So my dog inexplicably chewed up my husband’s beloved $535 Oakley sunglasses, which as you can imagine set off quite the shitstorm.
Please tell me about the expensive things that your own dog(s) have wrecked - just to make me & my dog feel better. 
Her knees. New ones run about two grand apiece.
Well, this is not my animal nor is it a dog, but - I know someone whose cat completely destroyed a tent.
Dixie the Dauchsund has chewed up a couple of my wife’s shoes, but it hasn’t been too big of a deal. We limit thier access to valuable stuff.
When I was growing up, my mom’s dog went berzerk one night and scratched up *every square inch of paint *on my dad’s new car, with the exception of the trunk-lid, which she couldn’t get to. Strangest thing ever. No explanation. Never did any thing like it before or after.
I still drive that car. Dog is long-ago dead.
Nathan the dachshund has chewed up a hat I loved, a gift from my sister.
Also two pairs of SAS shoes were chewed up beyond repair, with one I can still wear.
Then there were the phone cords and the underwear, but they weren’t expensive.
He’s older now, two and a half, and mostly past the chewing stage(mostly). I still keep my shoes on a top shelf.
One of our dogs ate a big hole in the back of the leather loveseat. We haven’t fixed or replaced it – don’t care enough – but if we were to do so, I believe it would be around $1000.
They’ve also eaten MANY shoes, handbags, DVD covers, books, balls of yarn… I hate to think how much damage they’ve done in all.
Heh, “they.” It’s only Zef, she’s the chewer.
I worked with someone whose dog kept eating remotes, over and over. they’d get a new one and their husky would chew it up.
over time they spend hundreds of dollars on remotes.
My sister learned the hard way that her body armor vest is no match for a pair of doxies. The have also ruined many pairs of shoes and boots, my brother-in-laws new recliner, and they need to recarpet the entire home.
A friend had a pair of Chows, siblings. They had to be separated for a day due to something medical. The one that was not penned up completely destroyed the living room. All the furniture was torn up, television knocked over and broke, the door to the basement (where the other one was) was broken, the woodwork was all scratched up, he even made holes in the wall where he tried to chew through. After all was said and done, more than $7k in damages.
Along the same line, my Akita/Pitbull cross destroyed a pair of very expensive prescription eyeglasses that I only had for a few days, but now that she is full grown, I could leave her with 100’s of pairs of those same eyeglasses, and she wouldn’t even sniff them…
Mobile phone, a pair of prescription glasses, a pair of Oakley sunglasses, a nice wool cap that mainly had sentimental value … that’s about it for anything valuable, leaving out assorted ballpoint pens, a pair of ski gloves, cardboard boxes, and the teeth marks she left in some of our furniture.
Awful lot of weiner dogs mentioned in this thread.
Just sayin’.
A dog I had years ago destroyed the interior of my car. I’d run into a bookstore for 15 minutes on a warm day - which made it worse because when I came out people had my dog out and next to the car and being very judgmental because they assumed that he’d been in there so long he was dying, and that’s why he was destroying my car. So… I was in the awkward position of wanting to freak the fuck out but couldn’t since that would have just given more ammo to the people thinking I was an animal abuser. I drove home with the tattered headliner hanging in my face and seat springs jabbing my ass while screaming at the dog in the backseat.
My dog now once chewed up a treasured blow-gun, hand-carved from bone. In his defense, it is bone. I was moving and had it on the floor and he found it while I was outside loading a vehicle. When I came back in and saw him I yelled “NO!” and he immediately stopped. He didn’t realize it wasn’t for him. He never touched it again but the damage was already done.
Lucky, who is declawed and had half of his face shot off managed to rip up the bottom of my couch and found a place to sleep. Once again, Lucky was lucky. I learned about the damage when I was pulling the bed out and saw the fur on the mattress. Idiot cat could have died if I had opened the bed while he was in there.
Another cat, probably Spike, scratched the top of the free standing cabinets enough to bust through the top.
So…not dogs…but a lot of damage. Idiot pets.
The pack I have now really haven’t been very destructive. Nick chewed holes in a couple comforters when he was a pup but that’s really about it.
My previous male Gordon Setter, Corey, went thru a short but memorable period of destruction. In a one week period, he chewed a pair of suede boots, the cord off a vacuum cleaner and the cord off my $200 set of dog clippers. After that, he never tore up anything else.
I had a Doberman puppy who destroyed an entire set of outdoor furniture in less than an hour. She ripped EVERY CUSHION up. It looked like it had snowed in my backyard. In July.
My house. Our Sheltie goes nuts when a truck or school bus passes and attacked the window sill and scratched it to pieces. She also chewed up the rug and scratched the paint by the kids’ bathroom cause the shower scared her.
Silly dog, sigh.
Our couch, Echo ate two legs off, and ripped ALL the stuffing out.
Also, my finger, tried to grab one dog from fighting another, lost the tip of my ring finger.
Got my girl when she was 3 and she is a very very good dog. She has not destroyed anything.
Mr. Shoe had his drivers license chewed up by a dog when he was house/pet-sitting, to the point that years later at the State Fair one of the vendors wouldn’t sell him a beer.
She has also wrecked a pair of his work boots, my sound-cancelling headphones, my orthotic sandals, the corner of my netbook, my Oakley sunglass case, among other things I can’t think of right now. Thankfully it’s been mostly “my” stuff and my attitude is “shit happens.” She’s only 2 years old and a high-energy Blue Tick Coon Hound. I researched the breed and knew exactly what I was getting into and accept the challenges. It’s just unfortunate that she made the “error in judgement” of chewing up that exact item.
Thank you for the replies…it helps to know I’m not alone!
That sounds like maybe there was a cat or something on the roof of the car and he spent hours going around and around the car, trying to scrabble up to get it.