And What Has Your Pup Destroyed? - Page 2

As funny as it is, I do feel your husband's pain Melissa, I would die should anything happen to my laptop. I have no back up computer or laptop, other than my cell phone LOL.

Sorry, it's been a long day, and this crap just flows after 10pm LOL

In all honesty, Hubby wasn't that upset, more astonished that the 2 dogs out of the lot that he would least expect to pull a stunt
like that did. :) His laptop never comes out unless I've had to take a trip and brought mine with me, and luckily, all the spaces
still work just fine he he he. My brother-in-law is a Dell Tech, so not a costly repair either.

Sunsilver, that is too funny about Star. What better place for "bad cuz" then in the poo :) I had a whole large tire biter disappear
from Nero's kennel when he was around a year old. Never did find it either. Sometimes, looking through poo is like being on a weird,
disgusting scavenger hunt. You have to make sure that stuff makes it out ok ;)

Melissa

Oh now more is coming back to me. One chewed up a $250 universal remote for our TV. The husband had gone away for the weekend and the dog was mad. Whoever said dogs are not able to be vengeful is a liar. The dogs always have the word behavior when one "parent" is away. We had the skirting on a set of furniture eaten off and the legs of a few coffee tables were sacrificed as well.

nothing......except for my legs......i watched him like a hawk

Oh yes, the poo search, pick apart with a stick and make sure everything that presumably went in came out!!!!

It's lovely...Even better when you're digging through poo only to lift your head after an uneventful search and say "Damn it, they weren't in there" only to have your neighbor standing there, baffeled, looking at you like they just caught you peeping in their bathroom window...There are no words to explain the sick mission you were just on. Only a breif head nod and rushing into the house and avoiding future eye contact...

Even with this fairly comprehensive list I have probably forgotten something...

My GSD from day 1 was a destroyer, the first night we left her in the kitchen as her crate hadn't arrived, we got up next morning congratulating ourselves that she hadn't made a peep during the night... no wonder, she'd been too busy! She had managed to pull a cupboard open and the floor [and her] were covered with flour, sugar, all sorts of pulses and spaghetti and a few puddles & poops!

From that day on she destroyed... 3 x Mobile phones, 5 x remote controls, expensive Olympus digi-camera, 1 armchair, 1 wooden patio set, Dyson vacuum cleaner and it's attachments, dog bed, water hose attachments. I lost count of how many trainers, sandals, shoes, boots, socks, bags, books, mags she had a chomp on., she was so sneaky you didn't realise she had nicked something. This was back in 2003/4 and we roughly added up the cost and came to a ball park figure of about £3k.

Then all of a sudden when she was around 18mths - 2 years old she suddenly stopped and I can leave anything out with her now, even down to food.

My Border Collie who is as mad as a box of frogs has hardly chewed anything, twigs and tissues were his favourite and he did chew up a few books/mags - oh and a little bit of wall in the kitchen and like my GSD he has stopped chewing now at 17 months old.

Or what about the "so THAT"S where that toy went!!". It's always wonderful finding something besides what you
were looking for!! You're right, there just aren't words for what you're doing. If the neighbours' dog has ever eaten
anything, they will understand :) Then you'll get the "so what did your dog eat this time?" ha ha

One of the young dogs that I kept back was a horrible and devoured everthing he could. Started with one of his littermates
collar... did you know stomach acid turns blue collars green? I didn't know who had eaten it until I took them for a ride
(they were riding in individual crates at the time) and the barf in his crate contained half a collar. The other half came out
2 days later, with buckle. This is also the dog that ate the bandage off his leg AFTER he ate the cone off his head. High
doses of ACE did nothing to slow that dog down. I'm surprised he did eventually heal.

Lets see, Ava ate my cell phone antena while I went into a store. I needed a new one anyway :) Her brother ate one of my vacuum
cleaner attachments.

Numerous balls, kongs, leads and even a bark collar strap have passed through some of the dogs here.

Melissa

@ melba This is also the dog that ate the bandage off his leg AFTER he ate the cone off his head.

Forgot to mention that about my border collar, the cone was secured on with gaffa tape and attached to his collar as he had removed it every night. He became very adept at removing it quickly that he began to get it off and eat the bandages on his hind legs where he had his dew claws removed the same time as his nads.

The poop came out ready wrapped with either bright blue or red Vetwrap Cohesive Bandage...

I once had a little JRT who ate a whole packet of Plaque Disclosure tablets and her poop came out fluorescent pink... I panicked like hell as I didn't know what she had ate until my daughter owned up that the JRT had ate her tablets.

Baseboards, brand new leather shoes, thank you husband who watched her take them and half an hour later, after NCIS was over, he mentioned it to me.  I screamed and yelled at him, not the dog and he told me that this was not his project. CD's ,chair legs, lawn chairs, then I got smart.... my puppies are now crated while I am out of the house. Crates are now my friends.