Labradors and Food Obsession

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Does any know if there is an actualy genetic reason for labradors obsession with food or is it just something that is deep rooted in thier brains? My black lab will eat ANYTHING, She has even been known to crunch up mud on the kitchin floor that has come in off boots!!

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I think its just genuine dopeyness.

Toby, my OH's mums lab is the same. He chews it up spits it and then decides he does like it and reapeats the same process again!
 
Think its just bred in them!!!
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My lab is on a strict diet at the mo, she's like a whale
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Problem is we live on a farm and she can basically help herself to all the farmyard 'delicacies' whenever she likes
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Hence her diet isn't really going very well.....
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Lol they are so greedy!! Think its just them lol! Ours will eat ANYTHING you give her and she steals stuff off the side aswell naughty little lab!!
 
A breeder once told me that originally they were bred to be fishermans dogs and only had to eat scraps and what they could catch. Therefore it is deep rooted in them to eat what you find incase you get nothing for ages.
 
Thats really interesting Thistle - Swe took her with us to Cornwall a couple of years ago when she was a pup, and she'd spend ages swimming around and trying to catch fish! She would stand for ages in the water just watching, and then she'd see one and pounce on it!
 
If you look up labrador in the dictionary it says 'life support machine for a stomach'!!
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All labradors are the same - when my sister had taken hers to the vet (again!
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) for eating something/getting stuck the vet told her not to worry as the chocolate lab before had eaten a mobile!!
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The owners only realised when it started ringing....
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A lab we had many years ago truly was a canine dustbin. So many stories that I could probably write a book just about what he ate over the years. He survived some tricky moments including eating the head of a mop and an entire tin of quality street chocolates. The wrappers came out of the other end for several days afterwards ..... He lived to be 16 though so didn't do him too much harm!
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Sister's lab eats all non harmful fruit, she will eat anything! She even ate a fresh mussel last week!!

My sister loves her food too so I keep telling her it's like owner like dog! lol
 
My lab chews her food....
this is a step up from the old boy who would throw his dinner down in about two mouthfuls.
Only problem I have is she has a penchant for chewing plastic & sticks, then throws them up 2 days later (usually in the dead of night when i'm fast asleep - she sleeps in my bedroom).Thankfully she hasn't acquired the taste for much else, although she's got very good at demolising a hide bone in about 10 minutes (they used to last days)
Oh, and I nearly forgot, she has been known to raid my mums dog food bin to the point of looking liek she's swallowed a football - play havoc with her gut for days and makes me really cross (with my mum for letting her get to it, not the dog)
 
We had a new sack of guinea pig food sitting on the deck waiting for my sister to go and put it in thier bin and she got through that in about 15 mins ( it was a big sack as well) she smelt disgusting for a three days after though. She also ate some agricultural fertiliser once that she had found sniffing around at the farm somewhere, we rushed her to the vets once we realised what had happened and they just pumped her stomach out and said to keep an eye on her and she was absolutley fine!


They are funny dogs.
 
Mine will eat everything too. Although I wouldn't be without them when they're on hoover patrol as it keeps my floors lovely and clean.

My choc lab once stole chocs off the christmas tree - I only realised the next day when she brough up the strings.
 
Mine is VILE! Only thing he doesn't like is marshmallows! Its the way they lick their lips afterwards! We have a little Yorkie to go with it and she isn't bothered about food so lab drools (literally!) over her tea until we all go to bed and then you hear her sneak out of bed and have a midnight feast!
I won't mind so much about the vile things she adores its just the aftermath is soooo bad!
But and this is a big but i wouldn't change him for the world - you can't beat a lovely, loyal, kind and cuddly bear!
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Our 3 labs all regard the muck heap as a buffet (but then so do the springer and the GSD). God, they're disgusting and of course then they want to come and give you a big wet sloppy kiss. Yuk
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Wouldn't change any of them for all the money in the world though
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My Lab is also a "hoover" especially when at shows. She has her nose to the ground at all times especially near the catering vans.
However I must add that she is brilliant when eating her dinner. She won't start until I say the "OK" word and will leave it on command.
At a Pedigree stand at Burghley a year or so ago, the assistant was amazed that my dogs didn't touch the samples which were on the floor until I told them OK, then left them immediately I said "leave"
I love my Lab to bits. She is a real "Quality dog" as we call her.
 
Shanny, snap! My old chocky lab was a clever old girl, I once spent hours tying dozens of chocolate decorations to the tree as a treat for my daughter, who was a toddler at the time, then put the tree up on a chest out of reach of the dogs noses. Tilly waited her chance and snuck in the sitting room.....the gold bows and a little foil still attached to each one was all that was left!!! She was super neat, the tree wasn't knocked over and the rest of it's decorations all still perfectly in place.....she'd jumped up in places to ceiling height! She's been gone over four years now and I still miss her...
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Gosh, I'd forgotten! She once ate a jellyfish she found on the beach , we had to rush her to the vets for an antihistamine (?) injection because her throat started swelling! I think she was about nine or ten months old at the time, what a girl!
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jlb - thats weird as my choc lab is called Tilly too!

Once she stole and ate a whole bunch of grapes (stalks and all) from my chicken coupe and ended up at the vets having her tummy pumped out. Havn't given the chickens any grapes anymore, as grapes are a bad no, no in my house now!
 
My and OH's theory is that they are from a very cold climate, and are water retrievers, so would be used to feast/famine conditions, and could do with some fat for insulation.

Ours is lean, is a very good hoover, and only eats his dinner on command. Unfortunately unattended cheese will be nabbed if someone gets distracted when cooking...
 
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