Licking bricks?!?!?! lol

We have just unblocked our fire place in our front room. Our house is roughly 150 yrs old and bricky hubby recons the the old bricks we took out and used to patch up the fire place and hearth are roughly the same age if not 100 yrs. The dogs are just completley obsessed with licking the old brick hearth. We have had to shut then out as they are just sooo fixated on it they wont stop! lol
Has anyone got any ideas on why???
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i don't know maybe the bricks were made from some sort of organic material and the smell is attracting them to it, are you sure thats there's not a body buried behind you fire place

How very odd!! Although I think staffies tend to lick anything!

It might just be something in the bricks that taste nice! Cairo likes to lick my walls,and there plasterboard

yeah i think cause it what the bricks were made from, i think heard somewhere before, they made bricks from excrement and mud, or was that longer than a 100 yrs ago, cant remember

bigwazza wrote:if its a really old fire place it might of been used as an open cooking range and the fat and juices might of went into the bricks?????
then if it been brickled up it might of blocked the smells from leaving

yeah that makes a lot of sense warren

bigwazza wrote:not very offten but once in a while i come up with a good sergestion lol

lol yea any of those sugestions might be the reason not that it really matters lol its just a bit weird! lol

Lol i dont know what it could be must be something in them

Old topic but I looked it up cos I remembered reading it a while ago.
Bonnie has started doing this with the pavers outside once she gets going she cant stop, she licks the pavers and the sand on them. If she has been doing it alot she craps wet sand!
puzzles me also, and the cooking fat thing cant apply here cos they are brand new paving stones?

lol I love this, Molly used to do this, she also used to grind her teeth along it. I think I read somewhere it's about a vitamin deficiency, I could be wrong, but I've got to admit, since changing Molly's diet, and giving her active tablets, she's stopped doing it.

Cornish-Muscle wrote:lol I love this, Molly used to do this, she also used to grind her teeth along it. I think I read somewhere it's about a vitamin deficiency, I could be wrong, but I've got to admit, since changing Molly's diet, and giving her active tablets, she's stopped doing it.

i would agree here, dogs don't usually do things just for the hell of it. There is usually a reason behind what they are doing even if we can't see it. They are also very in touch with their natural instincts (this is why dogs with bad bellys will eat certain grasses and herbs in the garden), they know what they need and theres something in your bricks which they like and think will benefit them! I think it ties in with the topic about licking plaster walls which we had a few weeks ago.

Yes I agree many dogs do it

Dempsey chews the stone suround to our fireplace!

Taz does this as well he will just lie there and lick a brick he just found just constantely licking it or chewing it until i take it off him.