What's the Weirdest Treat You Feed/fed Your Dog?

INTENTIONALLY?

My dog's absolute favorite foods are:

- Pizza crust
- Avacados (including the rind, he doesn't eat the rind, just licks the inside to death)
- Sweet Potato Skins (not the orange yams, but real sweet potatoes)

UNINTENTIONALLY
- Socks

This dog hooks his bottom fangs on the dryer door, backs up, and eats socks right out of the dryer. He treats it's like his personal snack food dispensor. Aargh! He eats 2-3 socks per week. We used to worry. 4 years later, we just buy more socks. His favorites (in order) are kids' white clean, kids' colored clean, adults' white clean, adults' colored clean... and then repeat with dirty socks. HE IS AFRAID and will not touch WOOL socks. Crazy dog.

At one point my mum was going to make a "sock spider " (by tying some socks together... at home dog toy). Mom! No! Too, late. He gulped it right down.

Fun Dip. I would dip the stick in the powder, let her lick it, and walk backwards. My dog followed me right inside :)

My bulldog LOVES ice. Everytime someone goes into the freezer drawer for something she's there waiting for her cube.

I've had three dogs that ate raw carrots as treats. I've used ripe bananas to get dogs to eat their pills. My current 1 year old poodle has been in the yard eating acorns lately! I've never seen a dog eat acorns before.

FYI, to dog owners--it is surprising how many human foods are toxic to dogs as many of us probably know--chocolate, grapes, raisins, onions and most recently I heard xylotol (spelling?), an artificial sweetener in sugar free gum. So it's funny to see dogs eat crazy things, but be careful!

A note added on the chocolate thing--it is not a lie or myth. Yes, it depends very much on the concentration of the chocolate and the size of the dog. Dark chocolate is much worse than milk chocolate and solid chocolate is much worse than if it's diluted in cakes or cookies. Truth is, there is a chemical in chocolate that is toxic to dogs. So it's true that one small milk chocolate won't hurt the average size dog, but I think it's safe to just stay away from chocolate and not teach the dog to like it. Our dog gets a stern "leave it" from us whenever chocolate falls on the floor. I personally know of a small dog that died from eating a bag of M&Ms and a medium sized dog that died from getting into the kids' raisins. The raisin death was quick, but the dog was violently ill. Perhaps I'm a little paranoid about it, but I like to be on the safe side! The dog that died from the raisins belonged to one of my brother's best friends. I don't think all dog owners know about that and since many have kids who like raisins I try to inform people about that one.

My dog loves ice cubes. Anytime he hears us getting ice, he comes running!

When I was a child: our dog... LOVED tomatoes and crayons. Oh but not any ol' color... ONLY the "orchid" color crayon. You could dump an entire box of crayons on the floor... and she'd sniff through it and ONLY pick out and then eat... the Orchid color crayon.
Yep.
it was amazing!

My dog LOVES apples. She will eat them totally whole. You just have to remove the apple seeds since they contain small amounts of cyanide and dogs will eat the seeds. Apples with peanut butter, even better. She also loves carrot sticks, and chews them as if it's a bone. Also loves, ice cubes, yogurt, bananas, avocados, pickles, cheese, meat obviously... practically anything.

As a joke I gave my dog wasabi peanuts - she LOVED them and wanted more. Surprisingly. The other morning I was out of food so for breakfast my dogs had a peanut butter sandwich with cheese on top. Like your dogs, my dogs will eat ANYTHING I put in front of them. I gave them watermelon once and they ate it verrrryyy slowly, like they didn't know what to think of it, lol

My cousin's cocker spaniel loved raw carrots! If you were eating one, she would sit by your feet, hoping for a treat......

Our cocker spaniel (her pup), ate the raspberries right off the bush.... which was a good thing, since it was a male that tended to lift his leg all over the lower part of the bush! We let him eat those, we ate the ones up top out of his "reach".

One of our gold fish died and my 10 yo granddaughter held it in her hand and tempted the dog with it. The dog gobbled (licked) it up.

Pig snout, popcorn, green beans and a deers leg.

My husbands family are big hunters. We have a great video of their dog frolicking while throwing the leg in the air and catching it.. Then he would "try" to bring it to me.. but of course I was screaming and running from him.. He thought we were playing.

FYI. I just remembered the dog refused to eat Spam.. would wimper, tuck his tail and look up with sad eyes if it was placed in front of him..

My youngest was feeding our mentally challenged dog dried fruit mix this evening from a bag he found in the back of the jog stroller. I think it's about a year old too. She was eating it, but she is a complete idiot.

I have a Keeshond. She loves berries, blueberries are her absolute favorite. She loves vegetables, favorites are sugar snap peas & tomatoes). She ate my cherry tomatoes right off the plant this summer.

my mom and dad spoon feed their yorkie vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup.

My dog loved pickles covered in mustard!

