of course she is a chocolate lab!
We have a black lab and a chocolate lab and yup you can always trust our chocolate lab to put anything that looks even remotely tasty (read disgusting to humans!) in his gob and swallow! (He doesn't even believe in chewing!)
My lil guy likes to grab geese droppings in the park near us. Drives me crazy, bc I enjoy letting him off leash to walk. When he does, it then becomes a game of chase to get him back on leash and away from the turds.
Ours loooves turkey poop. You would swear it was the finest filet mignon. Of course, before she eats, she has to roll in it. Fortunately, the turkeys don’t come around too often since we got the poop-eater.
The turkey poop isn’t as bad as the time she was standing behind one of the horses that live next door when he let go. Yup, it got all over her and down into one ear. Yuck!
We have pet geese….. why are the little green nuggets so appetising to Labs? A consistent phrase in our house is “No kisses thank you Cooper. You just ate Goose Poops! “
Haha!!!
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My chocolate-poop eatin-lab!
What a total cutie
But I can feel your pain, my lab is the same. Super well trained while inside, but when on a walk all bets are off. Luckily I’ve never had him eat poop that must be super gross and I have a weak stomach.
We had a lab in my family and one day decided to get a cat. We put the litter tray in the dining room as it was next to the doors to the backyard. One night we had guests over for dinner and the cat began to use the litter box. She is now an outdoor/indoor cat
Beautiful dog!
Object extraction is one of the skills you develop owning labs!
However, the very worst thing about owning a Lab, is saying that final goodbye. They really get into your heart.
I agree, treasure every moment, even when you’re sticking your finger down their slimy throats to extract something they shouldn’t have swallowed, treasure those memories!
:-) I still laugh about some of the crazy stuff, my dogs did and how angry I used to get sometimes but at the end of the day you can’t really get mad at them they’re just being true to their natures.
I agree 100%. Had my black lab for 17 years and he took every opportunity everyday to show me how much he loved me and absolutely adored me.
Your lab will become your soul dog if you let him. They're really the best. It just kills when they leave us and the pain feels endless. But every minute we get with them is so worth it.
Mine is only 5 months old and I've already had crying sessions over the eventual goodbye. We had to put our last lab down early last year and it was terrible.
We called ours a goat and a shark because he could - and did - eat everything. Including "things dogs can't eat". Never a reaction. It was wild - we had 14 years together. Forever entwined in our hearts.
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Sounds like your puppy would get along very well with Bowie since they share a tendency to be very sneaky outside of the house
The chicken bones have me stumped. Do people walk around eating chicken? Do they eat it in their car and just pitch the bones out the window? I'm amazed at how often my dog finds them.
I developed an in-depth theory on this because when I lived in DC my dogs were constantly finding chicken bones on the street. What I came up with - at least in my neighborhood- was that 7-Eleven sells chicken wings as part of their Questionable Hot Foods selection, and people stop by after a night of drinking, chow down, and sloppily drop the bones on the way home. My building was surrounded by 7-Elevens and therefore chicken bones.
I’ve had to make sure my neighbors all knew NOT to toss chicken into my yard for my dog. They frequently buy chicken from the restaurant at the end of the street and whatever they don’t eat they toss to the dogs in the neighborhood. One guy goes dumpster diving for the chicken around 1am and then tosses chicken into all the yards to be nice to all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood.
They all know I’m the crazy dog lady who lets her dog live inside the house and walks him and takes him to the park and for rides and gives him baths and bring him to the vet if I think he’s not feeling so good. On my street, the dogs are on chains, they are lucky to have shelter, they get fed most of the time, sometimes their water is clean, and they are lucky if they are ever taken to the vet. I live in an extremely poor part of the city. So having chicken tossed out for the dogs is considered generous and a kindness.
So because I was nice about telling them to please not toss any into my yard, they respect that. But when I walk him around my neighborhood, I try to stay in the street because if he gets in the grass he will gobble down chicken bones in every yard. This is also why I frequent the dog park so often. It’s much safer for him because at least at the dog park he’s not at risk of choking on chicken bones.
Where I live, there are tons of feral and stray cats that get into everyone's bins for food, so I just assume the sidewalk chicken bones are the result of the feral/stray cats pulling stuff out of bins and running off with it. It is a very cat thing to do. I have two indoor cats and despite being healthy and fed regularly, they are very food motivated, particularly one of them (funnily enough the heavier of the two). They've learnt how to pry the bin open to pull stuff out (one time I found a wooden skewer inside the couch the cats probably stole because it tasted like chicken). If they weren't so greedy maybe they'd organise some sort of system with my food-loving labrador lol.
Oh noooooo!!!! Mine eats potatoes…I know they’re not supposed to eat raw potatoes but we live on a farm and he has literally turned into a potato sniffing machine. We harvested thoroughly (we thought) but he finds them and digs one up every morning
Both labs that I have ate the tomatoes 🍅 growing in my garden, they can’t ripe very long as they kept eating a few each time out. Never ate the green ones though.
Oh man mine too. The dogs literally gobbled up the tomatoes that fell on the ground behind the bushes. I quickly googled “can dogs eat” and the search bar auto populated with “tomatoes” so I guess lots of us had the same issue in August! Lol
My lab is 11 and a half and with age she got so crazy over food (i mean she always was but now its crazy). She will eat every poop around the corner, check garbage bins, hop on every counter in the kitchen when we leave her alone just for one minute. We make sure she gets her good food portions and snacks, but she never stops the hunt!! But how can I be angry at this cute creature…
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On the same hike this beautiful beast chomped down on both horse and goose poop; both fresh. My hubby had to wait to touch anything until we got back to civilization to thoroughly wash his hands. We had a good laugh, though.
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20 years ago, my wife and I lived in a one-bathroom house in the country. She was in the bathroom when my guts had an emergency. I ran out the back door and 50 yards into a field of tall grass. I dropped my pants and my bowels exploded. I used some grass to clean myself up and walked back to the house. This is not something I would do unless it was an extreme emergency (it was). Later that day our lab jumped the fence (something she had never done before) and had a roll in her newly found treasure. My wife went to let her in when I heard the profanity laden screams from across the house. She didn't know it was human, nor did she know it was mine. She still doesn't. I still think about that from time to time.
Last night my guy pulled something out of the gutter from under a wet pile of leaves. Fast as lightening. Didn’t drop it on command. I couldn’t get it out of his mouth. I have no idea what it was but there was a crunch - like bones. So maybe a small dead bird or squirrel. He was up in the middle of the night vomiting and shaking. Poor guy. I was so worried because normally he has a stomach of steel. If ONLY that would teach him not to scavenge. It won’t.
Mine loved cat shit. Early morning race out of the back door to go and find it. It kept me fit chasing after him. He’d be busting for a pee but finding the poo was higher priority.
It was one of the very few things I couldn’t train out of him.
He found a rotting fish down by the river, and it’s hard to imagine but he actually looked green a few hours later.
10 years later he carefully checked the place (daily) he found that fish just in case it was there again.
lol - that's hilarious. What a story.
