My stupid dog

[FATHERFORD]

We found this retarded-ass black and tan Coon Hound puppy. Obviously he'd been dumped (THANKS, First Monday vendors!!!). Nobody wanted him, so he hit the jackpot and we kept him. Right now he's going through a chewing phase.

Went to feed the barn animals and when I came back in the house, there was this nasty chemical smell. He'd found a box of those Strike-A-Fire sticks we use to start the wood stove and had chewed them up. They're made of wax and pressed sawdust, but damn if the whole house doesn't smell like a refinery now. With my luck he'll fart near and open flame and burn the house down.

Stupid dog.

A little over week ago we got some dumped off lab/pit pups. Managed to get rid of one, but my wife INSISTED we keep the little booger on the left...


Those fuckers have sharp ass teeth. Keep jamming toys in his mouth, but every now and then human toes look fun to him.

[unkoricky]

I have a younger dog who use to tear shit up every single day when he was a puppy. He is now about to be two but we've noticed every few 2-3 weeks he'll go back into his puppy stage and tear shit up randomly.

For instance we keep our two dogs in the bedroom when we are not home and put our computer chair / stools on top of our bed so he doesnt get on it and chew up the mattress, pillow and blanket like he use to when he was younger.

Now he isnt afraid of the stools anymore and sometimes randomly steal a pillow and tear it apart or he'll get on the bed anyways and start chewing on the mattress.

He's never been crated before, is it too late now? I really dont trust him wandering around the house when we are not home. Our older dog was never crated and he never tears shit up

[Trick Pony]

My buddy Travis had a Transylvanian hound and that thing chewed up so much of his shit it was amazing. Some of it was not little shit either. It shredded every cushion of a whole couch and reduced a coffee table to kindling. On top of that it ate Playstation remotes, cellphones, shoes, wallets. My buddy finally got smart and set up a run to put him outside when he was gone.

[SMEGMA STENCH]

I ran over somebody's dog the other day and I was like "lol"

[Binky]

Mines going through a chewing phase too.

So far, I've seen about $3k in damages.
- at least 8 pairs of shoes, (stupid me left the bedroom door open)
- Couple HDMI cables
- Wii controllers
- Coffee table
- Several dining room chairs
- Subwoofer for the hometheater
- All 4 sides of the living room rug
- 4 window sills
- several door jams
- Innumerable pillows and several dog beds
- Outside of the house she's chewed up the wood on the bay window, all the plastic on the patio chairs and several spots on the wood fence.

I know she does it because she's bored - she never chews when I'm there. But I work 12 hrs a day and a crate isn't an option. Best I can do is a baby gate and keep her in the kitchen where she still has access to the dog door and can go outside. I've just accepted that anything in the dining room and kitchen that she could chew is already written off. I spray with bitter apple which seems to work - when you constantly spray it down - and I go through a bottle a week.

The last victim was her Kong brand "chew resistant" dog bed with a money back guarantee. LOL - I made sure to save the reciept.

[mikec]

Holy crap Chris. You win. Damn!

[roliath]

Mines going through a chewing phase too.

So far, I've seen about $3k in damages.
- at least 8 pairs of shoes, (stupid me left the bedroom door open)
- Couple HDMI cables
- Wii controllers
- Coffee table
- Several dining room chairs
- Subwoofer for the hometheater
- All 4 sides of the living room rug
- 4 window sills
- several door jams
- Innumerable pillows and several dog beds
- Outside of the house she's chewed up the wood on the bay window, all the plastic on the patio chairs and several spots on the wood fence.

I know she does it because she's bored - she never chews when I'm there. But I work 12 hrs a day and a crate isn't an option. Best I can do is a baby gate and keep her in the kitchen where she still has access to the dog door and can go outside. I've just accepted that anything in the dining room and kitchen that she could chew is already written off. I spray with bitter apple which seems to work - when you constantly spray it down - and I go through a bottle a week.

The last victim was her Kong brand "chew resistant" dog bed with a money back guarantee. LOL - I made sure to save the reciept.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHHHA
LMAO!!!!

