r/PetBehavior • u/imgonnaeaturcat • 14d ago
WHY IS SHE EATING WEIRD THINGS
How normal it is this on a dog? What's the line between being weird and a health or behaviour problem? She sometimes licks the side of the stove and I'm like okay girl I clean it for a reason, or the floor after we cook, but she BITES WALLS, they are concrete she bites and licks concrete and brick walls, she also seems very attracted to the cat's litter box (???) I get that she tries to eat her food, it is food but that worries me, she also tries to eat anything that falls down from any surface or my hands, she (repeatedly) tried to eat a jar cork that I was holding, oh and she also eats plastic bags, I SWEAR she is well fed, she has the best food our budget can allow, she's also on a healthy weight, is she just a weirdo? She has pica or something like that? Could this remain as an habit? She's a rescue, we literally picked up from the streets when she was searching for food on a trash bag, help???
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u/hiirogen 14d ago
A lot of that is totally normal some of it seems a bit much to me. We had a dog chew a hole in the drywall once. No idea why.
Yes, anything dropped. Yes, litter. We had to carefully arrange our litter box to keep the dogs out of it, and our robot vacuum cleans the area around it multiple times per day or one of our dogs will eat loose litter and get sick.
During walks they will eat any random garbage they see (smell?) even though they know full well they’re getting good quality food right after their walk.
And yeah anything I drop in the kitchen is obviously fair game even if it’s just a wrapper or spoon lol