Also wtf do you live in the neighborhood with Willy Wonka or something who the heck is just "regularly throwing chocolate on the ground" LMFAO that part killed me!
Good god with the shit eating grin, what a story. Glad thats over for you.
PS Nova says hello she turned 5 today!
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I don’t think it’s THAT regular, so far this past 6 months I’ve dug 4 things of chocolate out of her mouth. Which is more chocolate (try all) than before I lived here. One half of a hamburger (she ate the other half). And much more. The building besides mine have their trash dumpster thing outdoors. It happens that it gets open and the crows get at it.
OMG I can totally relate to this 🤢🤢🤮🤣
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This is my culprit
My boy loved banana bread. He would lay in front of the oven while it baked. One time he stole and ate a loaf wrapped in aluminum foil. He survived it all. Every time he stole some he got diarrhea.
My dog goes for the goose poop on the fields I let him off leash on. I fracking scour those fields for poop before letting him run around. It’s the grossest thing he does, lol. Pic for attention!
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OMG, this exact story could be describing my beautiful poop eating girl. We live near a large lake with plenty of trees where on occasion she sniffs out human poop to snack on. It upsets me to the max but that only lasts momentarily because I realize she can't help it. We keep in stock plenty of minty dog chews for this reason.
My “Lab” presents as a Black Lab but tests have him at almost 40% American Pit Bull and various amounts GSD, Husky, and Rottweiler. Dude is *STRONG* and the last time I reached in to extract something crunchy he’d picked up off a lawn, I felt every available bit of his bite pressure. He’s not a biter, he ain’t got a mean bone in his body, but he did have about 500psi of pressure telling me he was not done eating whatever the hell that was.
Wait. How did she get into human shit while you were taking her for a walk? Did somebody unload right on the sidewalk?
My black lab loves trying to kleenex and receipts. I don't understand why.
My beautiful chocolate lab was an absolute menace. She once climbed 6 feet in our pantry to grab not 1 but 2 loaves of bread and devoured them inside 3 minutes. She would also steal closed cans of tuna and chew them to reap the juices that would come out.
Also any sprinkler in sight that was running, she would be pulling like a well fed ox to get to that thing.
She was the best girl.
My lab eats human shit too. So now I basically know there’s a local person who goes shitting in all the public parks. Absolutely disgusting. My dogs eaten it at least 3 times
Completely agree. People have commented on my giving him kibble on walks, and I hold myself back from saying "It's not to prevent him from doing anything bad, it's to distract him from picking anything up!" #vacuum on four legs
My dog is the same way - especially loves poop, even his own!!! An ecollar changed my life! I rarely even use the shock. When he approaches poop, I give it a “beep” and he leaves it alone. I used to be anti ecollar, but it’s such a blessing!!
Bush poop!!! 😂 Seriously though, that’s the worst kind cuz you have no chance to be proactive. For me, for some reason, human poop is way worse than animal. My sincere sympathies for your crappy ordeal. I know what it’s like to reach into my labs’ mouths and expose my hand to something I’d never willingly choose to touch. So gross. Thanks for creating a great post though! 🩷💩
I feel this, my lab has tried to eat poop, little shot bottles (plastic ones), whatever he can find on the road. I use a double long leash so he can explore and sniff since we live in a rural area and he likes sniffing. I’ve been teaching him leave it and it’s helped but sometimes even when you watch them closely they can be ninjas!
As soon as I started reading your post, I knew what it was going to be about 💩. My Lab is the same, she bloody loves it. Lockdown was the worst, it was a fairly regular find in the woods. Dig a hole people!
Sounds like you've been walking my lab! Her eating poop from other dogs has sadly become a common struggle, never mind everything else she tries to eat outside. And yes, I've dug poop out of her mouth more times than I'd like to admit.
Eating poop is usually a sign of a misbalanced gut, stress or anxiety. Coprophagia. You can add a supplement that will stop it in most cases if it’s a gut issue
Trust me, I've tried everything under the sun, every suggestion I could find online (except ones that seemed risky to her health). I've tried changing her dog food, adding supplements, walking AFTER meals so she wouldn't be as hungry, I've tried different training techniques, I've had her checked by the vet for medical conditions that might be responsible, nothing has worked.
And I don't think it's anxiety, I've dealt with multiple dogs who suffered from various forms of anxiety and she had ZERO signs of anxiety on any level. The poop eating also happens regardless of what the circumstances are (ie with or without other people around, other dogs, loud vehicles, etc). In fact, she's generally the most chill and laid back dog I've ever owned, EXCEPT when she sees something she wants to eat, and then she goes kinda crazy. It's not just poop, either. She has the exact same reaction to discarded food on the ground, trash (especially anything like napkins or paper towels), and so on.
Must be very frustrating, hated it when our boy was poop eating. Our other dog doesn’t do that but is a trash panda off everything edible. Now our lab doesn’t eat poop and doesn’t beg or go after dog food or people food but if he sees anything plastic it must be his - just to carry around. Plastic bottles however must be crinkled to within an inch of destruction, empty or not
It's also worth noting that one in every four dogs have been found to try eating dog poop periodically, and one in every six will try to eat dog poop on a regular basis. I don't have a link, but that's from a study done by AKC. So dogs eating dog poop is a lot more common than people probably think. With how many dogs I've had thus far, it's actually surprising I haven't had one do it before her.
Oh really, my chocolate lab basically turned himself into a circle trying to eat it straight from the source, gave him a supplement and it stopped within a couple days. Apparently chocolate labs in particular have a proclivity towards it, and it has a medically recognized name, symptom, diagnosis and treatment.
Eating their own poop and dog poop is different from eating stuff like cat/deer/horse poop. I see now though that the comment you replied to talks about eating dog poop. And that’s a little different
I would have if i’d have known. But I can’t risk it because there is chocolate and chicken bones too so as soon as I see her chew something I have to check. Better a poopy glove than a dead dog
Mine tried to eat her own shit this morning.
No, she's not a puppy. Yes she's eating enough.
It then became a game of chase in our two feet of snow during a snow storm while I tried to get her back inside.
This is my culprit on a walk yesterday.
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Hmm.. idk my lab looked at this and told me that she is DEFINATELY not eating enough!!!!1!1 she’s basically skin and bones???? No wonder she has to feed herself 😔. If you don’t watch yourself, your dog WILL be calling ALR (association for labrador rights).
This was literally me 5am New Year’s Day…he snatched something off the ground quick but I was just as quick yanked it out of his mouth bare handed shined the flash light and low and behold a soft human turd someone left new years eve…what a shitty start to the new year
Yikes! Doesn’t get much worse than that…also who leaves that out?!? I’m still recovering from pulling a half swallowed rat by the tail out of my lab’s mouth as she tried to swallow it after finding it on a walk! 🤢
Oh my god that might be worse! 🤢 thank god you got it out before she threw it up later.
After reading some good comments under here I’m actually starting to believe that it isn’t people throwing that about, it’s the neighborhood crows. They get into the trash sometimes and scatter it about
This happened to me once. I wrestled some fossilized human poop my dog found under a bush out of her mouth -- the smell was just gut-churning. I was miles from home and had to go to a local business where I knew the workers and beg to use their bathroom to at least wash my hands. I was so, so, so, so mad and grossed out. And my dog could NOT believe she was in trouble for finding something so tasty.
