Kudos to you for picking up a stray, please get her checked out with the vet ASAP, especially since you have other pets, too many diseases can be passed between them. Now for the good part, since your pup is probably still hungry as a bear, give her small meals every couple of hours or so. No big meals at once. Let her tummy get use to food. As far as dodging the yeccky bullet, it depends on how long she has been on her own. Dogs actually have somewhat sensitive tummies and with a change in diet, planned or not, she might experience some tummy troubles. I suggest you take her out on leash walks, frequently, this may help the offending critter parts go through her system better. Good luck with your new charge. I hope she checks out okay at the vets, I will be thinking of you all until you post again. Good luck with all aspects of your rescue

I wasn't clear about that part, but the puppy found us back in February and we've been through all that some time ago. She was intended to be a foster, but she was so scrawny and her coat in such poor condition that she had to stay with us a while before she was good enough to adopt out. She almost had another family, but they changed their minds and another family that told the vet's office they were interested never called. She's our little mess now.

We initally thought she was about 10-11 weeks old when we found her, but the vet later said she thought the pup was older based on when her canines came in. She might have been around 4 months when we found her, and she might have been foraging for a while. She's pretty fiesty -- she may have had to fend of foxes, coyotes, owls and hawks where we found her. But she learned to settle down and play with others at the dog park and has a great enthusiasm for life, food and play -- with people, dogs -- even cats if they would play along, but those ladies just aren't interested.

Her least endearing quality may be that she will pick up and try to eat most anything. She's worse than a cat with bugs. But the endearing part is that she absolutely loves fruit. There was a store that sells fruit that look like floral arrangements across the parking lot from where we found her. We think she found some treats and maybe some friends there. She will come and sit patiently at your feet if you are cutting or eating a piece of fruit, and she looks so peaceful and loved when she gets to share some with you. She adores watermelon and apples.

She's right outside the door now -- chasing bugs and full of energy. A couple of SBDs are the only sign that her tummy might have noticed anything the least bit off. I think she has a cast iron stomach. Definitely stronger than mine. LOL

Good luck breaking her of that eating habit. I adopted a Dachshund from a rescue 5 1/2 years ago as an 2 YO adult. She is a great dog, very loving and playful and a wonderful personality. She had been mainly neglected, though they did say their was some abuse. Mainly she wasn't fed and was skin and bones when they found her.

I think her problem stems from that. She will eat literately ANYTHING! I won't gross you out with some of the things I have taken out of her mouth. We live on 2 1/2 acres up in the mountains, so she finds lots of "interesting" things to eat like other animals kills. I wish I knew how to her break of that bad habit.

we found our dog chewing on some "squirrel jerky" last spring. (must have died and was in the snow and he found it when the snow melted).

He didn't show ANY stomach distress at all. I think dogs are meant to eat that.

When I first adopted our second dog he ate (very sad story!!) one of my finches in one gulp. He is a small dog (corgi, -renee

One of my dogs Maee was a feral dog the first year of her life. She will eat anything in any stage. We were hikeing and she stopped by a dead deer and waved Skeeter and me on. "I'll come home when this is gone." I said, "You don't have to live like that so come on."
She eats it and Skeeter rolls in it.

It sounds more like typical dog, than gross dog.

And "drop it" or "leave it" is probably one the best things you can teach your dog.

When your dog eats something questionable, you can give him a tablespoon (or two, depending upon size of the dog) of pumpkin (regular plain pumpkin, not the pie filling with sugar) - it will calm down the digestive tract - it also has fiber to help keep things moving through ...

Ya, I also agree with the pumpkin. We always keep some around for the dogs.

Our one dog has a nasty habit of eating plastic also (also adopted!). After we found blue specks of plastic in his poo one day we bought some petromalt. (helps cats and other animals pass hair). We keep this around just in case. I have used it before, when we found that he had found something plastic to eat again. I think this made it much more comfortable for him to pass. We have found this helps also if one of the dogs was chewing on a stick. We usually don't let them but sometimes they slink off and sneak a few chews. It wouldn't bother me (or them) but they eat little bits of the wood and this is difficult to digest.

I wonder if other people have that problem with their dogs also?

My brother always says that if his toddler is quiet for 2 seconds he knows he is doing something bad. I feel that way about our two dogs!!

I have to laugh about the "rolling in it" comment because the younger of our dogs is such a baby that he hates to get his fur wet. He won't go through mud and he jumps over puddles yet when he sees something smelly or dead he just wants to roll in it non-stop! I guess he thinks it is cologne!
-rj