Let's see the damage then!

EGAR

Sweeper's post gave me the idea to start this thread. Let's see the damage then but I must warn you that I doubt highly any damages caused by your pooches can beat this:



... and no, it wasn't a Bull Breed .


Come on then and share your horror stories about canine weapons of mass destruction, pics are most welcome .

The Sweeper

I haven't got any pictures of mine I think. I'm usually too busy weeping.

Though I did see a similar thread on another forum from someone with Huskies / Mals - they ate through a wall. Seriously. An actual hole in the actual wall. Baffling.

pitbull_fanatic

no pics either but when my pitbull was younger i had him in the hall. half an hour later i came home to find him asleep on the couch...he litrally ate through the door...not goot in a rental accomodation!!

chucken1

EGAR wrote: »

Sweeper's post gave me the idea to start this thread. Let's see the damage then but I must warn you that I doubt highly any damages caused by your pooches can beat this:



... and no, it wasn't a Bull Breed .


Come on then and share your horror stories about canine weapons of mass destruction, pics are most welcome .

Ohhhh. I laughed! Sorry!! Was it a Terrier? Oh no though! Your car!!!!?

My darling Boo(a bitsa/terrier-ish) ate through the newl posts/bannisters 10 years ago..he's lying here beside me now and I still need a carpenter.LOL

psycho-hope

not our dogs fault really but after he severed a vein in his leg, we had to throw out a duvet, a pillow, eletric blanket, a dog bed, 2 pairs of tracksuit bottoms pair of runner and 4 towels and a floor mat oh and a t shirt

The Sweeper

Tasty dashboard, omnomnomnom...

Tranceypoo

Oh my effing GOD egar, how the hell much will that cost to fix??!!

Jeez I thought my chewed door, skirting boards & ripped up carpet were bad but **** :eek:

Whispered

Worse damage ever done was a few chewed skirting boards, blankets and missing kitchen utensils

/smugness


*waits to go downstairs to find something destroyed due to above smugness*

SophieSakura

The only real damage we ever had was from a cat who loved chewing phone chargers (when they weren't plugged in!) :rolleyes:

EGAR

Yes, my van . I have no idea how much that will cost to repair and am currently looking behind cushions and down the back of the couch for more money *fat chance*.

The damage was caused within NOT even half an hour, both windows half open, so he could have easily jumped out and he wagged his tail happily when I opened the door and didn't even try to get out...

If I was ever tempted..... it was there and then. Living in the middle of nowhere doesn't help when your transport is half eaten. I cried for 2 hours flat.

*He* is a Pointer...

I am well used to eaten remote controls, phone chargers etc but that is taking the p***.

Tony H

My golden retriever Joey was in the back seat of the wife's yaris [he was about 4 months old at the time ] he went under the passenger seat and shredded all the air bag sensors , total cost was nearly 3000 euro .

The Sweeper

That reminds me, my old boss from years ago got himself a new labrador pup when his old and faithful labrador was getting on in years. Drove down to the newsagent one day and in the time it took him to buy the newspaper the then-adolescent lab had eaten five grand's worth of his alfa romeo...

hdowney

my collie cocker cross is generally good. she has eaten a few buttons off the remote control, sometimes thinks trainers are her toys. but other than that she is fine. (oh except for a favourite pair of my shoes when she was 5mths old!)

now my yorkie cross!!! that will chew ANYTHING. quite likes nailfiles out of handbags, has chewed shoes and allsorts. however the massive hole that she chewed in the bedroom door is the worst. swopped out the door and now she is trying to start a hole in the new one!!!

liquoriceall

I will never give out about about my dog again he has never eaten anything hes just not that sort of dog

Zapperzy

Just 1 doggy toothbrush here! Bristles were coming out the other end for days!

Cherry Blossom

No pics either but we closed my old lab in the back hall once when there was a particularly bad thunderstorm and came down the next morning to find wee and poo all up the kitchen walls a massive hole in the hall door and all the plaster board in the hall wall in bits on the floor. I think my dad must have fixed the wall himself because it wasn't partiularly well done. Skirting board never got replaced.

Ohh and he must have done the whole thing extremely quietly because no-one heard a peep the whole night.

Groom!

EGAR nobody could match that
However we have had our fair share of damage here too...