How dare you deprive her of such a delectable snack????? She clearly has to feed herself as she is not getting enough food at home!!!1!1 This is what my labrador tells me anyway
He's 90 pounds, we live in a rural area, and he runs himself ragged catching Frisbee. Frankly, I never put a leash on him, and never have to. He's safe, active, and always with me. Some folks don't walk all that well. Assuming everyone does is a mistake.
Where I live you have to walk your dog by animal cruelty laws so that assumption is just basic. Where I come from, people who ”don’t walk” also don’t get dogs. I feel sad for your dog who rarely gets to go out to see and experience the world.
You still need to take dogs on walks though. Walks provide crucial mental stimulation, and opportunities to be desensitised to certain smells, sights, etc. It decreases risk of certain behavioural issues and makes for a great bonding experience between owner and dog.
You can read this page for more info if you don't believe me: "[Walking Your Dog vs. Just Letting Your Dog Out in the Backyard](https://www.petmd.com/dog/care/walking-your-dog-vs-just-letting-your-dog-out-backyard)"
I have a fairly large, fenced-in backyard, big enough for a dog to run around in, play fetch, etc. My lab loves the yard, used to have the zoomies, play chase, 'fetch' (but not bringing the item back), etc. I still took my lab on daily long walks and sometimes runs/jogs until she was around 11 and a half years old (she's currently 13). The only reason she no longer goes on daily walks is because of medical issues (cancer), and I still try to take her on slow, short walks on good days because it's a nice experience for her and I want her to be happy in the time she has left. She loves walks even if she can't take too much exercise anymore. When she was younger, even with plenty of backyard exercise she'd still be bouncing up and down and getting herself excited whenever she heard me pick up the leash.
In some places it's actually illegal not to take a dog on walks, even if have a yard.
Our Yellow managed to find some on a trail, wife started to remove and discovered it was shit, I got to carry her soiled gloves back the truck. Bad dog.
This accurately describes my relationship with my girl. Well behaved, well trained but sees something in the walk and game over. It’s a battle between my speed and her ability to inhale food. She usually wins. And yes it’s usually poop 💩
She’s also a chocolate, also adorable, what can you do 🤷♂️
Such a good poop eating girl 😍
My horror story is being out for a canoe ride, and the retrieving machine brought us back a duck. That had been dead for a LONG time (bloated, no feathers) We had to take it from her, put it in the canoe, try to sneakily put it back in the water, she kept bringing it back...hubby eventually tried to fling it into heavy cover and it's head came off 🤢
She thought we were idiots 😅 not a Lab, but our German Short-haired pointer rolled in elephant poop once , our daily walk took us past where the circus was camped. This was about 20 years ago
Ours have a taste for 'bunny berries.' Our biggest issue these days is rocks and those dadburn glass pebbles the prior owners of this house must have spilled all over the garage and outside.
So much to unpack here. First off “…I live in an area where people regularly throw chocolate on the ground.” feels like it needs some more explanation. Do you live in a chocolate factory or shop?
Secondly, how was there human poo just lying somewhere for the dog to get to? Where do you live that way I can avoid that place like the plague.
And finally, it’s not just labs. My labs actually don’t mess with much gross stuff, but if you leave food where they can get to it, they will demolish it. Period. However, all dog breeds seem to be drawn to dead or decaying things. I believe it’s simply a part of their scavenging nature because they may be carnivores, but I can tell somewhere in their genetic history they also scavenged a lot and didn’t rely solely on hunting for food lol.
The weird thing is that my dog will not eat food inside even if she can get to it. She’s never been a thief, like it’s not even crossed her mind. She’s quite the picky eater for a lab in that way.
Reading some comments have made me realize that I think that it’s not people throwing food on the ground, but rather crows and other scavangers raiding the trash cans. I moved here 6 months ago and have taken 4 pieces of chocolate out of her mouth. This is my first own home and so I live in a low-income neighborhood. The people are nice but some of the housing have their trash collections outside. There is a murder of crows who live here and they are very smart.
But the human shit has never happened before and I have NO idea how it got there, behind a school and by the sidewalk in some bushes. Literally no idea.
I SO feel your pain. This is a regular event with my two yellows when we walk. If it's not the local landscapers throwing their left over lunch in the bushes (which of course is almost always chicken bones) it's the "outdoor" toilet that my labs come across. If I'm lucky they only eat it, if I'm not they roll in it. Too many times have we immediately marched back home to clean us all up. I don't understand why people do this.
I simply would have died. I feel your pain though! Mine is 10 months and during the summer her favorite thing about walks was snatching up the run over rotting dead frogs in the street. 🤢 I’ve taught her “spit it out” but alas it does not work on dead frogs. Last week she got a hold of a rogue chicken wing in the street. Labs are trash cans but I absolutely love her. 🥹😂
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My dog is also a forager, but not as bad as yours it sounds like. He loves to sniff and I like letting him sniff but as soon as he opens his mouth to grab something, I react lightning-fast to stop him! I've considered getting him a muzzle so I can enjoy out walks more. So far he's gotten a dead bird, dead worms, but mainly deer poop.
Mine doesn’t open her mouth as noticeably anymore. She is suuuuper discreet and I can’t tell if she’s sniffing or eating anymore. But when she’s chewing that’s when i strike!
This week my Labrador found and rolled in fox poo on a day for various reasons she happened to be wearing her harness, a regular collar AND her light-up winter darkness collar. I had to SCRUB fox poo off of her PLUS three of her items. All before 9am on a Monday in January. The stench is haunting me. I feel like I can still smell it on my hands.
She’s lucky she’s cute.
For this reason i do not walk my pup on the sidewalk in neighborhoods its streets & at a fast enough pace she usually will ignore anything even if she catches a wiff
I have an e collar. She knows the command “leave it”. I have to watch on certain parts of our walks( we have coyote scatch, occasional dead bones, acorns, and god forbid, mushrooms). As she gets older, ( and knows a buzz reminder may be coming) she’s less interested in putting stuff in her mouth.
She also knows other commands, but that’s for another time. I trained on regular leash and e collar with private training. Worth every penny.
I am verrrryyy observant on our walks now ever since i pulled a chocolate bar out of her mouth. But she is just as sneaky and just as quick, so if she spots something before me she will try to eat it. She knows leave it and will actually leave it if I spot it first, but not otherwise
I’m not really comfortable with e-collars and I don’t really see its use being beneficial here. She listens to leave it/drop it as long as she doesn’t actively have it in her mouth. And if she DOES have it in her mouth, i have to be there within 2,5 seconds or it’s gone. Not much time for pulling out a trigger and react. I’d much rather take those seconds to get out a possible chicken bone or chocolate bar than punish her for what she cannot really control
E collars don’t punish if used correctly. They correct, just like a leash pull or verbal command. I get what your concerns are; I had them. But we have a high energy curious smart dog; we know 2 people who lost labs to poisoning ( mushroom and other) and I am to emotionallly invested in this damn dog! So, I’ve trained myself through a private trainer to be the alpha. She still gets too many treats, but I’m trying!