HAHA
We tried to teach our shepherd NOT to eat from the table. So we covered a piece of bologna with cayenne, she ate it and then begged for more. She still eats hot peppers and salsa type dips and such.

Our dog loved chunks of zuchinni. I'd cut off the ends and she'd get so excited for them!

We used to have a Sringer Spaniel that loved to chew on tin cans. Horrible-I know! We would completely freak out (we were kids) when she'd get one. So afraid she was gonna cut herself. She also kept socks under a bed and guarded them like they were her babies.

My dog LOVES carrots and broccoli stalk.

My mom has her (my dog's) brother and his favorite thing IS lettuce! :)

Several years ago we were inundated with 17-year cicadas. My daughter found the coolest one with white eyes and wings.... I guess it was rare. She was holding it by our dog's nose and he sniffed it and gobbled it right out of her hand. We didn't even get a picture of it! Oh well.

My own dogs are bananas about bananas - I always share my last 2 bites of banana with them.

At a practice I once worked at, we had a hospital "mascot" dog - she was a pit bull that had been abandoned at the hospital when her owners were not willing to pay for treatment so she was given the treatment she needed and kept as a blood donor dog. She was beyond spoiled and lived a very cushy life. One time I split a little bag of Gummy Bears with her.

Our West Highland terrier used to love to eat asparagus --cooked or raw! She could smell them so she would always come running into the kitchen when I took them out of the refrigerator!

We just had to put our 11-year old basset hound to sleep last month because he had pancreatic cancer and he was in a lot of pain. We knew he didn't have long to live so for the last few weeks of his life we spoiled him with all kinds of special food. I fed him yogurt, peanut butter, brown rice, chicken, salmon, veggies, cottage cheese, etc. On the day that we took him to be euthanized my husband made him a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and we also gave him some ice cream. Also, whenever we used to make pancakes on the weekend, we would always make an extra one or two for him. He used to get so excited when you asked him if he wanted pancakes.

My dogs love avocados. I used to know a guy who had a dog that would climb an avocado tree to get to the avocados.

I used to have a dog that knew that when I jingled my keys, we were going somewhere, so she would always come running when she heard that.

I think for a treat to be a believable lure, it has to be something they could see, hear or smell easily from the top of the stairs.

My dog loves chickpeas. Please whatever you use in your book make sure it is ok for dogs to have. There are so many things that can make a dog very sick. Oh and peanut butter is another one of her favorites.

I had a cocker spaniel that LOVED watermelon. Whenever I ate it he would beg for some. We would split a slice. My dog now loves yogurt & cottage cheese.

Our beagle mix and a golden we had love tomatos. Our Lab ONLY likes Ice as a treat. She goes nutso when someone gets water and Ice. All other treats she spits out.

I trained my dog on Captain Crunch. He even got to where he could sit, stay, lay down with nothing but hand signals. Thank you, Cap'n!

My brothers dog loves their dirty underwear. We find his boxers or his girlfriends g-strings all over the house. She won't bother with the clean underwear, only the dirty ones. Gross!

Our dog loved corn on the cob. It was his absolute favorite. We would hold the cob, and he would eat the corn off.

Used to have a part GSD part wolf mix dog at work that loved to sniff out an m&m or two. I know now (we didn't then) that chocolate is poisonous to dogs, but it was milk chocolate and never enough to do any damage. But boy, if one of us in the office was snacking on M&M's that day, she would find us and beg. She always got 3, one at a time. If we tried to "short" her, she KNEW it and wouldn't give up.

My GSD at home doesn't eat much of anything unusual. She is not "food motivated" much, and we try not to feed her people food too often. But I have a friend who's dog LOVES Popcorn!

Girl Scout cookies & cherry tomatos.

Our cocker spaniel loves apples, broccoli, carrots and nuts.
My friend's cat only eats cooked mixed frozen vegetables for dinner.

Pancakes. My mom would get up on Saturday mornings and make pancakes for herself and the dog. (She left the leftover batter in the fridge for my brother and I to make our own pancakes when we woke up.) When he got older, the vet insisted that she stop giving him syrup, at least. Didn't want a diabetic dog on our hands.

Diet Pepsi. My mom gave him some once just to see if he'd drink it. He did.

Salsa. (I don't know how, but he always managed to lick around the onions. Left them in a mushy pile in the bottom of the salsa bowl.)

His treat after the vet's office was to go with us throught the Whataburger drive-through, and get a justaburger with cheese and ketchup. No pickles. (My brother and I were in high school - it was our job to take him to the vet for check-ups and his semi-annual haircut. If he had to go to the vet, he preferred to go with us - for the burger.)

Come to think of it, the only people foods that dog DIDN'T like were onions and pickles.

We had a Boxer who ate an entire box of matches one time. :/ Obviously we did not give them to him. He got ahold of them when we were out. Who knew a dog would WANT to eat matches?? lol Our German Shepherd LOVES peas and avocados.

We taught our little Scottie to go up the stairs of our first apt with miniature marshmallows. Miss that dog so much! Good luck with your book!