Cushions - too numerous to mention
Dog beds - at least a dozen
Towels & tea towels - many
flower pots
the corner of a wall
4 corners of a fabulous cream coffee table
a block of yeast (very expensive trip to the vet and not funny)
a piping bag
my favourite grey hat which I cried over
2 birthday cakes
soft toys
socks
dustban & brush x 4
a set of speakers for the computer
christmas decorations
my copy of "Marley & Me"
telephone directories x 3
2 x cookbooks
1 x plant care manual

I'm sure I'll think of more!!

The Sweeper

Incidentally, Gus's favourite toy at the moment is one of my husband's 'holeproof explorer' socks. It's a major testament to the makers that it's still intact.

newbride11

Wow, I'm shocked!

My girl chews socks, shoes, the kitchen table, phones, cushions, bras etc.

She's getting better than what she was but I think that's down to me putting everything out of paws reach.

I once had her in the car though & I always put her seat belt on her in the back seat. Now when she has the seatbelt on she can't reach forward to the front of the car. But one day I had to run into a friends house to collect something & was only gone ten minutes. In that ten minutes she had taken my wallet & half ate/ half chewed a €20 & a €50 euro note out of my wallet. It's still beyond me how she actually managed to get it as it was well out of her reach.

The next poo she took was probably the most expensive she ever had

mymo

My two have been very good, they aren't really chewers, but they do like to shred paper.
All kinds of paper.
I once came home to find they had shredded a pack of toilet rolls, 15 rolls:eek:
Looked like it had snowed in my kitchen, very pretty.
I have watched them and their chosen method seems to be hold the paper with the mouth and tear with the claws. They never eat it, just spit it out if it gets in their mouths.

My friend in the UK had a dog that liked to chew, he ate the table legs and chairs, skirting boards, windowsills etc.
She thought she'd broken the habit as if she saw him start, she said no and he ran under her bed to hide.
Then one day she bought home a guy she'd been seeing for a while, things were heating up and they headed to the bedroom, then suddenly the bed collapsed in a heap.
Doggy had chewed through the slats under the mattress and the legs on the far side against the wall too.
Bit of a passion killer, luckily he saw the funny side.
Although when they moved in together he banned the dog from the bedroom.:D

kopfan77

I put a lot of work into building a nice high secure fence at the front of our garden when we got our gsd ruby....however ruby decided she'd like to eat her way through it one afternoon!!

Aside that from that she's pretty good...every now and then some plants or shrubs get pulled up by the roots and flung around the garden, or a poor teddy becomes a casualty as this poor fella did. As a fella I did a lot of wincing when I saw the damage this poor chap suffered!!

Chris_Heilong

@kopfan77
From a males point of view that first picture looks very painful...:rolleyes:

Vojera

No pics and not caused by a dog, but Shirley, my Syrian hamster, has shredded a decent part of a throw (like you'd put on a couch) and a fair bit of a towel when they were accidentally left beside her cage. I got an awful fright when I saw the stuff in there, thought she was dead, but then I realised she'd made a new bed for herself. The first time was an accident, we had no idea she would be able to pull stuff in through the tiny bars of her cage like that and chew it. The second time was my partner's fault - she had been warned not to put stuff there!

FAYESY

Nile rats of mine escaped & ate all the wires in what became my bedroom! Took a lot to fix that damaged! Hamster chewed my window - annoying chewed marks!

When I was a kid we had a massive Rottweiller called Baron at a year he weighed 13 stone - massive dog! More like a pony! He ate the inside of the couch did not get any wadding on the floor & put the cusions back on! He also smashed 2 windows trying to get out & with his paws pushed all broken glass out before he jumped. Very aggressive dog! He was trained before we got him to attacked black people! Bit of a bugger when several of my school mates were black! Mum used to give him massive knuckle bones from cows - he smashed them with 1 bite! Big big dog! Gave him away in the end he was too big.

meathgal2010

Milly our 6 month golden lab loves to chew. so far she has got

My other halfs Thesis book
Pair of Sunglasses
Skirting boards
Bottom legs of kitched chairs
Door off the tumble dryer ( found her in it!)
Kitchen utensils
All the leather place matts
Phone chargers
Galaxy Tab charger
Her plastic bed

Attached are photos of the damage done

to the carpet
to her new bed ( had it 2 days)


oh and she just boxed my in the eye .... will post picture of black eye tomorrow:rolleyes:

Demonique

The worst that happened with our dog was chewing through the phone cable.