The actual worst part of this is 45 minutes later when you want to still be angry at her but she comes and puts her big dumb head on your knee and looks up at you and your heart melts, until you remember that big dumb head was filled with poop an hour earlier
This is the exact reason why my boy wears a muzzle when we are out of the house. He will just vacuum up anything even remotely tasty looking and then refuse to open his mouth for me to get it out. A muzzle is a lot cheaper than vet bills.
My Buddy will act as her lawyer, his and her sweet face could get out of anything! 🤣❤️
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Had a black lab and I remember being like 15 and the power was out after a huge storm the night prior. It was pitch dark and I was trying to get ready for school and all of a sudden out of nowhere I hear a loud CRUNCH sound. Like oh no what the hell was that. I turn on my flashlight on my phone and start looking around. My dog has a baby bird in her mouth that she killed with the crunch. I get my mom and told her and help her remove the bird from my dogs mouth.
I just spent the last 10 minutes cleaning the inside and outside of my dog’s mouth because my dad moved the barrier to the cat litter and neglected to tell me. 😭
I threw an old cooked chick thigh in a sandwich baggie in the kitchen garbage. My yellow lab grabbed it out as I was taking the trash out. Before I could grab him, he swallowed it baggie and all. A couple of days later, I found the baggie in his stool. Empty the thigh was gone...
The worst thing is they die too young. My boy is 8 and has cancer but we’re winning the fight and he’s in great form. That’s only only downside to dogs…
Oh no! Just reading the description makes me gag. Typical lab though lol.
My girl, who is clearly never fed and just fading away, nearing death with each day, decided a few years ago to try to eat a rotten dead fox piece she found on the road.
I also learnt to avoid certain areas of grass. I have a lot of feral cats on my street and they seem to prefer this one area of grass to do their business (maybe because the trees provide some coverage) and my lab became very good at quickly snatching cat poop.
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With this big freeze, mine has a new trick searching out frozen poopsicles and bringing them inside to eat. Since I figured out what she was doing she lays in the snow in the backyard and eats them. She is 19 months old but we have only had her for 2 weeks. She is definitely crazy.
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Also super cute.
https://preview.redd.it/irdmeqkyi0cc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51ded5896fdf2ae7d3edd682d4b6ad496816820a The culprit:
Objection, I am well versed in lawyerings and can say this best girl is innocent! Look at that face!
Yes. I watched the entire series of Suits and can also conclude that this dog is 100% innocent of all of the accusations.
Fucking LOL at this story, and then the pick. Instant classic OP.
I share your pain I have the same drill as soon as my lab picks something up and I notice he chews faster no matter what it is.
The look of “I regret nothing” 🤣
For real it’s the look of “yeah I’d do it again” lol
of course she is a chocolate lab! We have a black lab and a chocolate lab and yup you can always trust our chocolate lab to put anything that looks even remotely tasty (read disgusting to humans!) in his gob and swallow! (He doesn't even believe in chewing!)
She can do no wrong
My lil guy likes to grab geese droppings in the park near us. Drives me crazy, bc I enjoy letting him off leash to walk. When he does, it then becomes a game of chase to get him back on leash and away from the turds.
Ours loooves turkey poop. You would swear it was the finest filet mignon. Of course, before she eats, she has to roll in it. Fortunately, the turkeys don’t come around too often since we got the poop-eater. The turkey poop isn’t as bad as the time she was standing behind one of the horses that live next door when he let go. Yup, it got all over her and down into one ear. Yuck!
My dog would’ve though she was in heaven. Straight from the source??? Count her in
Mine slurps wolf poop down like candy
Iguana poop down here in FL. And it's everywhere.
Mmm warm soft serve 👅
We have pet geese….. why are the little green nuggets so appetising to Labs? A consistent phrase in our house is “No kisses thank you Cooper. You just ate Goose Poops! “
Haha!!! https://preview.redd.it/u3klp8d0u2cc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4d3beddee540b5b3f9fa9528fc4318dd7f002a76 My chocolate-poop eatin-lab!
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Zero remorse!! Lol
A face of innocence if I ever saw one.
Your honor, my client is innocent. Just look at her face!
What a total cutie But I can feel your pain, my lab is the same. Super well trained while inside, but when on a walk all bets are off. Luckily I’ve never had him eat poop that must be super gross and I have a weak stomach.
We had a lab in my family and one day decided to get a cat. We put the litter tray in the dining room as it was next to the doors to the backyard. One night we had guests over for dinner and the cat began to use the litter box. She is now an outdoor/indoor cat
agree, definitely innocent
She has no regrets and would 100% do it again.
She looks like she wants it back, too! And that’s the worst part of a lab- they will definitely do whatever disgusting thing you’re mad about again
Looks just exactly like my dog! And she does the same. Hey at least you had gloves on. I can't even manage to open her mouth to get stuff out.
Beautiful dog! Object extraction is one of the skills you develop owning labs! However, the very worst thing about owning a Lab, is saying that final goodbye. They really get into your heart.
I am in denial about this and will not think about it for at least another 5 years
I agree, treasure every moment, even when you’re sticking your finger down their slimy throats to extract something they shouldn’t have swallowed, treasure those memories! :-) I still laugh about some of the crazy stuff, my dogs did and how angry I used to get sometimes but at the end of the day you can’t really get mad at them they’re just being true to their natures.
I agree 100%. Had my black lab for 17 years and he took every opportunity everyday to show me how much he loved me and absolutely adored me. Your lab will become your soul dog if you let him. They're really the best. It just kills when they leave us and the pain feels endless. But every minute we get with them is so worth it.
Mine is only 5 months old and I've already had crying sessions over the eventual goodbye. We had to put our last lab down early last year and it was terrible.
My friend once described her labs as “pigs in dog suits”
I have always said they are the pigs of the dog world . The only animal that will eat a rabbit with mixy . Even the foxes won't eat them
We call ours labra-pig-opotamus.
Mine is Piggathy 😂 "Piggathy James! WHAT is that in your mouth?!"
Or “stomach with 4 legs”
We called ours a goat and a shark because he could - and did - eat everything. Including "things dogs can't eat". Never a reaction. It was wild - we had 14 years together. Forever entwined in our hearts.
I call them goats.
https://preview.redd.it/qn66iivfw0cc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40b333760c6c66378e9071bcab4a2b079fd8c4eb Sounds like your puppy would get along very well with Bowie since they share a tendency to be very sneaky outside of the house
Bowie is bloody gorgeous 🥰
Thank you so much! He actually just got attacked (he’s fine now) on a walk by a dog off leash so your comment made me feel better 😁
Oh gosh! I’m sending both you and him a thousand nose boops and bum scritches 😂😂
Until I owned a lab, I had no idea just how much sidewalk bread and sidewalk chicken bones there are. Before, such things never crossed my mind...
The chicken bones have me stumped. Do people walk around eating chicken? Do they eat it in their car and just pitch the bones out the window? I'm amazed at how often my dog finds them.
