Redditor's Dog Gets Food Coma After Gobbling Banana Bread That Was Left Unattended, Redditor Blames Kids For It

The dog is now in a banana-induced bread coma

Maryjane

• Published in Animal Stories
• February 18, 2023

Particularly retrievers are well recognized for their adolescent love of chewing as well as their lifelong affection for holding objects in their mouths. After all, carrying things back, or retrieving them, is what they were designed to accomplish.

Your family needs to restrict your dog's access to the objects you don't want to be chewed in order to stop the chewing. While doing that, provide your dog with a wide variety of chew toys to satiate this beneficial, natural behavior, and work on rewarding your dog for choosing the appropriate objects to chew on.

In order to temper his youthful exuberance, you should make sure your dog gets at least a half hour's worth of vigorous daily exercise. There have never been more options for chew toys, and your veterinarian can give you advice on which ones are safe and healthy. 

The OP in today's story shared a story about how their black lab snuck into the kitchen, where he was not supposed to go, and ate half a loaf of unattended banana bread. This happened after the OP's teenage kids had toasted and buttered some banana bread as an after-dinner sweet something, and as usual, they left everything on the kitchen bench.

So the dog had direct access and ate to its fill. The OP tried to air his views but ended up getting shunned.

Read the entire story for yourself below.

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It all happened while the OP's family were having a great old family chat post dinner

There is a bit of the OP hoping the pooch doesn’t need a stomach pump

It's left for Redditors to decide based on the balance of the evidence before them

As usual, the comments rolled in and here are some of the most upvoted ones

The dog only acted like a dog

That is an absolutely insane idea

The whole family should be training the dog

You said something a bit snarky and the kids were wrong

The kids lose meals all the time

Kids need to be more responsible for their actions

Three months isn't long enough to train a dog

They escalated the issue for no reason

This Redditor is fairly certain that teenagers can do the same

Chocolates are poisonous to dogs

The dog only got there three months ago

It doesn't sound like your reminder was harsh

This Redditor would take the blame all day long

This Redditor's kids found out the hard way

If the dog sees food it wants, the dog eats it

Kids in general are careless with snacks and treats

It's hard to train that out of them

Leaving the stuff for you to clean up was immature

It was the one food she couldn't control herself with

Do you ever feel as though you could pass out at the table after a particularly heavy meal? Whatever you choose to call it—a "food coma" or, more fancifully, "postprandial somnolence"—researchers have finally acknowledged the existence of the phenomenon and may even have identified the foods most likely to cause it.

This is what happened to the OP's dog, but we do hope everything is settled now.

Maryjane