but hes another always needs something in his gob, so carrys a lot of my cushions, cuddle toys about. I accidently taught him "Leave it" after he kept coming in with apples (have three apple trees).
Now He will spit his dinner out if I asked him bless him.
She jumped out the window of a car going at 30mph... No idea why. She hasn't tried it since, and is none the worse for wear- seems proud of herself, the monkey!
Also stole a stanley knife at the yard. Al and I were getting Reg ready for an ODE, and she pottered past with it in her mouth. I casually observed the stanley knife, we both realised implications (spaniel puppy, now armed with sharp knife) and rugby tackled her to the ground!
Ours used my brand new £85 made to measure mouth guard as a chew toy... I grind my teeth at night and thought I could live without it but no, and the dentist has to charge me another £85 to mAke a new one think that's the worst thing so far apart from the usual chewing socks etc!
I'm on a FB page for Ridgebacks and someone put a similar question to the people on the page, the first response was about them coming home to find 3 fire engines outside the house. The dog had been counter surfing, put his paws on the cooker knob and set fire to the chopping board and then the whole house. Dogs got out of the house through the dog flap, but apparently the house had been undergoing rennovation that was about 90% complete, cost about $250K and they had to move out for 6mnths!!!!!
Not a pup, but one of mine had the raging trots on a brand new, (literally - we had one day with it) yak-like rug which cost £500, I cleaned it as best I could, but it was nigh on impossible to clean every single 4 inch fibre. It was chucked. To add insult to injury, the dog had also deposited, dead centre, a perfect walnut whip of a poo on a bedroom pillow.
Wow this has just made me feel a bit better. Not had any destruction for a few days and then this morning I got up to find my slippers were dead. Still not a poo or pee on my bed though!!
Fred has eaten several credit cards, remote controls, many wires (how he didn't electrocute himself I don't know), countless pairs of (previously worn - but only by the girls in the house) pants and jodhpurs (including my very best pair of jods), he dug so many holes in the lawn of the old house that it resembled the surface of the moon, he has destroyed the letter flap, ripped up/destroyed countless letters/magazines/cheques/bills. The worst thing he ever did was try and "protect" a municipal worker mowing a patch of grass by trying to herd him away from the big, scary lawn mower (he's part collie) by nipping him on the bum - ripping his trousers.
Daisy's favourite trick is to poo in the family room - right smack in the middle of the floor . . . hasn't done it for quite a while though. When very young and bouncy (she is still bouncy and she's nearly 3 but now she has excellent recall) she pranced gaily up to a little girl on a scooter, startled her and knocked her off the scooter - Daisy just wanted to play but the little girl didn't see it that way - neither did her parents . . . I was mortified. Daisy is a dedicated counter-surfer and we are usually quite vigilant but her moment of shame was licking the frosting off a birthday cake . . . every last bit she could reach . . . came trotting into the living room with white buttercream all over her whiskers looking so proud of herself.
Tilly was a nutter. She had springs in her paws and could jump (from a complete standstill) onto the kitchen counters - took counter-surfing to a whole new level. Her drug of choice was butter . . . we had to hide it. She stole (and "killed") many of the girls' cuddly toys but her lowest moment was when she ate the remains of one of their babyhood blankets (called "bubbies") . . . child was heartbroken - Tilly wasn't even shamefaced.
Oh my.. i thought oak was awful until i read some of these...
We've had..
Turning the hob on and setting fire to two dundee cakes (both soaked in alcohol) ... both were presents for XMAS and both cost A LOT to make.
Digging holes in the garden, de potting EVERYTHING in the garden, picking some dafs for OH's mum to say sorry (or that's how we went about it.. so we all didn't get kicked out..!)
Stole a leg of lamb of the work top..
Chewed the door frame because he wasn't aloud in the lounge with me..
Pee'd on our bed (when he was a puppy.. happened several times)
Pulled some loose wall paper off the wall because he wasn't aloud in the shower with me..
