrawl and we needed to get him on a doggie nicotine patch.

Oh, yeah, this same cocker got into some milk chocolate twice over christmas. We took the dogs back east and my MIL had Hershey kisses in the gift bags.

Ha! Our dog did the same thing to my jar of earth mama nipple balm in the early days of breastfeeding. I was so mad!!!

I had no idea aquaphor is tasty?! Lol! My dog is very picky about food haha. Her obsession is anything with milk, cream or cheese.

@regberadaisy: My dog definitely did that with a tube of Aquaphor as a puppy, but it was a lot smaller! She is the lip balm bandit because if I leave any kind of lip balm around she'll be eating it. And @bluestriped bee: no surprise, it's our Spaniel mix. She's also eaten a kalbi bone...just before we had to take her on a cross-country flight, and we never saw the bone again. One time when we were moving out of the city I didn't catch her before she ate chicken bones off the street (why are there always freaking chicken bones on the street in the city?!). And when LO was born she ate a banana peel and that was what finally made her sick.

my dog ate a nectarine whole. Like, the WHOLE thing. including pit. Sigh.

Nothing too weird lately, but all of a sudden they figured out that they can reach the cat food if they get on their hind legs. They always left it alone before, even though NOTHING is more exciting than cat food to them (and it's just boring dry food). Though they still don't realize that they could easily jump up to where it is (on top of a low chest) and get it. The cat has arthritis, so we have to keep it low, but for some reason the dogs can't seem to figure out that it's plenty low enough for them to jump up.

My five lb yorkie ate a huge piece of gristle from a steak whole. She started having trouble breathing and was hacking and finally threw it up. I was so scared (as I am sure, so was she!)

@Cole: haha! Neighborhood cleanup duty!!

@spaniellove: Cockers are so obsessed with food.

So funny story, about the disposable heating pad. My cocker grabbed it from my night stand and started chewing it in our bed while the DH was sleeping. (I had left for work already.) DH woke up and the first thing he sees is a dirty diaper (think white pad with black pellets) laying next to him. First, he's confused why it is in our bed, then he's trying to figure out how the cocker got access to a dirty diaper. We did have guests staying with us with one of their two kids in diapers. He said he was mortified. But then he looked closer and saw it looked like bricks.

Mine had a scented candles obsession when she was younger and also loved cat poo. They had very different effects on her breath! She also ate a bag of salted peanuts once, we finally found the empty packet after she rampaged through the house drinking ALL the fluids! Another time she broke into the room I was leaving our fruit wedding cakes to mature and munched through the middle of one layer (raisins and all). The list is endless...
Also, things I have fished out of her mouth:
Tinfoil (stuck to back teeth)
Metal tack
Sewing pin
Elastic band

My uncle also had a cat once who used to eat the weed plant growing on the window and then get the munchies and eat everything (bags of crisps, pineapple, raw cabbage).

@bluestriped bee: @spaniellove: oh, cockers my little guy had the appetite of a grown wolf. He ate leather goods (but only good leather!), and if any food disappeared without a trace, it was always him. One time he ate a big chunk of wasabi. He threw up later, but I think he still liked it, he was eating it with such delight on his face