Jake ate a dryer sheet

Mesquite · #1 11-02-2009, 08:49 AM

Good Lord! Trying to get clothes out of the dryer. Jake, of course, has to be in the middle of it all and immediately snatches the used dryer sheet. Usually he runs off with them and/or drops them after a minute. This time he plunks right down beside the clothes basket with the dryer sheet as I continue empting the dryer, and then I hear him gulp and the dryer sheet is gone! AAACK! Crazy dog. Are boxers part goat or what????

Well, I keep an eye on him to see if he has any adverse affects. No vomiting. No diarrhea. Guess he's okay. For all I know it's already passed through him and his insides are all "spring fresh" now.

Mesquite · #2 11-02-2009, 01:37 PM

Thanks for the advice. He seems to be fine - all systems in working order.

Yes, you're right. It is time to get his started on training.

iluvfrankie · #3 11-02-2009, 02:50 PM

my girl does that with cleaning cloths.....only yellow ones tho...she rips them up and then eats them. We changed to pink ones and she has no interest....weird!

NateBazooka · #4 11-02-2009, 05:56 PM

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Yup. Part goat.

Kevin likes to eat kleenex. I could easily see him going after a dryer sheet.

If you haven't already, you should work on the "drop it!" and "leave it!" commands. Kevin is ok with the "leave it" one, but he's really good at obeying "drop it!", and that makes me happy. I hated having to chase him down to figure out what he'd been nomming on. A couple of short sessions working on (and rewarding) drop it, and an occasional reinforcer treat every now and then (especially when he's really good and drops something that I know he *really* wants), and it's a lot easier to keep him from eating stuff he shouldn't. And me from having to pick stuff out of his butt.

cdnbxrlvr · #5 11-02-2009, 07:46 PM

LMAO!!! Part goat... lol...
I thought it was only Roxy with this goat gene... she seems to have an obsession with wet wipes, yip the kind you use on babies... imagine a crack addict on a corner waiting for a fix... this is how Roxy reacts at the sight of a wet wipe!

iluvfrankie · #6 11-02-2009, 09:26 PM

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Originally Posted by NateBazooka

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Kevin. And me from having to pick stuff out of his butt.

Kevin is the cutest name ever!!!

Picking stuff out of the butt is never good and they always seem to do it when out on a walk when the traffic is stopped and everyone is watching!

Boxercompa · #7 11-03-2009, 12:09 PM

Haha boxers are definitely unpredictable. I can relate to your dryer sheet chase. I let Mona (12weeks) out for play around the house last night and i forgot to close my bedroom door (I use little foamy orange earplugs to sleep). Well I left them next to my bed and she ran right to them as I chased her. Lol!! She got them and gulped them down faster than I could open her mouth. Of course this morning I saw they were intact through her digestive system as they were returned during her morning bowel movement. I will not be using those 2 earplugs again.