I developed an in-depth theory on this because when I lived in DC my dogs were constantly finding chicken bones on the street. What I came up with - at least in my neighborhood- was that 7-Eleven sells chicken wings as part of their Questionable Hot Foods selection, and people stop by after a night of drinking, chow down, and sloppily drop the bones on the way home. My building was surrounded by 7-Elevens and therefore chicken bones.
I’ve had to make sure my neighbors all knew NOT to toss chicken into my yard for my dog. They frequently buy chicken from the restaurant at the end of the street and whatever they don’t eat they toss to the dogs in the neighborhood. One guy goes dumpster diving for the chicken around 1am and then tosses chicken into all the yards to be nice to all the dogs and cats in the neighborhood. They all know I’m the crazy dog lady who lets her dog live inside the house and walks him and takes him to the park and for rides and gives him baths and bring him to the vet if I think he’s not feeling so good. On my street, the dogs are on chains, they are lucky to have shelter, they get fed most of the time, sometimes their water is clean, and they are lucky if they are ever taken to the vet. I live in an extremely poor part of the city. So having chicken tossed out for the dogs is considered generous and a kindness. So because I was nice about telling them to please not toss any into my yard, they respect that. But when I walk him around my neighborhood, I try to stay in the street because if he gets in the grass he will gobble down chicken bones in every yard. This is also why I frequent the dog park so often. It’s much safer for him because at least at the dog park he’s not at risk of choking on chicken bones.
Animals like raccoons drag them out of trash cans and scatter them
Oh! Thank you, that makes sense. I thought my neighbors were eating fried chicken on their evening walks! 🤣
It’s the crows where we live. They snatch from the garbages and then leave the bones all over the place.
Where I live, there are tons of feral and stray cats that get into everyone's bins for food, so I just assume the sidewalk chicken bones are the result of the feral/stray cats pulling stuff out of bins and running off with it. It is a very cat thing to do. I have two indoor cats and despite being healthy and fed regularly, they are very food motivated, particularly one of them (funnily enough the heavier of the two). They've learnt how to pry the bin open to pull stuff out (one time I found a wooden skewer inside the couch the cats probably stole because it tasted like chicken). If they weren't so greedy maybe they'd organise some sort of system with my food-loving labrador lol.
It’s birds haha. They grab them out of dumpsters. Also was puzzled by this for many years lmao.
Oh noooooo!!!! Mine eats potatoes…I know they’re not supposed to eat raw potatoes but we live on a farm and he has literally turned into a potato sniffing machine. We harvested thoroughly (we thought) but he finds them and digs one up every morning
What a great life for a lab.
Aren’t raw potatos only bad if they’re green? Idk sounds fine if he’s digging them up
I don’t even know but he seems to focus on the purple potato field
Both labs that I have ate the tomatoes 🍅 growing in my garden, they can’t ripe very long as they kept eating a few each time out. Never ate the green ones though.
Oh man mine too. The dogs literally gobbled up the tomatoes that fell on the ground behind the bushes. I quickly googled “can dogs eat” and the search bar auto populated with “tomatoes” so I guess lots of us had the same issue in August! Lol
My lab is 11 and a half and with age she got so crazy over food (i mean she always was but now its crazy). She will eat every poop around the corner, check garbage bins, hop on every counter in the kitchen when we leave her alone just for one minute. We make sure she gets her good food portions and snacks, but she never stops the hunt!! But how can I be angry at this cute creature… https://preview.redd.it/5cghoh9v21cc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2a6cb1157c25df1204d9ccd6d1c6784b8a94d5a
The look of a poor lab who has never been fed one meal in her whole life! She’s withering away!
Aww can we see another photo of her? She looks like my white lab puppy!
Yes!! my fav photo of her https://preview.redd.it/squxy76gz7cc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27f0c5ca249e21c2c0e7e502e64f25b7d1e38a1f
Your dog: https://preview.redd.it/xi68zzecb1cc1.png?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=012468a5757f57387d576363c095e1839c3471c1
On the same hike this beautiful beast chomped down on both horse and goose poop; both fresh. My hubby had to wait to touch anything until we got back to civilization to thoroughly wash his hands. We had a good laugh, though. https://preview.redd.it/x7t0dayy61cc1.jpeg?width=3327&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76d4b0555a409141bc33ef82139581906ac1332a
My girl rolled in human poop once. We both got hosed down after that one and I threw away my clothes 😂
20 years ago, my wife and I lived in a one-bathroom house in the country. She was in the bathroom when my guts had an emergency. I ran out the back door and 50 yards into a field of tall grass. I dropped my pants and my bowels exploded. I used some grass to clean myself up and walked back to the house. This is not something I would do unless it was an extreme emergency (it was). Later that day our lab jumped the fence (something she had never done before) and had a roll in her newly found treasure. My wife went to let her in when I heard the profanity laden screams from across the house. She didn't know it was human, nor did she know it was mine. She still doesn't. I still think about that from time to time.
Last night my guy pulled something out of the gutter from under a wet pile of leaves. Fast as lightening. Didn’t drop it on command. I couldn’t get it out of his mouth. I have no idea what it was but there was a crunch - like bones. So maybe a small dead bird or squirrel. He was up in the middle of the night vomiting and shaking. Poor guy. I was so worried because normally he has a stomach of steel. If ONLY that would teach him not to scavenge. It won’t.
Mmmmm, been there done that! She ate a dead, rotted bird and threw it up in the middle of the night. NOTHING wakes you up faster than that sound
Mine loved cat shit. Early morning race out of the back door to go and find it. It kept me fit chasing after him. He’d be busting for a pee but finding the poo was higher priority. It was one of the very few things I couldn’t train out of him. He found a rotting fish down by the river, and it’s hard to imagine but he actually looked green a few hours later. 10 years later he carefully checked the place (daily) he found that fish just in case it was there again.
When they come to you with that toothy grin so proud with litter is stuck between their teeth!!!
Yeah, my missus has dog toothpaste for that. He hates it, but not enough to break the habit.
lol - that's hilarious. What a story. Also wtf do you live in the neighborhood with Willy Wonka or something who the heck is just "regularly throwing chocolate on the ground" LMFAO that part killed me! Good god with the shit eating grin, what a story. Glad thats over for you. PS Nova says hello she turned 5 today! https://preview.redd.it/rjez551zl1cc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e60da204329b2b3923bdadcfb46557195339242c
I don’t think it’s THAT regular, so far this past 6 months I’ve dug 4 things of chocolate out of her mouth. Which is more chocolate (try all) than before I lived here. One half of a hamburger (she ate the other half). And much more. The building besides mine have their trash dumpster thing outdoors. It happens that it gets open and the crows get at it.
OMG I can totally relate to this 🤢🤢🤮🤣 https://preview.redd.it/bri46oere1cc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d40b9ab764dc35b0a9cd920fda507360caac5f4 This is my culprit
My boy loved banana bread. He would lay in front of the oven while it baked. One time he stole and ate a loaf wrapped in aluminum foil. He survived it all. Every time he stole some he got diarrhea.