This is not a food item but my dog a large German Shepherd loved to be vacuumed so every time I got the vacuum cleaner out she would come runnig for her turn. I guess the suction on flet good to her. She also liked to let herself into the patio door by grabbing the handle with her mouth pulling down and pushing it with her paw.

We feed raw to our dogs so a great deal of items that seem weird are normal for us. Like sweet potatoes(fresh or dehydrated), celery with peanut butter, lettuce(but only romaine),green tripe, tomatoes, ox tail, and spicy stuff. By spicy stuff I do mean hot peppers, washbi, thai dragon chiles and the list goes on with them.

Popcorn! Who wouldn't be lured at the smell of popcorn! Our dog loved it!

cashews.
cashews are her favorite.you can line up a variety of nuts, almonds, peanuts, brazil nuts, walnuts, pecans, hazelnuts. She will select the cashews and eat them first.

My dogs both love asparagus.

we have an female American Bulldog if we dont keep the potatoes on a shelf higher than her face she will take the potatoes and eat them raw- mostly chew them up into a huge mess but she will lay right in the middle of the pantry and chew on raw potatoes- I dont know but I think it is a bit strange.

They wont "eat" popcorn they suck the butter off and spit it out
our Male Bulldog will eat the grapes off the grape vines in the back yard.

We only feed our dogs dogfood, but growing up my mom had a Rolaids every night. She would eat one, and our dog, Max, would eat one. She asked the vet about it, and she said it was fine for him to have it. Max was so happy about getting his Rolaids each night. :)

When we were kids, my brothers and I would refuse to eat the skin on our baked potatoes, so the skin (and the little bit of potato left inside) would end up in the dog's bowl after dinner. She would go to TOWN on it. She also liked toast with butter on it. Probably would have loved muffins, too, but there were never any leftover bits of those... :)

EDIT: Just wanted to throw out there that YES, your dog can eat quite a bit of chocolate before it becomes an issue, but if you were quoted 10% of their body weight, that would be for MILK chocolate. Dark chocolate would take significantly less to make them sick. It's not a lie, it's a blanket statement that is made to protect people from accidentally taking it too far and unintentionally harming their own pets.

Chocolate...yes, that's not a typo...

And yes, too much makes her sick. One night after family party, an aunt brought a home made chocolate cake that was terrible and dry, so no one ate it and it went into the trash. We were staying on at my mom's and my dog snuck into the kitchen, tore open the trash bag ready to go out to the trash and ate the whole thing. She was very sick with vomiting, diarhea, shaking. So I took her to a VET and asked him to educate me about why chocolate is so bad for dogs. Because with kids and Easter baskets, she is bound to steal chocolate again and again.

So, the fact is, the whole chocolate scare with dogs is if a dog eats 10% of it's body weight in chocolate, then that is when it's bad for them and should be brought to a VET ASAP.

Really? I responded..well IF I ate 10% of MY own body weight in chocolate I'd be sick and need a doctor too..and a toilet.

SHEESH, the lies that get forwarded as truths amongst us is shocking.

So, I give my dog one little chocolate candy once in a while...and she loves me for it.

I dont like dogs, well i like them if someone else owns them. For me they are needy and stinky and great to visit and not keep, lol. But.....i did know a dog with a very unusual favorite treat.....i cringe just thinking about it,

My besties parents clip their finger and toenails and collect them, they put them right onto the concrete and the dog loved them!

My cat has bad gas, worst gas ever so i started giving him probiotic yogurt and he gobbles it up. It really does help.

I knew someone from work years ago who fed their dog an ice cream sandwich every night.

Our lab's favs are carrots and peanut butter so she will do ANYTHING for carrots dipped in peanut butter!

My dog goes NUTS of a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs! He leaves a mess and it ends up all over his nose but he loves it soooo much. He doesn't get much but when he does we all laugh hysterically. Good luck with the book. That's on my bucket list LOL

L., I am way late on this one but I had to chime in. I have a 9 year old dachsund mutt named Susie (her nickname is Freakshow but that's another story). Susie is a goat. She too, eats everything except lettuce. Although if the lettuce has dressing on it, she'll eat that too. She loves all the normal dog things but in addition, she goes absolutely WILD for celery. She loves celery so much that when she hears me open the produce drawer, she comes running. She will see scallions or leeks and think they're celery and start prancing around. Of course I don't give her those things! We have a 2 1/2 yo Golden Retriever who is a more usual dog - likes dog things and usual people food dogs love like peanut butter and meat. But because the Golden is younger, she has learned all the important life lessons from Susie. So now Simma goes nuts for celery too. But she always has a look on her face like why do we like this so much? OK I guess I'll go along with it.
I usually buy them an extra bag from the store. It's an inexpensive, nice treat to give them and not unhealthy.

My dog loves Bully sticks and pig ears. You can get them at most pet stores. If you don't know what Bully sticks are, they're bull penises.