puppy destruction stories: attn dog lovers

[Deleted User]

I love dogs.

I love my two dogs… and so far have been very pleased with the little home damage they incurred. However, the other day, my male dog, still a puppy at 17 months, decided to exit my boyfriend’s crew cab through the window to follow me, I was walking down a street at that moment. The window was rolled down only a quarter of the way and in the process our pup got himself stuck and shattered the entire window into millions of tiny pieces… glass everywhere. My boyfriend … ….. well, not a good moment. Nobody was hurt, so I was relieved, the window has been replaced ($$$).

Anyone got a damage-done-by-dog story?

[Beka27]

Nothing THAT BAD! Oh my gosh! My husband would be…. LIVID. (It makes a few bunny chewed cords and clothing items seem not so bad…)

[Sonn]

Two of my dogs Haven and Gizmo have 2 major destruction stories from when they were pups.

Mind you I didn’t even know dog crates existed at the time.

The first was the first time I left them out alone while me and my family left they were about 6 months old. We came home and I saw wood all over the floor go inside and thehalf of the ENTIRE wall beside the front door was gone and all over the floor they just ripped it out like it was nothing. Me and my mom tried to ‘hide’ it before my stepfather got in the house because well he hates my dogs anyway lol but he laughed and said “oh well” I was like

 

Then the second was when they were about 14 months old. I was spending the night with one of my friends so at bedtime my mom put them in my room since they sleep in the bed with me. All was good she said they never made a sound (fist red flag something is not right lol). The next morning I get a call she is freaking out and laughing all at the same time and tells me to get home now. I get home and open my bedroom door to see foam and material all over the walls and floor and my bed was just springs and wood. And where were the dogs? Out popped their little heads from under what material still clung to the springs panting and wagging their tails like nothing ever happened.

 

The culprits now (well during the winter):

My baby Haven

 

And miss Gizmo (she is hard to get a picture of) She is the black dog on of my other dogs Ziggy is in the picture as well and Haven peeking

 

[Nicki]

I Dont have any destruction stories but…

Firstly Skye (sadly no longer with us) as a pup was was very disobedient mainly as she was nervous so every time she got scared on a walk she’d take herself home, she was also the muddiest dog around, the parents said it was the way she ran, I think she was mud magnetic!! Anyhoo, one time my farther is cycling home after a bike ride, he’s riding past the church and there is a woman in a very nice white coat with the doors of her very nice jaguar with white leather seats all open. Skye sees the doors open figures it’s time for another walk so runs over bounds all over the interior which is now more brown and white mottled then white and then for god measure jumps on the woman on the way out.

Now for Sam, her son, also very disobedient as a pup. Someones front door is open, so he runs in only to appear a few seconds later with a black Labrador clamped round his bottom so much so his back feet aren’t actually touching the ground! No one was hurt apart from the split sides from almost hysterical laughter at the sight of it.

[babybunsmum]

wow!!! those are some stories! bogart has never totally destroyed anything costly to replace BUT he has gotten into his fair share of trouble. i had a very cool funky retro woven floor mat in my kitchen that i just loved. it was actually from my mom who got it as a gift at her bridal shower. i loved it. i came home once and bogart had eaten half of it. the remainder of it was all torn apart. grrr. i was so so upset. worse yet… the next day pieces of it dangled from his bum hole while he was trying to poo, causing him to twirl to try to ‘get it’, causing chunks of poo to fly about. then i had the oh-so-lovely job of trying to catch him, stop the twirling poo action and pull the strands out. lol. i suppose we were lucky it didn’t tangle inside him.

[ScooterandAnnette]

Dakota hasn’t really destroyed a whole lot. When we first got her we thought we’d do the crate training thing, but she hates being in it. We’ve got a metal cage/crate thing, and whenever she was in it she’s start scratching and biting at whatever she could outside the crate – like the carpeting. So we put it on an old sheet, which ended up ripped to shreds. Aside from that mostly now the only problem is that she likes to steal kleenex and eat it. Which I thought was bad, until talking with someone the other night who mentioned that his dog will eat socks. Apparently the first one cost them $1500 in vet bills, and then they learned how to make the dog throw up after he eats them.

– Annette

[Deleted User]

C’mon, guys! i was really hoping for this really BAD damage someone’s dog did so I can tell my boyfriend that the busted truck window isn’t really so bad!!

A time without dog crates? — Sonn, you’re taking me way back to a time of huge vet bills and home ‘improvement’, a very stressful time. I hate caging animals and even though crates existed, I saw them as a sort of torture instruments… I have since changed my mind, there is a time for crating a dog, the key is to crate TRAIN that dog first so that the crate is not a place of panic and stress.