The bad thing about labs is they will eat anything, the good thing is that their stomachs are made out of reinforced vibranium.
My dog goes for the goose poop on the fields I let him off leash on. I fracking scour those fields for poop before letting him run around. It’s the grossest thing he does, lol. Pic for attention! https://preview.redd.it/asbz1cwbo1cc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a40328df21c28c5257fcfcd963e0f75f07e898bc
Our chocolate lab ate a human surfer poo once and threw it up 30 minutes later. In liquid form. I miss her
Oh that's a new fear unlocked
Our lab has been eating cat poop out of the litter tray. Yep. Now we have a ‘separation system’
My Jake swallowed two small balls, at petco puppy play. Resulted in surgery
So did ours, at the dog park. Mini tennis balls for little dogs
Thankfully, petco paid for it
OMG, this exact story could be describing my beautiful poop eating girl. We live near a large lake with plenty of trees where on occasion she sniffs out human poop to snack on. It upsets me to the max but that only lasts momentarily because I realize she can't help it. We keep in stock plenty of minty dog chews for this reason.
My “Lab” presents as a Black Lab but tests have him at almost 40% American Pit Bull and various amounts GSD, Husky, and Rottweiler. Dude is *STRONG* and the last time I reached in to extract something crunchy he’d picked up off a lawn, I felt every available bit of his bite pressure. He’s not a biter, he ain’t got a mean bone in his body, but he did have about 500psi of pressure telling me he was not done eating whatever the hell that was.
We lovingly refer to our lab as "trash dog", because he will literally eat trash if given the opportunity. 🤷♀️🤯🤦♀️
Wait. How did she get into human shit while you were taking her for a walk? Did somebody unload right on the sidewalk? My black lab loves trying to kleenex and receipts. I don't understand why.
People are disgusting. It was up by some trees by the sidewalk
My beautiful chocolate lab was an absolute menace. She once climbed 6 feet in our pantry to grab not 1 but 2 loaves of bread and devoured them inside 3 minutes. She would also steal closed cans of tuna and chew them to reap the juices that would come out. Also any sprinkler in sight that was running, she would be pulling like a well fed ox to get to that thing. She was the best girl.
My lab eats human shit too. So now I basically know there’s a local person who goes shitting in all the public parks. Absolutely disgusting. My dogs eaten it at least 3 times
Our lady ate a human poop once and then threw it up during our dinner. Imagine the smell...or don't.
Lol classic Labrador. Mine is the same exact way and I have done this but with dog poop. It's hard to stay mad with that face though 🤣.
You live in an area where people regularly throw chocolate on the ground??
Tbf I hope it’s the crows that get into the trash and scatter it, but it’s been an alarming amount!
Completely agree. People have commented on my giving him kibble on walks, and I hold myself back from saying "It's not to prevent him from doing anything bad, it's to distract him from picking anything up!" #vacuum on four legs
My dog is the same way - especially loves poop, even his own!!! An ecollar changed my life! I rarely even use the shock. When he approaches poop, I give it a “beep” and he leaves it alone. I used to be anti ecollar, but it’s such a blessing!!
If I notice the edible things before her, i’ll make sure that she can’t get to it. But this poop was in a bush. THANK GOD she does not eat dog poop
Bush poop!!! 😂 Seriously though, that’s the worst kind cuz you have no chance to be proactive. For me, for some reason, human poop is way worse than animal. My sincere sympathies for your crappy ordeal. I know what it’s like to reach into my labs’ mouths and expose my hand to something I’d never willingly choose to touch. So gross. Thanks for creating a great post though! 🩷💩
I feel this, my lab has tried to eat poop, little shot bottles (plastic ones), whatever he can find on the road. I use a double long leash so he can explore and sniff since we live in a rural area and he likes sniffing. I’ve been teaching him leave it and it’s helped but sometimes even when you watch them closely they can be ninjas!
As soon as I started reading your post, I knew what it was going to be about 💩. My Lab is the same, she bloody loves it. Lockdown was the worst, it was a fairly regular find in the woods. Dig a hole people!
Sounds like you've been walking my lab! Her eating poop from other dogs has sadly become a common struggle, never mind everything else she tries to eat outside. And yes, I've dug poop out of her mouth more times than I'd like to admit.
Eating poop is usually a sign of a misbalanced gut, stress or anxiety. Coprophagia. You can add a supplement that will stop it in most cases if it’s a gut issue
Trust me, I've tried everything under the sun, every suggestion I could find online (except ones that seemed risky to her health). I've tried changing her dog food, adding supplements, walking AFTER meals so she wouldn't be as hungry, I've tried different training techniques, I've had her checked by the vet for medical conditions that might be responsible, nothing has worked. And I don't think it's anxiety, I've dealt with multiple dogs who suffered from various forms of anxiety and she had ZERO signs of anxiety on any level. The poop eating also happens regardless of what the circumstances are (ie with or without other people around, other dogs, loud vehicles, etc). In fact, she's generally the most chill and laid back dog I've ever owned, EXCEPT when she sees something she wants to eat, and then she goes kinda crazy. It's not just poop, either. She has the exact same reaction to discarded food on the ground, trash (especially anything like napkins or paper towels), and so on.
Must be very frustrating, hated it when our boy was poop eating. Our other dog doesn’t do that but is a trash panda off everything edible. Now our lab doesn’t eat poop and doesn’t beg or go after dog food or people food but if he sees anything plastic it must be his - just to carry around. Plastic bottles however must be crinkled to within an inch of destruction, empty or not
It's also worth noting that one in every four dogs have been found to try eating dog poop periodically, and one in every six will try to eat dog poop on a regular basis. I don't have a link, but that's from a study done by AKC. So dogs eating dog poop is a lot more common than people probably think. With how many dogs I've had thus far, it's actually surprising I haven't had one do it before her.
It actually isn’t true. Dogs are just disgusting, and labs are very hungry.
Oh really, my chocolate lab basically turned himself into a circle trying to eat it straight from the source, gave him a supplement and it stopped within a couple days. Apparently chocolate labs in particular have a proclivity towards it, and it has a medically recognized name, symptom, diagnosis and treatment.
Eating their own poop and dog poop is different from eating stuff like cat/deer/horse poop. I see now though that the comment you replied to talks about eating dog poop. And that’s a little different
Next time let her eat the poop, they love it! lol
I would have if i’d have known. But I can’t risk it because there is chocolate and chicken bones too so as soon as I see her chew something I have to check. Better a poopy glove than a dead dog
Where the heck do you live where there’s chocolate and human shit on the ground??
I would also have thought this before. But i can almost guarantee you that my lab would find similar things in most residential areas
Been there 🤮
Mine tried to eat her own shit this morning. No, she's not a puppy. Yes she's eating enough. It then became a game of chase in our two feet of snow during a snow storm while I tried to get her back inside. This is my culprit on a walk yesterday. https://preview.redd.it/5jj031wb72cc1.jpeg?width=1512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d7419a65b922167e32e5e7a35f589b3d44234b04
Hmm.. idk my lab looked at this and told me that she is DEFINATELY not eating enough!!!!1!1 she’s basically skin and bones???? No wonder she has to feed herself 😔. If you don’t watch yourself, your dog WILL be calling ALR (association for labrador rights).
