Welcome to this week’s edition of Follow-Up Friday, where I highlight comments, answer some questions and generally wrap up my week.  Let’s get to it, shall we?

Shit My Dog Eats

You guys, the comments on this could be a post all it’s own.  I can’t believe some of the shit your dogs have eaten!

Bichonpawz said, “We used to have a German Shepherd Puppy…she actually ate part of the drywall!”

Oh my gosh!

Sheena (my sister) said, “You forgot to mention she ate hubby’s watch case!”

Well there you go!  See I forgot about that!

Lauranne said, “Mity once ate a childrens mitten, he was out on a walk with my mum on her mobility scooter and picked it up and started throwing it around (like he sometimes does with socks, when he wants to be chased) just before my mum could get off her buggy to take the mitten off him he swallowed it down in one a bit like a seal does with a fish.”

I have no words except, Mity ate a mitten?  Is Mity short for Mitten?  If so, I find that extremely ironic. 🙂

Mollie and Alfie said, “I didn’t see cat poop on that list.”

That was a given my friends.  Every dog I know loves cat poop.  You want a cat poop story?  I’ll throw one in next week’s Barks and Bytes. 

2 Brown Dawgs asked, “Didn’t she eat the chocolate covered popcorn?”

Again, yup.  She’s eaten so much I can’t remember!

Emma was sharing a bit about her sister Bailie, “She is getting better about slowing down her eating but she still puts everything in her mouth. We think it is part puppy behavior and part just the need to eat everything. Last week at the office she attempted to eat a push pin and a button.”

O.M.G. Emma, thank goodness Mom was there to set her strait!

Donna asked, “I’m guessing the cooking oil in the pan wasn’t hot yet, huh?”

No it wasn’t too hot, but she will also drink it out a pan that has water for pasta.  (We add some oil to prevent sticking.)

Jan says, “She must have really hard working stomach enzymes to digest so many things. Or do they all just get turned into, you know, shit and expelled?”

Well the paper and cloth stuff comes out, so does the toothpicks.  It cracks me up sometimes when I look at her poop and find something I didn’t know she ate.  Some things are better that way.

Maggie said, “I’m honestly too mortified to list all the shit Emmett’s eaten…..Among the best-of-the-worst: a condom found in the park (I can’t think about that for too long or else I’ll barf), a Christmas wreath of evergreens and holly berries and wires holding the pieces together, two loaves of zucchini bread cooling on my mother’s kitchen counter, a full box of Crayola crayons, and now I have to stop because it brings on too much anxiety!”

Another. O.M.G.   Maggie, how is Emmett feeling?  We had to make Delilah vomit once when she ingested a ton of supplements.

Tori said, “When our 11 year old Lola was in her prime, she ate a whole tray of cookies that was cooling on top of the over, soup out of a pot on the stove, half dozen bagels, halloween pack of Resse’s Cups, bar of soap, kitty litter, cough drops… this list goes on!”

Holy smoke!

Jen K says, “Packing peanuts twice?! Separate incidents?
Moses’ non-approved eating keeps mostly to plant life – grass, sticks, bark.
Alma, on the other hand, is much more mischevious. She’s stolen:
– kibble from other dogs’ bowls while visiting them
– whole bag of brown sugar from the counter, consumed on a friend’s couch
– a jar of peanut butter from the counter, consumed on the spare bed
– french fries from the front of the vehicle, consumed in the back seat
– a Wendy’s frosty stolen from the coffee table, consumed behind the couch”

The packing peanuts was only once, I make a mistake in that post.  Oh Alma, you are devious aren’t you?

I sat reading this next one with my mouth wide open.

Callie, Shadow and Ducky’s mom said, “Shadow once swallowed my Dad’s hearing aid. She was only about 7 months old, and it was the Saturday just before Dad was going back home to Falls Church, Virginia. He had taken the thing out of his ear because it was buzzing and driving him nuts. He had put it in his lap for a moment, sparking Shadow’s curiosity. She “stole” it from his lap, and when Dad tried to get it back from her, she swallowed the thing whole — battery included. Though our vet had Saturday hours back then, it was way past the time he had closed. So I called our trainer who gave me the pet poison hotline phone number. They told me to try mixing some hydrogen peroxide into a bowl of milk. It worked. I was able to retrieve Dad’s hearing aid about 20 minutes later, with the battery still intact inside. We all felt sorry for her — she was miserable after lapping up the milk-peroxide mixture — but we were relieved that the hearing aid had not traveled further down her throat and into her stomach or colon.”

Holy shit.

Caption the Photo

You all have some wonderful captions.  But this post is getting on the long side, so I’ll highlight two of my favorites.

Caren Gittleman said, “Pee outside she said, the snow isn’t so bad she said. See how SHE would like peeing in all of this!”

Jackie Bouchard said, “Pretty sure I’ve heard the phrase ‘poop deck’ before, so …. I’ll just do my bizness up here!”

Here is the original picture with my caption.

I don’t know what an ACL is, but I’d sure like it to go away so I can play in the snow!

Damn You Polar Vortex!

Flea said, “A book! A book! How exciting! Did I know about this?”

Apparently not, OR you just forgot about it. 😉

Jan said, “A book you say? I’d like to hear more about what kind of book you are writing. Can you share some of what you are writing about.”

It’s hard to share what the book is about without giving too much away.  Let’s just say, I think my book has a unique approach.  It will be a mystery/comedy and the main character is a woman.

That’s it for me!  Thanks for playing along and have a wonderful weekend!