eating slugs

can anyone help old dolly out my 11 mnth old boxers keeps bringing me in little gifts . slugs and snails her mum used to do it also but she never ate them yuk. i was wondering does anyone else have this problem or any idea on hw to stop her frm doing it iv tried to catch her and take them of her yuk. but to no avail by the time ole dolly catches up with my little sprinter its to late again yuk . my good friend has told me that it can give them lung worm so im pretty disperate for any of your good advice guys . much appreciated thanx old dollyknockers

Yes snails can pass on worms to dogs. Best bet is maybe try to provide paces for the snails in your garden that are unreachable for your dog?
Remove as many snails as possible too.
Becky

thanx becky ive tried all that but the little tinker still manages to find one , . but good advice much appreciated

My mums Yorkie eats slugs and snails and they make her so ill. The vet said there is a reason for them eating them, but I can't remember what They can also pass on some disease to dogs if they eat them.

my little one dosn get ill she seems fine but i dnt lik the idea of her eating them just incase teeny tiny

I'd place beer traps all round the garden and kill the little blighters then she wont have anything to eat!

I would be extremely worried about my dogs eating slugs not only could eating them cause heartworm (a few cases of this happening in the UK) I would be extremely worried about them eating slugs that had been in contact with slug pellets (or even them eating the slug pellets) that contained Metaldehyde, which can be extremely fatal to dogs.

I'd go with Steve's idea and place beer traps all round the garden.

oh yuck,

no my dogs (thank god) do not do this.

i have a cast iron stomach but reading that really made me feel very very......:smt078 :smt078 :smt078

Hi Dolly,

Louie used to partake in odd crunchy one when we 1st got him - eewww.
Somehow we managed to convince him that they really weren't a doggy delicacy(sp) by taking them off him and saying No.

Well we'll wait and see if he remembers this in the summer when there's a few more about.
Our next task is to convince him that horse & rabbit poo aren't pre dinner appetisers and he doesn't smell better after rolling in fox or pig poo

The joys of dog ownership.
Hope somebody else can be more helpful!!!!