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[BCDisneyFanatic]

He's very cute...but I'm trying very hard not to feed him to the neighbour's german shepherd.

I kid. Really. I think

I've been very good at keeping an eye on him the last three weeks since we got him. So far, the worst damage he's done is pulling down the shower curtain when I left him in the bathroom one day while I was out (and it was fine once I put it back up). Learned my lesson, and have kept him in a crate or outside since then when I go out.

Today, as I was sitting right next to him on the floor writing emails on my macbook, he grabs the power cord in his mouth and chomps into it. Luckily (? ), he was just fine, but I had to run out to get a new cable before my first tutoring student shows up in an hour. Cost for a new cable? $150 US!!!!!!

Hmmmm....he's starting to become a very expensive pet!

So, does anyone else have any funny (now....after much time has passed!) stories about mischief their puppies got into? I could use a good laugh at the minute!

 

[Robindianne]

Touch screen remote ($230); 2 (yes 2) Blackjack cell phones; a soniccare toothbrush, a pair of my DIL's pumps from Italy.

Other dog: tore up the entire berber carpet (caught a thread and pulled - from the middle of the room)

We learned we could not let anything be near them. And they outgrew it. But now I need to learn to train one from chasing cats and just get him to mind us. We are loser dog parents. I know it; dh knows it. We suck.

He's very cute...but I'm trying very hard not to feed him to the neighbour's german shepherd.

I kid. Really. I think

I've been very good at keeping an eye on him the last three weeks since we got him. So far, the worst damage he's done is pulling down the shower curtain when I left him in the bathroom one day while I was out (and it was fine once I put it back up). Learned my lesson, and have kept him in a crate or outside since then when I go out.

Today, as I was sitting right next to him on the floor writing emails on my macbook, he grabs the power cord in his mouth and chomps into it. Luckily (? ), he was just fine, but I had to run out to get a new cable before my first tutoring student shows up in an hour. Cost for a new cable? $150 US!!!!!!

Hmmmm....he's starting to become a very expensive pet!

So, does anyone else have any funny (now....after much time has passed!) stories about mischief their puppies got into? I could use a good laugh at the minute!

 

[Amelia Peabody]

Hhhmmm - when I was a kid our puppy got onto the HUGE double bed somehow and ripped open my mom's birth control pills. I didn't understand why she was so upset if he wasn't sick.... I do now...

He also, within 5 minutes, stole a box of chocolate cover cherries, opened the sealed box and ate some. Dad's birthday gift.

Even so he lived to be a ripe old age. He was one lucky dog. My cat used to chew cords - some are very pet attractive - something in the covering!

Good luck and distract, distract distract!

 

[Tinkermommy]

When my lab/golden mix was a puppy I left her in the laundry room while we went out. She ate the wall!!!! Apparently she licked the dry wall until it became soft and could then bite it. She also ate the window sills in our living room. Chomped on them like corn on the cob.

My dad's coworker had a crazy dog. One day the guy came to work in hiking boots (worked in an office and business dress) because his dog chewed up every other pair of shoe he owned the previous night!! His dog also chewed up some part of his water heater? I have no idea how he did that.

I love dogs, but they can do some damage as well!

 

[tonga]

We got a golden retriever puppy at the same time our friends got a golden/lab mix puppy. Ours was a real handful, but our friends' pup really outdid her.

One week friend's wife was away on business, and got a call on her cell phone. It showed friend's cell number, but when she answered all she heard was a chomping sound. She hung up and called friend at work and asked him where his cell phone was. Uh oh, he'd left it on the coffee table at home. The puppy had chewed up the phone, and somehow during the chewing managed to speed dial her! We like to joke that he just missed his "mommy"

Same puppy also destroyed a $350 text book. There were days when DH would lose patience with our pup, and I'd just have to remind him that friend's pup had ours beat!

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

My sister has had several lab puppies.

Her latest is now 9 months but he has managed to:

bend the wires on the door of his crate several times (she straightens them, he bends them again).
took the london broil off the kitchen counter last weekend and chowed down
ate through the wooden legs of 3 kitchen table chairs and her coffee table
Chewed thru one side of her couch
jumped thru the sliding glass door screen so many times to chase a rabbit she has lost count and now keeps a large supply of basic screen material in her house so she can fix it right away.

She has found since she's given him a new doggie toy a week, and got a bigger kong for treats and walks him more, he's not being so destructive. It's just hard to deal with long walks with a 3 year old and a new baby!

 

[hiwaygal]

My husband bought a new pair of glasses. He thought they were so cool and he looked so cool in them. They were pricey (over $200).

When I saw them I He looked like the geekiest nerd on the planet.

I hated them!!!

Anyway, he left them on one of the end tables and we went up to bed.

The next morning I noticed one of our dogs had something she was 'playing' with. It was what was left of his glasses. Again, I

He was mad at her.

I gave her a cookie!

The sad part...she passed away this past Thursday.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

Okay, these stories have made me laugh...I don't feel like such a bad puppy mommy anymore!

Honestly, he's the sweetest dog most of the time!

 

[doxdogy]

One dachshund two pairs of shoes in one week. After that bedroom doors were kept shut. German shepherd two remotes in two days, after that all remotes were kept on the mantle. Another dachshund jumped into husband's chair at the dinner table (we weren't looking) and stole his hamburger. Litter of dachshund puppies we had bred chewed a giant hole in the drywall in the living room. Our terrier would jump on the dining room table at night and knock everything off the table.

