My Dog Ate The Fish Food O_o

[Amunet]

Well, it seems as though one of my dogs, Kiwi, has taken a liking to fish food.
3 days ago, I wake up and do the usual routine. I feed the community tank, everything is alright.
Come to the backroom to feed the bettas... and the bag with their pellets is nowhere to be seen. It was on my desk the night before, but poof.. it's gone.
So I look all around, go back out into the living room thinking that MAYBE I was mistaken and for some reason took the bag out there, and what do I see on the loveseat (Kiwi's spot)? The little baggy torn to shreds with not a single pellet in site.

Now you would think this would've gotten me to put up the community tanks food since it is right by the loveseat, but the food has always been there undisturbed.
Well... the next day, I wake up, go to feed the community tank.. and guess what... Kiwi (I know it was her!) got ahold of the algae wafers! It was a brand new bag too It could've been a team job though. My cat Stewie has a taste for algae wafers as well so he could've batted the bag onto the floor where Kiwi quickly swooped in to clean up the mess Stewie's taste for the wafers came when I accidently dropped a couple onto the floor and before I could pick them up, he was chomping away on them.

Long story short... I've learned my lesson and am putting the fish food up where none of the animals can get to it now

 

[Tolak]

My last dog used to follow me around the fishroom, taking care of stray flakes & such, he lived to be nearly 16 years old. My 6 month old pup knows what "time to feed fish" means, follows me down to the fishroom, and expects some flakes, an algae tab or two, or a cichlid pellet. He can't get at any of the food, at least until he learns to open doors, but he sure likes it.

 

[GuppyDude]

Back at home my sister has a pair of kittens that have discovered how to unscrew the lids with their hind feet. My brother has gone through about 4 plastic containers of fish food at this point. Cats seem fine though, despite having ingested so much of it.

 

[funkyhoney]

My cat ate an entire bag of hermit crab food once

I don't think fish food is bad for them though.

 

[alessasavoca]

Both my grandparent's Border Collies love their fish food. They have a HUGE tub of it for feeding the fish in the pond-and one of the dogs has worked out how to 'pop' the lid off. He polished off half the tub!

Luckily in my flat the only animals we have is fish (not really luckily as I want cats and dogs) but there's no-one to steal the fish food!!

 

[kewskills]

i have lost 2 packs of algae wafers to my dogs, also a big bag of duck food
They were a little thirsty for a few hours after the duck food though

 

[Spooky76]

lol - quite funny really.

I put my frozen food in a little container under a light near my tank before I feed it. I leave it an hour before feeding then to thore out. Other night I go back an hour or so later to feed them.....and the cat is sat eating Daphnia, brine shrimp and blood worm !!! lol. She also likes Tetra KOI food.

 

[Leitch]

Fishy flakes are made up mostly of fish right?

Im guessing fish inst bad for a cat

 

[merry78]

two of the three dogs i brought home in the last month have eaten my fish food. I usually keep all the dried foods up high behind a tank, but twice i left out a jar of tropical granules, and twice the jars were pinched. it was a different dog each time too, but both labradors (walking garbage disposal units).

 

[Meds081603]

Our yellow lab Layla makes short work of any fish food that hits the floor. Of course she also eats cat and dog poop, spiders, crickets, mice, shoes, childrens toys, and anything else she can get a hold of. I guess the fish food ain't a big deal!

 

[Amunet]

Our yellow lab Layla makes short work of any fish food that hits the floor. Of course she also eats cat and dog poop, spiders, crickets, mice, shoes, childrens toys, and anything else she can get a hold of. I guess the fish food ain't a big deal!

That made me lol and sorta gag at the same time heh
I know 2 of our dogs would just LOVE to get their mouths on some cat poop if they could... bleh... strangely enough though... Kiwi.. the one who ate the fish food has never looked at the litter boxes twice or even sniffed around them curiously *shrugs*

 

[dthoffsett]

One of my cats loves to snatch fish food, so I have to hide it now. The other cat couldn't care less.

 

[Anthony!]

I have a miniature daschund who loves algae wafers, too, and to the point where she's taught herself to open up the stand (the door's just a simple magnet system, the kind where you press it and it swings open) and will tear open the algae wafers, and leave me a few dozen pieces of torn plastic behind. Can't tell what's more trouble anymore, the fish or the dog!

 

[Sweelmeister221]

Sorry for chiming in to this thread so late, but I just had to share this in case it helps someone out. I wish I had gotten this advice years ago.

Training your dog really is the only long-term solution, people.

I love my dog so much but it constantly did the things that irked me most. It would chew on things that it shouldn’t or jump up and down out of the blue.

Whenever I put on the leash, it would pull on it. Whenever it was out of the house, it would continue digging on the ground - I wish I could tell what it was looking for down there. The same goes for all the nasty urine.

All the things it did left me feeling depressed as if I failed it monumentally.

But since I discovered Brain Training 4 Dogs and applied the system offered, it now behaves the way a beautiful dog I always expect of. I highly recommend it.

Here's a link to their site. Good luck!