Lots of stories here.
My brother had a sheep dog (“Chip”) who destroyed a TV remote control. It was funny-I was the first one up that morning, and I was looking for the remote, to turn the TV on…then I saw the chewed up remains. I called her “Chip”-she slunk toward me, tail down…she knew she did something wrong!
I was able to solder/glue the thing together-I worked till she finally chewed it up one night.
I never understood her objection to it.
There’s always shitmypetsruined.com
A wall. She scratched and chewed the paint and paper off of the Sheetrock. All we can figure out is that she heard kids outside and wanted to get out and play.
She did this as a puppy and has grown out of this habit.
She’s a golden doodle.
I thought my dog was past the chewin’ shit up stage. Left my new '62 Reissue Stratocaster hanging on the wall mount guitar holder thing.
Came home from work to find she had chewed the shit out of the…tone knob. That was it. Just the plastic tone knob.
Could have been much, much worse.
Money. One time , while traveling in Germany, the people I was staying with had an Airedale named Axel who made shreds out of a wad of Deutsch Marks I had set on the coffee table next to the couch where I was sleeping. Tut mir leid, they said, but they did not offer to pay me back. Bastards.
I have a good, good dog. I need to remember that more when he does the occasional annoying thing.
He’s a border collie cross who’s pushing 13 now, but even when he was a puppy, he didn’t chew stuff. He did have a habit of grabbing food out of small children’s hands until we were able to get him civilized through training, and he was five before we could really trust him to hang out with groups of kids without trying to herd them together, but he’s really a lovely dog.
I guess he does destroy cat toys, but I think that’s just because he’s trying to engage the cats in play. No one really minds much, and it’s incredibly cute to see a 65-lb. dog romping through the house tossing a little catnip mouse up in the air and catching it again.
The back of one upholstered chair, & the cushions from two others, rendering all 3 unusable.
I had pair of Rudy Project glasses that a contractor bumped off of shelf & stepped on, damaging frame & right (interchangeable) lens. Two days after replacing them, dog chewed up right lens on the new ones. I now have two good left lens & none on the right side.
What did they say when he told him the dog ate it?
Wow, I guess my childhood doggie was a pretty good boy after all. All he ever chewed up was a kite and once he wrapped a ball of yarn around all the furniture downstairs - looked like a giant spiderweb.
One of my current kitties, however, has cost me numerous mats, rugs, and the entire carpet in the back room all due to territorial issues.
The Dawg has chewed up several pairs of shoes, but the worst was my son’s $300 orthotic inserts. I understand they were well-nigh irresistible. Also, I could not get the kid to go back and get new ones. Because orthotic inserts are just so uncool. Except to dogs.
Still, he’s way behind the cats, who got together and destroyed an $800+ rug in less than a week. They accelerated the damages by forcing me to buy expensive anti-cat measures like double-sided tape and spray cans of air which cost way more than they should have and didn’t work.
In the end I removed the rug. The cats are still here.
I guess that’s not all right?
My dad had a pitbull that destroyed about fifty years worth of National Geographics that my grandparents had saved. No one thought it was big deal, except for my grandparents. Everyone else thought the dog did them a favor. Did you ever have to deal with someone’s fifty year horde of those magazines? We heard about it for years after the dog died.
My dog is pretty well behaved. He’s still an 8 month old puppy who enjoys getting a roll of toilet paper out of the cupboard and taking it under the bed where he shreds it until it looks like a snow storm.
My aunt’s dog ate her tax refund check of $400 dollars.
Brand new bedroom sets don’t go well with brand new puppies that are still teething. Nuff said.
I kept a running tally for the dog my mom got three years ago. By the time I moved, it was well over $1000. Most of it was inexpensive stuff, but the biggie was my mom’s glasses - brand new bifocals with whizbang frames. Puppy was teething, and the acrylic of the lenses must have felt good. She chewed so hard, she carved divots out of the lenses. Mom had to wear them that way for a couple of weeks until she got new glasses. Everyone thought she’d had a fit of creativity and had glued rhinestones to her lenses.
Why, was it a pup tent?
The people that we bought our house from had a dog. The damage we had to replace included deep scratch marks on the inside of two 11 foot tall library doors and it pretty much ate all the woodwork in the guest kitchen, the floorboards, molding, etc. That was around $3500 to fix/replace, although by agreeing to buy it “as is” we saved around $10K over where we were in the negotiation. That’s a good boy!
Our dog chased our new cat in the living room. The cat jumped from the couch to the coffee table and landed on the most expensive item in our house. A glass art object, valued at over $15,000. Shattered it.
My dog has destroyed three doors and a door frame trying to get out. He also destroyed the carpet all around that area, digging it up. He broke his tooth on the metal doorknob of the latest door, and dented the crap out of it. The door is reinforced with metal plating covering the holes with screws and nails, and he has bent the metal back several times. Kind of like that scene from the original Twilight Zone where the plane’s wing was damaged.
He has damaged himself multiple times trying to jump over our fence or digging under it. We currently keep him locked inside to keep him from escaping the yard, and now he has gone back to work on the door.
My dog isn’t a normal dog, so he hasn’t done much damage. A little spot on the corner of the bookcase, not even noticeable unless you know where to look.
However, some of my clients’ dogs!
One husky had separation anxiety, which was bad enough, but they went away over July 4th, coming home late that night. I left the dog in the kitchen as instructed.
I guess the fireworks were too much, she ripped all the cabinets off the walls and chewed through the door between the kitchen and living room. In the process she shredded her paws and mouth.
Another dog I watched (not on my watch) chewed a hole through the couch, tore up the mattress on the bed and ate the comforter.
One I watch now is 100+ pounds and still young. She has eaten the carpet, shredded plants, chewed her owners x-rays (needed for upcoming surgery) and has knocked holes in the walls, especially at the bottom of the stairs. She plunges down the stairs, hits the hardwood floor and slides into the wall.
Remotes do seem to be a favorite with a number of dogs though. I don’t know why but a lot of dogs sure like to eat them.