I can't remember how many times I came home when my pups were younger to see that scene !

[FATHERFORD]

Mines going through a chewing phase too.

So far, I've seen about $3k in damages.
- at least 8 pairs of shoes, (stupid me left the bedroom door open)
- Couple HDMI cables
- Wii controllers
- Coffee table
- Several dining room chairs
- Subwoofer for the hometheater
- All 4 sides of the living room rug
- 4 window sills
- several door jams
- Innumerable pillows and several dog beds
- Outside of the house she's chewed up the wood on the bay window, all the plastic on the patio chairs and several spots on the wood fence.

I know she does it because she's bored - she never chews when I'm there. But I work 12 hrs a day and a crate isn't an option. Best I can do is a baby gate and keep her in the kitchen where she still has access to the dog door and can go outside. I've just accepted that anything in the dining room and kitchen that she could chew is already written off. I spray with bitter apple which seems to work - when you constantly spray it down - and I go through a bottle a week.

The last victim was her Kong brand "chew resistant" dog bed with a money back guarantee. LOL - I made sure to save the reciept.

dog house outside.....

[Zfan]

Expensive little pain in the asses

[Silverback]

and this is why I don't have a dog, or children

[GrayStangGT]

After reading some of yalls stories I'm not sure I should complain about my dog anymore.

So far this is all I'm up to in 2 years.

-Reciever Remote twice, it didn't survive the second assault
-Xbox Remote
-Cable Remote (still works but looks rough lol)
-2 base board corners
-Countless dog toys
-Dozen or so pens and markers
-1 box of chocolate cover macadamia nuts brought back from Hawaii
-1/2 loaf of bread
-Finally she scratched my not cheap dinning room table trying to get some whataburger trash left up there after a night of drinking.

[roliath]

After reading some of yalls stories I'm not sure I should complain about my dog anymore.

So far this is all I'm up to in 2 years.

-Reciever Remote twice, it didn't survive the second assault
-Xbox Remote
-Cable Remote (still works but looks rough lol)
-2 base board corners
-Countless dog toys
-Dozen or so pens and markers
-1 box of chocolate cover macadamia nuts brought back from Hawaii
-1/2 loaf of bread
-Finally she scratched my not cheap dinning room table trying to get some whataburger trash left up there after a night of drinking.

I've pretty much wrote off any unattended food left on the dining table or anywhere for that matter will get eaten. Doesn't matter if i'm gone for 1 minute or 10 seconds.
I can't watch football with chips or snacks on end table next to my couch for that matter either.

[Binky]

Eva is great about stuff ON tables - she won't touch it. Even if it's a delectable morsel of goodness, she will sniff and look at it, but won't touch it.

The table itself is a whole other matter.

I think it comes from a few months ago that she stole a whole center cut of bacon off the kitchen counter and OM NOM NOM'd it before I caught her. She had a pretty upset stomach so it prolly learned her good.

[Shorty]

Damn my dog is a saint. He will get into food/edibles if he can reach it from the floor but won't climb on anything. He hasn't destroyed or even chewed on anything he's not supposed to do. His "bad" stuff is mostly entertaining. He ate a bar of my wife's goat milk soap a couple weeks ago. I went into our bedroom the only day and he had his face shoved in a jar of lotion on the floor and was licking it up like it was candy. A few months ago he ate a bunch of guinea pig food when the container was left open and then later puked it up all over the living room.

[GrayStangGT]

I've pretty much wrote off any unattended food left on the dining table or anywhere for that matter will get eaten. Doesn't matter if i'm gone for 1 minute or 10 seconds.
I can't watch football with chips or snacks on end table next to my couch for that matter either.

If I'm home she won't do anything bad, everything happens after I leave. I can set a steak on the coffee table and go somewhere else in the house and she won't touch it, but if I walk out that front door and she hears my truck leave it is game on for any food left in her reach lol. It is actually kind of comical I can almost tell iminidaitly when I get home if she has gotten into anything based on her reaction to me coming in. If she is in trouble I tell her to go outside and she heads out the doggie door and sits on the other side until she can sneak back in without me noticing or I tell her to come back.