I acknowledge that dogs do funny things, even gross things. I don't usually question why. As an animal science guy I know that the answer is usually simply "They're dogs." For example, over the last few months we have noticed that Lady (my inlaws boxer) will periodically follow Hannah around with her nose firmly attached to Hannah's rear end and thereby acts like an early warning system when Hannah has a poopy diaper. I notched this up to "just being a dog" behaviour.
We didn't think too much of this until today. Yesterday, Hannah had an accident in her underwear (Disney princess underwear). Amber found Hannah, the pooplets and the wet spot onthe carpet and cleaned her up. What she couldn't find were the underwear. We thought that Hannah probably hid them knowing that she should go potty in the potty and sought to get rid of the offending evidence. We discovered our fallacious understanding and underestimation of Lady when the kids, this morning, found her yakking up said soiled undergoods. Thats right she ate the poopy underwear and then threw it up. All I'm left asking is WHY? Then we realized why she was always nosing the trash in the bathroom and why dirty wipes sometimes go missing from the site of a recent diaperectomy. (I wonder if there is a poop rehab?)
Abbey took one look at them and said, "Oh man, we are gonna have to wash those!" To which Amber patiently replied, "No, honey, those are going in the garbage!"
3 comments:
My dog (rest her soul) used to LOVE eating poo in any form, from any type of living creature. And living by a farm, this was very easily achieved. She especially loved placenta from the cows. And other foul things one finds in a ladies' bathroom. Ick.
Eeeeewwww! Duke isn't so foul is he? Maybe you can chalk it up to inlaws! (NOT females!)
That's one sick dog! :)
On the other hand, I'm sure it makes accident clean-up a lot quicker when all the "solids" are simply digested... Perhaps you should switch to the flushable wipes - they might be more digestible, and add fiber to Lady's diet.
Now, one of my children tried poo (thinking it was a cocoa puff). But fortunately, my unnamed child has TASTE BUDS and figured out VERY FAST that it was beyond disgusting.
I'm guessing Lady's tongue is defective...
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