What on earth happened?!

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My dog has turned into a rcrazed monster....

Up until a few weeks ago she was great, you could leave her alone in the house and she wouldn't touch a thing.

For whatever reason the last few weeks she's been playing havoc in the house!

I will say now nothing about her routine has changed, she gets a raw meat diet which I buy in and gets the reccomended amount of food for her weight and is neither fat or thin. She gets walked twice/ three times a day and gets a good few miles of run. She's not left alone for long periods and has no health issues.

About a week or so ago I popped to my university library for about 2 hours. (I will also point out this dog is 7 and used to being alone for longer periods of time.) I came home to find she's gone down my uni bag and shredded everything! No food in there she just did it....

She did this twice! She's just slowly been getting worse, 2 days ago she broke into my bedroom stole 3 mini Easter eggs and ate them, 3 chocolate bars I had in my work bag that was also hidden in another room and she ripped my lunch bag to shreds (had no food in)! I will say the day she did this I'd been home all day with her, she'd just had dinner and I went out for 1 hour and she did all this!

So today I left again for a few hours after stripping the room bare! And someone come home to find she's broke into the hamster cage and ate his food!!!! Luckily hamster came away unscathed!

I left for 2 minutes earlier to pop to petrol station and come back to find she's ripped up a bag with leaflets in that I'd forgotten about behind the sofa... Really?!?!?

What the hell has happened to her!
 
Mine shreds stuff to alleviate stress. Has your routine changed at all? Have you been home for longer than usual then gone back to work after Easter etc? Mine has to have a fixed routine, anything out of the ordinary can prompt a shredding session. Once he chewed his bed because I forgot my lunch and had to come back in the house for it!
 
No nothings changed for her.

She's used to an irregular time table Tbh, iv always been in and out over the years for different days and different hours.

It just makes no sense, she's so greedy as well... She expects treats all the time, even after breakfast this morning she was looking at me for food even though there's no way id give her treats after a meal... It's like if I go out without giving her a treat she gets her revenge!

Thing is I have to be careful what treats she has as she's so greedy and bones that require time to chew down she tries to just swallow being a greedy cow!
 
I would take her to the vet, various hormone problems can cause insatiable appetite. Meanwhile for the sake of your sanity and her health get a crate and train her to stay in it. She is either going to poison herself or get a blockage, or even worse chew through electrics and either kill herself or burn the house down.
 
Trip to the vet, there could be various medical reasons that she has suddenly changed, also you are very lucky that she was not sick, eating that amount of chocolate.
 
I know she's lucky to not be ill after all that, she has a stomach of steel it seems.

I did think about hormones, would that be a blood test job? She absolutely hates the vet so she's not going to be impressed.

Iv cleared a room in the house this morning in which she can stay where there are no electrical wires for her to get hold off.. Or anything else for that matter!
 
Have you noticed any change in her weight? If she's losing weight but still eating ravenously it could be something thyroid related? I would deffs be taking her for a checkup and a blood test!
 
This ravenous hunger of hers could be hormone or thyroid related as others have said, she could have died eating that chocolate as its very toxic so you were lucky, I would have been on the phone to my vet immediately after that.


I would definitely take her to the vet and ask for blood tests etc, this is not normal behaviour and something is causing this.
 
Her weight has been consistent and she still weighs her usual 21kg.

I'm well aware of the implications of eating chocolate as I said these things where locked away in rooms that she's managed to break into. All items of food have been moved into out of reach areas so not to have a repeat performance.

Will ring vets and get her booked in as soon as.
 
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