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Old January 21st, 2012, 03:24 PM
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Potato Bag?

My Sparky can often be found chewing/sucking on the paper potato bag. Not tearing it apart type chewing, just on the ends where there's dirt.

Could he be lacking something in his diet? I real-food feed him, so i'm just wondering if there's something he's needing that he's not getting enough of.

OR, is he just being an odd ball.
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Old January 23rd, 2012, 10:19 AM
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AFAIK, Dogs eat and suck on the weirdest stuff - many of them are oddballs that way. Not convinced I'd be too worried about this.

But if this rings any type of bell/pattern for other members...I'm sure they'll say so.
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Old January 27th, 2012, 02:40 PM
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I tried putting the bag up, but he goes looking for it and I feel bad for him, so I just wash the potato's thoroughly before eating.
The things we do for them

We had company 2 weekends ago and he sat there licking and biting at the bag. "Oh don't mind him..he's a little crazy"
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