A Light Snack?

Charlie is always excitable when I get home from work so when he was snuffling around putting his nose in everything, jumping on me I took it as normal behaviour. But then he got very busy, tail in the air, head down behind the desk – definitely up to something! I rushed over and his head was in a cardboard box, he grabbed a mouthful of the contents and ran off to gobble what he could down before I could take it off of him. What was in the box you are wondering; dog treats? Biscuits? Shoes? Nope. Polystyrene packing, you know the little nuggets of polystyrene that they throw in boxes to protect the contents in delivery, he was shoving them down as fast as he could! I have no idea why, I can’t imagine that they taste nice but he was loving them so I had to hide the box to stop him eating more.

Queue a call to my ever patient vet to check that polystyrene isn’t toxic – we decided it wasn’t but he is under observation at home to make sure he hasn’t blocked his digestion! I am wondering if it might make him float but I won’t put that one to the test!