Soap and tissue eating are a sign of a calcium deficiency. I would
recommend a high quality vitamin containing at least 50 mg. of calcium for
a pet 50 lbs. and under and 100 mg. of calcium for a pet 50 lbs. and
over. You can look at Mega Pet on my website at www.purelypets.com



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>Help! Jebediah will not stop eating tissue and other non food items.
>Today he came across a bar of Ivory soap. By the time I found it,
>most of it was gone, along with half the wrapper. I suspected Jeb of
>course (we have 9 dogs). Sometimes he gets a stomach ache, like
>tonight. Could this behavior be related to a nutritional deficiency?
>In the past I have fed my dogs a bones and raw food diet, but with
>the recent addition of two elderly family members into our home, I
>put them back on commercial dog food. Jeb eats canned Ol' Roy, any
>healthful scraps that I find, plus I add fish oil, homeopathic
>allergy drops, and sometimes dandelion or other herbs. He loves
>radishes. Unfortunately, two old ladies use a lot of tissues, and
>they will not do without them, nor will they control them. I am
>constantly looking for them on the floor, or tucked into furniture.
>BTW, Jeb is a 6 year old Australian Cattle Dog. The breed is stocky,
>but Jeb doesn't carry enough weight. The other dogs will
>occasionally carry paper things in their mouth, and the Jack Russell
>makes a real mess with a tissue.
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Darleen E. Rudnick http://www.purelypets.com
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