 

[paintnolish]

Laptop cord, lamp cord, PS3 remote (days after dh bought it), a shoe...that's about it. He sometimes tears up the trash. Last week dd had a bloody nose and he had a great time with them. Yuck. Our older dog is very good and only but consistently chews one thing- dirty undies. Gross. You'd think this would help people to leanr that next to the hamper is not the same thing as in the hamper, but nah!

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

My husband bought a new pair of glasses. He thought they were so cool and he looked so cool in them. They were pricey (over $200).

When I saw them I He looked like the geekiest nerd on the planet.

I hated them!!!

Anyway, he left them on one of the end tables and we went up to bed.

The next morning I noticed one of our dogs had something she was 'playing' with. It was what was left of his glasses. Again, I

He was mad at her.

I gave her a cookie!

The sad part...she passed away this past Thursday.

Sorry for you loss.

I'm already completely in love with my pup and I've only had him a few weeks. I can't imagine how strong that bond will be in a few more years.

 

[HsvTeacher]

He's very cute...but I'm trying very hard not to feed him to the neighbour's german shepherd.

I kid. Really. I think

I've been very good at keeping an eye on him the last three weeks since we got him. So far, the worst damage he's done is pulling down the shower curtain when I left him in the bathroom one day while I was out (and it was fine once I put it back up). Learned my lesson, and have kept him in a crate or outside since then when I go out.

Today, as I was sitting right next to him on the floor writing emails on my macbook, he grabs the power cord in his mouth and chomps into it. Luckily (? ), he was just fine, but I had to run out to get a new cable before my first tutoring student shows up in an hour. Cost for a new cable? $150 US!!!!!!

Hmmmm....he's starting to become a very expensive pet!

So, does anyone else have any funny (now....after much time has passed!) stories about mischief their puppies got into? I could use a good laugh at the minute!

I think Apple puts something tasty on the cords, because the same thing just happened to us!

I was using our MacBook the other day and looked down to find our 8-month old puppy chewing on the power cord. I caught it just in time, because it started to spark. Thank goodness we already had an extra cord!

 

[CruiserMom]

One dog we had used to jump out of the car and run away...for 20 minutes. We would try to catch her; she would run back and forth in a field behind our house, and wouldn't come back until we quit trying to catch her.

Another dog ate half a bag of chocolate Halloween candy. He didn't even throw up!

Another dog tore up a remote control and swallowed one of the AA batteries. We didn't know until it came out the other end!

 

[PaulaSB12]

Misty a persian that knocked himself out by pulling a frozen trout from a worksurface. Lassie who came into season (about 6 months before she died) at the ripe old age of 14 and went off with a 15 year old dalmation (old dogs my eye!!!!!!) try telling that to a vet.
Timmy sex mad pyranian mountain dog who wasn't fussy which end was which.
Hamilton sex crazed silver hamster who escaped under the floor boards for 2 weeks came back and slept all day. He had silver fur and dark flashes over his ear a few weeks later we find mice with his colouring being caught by the cat.
Queenie has had 2 operations one to have teeth removed, as far as we know we had always had her and her 2 kittens. As far as she is concerned she went to the vet and we snuck in two cats into the house its taken just under 3 years to integrate them back together. We also had a mammery gland tumour scare but it turned out to be a cyst.
Socks the worlds most neurotic cat who when is scared of EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!! And he nags like nobodies business for his dinner half an hour of non stop meowing and he gets his own way.

 

[4greatboys]

We have a lab. She is 9 months old. However I knew going in she was going to try to eat everything we own so she is never unsupervised. Someone is always with her and we crate her when we are not home. I also buy tons of bones and stuff for her to chew on. I got her from one of my best friends who owns the mom and one of her littermates. I am happy we didn't take her sister. She is a naught, naughty puppy and has eaten a ton of my friends stuff.

 

[hiwaygal]

Sorry for you loss.

I'm already completely in love with my pup and I've only had him a few weeks. I can't imagine how strong that bond will be in a few more years.

Thank you.

It's hard when they have to go...but the love you get for all those years is worth every tear.

 

[sunnyday123]

One 107 lb puppy has eaten:

every freaking pair of flip flops except the ones I am wearing right now.

a pair of sneakers, cleats, my leopard print flats, my favorite pair of kitten heels, several books, the pocket off my jeans ( I had treats in said pocket and put them in the hamper ) a coffee table, foyer table, half of DD's socks-luckily never swallows them just rips 'em apart, crayons, a soccer ball ( regulation size ) every stinkin' toy that I have given her. Yes, Kongs are NOT indestructable, and a leash.

And yesterday she tried to play with the weed whacker. While it was on.

Thank God I love her.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Several years ago, the kitty in my signature broke a bunch of keys off my daughters new mac book laptop....couldn't be fixed and the new keyboard was $150. That cat got into more trouble!

We've had the "normal" dog chewing--remotes, wooden blocks, pencils, crayons (let's hear it for colorful poop! ) and recently our dog, who should be out of this stage, chewed up my nice case for my glasses. Thankfully the glasses were not in them!

 

[FQ fan]

We have a 7 month old puppy with regurgitation issues. He doesn't chew, but the constant messes are driving DH nuts.

Hopefully we can figure things out with the vet and his food soon.

 

[SandrA9810]

My doggie got mad at me once for locking her in the bathroom. Anytime she was having an upset stomach, we would leave her in the bathroom because it was the only tile room when we had to go to work. So this day she decided to chew her way through half the door. it was already warped on the bottom, so she didn't have much trouble getting a start. We replaced the door before we moved out of that apartment.
She was a good 5yrs old at this time too. And of course she didn't wind up getting an upset stomach.