Dogs are known for eating some strange things. Case in point: This evening, as my family was sitting down for dinner, our dog Lucky seemed to be happily eating his kibble one moment. The next, he's at the balcony door, signalling he wants out, as in hurry up I gotta go. I was up at the time about to serve some drinks, so I volunteered to let him out.
Normally he goes out the back door, down the outside stairs from the balcony to the back yard, does his stuff, then barks to be let in again. We don't bother to watch him every time as there's no way he can escape the yard anymore. This time, the gate at the topof the stairs was closed for some strange reason, and he's looking impatient, so I go and open the gate for him.
Lucky runs down the stairs, stops dead, and eats the first leaf on the ground in front of him. Then he goes and eats another. He was so desperate to get outside so he could eat leaves. When he had perfectly good dog food in his bowl inside.
Totally weird, I've never seen him do that efore. He ate about four or five of them before. I got his attention and called him back inside; he made no fuss about coming back in and went right back to his food bowl. He didn't seem sick or anything either.
Later I did some research on Google and found that many dogs seem to have a taste for elm leaves; it doesn't seem to make them sick, they just seem to like elm leaves for some odd reason. As if they were treats.
No-one really knows why.
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That being said, it is obviously recommended to discourage your dog from eating strange plants because you don't know what might turn out to be harmful to them.
On the other hand, though, one could apparently save a fortune on dog treats by simply using elm leaves instead. 
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