‘She’d consumed a kilo of sand’: 11 readers on the weirdest things dogs have eaten

Readers sent in an array of uncanny stories about what their dogs have devoured. Fiona adopted a westie named Maggie who once ate about a kilo of chinchilla bathing sand and then a sanitary towel with absorbent gel; the vet called it a minor miracle when she managed to vomit it up, and Maggie was otherwise untroubled.

Other cars, gardens and homes bore the brunt of canine curiosity. Rebecca’s labradors pulled out electrics, ate the boot lining and polystyrene around the spare tyre, and cost around £8,000 in rewiring after warning lights stopped the car. Spotty chewed sprinklers, lawn lamps, a palm tree, mattresses and rugs and twice swallowed wasps’ nests that sent him to the veterinary ER; he lived to 13 and remained unbowed by his antics.

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