Dumb Dog

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

He's not really dumb. He's an eight month old black lab who gets in to everything. I should be paying more attention because he got hold of a BIC lighter and I didn't see him with it. Next thing I hear a pop and a hiss. He punctured the lighter. I don't think he injested any butane and he appears to be fine. It amazes me how quickly he finds treasures (in his puppy mind) to chew on.

 

[christineann]

My black lab was an eating machine, too. Some of his choices were a hiking boot, a computer cable, a Bible, bits of screen off my porch, and several of my daughter's doll house people. He would start heaving at 4:00 a.m., I would let him out to throw up, and then I would go out in the morning to see what it was. Imagine my surprise when I saw a head and a leg (the mom from my daughter's doll house). It's a wonder he never had a blockage. He also got hold of a 3 foot cotton mouth snake in the back yard, but I separated them and killed the snake (fortunately, it did not bite him). We Jake-proofed the house constantly, but he always found something else. Eventually he did grow out of it! One night he somehow got a box of saltines out of the pantry, took one sleeve of crackers out of the box and ate it, and then went back to bed. In spite of all that, he truly was an awesome dog.

 

[iNTeNSeBLue98]

I know our 7 year old yellow lab was just as bad when he was this age, it's just a memory now. Diesel has been pretty good about chewing on his toys rather than our things. No shoes have been destroyed but he takes a liking to laces and the end of the strap on my Clarks clogs. He likes cardboard, for some strange reason, and the occasional plastic soda bottle.

 

[aka-mad4themouse]

Bentley, our 7-month-old yellow lab mix, is going thru the same thing. Someone once told me that labs were tremendous chewers. He picks up anything and everything. For that reason, he and Sadie (his 7-month-old terrier sister) are still restricted to the kitchen/family room area of the house. Bent has chewed a cable TV cable completely thru, destroyed all the softer "baby" toys that they got when they first came home and played "ball" with a half dozen ornaments from my Christmas tree before it came down. If there's change on the floor, he'll try to eat it. I must have rescued about $10 worth of slimey coins from the recesses of his mouth! Luckily, there are no lighters in the house or else I'm sure that he would have developed a taste for butane. Hope that Diesel is feeling fine after his appetizer.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Our 9 month old partners in crime took off ANOTHER piece of our wood fence...ugh!

This morning I hear barking and sure enough the collie mix Gracie is running around with the fence piece that I am sure the lab/shepherd/retriever mix Butters ripped off.

They were being absolute pills this morning. So right now they are leashed downstairs and awaiting a long morning walk. They are calm, quiet, and waiting...dd is getting ready to take them.

It is funny, you put the leash on and they magically change.