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Kathleen[_4_]

wrote:

> George Leppla > wrote:
>
>
>>I had a black lab that ate almost all of a Lindt's 2 pound sampler including
>>the box. I thought for sure she was going to croak but she never showed any
>>effects at all.
>
>
> Well, Labs are so dimwitted they don't know when they are supposed to
> be sick. I used to have one. He was a great dog, but boy was he dumb.
> He would chew on empty metal cans and glass bottles, or anything else
> he found. My sister once sent me a Lebanon Bologna for Christmas and
> the UPS guy stupidly left it on the front porch. Oscar, my Lab, had
> a great time eating the bologna and the box it came in.
>
>
>>Go figure. Of course, when I saw what she had done, I could have almost
>>killed her myself.
>
>
> Yeah, I was pretty mad about the bologna, but I mostly blamed
> the UPS guy.

My daughter is studying to be a vet tech, then will move on to certify
in canine and equine physical therapy and rehab. Every week their
instructor provides a "stupid labrador stunt of the week". The photo of
the lab who LICKED A MOTION ACTIVATED PAPER SHREDDER stands out in my
mind, as does the story of the dog that swallowed one of those power
strips that plugs into the wall - about 3" x 8" x 2". The owner
(obviously no rocket scientist herself) presented the dog at the clinic
while carrying a lamp, the cord running to the power pack in the lab's
stomach... She'd been hoping to avoid cutting the cord and having to
have the lamp re-wired...

Light bulbs, rocks, golf balls, screw drivers, entire pairs of jeans,
spatulas, bars of soap, staplers. Labs are notorious gluttons - they
are the breed most likely to be poisoned because they'll literally eat
anything.