Domin used to be one mean eating machine.
She would eat literally anything. She even swallowed non-food items including paper clips and coins. We would always find a 1-cent coin or 5-cent coin or paper clip(s) in her vomit or poo. There was no way she could have digested these so she would usually vomit them out, always together with some saliva. I could never understand what is so tasty about all the coins and paper clips. It was very lucky her throat and stomach were not damaged by these metal items.
She also loved toilet paper. We had to keep all toilet rolls out of her reach. If we left a roll of toilet paper with her, she would shred it and start eating. A few times, we were careless and we ended up having a whole floor full of shredded toilet paper, and one happy dog sitting in the middle of the white mess chewing and eating away. She would even go after used tissue paper in our dustbins. She would get to them by toppling the bin. She was definitely one smart dog! We always had to be on our guard. I suspect toilet paper and tissue paper can possibly be partially digested and passed out as we don't usually find them in her vomit or poo (unlike those metal items).
She was a great predator of flying moths. Pity to any flying moths which landed on the living room floor. She would run over excitedly, jump on the moth, picked it up in her mouth and start chewing. Usually she would spit it out after a while, by then the moth is dead or almost there. I think there was a couple of times she might have swallowed the moth, either partially or fully. Maybe it is the hunting instinct in her at work – I don’t know but I sure thought it was disgusting. Whenever I see any moth on the floor, I would try to catch hold of her so she would not have a chance to run over and get the moth. It was always a competition between her reflexes and mine whenever there was an unlucky moth on the floor.
She would eat literally anything. She even swallowed non-food items including paper clips and coins. We would always find a 1-cent coin or 5-cent coin or paper clip(s) in her vomit or poo. There was no way she could have digested these so she would usually vomit them out, always together with some saliva. I could never understand what is so tasty about all the coins and paper clips. It was very lucky her throat and stomach were not damaged by these metal items.
She also loved toilet paper. We had to keep all toilet rolls out of her reach. If we left a roll of toilet paper with her, she would shred it and start eating. A few times, we were careless and we ended up having a whole floor full of shredded toilet paper, and one happy dog sitting in the middle of the white mess chewing and eating away. She would even go after used tissue paper in our dustbins. She would get to them by toppling the bin. She was definitely one smart dog! We always had to be on our guard. I suspect toilet paper and tissue paper can possibly be partially digested and passed out as we don't usually find them in her vomit or poo (unlike those metal items).
She was a great predator of flying moths. Pity to any flying moths which landed on the living room floor. She would run over excitedly, jump on the moth, picked it up in her mouth and start chewing. Usually she would spit it out after a while, by then the moth is dead or almost there. I think there was a couple of times she might have swallowed the moth, either partially or fully. Maybe it is the hunting instinct in her at work – I don’t know but I sure thought it was disgusting. Whenever I see any moth on the floor, I would try to catch hold of her so she would not have a chance to run over and get the moth. It was always a competition between her reflexes and mine whenever there was an unlucky moth on the floor.
I was grateful she did not eat poo then. I have heard of and seen dogs eating their own poo and I think poo ranks above moths in my disgusting rating index.
That was many years ago.
As the years went by, her taste became more and more ‘atas’ (high-class). She became incredibly picky with her food. I think it was partly due to me. I started work in 2002 and started to buy better (read: more expensive) food and pet tidbits for her. Eventually she would turn her nose up at dry food, something which she used to gobble up and beg for in earlier days.
She would no longer be interested in those basic hard chewing bones made from animal hide. She prefers milk bones, apple/spinach/carrot/avocado sticks, chicken strips, dried chicken wrapped around sweet potatoes, dried sausages, hard cheese, soft cheese, chocolates, dried french fries etc. Much as I am not a Japanese food fan, I have to say Domin is one fervent supporter. She loves the fanciful food items that the Japanese came up with and I would religiously buy them for her, whatever she wanted.
She has certainly come a long way since her coins-eating days. The moths no longer hold any attraction for her. Toilet paper have morphed from being food to being just something we use to clean her up after she does her business. She has even rejected some of the Japanese tidbits which are not to her liking.
We will always remember her as one fussy eater =)
Domin’s jie-jie
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