I think that's all.. I THINK
Ohh and he jumped in my grans pond, went swimming with the fish and then proceeding to run into the newly decorated dining room and shake.. went down well i can assure you.
Good lord! You all have devil dogs! I've never had a dog do any of the above! For this I count myself very lucky! Ellie used to nick fags and chew them up, thats about the worst I have had.
I left my earrings on the coffee table in the sitting room, went to the loo, came back to find one earring missing and someone looking guilty!
Woudn't have been so bad, but they were quite expensive diamond clusters. I had to let nature take it's course, so he was confined to the garden until they "re-appeared".
Cue lots of scrubbing in boiling water and disinfectant before they were useable again. Mind you, they did scrub up nice!!!!
My in laws' springer clearly wanted to be some sort of dare devil as he jumped off the cliff on Portland Dorset. He was fine despite his fall of approx 200ft - how?? He did that when he was young (older than puppy, but still young) and he is 15 this year, still going!
My mums old lab sounded like a nightmare when she was a pup (I can't remember as too young). Rescued from RSPCA kennels, she used to mess everywhere all the time, even after walks. And to top it off, she dragged all her bedding and anything she could get hold of through her own mess, day after day, night after night. Turn your back apparently and it happened. Mum got so tired of it, she picked up the dog by the scruff, threw her out to clean up, and dog never made another mess in the house - ever! True!
My mums current collie x lab tries to dig up the vinyl in the kitchen, same place every time - even now at 7yrs! We have 'broken the cycle' but every once in a while, there has been a re-offender!
My neighbours collie used to jump out through the window - open or closed he had to be tied to the table leg to stop him doing it!
Shoudl add, mine has chewed a scewdriver and eaten a £5 note plus usual puppy accidents. = totally tame compared to some!
Chlo, although the light of my life, was a bad dog..!
The worst by a mile was chewing the leg of a wooden table. Not so bad. Except it was a bespoke table, worth upwards of £800, given to my boyfriends step father (who already hated Chlo) as a leaving present. Mortified doesn't cut it-until-she then chewed their kitchen cabinet door two weeks later.
We moved out pretty soon after!
Her other trick was fecking off with me on walks/when let out at night for a wee. The two best/worst were... When she chased a man with special needs down the street and I couldn't get hold of her. She just wanted to play..... Awful. And the night that I let her out for a wee, she legged it up the road, into the pub at full capacity, and sat down at the bar-I had to go in, in my dressing gown, and fish the little bugger out!! Whilst all sorts of comments were being made
Bracken has destroyed more stuff, but certainly isn't as naughty!! He just had a really rough time teething. Xc
Ok. Left my adolescent dog in best friend's husband's NEW car while we went to Argos. Came back, dog delighted to see us, sitting happily in back seat. Friend put hand on steering wheel, went to release hand break and discovered it had been semi-amputated.
Gear knob also chewed off and steering wheel full of teeth marks.
It was 4.30pm. Amazingly, we found a local dealer who managed to get hold of and fit a new hand break lever, gear knob and steering wheel all before 6pm and we got away with it.
Same dog emptied the entire sofa of all stuffing whilst we were out for a curry. Opened sitting room door to find the room was filled with a mass of white fluff bigger than you could possibly imagine.
Oh, I've remembered another one (interesting how we block out the worst ones). Both dogs were having a great time playing chase across the sitting room at great speed whilst I'm in the kitchen (off the sitting room) with door open, trying to have a civilised coffee with friend. So the dogs are running into kitchen then out again as far as the window wall of sitting room, then back into kitchen then out and back and out and I can't stand it, so I shut the kitchen door. Not realising their flight path has now been reduced by about 8', they misjudge and on the 'back' journey, one of them goes flying straight out the (closed) sitting room window. First floor maisonette.
All I know is, something made of glass has smashed and it's gone awfully quiet.
Thank GOD there's a narrow balcony under the window, which is where dog (a) ended up, slightly confused, but absolutely unscathed (very fluffy German Shepherd).