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 MeanGreenStompa wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Half the teenagers buzzing around the house have weird diets. I do believe my boy exists on ribs, fish, popcorn, chocolate, protein bars, and milk. Seeing as he can bench press a Buick I guess he's doing ok.

Genghis Connie has a big container of Nutella "hidden" in her room she likes to munch on. Team Wienie would like to help her with that...

Frazz, don't let the dogs anywhere near chocolate, especially not that stuff, it's got a very high concentration of theobromine in the concentrated cocoa, it's likely to be lethal, especially in little dogs.

Good to know MGS. THANKS!

You didn't know about the chocolate?

Be careful of onion and garlic as well, in larger amounts they can also be toxic to them. The onions sort of create clumps in the blood or decrease the red blood cell's life span thus leading to the dog possibly becoming anemic. While it'll probably take a bit to kill it, it can make them pretty sick and appear fatigued at least. It's not as well known as the chocolate so I thought I'd just chime in with it while the thread was swung this way.

 n0t_u wrote:
You didn't know about the chocolate?

Be careful of onion and garlic as well, in larger amounts they can also be toxic to them. The onions sort of create clumps in the blood or decrease the red blood cell's life span thus leading to the dog possibly becoming anemic. While it'll probably take a bit to kill it, it can make them pretty sick and appear fatigued at least. It's not as well known as the chocolate so I thought I'd just chime in with it while the thread was swung this way.

I know about chocolate. I didn't know Nutella had chocolate in it. No one lets me get close to it. Those little bastards er, my loving children pull a gollum and scurry off with it....

Didn't know about garlic and onions though. Thanks again!

Oh, and Grapes. Grapes are poisonous to dogs.

Really? TBone loves him some grapes.

Okay. If all this girl eats is noodles, why hasn't she developed scurvy?

 Breotan wrote:
Okay. If all this girl eats is noodles, why hasn't she developed scurvy?

An interesting point.

Because she's lying?

 Frazzled wrote:
Really? TBone loves him some grapes.

Yeah they are no good for small dogs. Give him Carrots and apples most dogs love em and they are healthy

and now back semi on topic ......AHEM........ Bullfeces to this story

At one point I could only afford ramen and so I ate ramen for a month...my body still hates me for that and causes my butt to explode if I eat ramen.

I'm moving to the Isle of Wight, I'd love to meet someone with a worse diet than me, and is also thin and short. I may take an engagement ring.

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
I'm moving to the Isle of Wight, I'd love to meet someone with a worse diet than me, and is also thin and short. I may take an engagement ring.

Just think of your beautiful, malnourished, under developed children

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
I'm moving to the Isle of Wight, I'd love to meet someone with a worse diet than me, and is also thin and short. I may take an engagement ring.

Just think of your beautiful, malnourished, under developed children

Gymnasts?

 kronk wrote:
Gymnasts?

Maybe jockeys, gymnastics might be too much for what little bone density they have.

 kronk wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:

 Sir Samuel Buca wrote:
I'm moving to the Isle of Wight, I'd love to meet someone with a worse diet than me, and is also thin and short. I may take an engagement ring.

Just think of your beautiful, malnourished, under developed children

Gymnasts?

have you ever met ballet dancers up close? The troop here in Houston sometimes wanders into the tunnels by work. They're almost freaky. Short, thin, no muscle tone, definitely strange, almost dollike.

 Grey Templar wrote:

 Breotan wrote:
Okay. If all this girl eats is noodles, why hasn't she developed scurvy?

An interesting point.

We dont know what else she consumes. Pissibly also likes milkshake and doesnt equate liquids as food because its drink.

Maybe she should just drink v8 or something Anyways if its really only ramen she likes its her own fault shes dying slowly. I bet her skin is drained of all moisture- like sid here

Doesn't Salt make you retain water instead of lose it?

Blimey. The only thing besides meat that I won't eat are parsnips, what a bland life she must lead!

n0t_u wrote:Be careful of onion and garlic as well, in larger amounts they can also be toxic to them.

Although a small amount of garlic in their food is awesome if you have problems with fleas...

Albatross wrote:Oh, and Grapes. Grapes are poisonous to dogs.

Yeah, my sister's cavalier ran afoul of that one...

kronk wrote:

 Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Just think of your beautiful, malnourished, under developed children

Gymnasts?

Having lived in the same house as a 16-year-old gymnast who was for a time in training for the olympic squad, I can confidently say they are anything but malnourished and under-developed. I don't know about a Buick, but she could have bench-pressed her elder brother...

I'm not really a big ramen fan, I agree with cheesecat about it being bland. I'm not quite sure how anyone could live on ramen this long.

My diet (mostly): Cheese, fish, steak, pickles, capers, bacon, fast food, lots of fruit and vegetables, and water.

See I've heard garlic is positive for dog's digestion if you're feeding them a meat based diet (that's what I heard from a musher friend of mine any way)

As to this girl... someone needs to stick a vitamin IV in her arm and force feed her some actual freaking FOOD! Maybe start with REAL ramen.



You'll notice large amounts of animal flesh and veggies in there, recipes vary by animal, some places get exciting and add egg... I personally like to add some spices to mine when I'm eating at a restaurant.

Note to self: Learn how to cook actual ramen at home.

I have seen people turn instant ramen into that.
I remember having to add copiuos amounts of tobasco and pepper to make my ramen edible.

Our dog ate an entire bag of Hershey's kisses - foil and all - and washed it down by licking up the entire bottle of Resolve carpet cleaner she had knocked off of the counter and broken while getting to the aforementioned kisses.

Boxers are tough.

As for the topic at hand, I'm not sure I buy it. If true, I'm not sure what we do with that gene pool.

 Seaward wrote:
Our dog ate an entire bag of Hershey's kisses - foil and all - and washed it down by licking up the entire bottle of Resolve carpet cleaner she had knocked off of the counter and broken while getting to the aforementioned kisses.

Boxers are to stupid to die!

As for the topic at hand, I'm not sure I buy it. If true, I'm not sure what we do with that gene pool.

I fixed that for you , and whilst I'm really glad your dog is well, chocolate is bad for dogs and can kill them. Whilst milk chocolate is less toxic than dark or drinking chocolate, it's still bad for a dog and can cause heart attacks and will likely give the dog discomfort and the gaks.

The sensible solution is to just avoid it for dogs.


Also, little known fact, avocado is intensely lethal to birds.

My dachshund once ate nine pounds of chocolate once and survived. Of course, she looked more like a log with legs than a dachshund for a while.

 Seaward wrote:
Our dog ate an entire bag of Hershey's kisses - foil and all - and washed it down by licking up the entire bottle of Resolve carpet cleaner she had knocked off of the counter and broken while getting to the aforementioned kisses.

Boxers are tough.

As for the topic at hand, I'm not sure I buy it. If true, I'm not sure what we do with that gene pool.

My dog once devoured a roll of toilet paper and several teabags (of the herbal kind) she seems to be doing fine though...

My driving instructor had a Chocolate Labrador that ate a whole bucket of wallpaper paste one time...

Yikes, that'll clog up the pipes...

We had a puppy that ate a small tin (maybe 500ml) of red oil based paint and survied (but his gak was bright red for weeks). Dogs seem to be quite resilient.

I presume that the sad little bits of dried 'green' in the noodles contain just enough vitimin C to keep scurvy at bay.