Out of our five, we have two that will grab anything (very quickly) and put in their mouth. We also have a Gus (short for Bogus) and I used to allow him to explore and put most things in his mouth, until he was 13 months old and noticed he was hoarding pine bark nuggets in his kennel. We live in Texas and I would leave the back door open on pretty days and they would play and come and go as they wanted out into their courtyard...well, he was EATING the pinebark! The moment I discovered what he was actually doing, that very night he woke us up crying. My husband and I picked him up and turned on the light in the bedroom and saw blood running down his back leg and lifted his tail where we saw he was trying to pass a golf ball size mass of BM and WOOD! Of course I felt like a heel for letting him chew on these....We of course call the vet and we had to manually work out that mass with him wailing and barking in pain and bleeding..it was awful!!! HIs rectum prolapsed, he was on a special food with stool softners for 2 months and even now, he occasionally has problems if he eats too much or more than 1 treat bisquit a day...the new recipe of Greenies are really bad at making him have trouble...I realize this story is long, but I wanted to emphasize the dangers of these little guys and eating yard debris.....He is so funny now if he finds something he KNOWS he's not supposed to have, he brings it to me and hold in his mouth until I take it out, then he gets real excited for his good deed...