It’s sort of funny, my male dog loves his crate so much, it is also his refuge from scary things, like thunder or … my cooking…. !! — Now, now: I’m not a bad cook but I’ve burnt a few things and it set off the smoke detector so he associats the sounds of sizzling food with that! So he waits in the crate for my cooking to be finished and then he will come out to get to see if there’s anything for him. You can count on him, I turn on the stove and he moves into the crate…

[Sonn]

Lol all my dogs are crate trained now. I don’t really use them unless I am potty training a new puppy or if I have another destructo dog. Now they just use them as lounging places 2 will actually sleep in their crates Gizmo pictured above and my oldest dog Lucky they love their crates.

Haven is not crate trained though no matter how much you make it a fun place as soon as that door shuts he goes into instant panic mode. He has severe separation anxiety as in if I leave the room he freaks out. Been to behaviorists vets trainers it all and the vet suggested putting him down yeah not gonna happen so I worked my schedule around him and now that I have 7 he is much more calm when I leave.

The brown dog in the picture Ziggy runs when I turn the stove on but that is from him getting hot oil spilled on him when he was a puppy I felt horrible until the hair grew back poor puppy.

[bunnytowne]

Well this isn’t very bad destruction but….

We did crate train Odie our catahoula stray we took in.   She was about 6-8 months old we moved to melbourne…. I had 2 pairs of slippers 1 pink and 1 blue…./. both the same except for the color….

Well I left her out when I went somewhere for a short.. come back she had chewed 1 blue and 1 pink slipper  both opposite sides of my feet…. so I had a pink for the left and a blue for the right…. both the same style just diff colors…. lol…. she also would take stuffed animals and put them in her crate with her…

Spar well she was veeeery destructive… Got her at 2 months and Odie was 4 yrs….     we had our video camera set up on a tripod in the bedroom and someone came to visit so we put them in the bedroom…

They knocked over the video camera adn broke it…..Spar chewed my african violet to shreds along with my big straw gardening hat…

the video camera was the old kind that took the vcr tape…… b4 we got these neat nifty digital stuff….

Ohhh Odie was a digger too…. She is a 65 lb dog and would dig a hole so deep in the backyard all you saw was a tiny bit of her rump and her tail…. then she would sleep in the hole…

[TARM]

Sorry, I’ve had lots of foster dogs come through my house but I’m a strict crate trainer so nothing beyond the occasional shoe has ever been destroyed.

[jerseygirl]

C’mon, guys! i was really hoping for this really BAD damage someone’s dog did so I can tell my boyfriend that the busted truck window isn’t really so bad!!

My Mum’s family dog got in and ate part of her wedding cake the morning of the wedding – does that qualify? mmm, truck window is pretty bad though! Insurance?  

I was reminded of when people and/or animals walk into glass doors. Also of that scene in Marley and Me, when Marley tries jump out car window and they’re holding him back just by his hind end and he’s walking beside the car with his front end!

[(dig)x(me)x(now)]

When I lived in Texas, we had a large American Staffordshire dog named Champ (similar in size and color to pitbulls).
One day I had friends over and we were messing around and I decided to tease my dog and get him all excited. Well, the glass door to the entertainment center that the tv sat on was open at the time. When I got him all riled up, he darted across the room – straight through the glass door on the entertainment center. Glass went flying EVERYWHERE around the room for feet in every direction. My friends and I were cracking up and freaking out at the same time (mind you we were young teens at the time). Champ just stood there stupified like “What the hell just happened?”

That was an interesting story to explain to my parents when they came home to a doorless entertainment center…

[Deleted User]

Thank you Digx!!!

I needed to hear a story like that. 

 

I still love my dogs’ energy!

 

[Deleted User]

Thanks again for all the great stories… I personally think, the gutting of SONN’s box spring is pretty bad, too. Bad dogs!

–bunnytowne, what became of the catahoula? Do you have a photo? There not common here in the north.

[bunnytowne]

Odie?  when Brandons dad and I divorced he kept them…    then he went to his Mom’s and he left them there…. They are familiar with the in laws we used to take them with us there for holidays…   Odie is about 15 yrs now and her hip does bother her…. Spar is about 11 now and she has bad hip too.

Spar follows grandma from room to room….

there is a catahoula website…. Odie was a blue    here is the site

http://www.akc.org/breeds/catahoula_leopard_doghistory.com

http://www.bulldoginformation.com/catahoula-leopard2.html

this last stie the first dog pic is what Odie looked like… She didn’t have any tan on her tho…and her eyes were brown.  These are real real good dogs… Protective smart 

I have chocktaw on my grandfathers side and the native american kept up with this breed… they are registered thru the louisiana catahoula leopard hound    akc doesn’t recognize them as a breed yet…

If I had a choice I would get a catahoula again….

 

[(dig)x(me)x(now)]

petzy, that picture is hilarious! Look at that smug grin on your dog!

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