The Dog Ate My Wallet (Among Other Things)

As you may have noticed, I also have a personal finance blog called The Dog Ate My Wallet. That is not just a reference to how expensive pets can be, but also a true statement. In honor of that, I am posting today a list of all the things our dogs have “eaten” over the years. These are all items that were NOT intended for dog chewing.

And while this list is, for the most part, intended to be humorous, I feel the need to mention that some of the things my dogs have eaten have been downright dangerous to them. We lost our dear Moree, in fact, due to complications from the surgery to remove a bowel obstruction.

So yes, it can be funny what our dogs chew on and destroy, but please, for your sake and theirs, be careful what you leave lying around.

 

Moree

Stuffed animals

Decorative soaps in a never opened package that had belonged to C’s grandmother

Socks (but never shoes – he put his bones in shoes to chew the bones, but never chewed the shoes)

Underwear

Electrical wires

My steak (gotten off the very back of the kitchen counter)

½ of a giant Hershey’s Kiss

Leather wallet (including credit cards)

Paper towels

Bath towel

 

 

Smokey

Wooden spoons

Binding of a hardback copy of either book 2 or 3 of the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, belonging to a friend

 

 

 

Junebug (with a note that we got Junebug at 6mos old – all of the other dogs were at least 9mos when they came to us)

C’s glasses

My sunglasses

SP’s glasses

C’s cell phone (2 different phones)

C’s electronic key fob

My key ring (including the PetsMart Pet Perks card)

Blankets (she doesn’t so much eat them as put holes in them)

Dog beds

Pillows

Plastic dog stairs

Silverware

Plastic containers/lids  of any kind

Plastic bags

Random bits of paper

Pens/Pencils

Anything within her reach if you leave your chair pulled out from the table

 

Larry

Front bottom corner of one of C’s math soft cover math text books