We are dog-sitting our son's 2 year old lab/mix puppy until the weather cools enough for the dog to fly to Italy to be with his human parents. These past three months, we've noticed that the dog likes to eat almost anything wood. He doesn't ever tear stuff up, just picks up stuff off the floor/ground and munches it. He just seems to have an affinity for wood. Wood scraps, pieces of 2X4s, tree twigs, any kind of wood. He eats a high quality large breed dog food but I'm beginning to wonder if he is missing a vitamin or mineral in his diet.
I have a 3 yr old half black lab, half greyhound (I believe its greyhound anyway) that is the same way. If its wood, he eats it. Thankfully he never went for any of the furniture when he was younger, but he did eat some of my DH's wooden chess pieces, but that was before he was even a year yet. I wonder if its just a lab thing, or a pup thing, since they are both still quite young.
Hi Val.... well, I don't have an answer for you, but I can tell you my oldest cat, Socks, who is 15, likes paper.... any kind of paper...loves to rip it up...LOL.... so maybe it's one of those unexplanable things.
LOL, our newest kitty, Tibby, loves to play with paper, too. And she'll seek out any kind of paper she can and drop it into one of the water bowls ROFLOL.
Recently she re-decorated our bedroom with a roll of toilet paper. What a hoot!
Glad to know I'm not the only one with a kitty that has a penchant for T.P.ing the interior of the house. I actually have a note taped above where my TP roll goes that reads "note to self: do not put new roll on cats will unroll it". It has been there for about a year, and since we have 2 four and half month old kittens (our other cats are 2yrs and 1yr) it will prolly be there for another year or so. Thankfully I can put the TP roll in the window sill and they leave it alone, unless a bit is dangling of course.
