Hi Mike,

>> I guess I have one of each since one of ours would do that... She has  been
>> spayed, and I've seen her clean up her dish and Toby's (un-neutered) as well

> Yeah That sounds about right! 8-) I once had a doberman too. It was funny and
> probably you had to be there, but when we had to give our other Newfie a pill
> for medication. You had to struggle with the newfie or trick him into taking
> it. Well there were time he'd somehow avoid getting it down and would spit it
> out. I'd swear before it hit the ground, the Doberman pu would scarf it up.

Oh yeah..   I've seen Toby grab a bottle of my mother-in-law's pills, drag them
outside, crack open the bottle, lick all the pills and spit them out (thank
goodness!)  It can be hard sometimes having older folk around, when they
get "forgetful" about their pill bottles :(

For medicating the dogs though, I wrap pills in cheese.. they wolf that
down real fast 

> heheheh he just did not care what it was. If it went into the big guys mouth,
> it must be food 8-). I don't know how many times we had to purchase meds
> twice due to a sly newf and a fast puppy who wanted to eat everything.

haha.. Toby is like that a lot ... If anyone has something that he doesn't,
he has to at least try it once 

>> When they were younger, I was most amazed though at  how they ate the HOUSE
>> itself :) :)  When we were in Louisville, I remember they'd start digging,

> OHHH Yeah! When they are Teething? They are amazing. They can eat anything
> and everything, and do! We called our first Newf an excavator. We had planted
> 8 fruit trees in the back yard and they were about two years old. He was a
> teething pup that spring and leveled the whole back yard of any semblance of
> foliage, except the 20 year old Maples  He probably tried those too.
> But they withstood him 

Lol :)  yes, over here, our once perfect back yard has many evergreen type
plants that have been devastated, and chewed to death :)

>> clawing and chewing until they'd eaten walls, floors, you name it.  Not so b
>> I guess.. I have a friend who told me his labs ate the bedsprings out of his
>> bed, and just umm.. passed them out in the yard .

> Good Roughage! ;-)

Lol :)  It sure is :)

Take care,
Janis

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