He also stained the carpet as he used to go behind the sofa as a pup and poo there

dan_d

Well she certainly looks very happy about how she's customised her bed!!:rolleyes:

Queen-Mise

Groom! wrote: »

EGAR nobody could match that
However we have had our fair share of damage here too...

a block of yeast (very expensive trip to the vet and not funny)


I'm sure I'll think of more!!

I have to ask - what happened. I can't imagine it was fun

meathgal2010

dan_d wrote: »

Well she certainly looks very happy about how she's customised her bed!!:rolleyes:

yep and she wonders why her big comfy bed has been taken away

Nollipop

When I first took on my Dad's dog (ancient collie cross) I was worried about leaving him as he followed me from room to room (major separation anxiety) so as I was building up the time he was left, I shut him in the room I thought he was least likely to damage: the kitchen.

I came back after 30 minutes to find:

The gas oven overturned and oven door handle smashed off.

The inside of the back door scratched and eaten.

The wooden bit of door surround ripped off the wall (along with wallpaper and plaster) and chewed.

Tiles smashed off the wall.

Laminate floor scratched.

It was a rented house and I had to DiY it the best I could, with help from my friends. The next day I bought a baby gate to keep him out of the kitchen and away from the door!

He got over the sep anx eventually. Well, after about 5 months...:rolleyes:

GalwayKiefer

No photo but my gsd x akita wreaked my motorbike once, knocked it over damaging the tank then went to town on the seat/tax disk/any plastic part he could get at.
It's still garaged at my mother's as I never had the money to fix it up. Not looking likely any time soon either as I'm in Oz.

kildareash

Oh my god, this thread makes my two look like little saints!

The worst damage they've done (so far) is chewing the bar between the two legs of a chair. Not even the whole way through.
Other than that they've wrecked a couple of trees in the garden and chewed a couple of Pairs of pennys shoes...you know the really cheap canvas ones. We use them as slippers so it must have been the sweet smell of our feet that attracted them as on occasion they have had access to far more expensive shoes but didnt touch them

But I'm sure that I will have more to add to this thread as they are only 9 months old, plenty of time for them to wreak havoc on the house!

mikemac

No pics but the golden retriever had a fondness for ripping up the living room carpet as a pup.
There's a good sized hole and you can see the concrete nowadays

Or you'd come back from the farm, leave your wellies at the door and the blasted dog would run off with them and chew them to bits. :mad:
I can understand chewing rubber but nothing worse then a leaky wellie on a wet day!

Solution was to find a leg bone from a slaughtered calf, the thing is huge, he can't even lift it but it stays on the lawn.
He could chew it for the rest of his life and it'll still be there

Graces7

Three Jack Russell pups made confetti of the office here once.. And the collie has almost b - eaten her way through doors on several occasions and cannot be left near any paper. Bedding gets torn too..Lost count of pens, knitting needles, phone cables that were left within reach.. Oh and underwear gets shredded with great glee. Makes for great neatness though..

mikemac

Just remembered we got a load of letters through the postbox one day. At least six or seven.
The dog got to the door first and choose the two bills, ESB & Eircom and left the other post alone. Tore them to shreds

I like to think he knew they were bills. :cool:
Clever dog, he doesn't want his owner getting bills

But I do think we need to get a basket or cage or something to catch the post

fishfoodie

Queen-Mise wrote: »

I have to ask - what happened. I can't imagine it was fun

Well I know what happens when a human does it, & it ain't good

I occasionally make home brew wine & many years ago when I was sharing a house, my house mates came home one night, three sheets to the wind, & decided to try out the home brew before it had stopped bubbling ( i.e. while the yeast was still active. )

Three days later, when I came back to the house I found two very, very unwell housemates, who had spent the last two days fighting over the one toilet in the house :eek: Mega, Mega intestinal distress !!!

Not terribly serious as long as you avoid the usual issues of dehydration etc, but horribly uncomfortable, & have massive amounts of gas in your gut leads to the usual issue :eek:

fletch...

As a pup my samoyed ate my grandmothers hearing aid just days before christmass, the following year she was a bit more mature in the head, but one day i heard a wierd clacking sound, askd her to drop it in my hand and out she spat my now destroyed grandmothers false teeth, this just days before the following christmass.

She is well settled and non destuctive at this stage but wev just fosterd a young GSD - its all coming back to me now. The distruction was unreal yesterday after i was out for just 2 hours, and anything that used to be upstairs was carried/ dowstairs with a few "prezzys" left in the bedrooms