The Great Underwear Snatcher of 2009 - Help!
1. How is he getting them? Dirty laundry is kept in my closet, doors closed. I guess somehow he is opening the doors and getting in there??? 2. WHY is he doing this???? A friend of mine suggested that maybe he is sucking on them and it continues to get more and more sucked in until there is nothing left. He isn't a gulper with other things, really, but does enjoy sucking on his stuffies, so this makes the most sense to me. 3. How can I get him to stop? I am terrified that one day he won't be so lucky to throw it up and it will get twisted in his digestional tract. I know this can cause serious and potentially fatal problems and I am really scared. I don't know what to do! HELP! |
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| At first I was laughing. But as I read it has many health problems.
Move you laundry, or put something very heavy on it. My guess is that he smells you and is trying to be close. If you move your hamper ect. he won't know where to go. Just my thoights. |
| All my sheepies have tried to steal dirty laundry. Three of them loved underwear. Our first loved licking armpit areas. His favourite thing to do was to pull my housecoat down from its hook overnight and lick the pits.
The few times I was too asleep to notice, picked it up off the floor, and put it on THAT was a shocking way to start the day. Ick. We always make sure we keep the laundry under "lock and key." It works much of the time, but as soon as I start putting things in piles on laundry they magically appear and try to steal again. It's one of those gross doggie things. |
| With Summer it is socks, she has actually eaten one and threw it back 5 days later! If she can get something in her mouth, the other day it was a duster and she just seems to swallow them, I got the duster out luckily. We have to eve really careful now....good luck |
traciels28 wrote: His favourite thing to do was to pull my housecoat down from its hook overnight and lick the pits.
Now that made me laugh - just the visual is enough for me. Patch was never a laundry thief but my sister's sheep was and they were very strict about taking all the laundry straight to the laundry room until she quit stealing socks. It is so nice outside today that Patch went out and dug a bed in the flower bed - and hunks of mud were between her pads that are now in sunroom. She is now sleeping soundly after that little funfest. |
Mmmmm, stealing underwear who would ever have imagined that? Tiggy always helps me with the laundry  If she gets past the baby gate she goes to the bedroom in case any underwear needs to be bought to the living room, just to remind me that it needs washing of course. If I dont notice, the helpful girl starts washing it for me. And when I'm sorting laundry for washing she selects underwear that needs a dose of cleansing sheepie slobber. Usually I lock her out so she cant help. Thankfully she's never actually swallowed any. 
Here is a picture of the darling girl helping me by washing a sports bra that she had just collected from the bedroom. You can tell I've brought her up well. She looks so happy to be helping with the chores. None of that sullen, do I have to attitude here. 
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PS note lovely white tip of tail waving in the background she's got her tail jammed up against the arm of the sofa. What a doofus. |
Mim wrote: PS note lovely white tip of tail waving in the background she's got her tail jammed up against the arm of the sofa. What a doofus.
LOVE the tail! Adorable!!! |
| Aw,Mim,that photo is so great!Kismet is my first ever oes with a tail,I think its adorable,but just hoping she still does the whole bum wiggle as well.Every morning when we open her crate she gambols out wagging the tail like crazy,I gotta admit,I was wrong,I love sheepies with tails now I have one! |
| Oh I forgot,Summer is the biggest undies destroyer ever.She only eats the crotch out of my and my daughters undies.
She can always find a pair somewhere even if stolen off the washingline,and I told my friend I have more crutchless knickers than a brothel. I asked my husband to buy me some new knickers (as he works in a town and we live in a village with no knicker shops) and he said "I have seen your knickers.They look perfectly okay to me,no point wasting money on new ones"(he THINKS he is a funny man). |
 You could go underwear less. Rahahahaaa  Problem solved. |
crustybirds wrote: 8) You could go underwear less. Rahahahaaa
Problem solved.Ohhhhh jeeeeez
(Hehehehe!) |
| Ben, our Goden Retriever who thinks he is a Sheepie, is also an eater.
He has had 2 emergency surgeries for obstructions (a washcloth and a tube sock). He almost died from the first one. In 2006, I took him to the vet because I just knew he had eaten something again, but the vet thought he was fine. Twelve hours later, he threw up another washcloth. This is always going to be an issue with him. He has eaten hunks out of a credit card, paychecks, paper money, and various papers. It has taught us to put things away if we value them. The biggest problems occur when we have guests who don't follow our "pick up and put up" routine. According to the vet surgeon, "once an eater, always an eater." The only chance is for the owner to change. Good luck. |
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