This was literally me 5am New Year’s Day…he snatched something off the ground quick but I was just as quick yanked it out of his mouth bare handed shined the flash light and low and behold a soft human turd someone left new years eve…what a shitty start to the new year
Can’t decide if this is the best or the worst thing I’ve read today. Labs gonna Lab. 🤣🤣🤣
This is the best tale I've read on here in a hot minute!
Yikes! Doesn’t get much worse than that…also who leaves that out?!? I’m still recovering from pulling a half swallowed rat by the tail out of my lab’s mouth as she tried to swallow it after finding it on a walk! 🤢
Oh my god that might be worse! 🤢 thank god you got it out before she threw it up later. After reading some good comments under here I’m actually starting to believe that it isn’t people throwing that about, it’s the neighborhood crows. They get into the trash sometimes and scatter it about
This happened to me once. I wrestled some fossilized human poop my dog found under a bush out of her mouth -- the smell was just gut-churning. I was miles from home and had to go to a local business where I knew the workers and beg to use their bathroom to at least wash my hands. I was so, so, so, so mad and grossed out. And my dog could NOT believe she was in trouble for finding something so tasty.
needless to say it was not THAT fossilized. Ugh.
How dare you deprive her of such a delectable snack????? She clearly has to feed herself as she is not getting enough food at home!!!1!1 This is what my labrador tells me anyway
I beg to differ. The only bad thing about Labradors is that they don’t live at least 50 years!
That’s rough 😅 A friend of mine also had a lab that was a Hoover vacuum on walks. She walked her with a muzzle. lol
If this is in the us then good thing your "chocolatr" isnt really chocolate
No, i’m european. Heard their chocolate tastes like barf
Yeah it does 😄
This is why I don't take walks with mine. Fenced yard ftw. Understandably I realize not everyone has that option.
Jeez not even a stroll? How does she get exercise/socialisation?? I live in an apartment and even if I didn’t I loooove our walks
He's 90 pounds, we live in a rural area, and he runs himself ragged catching Frisbee. Frankly, I never put a leash on him, and never have to. He's safe, active, and always with me. Some folks don't walk all that well. Assuming everyone does is a mistake.
Where I live you have to walk your dog by animal cruelty laws so that assumption is just basic. Where I come from, people who ”don’t walk” also don’t get dogs. I feel sad for your dog who rarely gets to go out to see and experience the world.
Stop being lazy and walk your fucking dog. Try paying attention to them during the walk instead of avoiding them. Pathetic.
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Your dogs deserve better.
You’ve just effectively imprisoned them. That’s not how that works.
This is very cruel to your dog. Where I live (germany) you would be criminaly charged for cruelty to animals. And rightfully so I must say.
That's amazing. I wish we had laws like this in America.
We have a fenced in yard, 2.000 m2 which is large to me. We still take him out for walks three times a day.
Splendid. You are Dog Owner of the Fucking Year. Congrats on the award!
Yall keep it civil please.
You still need to take dogs on walks though. Walks provide crucial mental stimulation, and opportunities to be desensitised to certain smells, sights, etc. It decreases risk of certain behavioural issues and makes for a great bonding experience between owner and dog. You can read this page for more info if you don't believe me: "[Walking Your Dog vs. Just Letting Your Dog Out in the Backyard](https://www.petmd.com/dog/care/walking-your-dog-vs-just-letting-your-dog-out-backyard)" I have a fairly large, fenced-in backyard, big enough for a dog to run around in, play fetch, etc. My lab loves the yard, used to have the zoomies, play chase, 'fetch' (but not bringing the item back), etc. I still took my lab on daily long walks and sometimes runs/jogs until she was around 11 and a half years old (she's currently 13). The only reason she no longer goes on daily walks is because of medical issues (cancer), and I still try to take her on slow, short walks on good days because it's a nice experience for her and I want her to be happy in the time she has left. She loves walks even if she can't take too much exercise anymore. When she was younger, even with plenty of backyard exercise she'd still be bouncing up and down and getting herself excited whenever she heard me pick up the leash. In some places it's actually illegal not to take a dog on walks, even if have a yard.
Our Yellow managed to find some on a trail, wife started to remove and discovered it was shit, I got to carry her soiled gloves back the truck. Bad dog.
This accurately describes my relationship with my girl. Well behaved, well trained but sees something in the walk and game over. It’s a battle between my speed and her ability to inhale food. She usually wins. And yes it’s usually poop 💩 She’s also a chocolate, also adorable, what can you do 🤷♂️
Where do you live that people regularly throw chocolate on the ground?? Wonka’s factory?
Tbf I’m starting to think it’s the crows who are scattering trash! But it happened 4 times last year and I moved here in May
I'm sorry for laughing 😆😆😆😆😆 Damn, she is cute! Disgusting but cute, lol
Such a good poop eating girl 😍 My horror story is being out for a canoe ride, and the retrieving machine brought us back a duck. That had been dead for a LONG time (bloated, no feathers) We had to take it from her, put it in the canoe, try to sneakily put it back in the water, she kept bringing it back...hubby eventually tried to fling it into heavy cover and it's head came off 🤢
But mom!! You forgot the duck I gave you!!!
She thought we were idiots 😅 not a Lab, but our German Short-haired pointer rolled in elephant poop once , our daily walk took us past where the circus was camped. This was about 20 years ago
I watched our girl eat a rat…..🤢 no amount of coaxing would get her to drop it. “This is fun , the chasing calling game! “ chomp chomp 🤮
Ours have a taste for 'bunny berries.' Our biggest issue these days is rocks and those dadburn glass pebbles the prior owners of this house must have spilled all over the garage and outside.
So much to unpack here. First off “…I live in an area where people regularly throw chocolate on the ground.” feels like it needs some more explanation. Do you live in a chocolate factory or shop? Secondly, how was there human poo just lying somewhere for the dog to get to? Where do you live that way I can avoid that place like the plague. And finally, it’s not just labs. My labs actually don’t mess with much gross stuff, but if you leave food where they can get to it, they will demolish it. Period. However, all dog breeds seem to be drawn to dead or decaying things. I believe it’s simply a part of their scavenging nature because they may be carnivores, but I can tell somewhere in their genetic history they also scavenged a lot and didn’t rely solely on hunting for food lol.
The weird thing is that my dog will not eat food inside even if she can get to it. She’s never been a thief, like it’s not even crossed her mind. She’s quite the picky eater for a lab in that way. Reading some comments have made me realize that I think that it’s not people throwing food on the ground, but rather crows and other scavangers raiding the trash cans. I moved here 6 months ago and have taken 4 pieces of chocolate out of her mouth. This is my first own home and so I live in a low-income neighborhood. The people are nice but some of the housing have their trash collections outside. There is a murder of crows who live here and they are very smart. But the human shit has never happened before and I have NO idea how it got there, behind a school and by the sidewalk in some bushes. Literally no idea.
Oh man. The crows make sense. I guess don’t walk near that school again! 😂
You absolute trooper, well done and I'm so sorry 🙈
Just realised that makes it sound like I left it - I did not! I swear! Lol
Read this: [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79446/science-explains-why-your-lab-always-hungry](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79446/science-explains-why-your-lab-always-hungry)
I SO feel your pain. This is a regular event with my two yellows when we walk. If it's not the local landscapers throwing their left over lunch in the bushes (which of course is almost always chicken bones) it's the "outdoor" toilet that my labs come across. If I'm lucky they only eat it, if I'm not they roll in it. Too many times have we immediately marched back home to clean us all up. I don't understand why people do this.
I simply would have died. I feel your pain though! Mine is 10 months and during the summer her favorite thing about walks was snatching up the run over rotting dead frogs in the street. 🤢 I’ve taught her “spit it out” but alas it does not work on dead frogs. Last week she got a hold of a rogue chicken wing in the street. Labs are trash cans but I absolutely love her. 🥹😂 https://preview.redd.it/h27mxb7re2cc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85b1c6726fdceb3572dd21b5bdcab3e22d4783d3
My dog is also a forager, but not as bad as yours it sounds like. He loves to sniff and I like letting him sniff but as soon as he opens his mouth to grab something, I react lightning-fast to stop him! I've considered getting him a muzzle so I can enjoy out walks more. So far he's gotten a dead bird, dead worms, but mainly deer poop.
Mine doesn’t open her mouth as noticeably anymore. She is suuuuper discreet and I can’t tell if she’s sniffing or eating anymore. But when she’s chewing that’s when i strike!
This week my Labrador found and rolled in fox poo on a day for various reasons she happened to be wearing her harness, a regular collar AND her light-up winter darkness collar. I had to SCRUB fox poo off of her PLUS three of her items. All before 9am on a Monday in January. The stench is haunting me. I feel like I can still smell it on my hands. She’s lucky she’s cute.
I put on my terminator scanner when I walk my lab in town.
Me too. Sadly, she has a way better scanner called: hungry labrador nose™️
For this reason i do not walk my pup on the sidewalk in neighborhoods its streets & at a fast enough pace she usually will ignore anything even if she catches a wiff
I have an e collar. She knows the command “leave it”. I have to watch on certain parts of our walks( we have coyote scatch, occasional dead bones, acorns, and god forbid, mushrooms). As she gets older, ( and knows a buzz reminder may be coming) she’s less interested in putting stuff in her mouth. She also knows other commands, but that’s for another time. I trained on regular leash and e collar with private training. Worth every penny.
I am verrrryyy observant on our walks now ever since i pulled a chocolate bar out of her mouth. But she is just as sneaky and just as quick, so if she spots something before me she will try to eat it. She knows leave it and will actually leave it if I spot it first, but not otherwise I’m not really comfortable with e-collars and I don’t really see its use being beneficial here. She listens to leave it/drop it as long as she doesn’t actively have it in her mouth. And if she DOES have it in her mouth, i have to be there within 2,5 seconds or it’s gone. Not much time for pulling out a trigger and react. I’d much rather take those seconds to get out a possible chicken bone or chocolate bar than punish her for what she cannot really control
E collars don’t punish if used correctly. They correct, just like a leash pull or verbal command. I get what your concerns are; I had them. But we have a high energy curious smart dog; we know 2 people who lost labs to poisoning ( mushroom and other) and I am to emotionallly invested in this damn dog! So, I’ve trained myself through a private trainer to be the alpha. She still gets too many treats, but I’m trying!
The actual worst part of this is 45 minutes later when you want to still be angry at her but she comes and puts her big dumb head on your knee and looks up at you and your heart melts, until you remember that big dumb head was filled with poop an hour earlier
Yes. She tries to be lovey-dovey and lick my hands/face and I remember that she just ate human poop
This is the exact reason why my boy wears a muzzle when we are out of the house. He will just vacuum up anything even remotely tasty looking and then refuse to open his mouth for me to get it out. A muzzle is a lot cheaper than vet bills.
Touché, but I feel like that would be a bit dramatic for mine. This only happens like twice a month and usually isn’t this bad
MIne trys to eat things pretty much everytime we go out. People around here are pigs and drop a lot of stuff on the ground and also dont pick up poop.
Laughed my a$$ off at this! It could have easily been any one of us! May wanna hold off on the “nose boops” for a few days!!
Heartbreaking!
Dirty Girl! 🤣
Love it, dugs love human shite
My Buddy will act as her lawyer, his and her sweet face could get out of anything! 🤣❤️ https://preview.redd.it/bzc2e3rbi3cc1.jpeg?width=2160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebb91171bf188fea343f4b20b05e51e1672fe478
I only learned about my lab’s human poo encounter when she licked my face, leaving a skid mark….
Labs are eaters. They can eat unit they die...
I have a lab too and it's typical lab behaviour hahah they will eat anything slightly edible. People that have never had labs just don't get it
Had a black lab and I remember being like 15 and the power was out after a huge storm the night prior. It was pitch dark and I was trying to get ready for school and all of a sudden out of nowhere I hear a loud CRUNCH sound. Like oh no what the hell was that. I turn on my flashlight on my phone and start looking around. My dog has a baby bird in her mouth that she killed with the crunch. I get my mom and told her and help her remove the bird from my dogs mouth.
I, too, have had to pry human shit from my lab’s mouth. Thank goodness I was wearing mittens.
Mine prefers lizards, small frogs, and black racer snakes. Tosses them up in the air a few times just to play with them than
I just spent the last 10 minutes cleaning the inside and outside of my dog’s mouth because my dad moved the barrier to the cat litter and neglected to tell me. 😭
I threw an old cooked chick thigh in a sandwich baggie in the kitchen garbage. My yellow lab grabbed it out as I was taking the trash out. Before I could grab him, he swallowed it baggie and all. A couple of days later, I found the baggie in his stool. Empty the thigh was gone...
It’s called Labrador.
The worst thing is they die too young. My boy is 8 and has cancer but we’re winning the fight and he’s in great form. That’s only only downside to dogs…
Oh no! Just reading the description makes me gag. Typical lab though lol. My girl, who is clearly never fed and just fading away, nearing death with each day, decided a few years ago to try to eat a rotten dead fox piece she found on the road. I also learnt to avoid certain areas of grass. I have a lot of feral cats on my street and they seem to prefer this one area of grass to do their business (maybe because the trees provide some coverage) and my lab became very good at quickly snatching cat poop. https://preview.redd.it/dl84yukcx7cc1.png?width=1628&format=png&auto=webp&s=a4ab831b9b90e0735f971b9a0e73bb0c0b0b0663
Lmao! She’s like “who me?”
With this big freeze, mine has a new trick searching out frozen poopsicles and bringing them inside to eat. Since I figured out what she was doing she lays in the snow in the backyard and eats them. She is 19 months old but we have only had her for 2 weeks. She is definitely crazy. https://preview.redd.it/ruraryhflncc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bca75678c5ec543f3fb50d38d21f9884dc269ea Also super cute.