What's the worst thing your dog has done?

GSP 4 me · Post by **GSP 4 me** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:34 pm

I was over my parent's house the other day and we were reminiscing about the family dog (a German Shepherd mix) we had during my childhood. I brought up the story of the time my mom was preparing dinner and frying up some breaded veal which was left on the dinner table and quickly gobbled up by the dog when she turned her back. My mom looked at me and chuckled….she only wished it was veal. Apparently, my memory was a bit distorted. The dog actually ate a plate full of stacked fried abalone! OUCH!!!!! This delicacy typically goes for about $60 a pound wholesale and I’m sure the dog went through a whole lot more than just a pound that night.

Fast forward to last summer and my own dog pulled a beauty of his own. I left my dog at my in-laws on my way to work one day. He had plenty of room to roam in their large backyard but he still found a unique way to entertain himself while I was at work.

I came to pick up the dog later that evening and all seemed normal except for some little pieces of vinyl I found on the ground behind the house. I decided to sweep up the unusual mess and started to notice larger pieces on the ground as I got closer to my father-in-law’s 1977 Porsche. I looked up at the car and in a moment of horror my jaw dropped and all the wind in my chest was expelled.

His car looked like a stove top jiffy pop that had burst its contents. Apparently, my dog had climbed on top of his Porsche, chewed through the car cover, and then tore the targa top vinyl to shreds. I was speechless!

$419 dollars later, the top was repaired. The cost could have been a lot worse but someone replaced the top once before and repaired it on the cheap so I had the repair work replicated.

I guess my GSP doesn’t care for cars from Germany. :roll:

So what naughty thing has your dog done???

Saggaswild · Post by **Saggaswild** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 12:10 am

I went away for the weekend while my pup was still being potty trained. I had him blocked in the kitchen---well he decided to pick at the lanoleom floor and by the time he was done he had ripped up half the floor. Plus my older dog decided to have diahrea from one end of the house to the other. Needless to say my house sitter has never stayed at my house again to watch the dogs. I dont understand why!!! YIKES

beachgsp · Post by **beachgsp** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:29 am

um lets see...this all happened in the same week!
chewed one of my filson game bags.
chewed girl friends coach purse
diarrhea down the hall for about seven feet! even was able to get it on the wall(s) and base boards!

I was close to a serious melt down. She did it on purpose too! I swear.

RuttCrazed · Post by **RuttCrazed** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:42 am

When my older dog was just a pup, I had here in the unfinished basement until I got my fence installed. We had just moved in and had all our boxes on one side of the basement and then I fenced the dog off from that with some chicken wire so she could roam the rest of the basement. I got home from work one day, opened the door and saw a bunch of little white beads all over the floor, I couldn't figure out what they were and the chicken wire was still in place. I looked around and found some lace on the ground, still no clue?? I called my wife over to see if she could figure it out. It didn't take her long to see that the pieces of bead and lace were the remanents of her wedding vail! Apparently the 2 month old pup had squeezed under the chicken wire, bypassed all my leather boots, baseball gloves, hunting attire and dug into a box to get to my wife's vail. This was my wife's first dog and I was very suprised it wasn't her last!

Rut

Post by **Greg Jennings** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:53 am

Killed a skunk and chased me down with it trying to retrieve it to me...

Phew!

Greg J.

phermes1 · Post by **phermes1** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:07 am

My wife left her nice leather jacket on top of Buffy's crate - Buffy got ahold of a corner of it, pulled most of it through the grates and absolutely destroyed it beyond repair.

Before we were married, my wife and her roommate put up a Christmas tree in their house. Her roommate had an ornament made out of a dog biscuit - and put it on the bottom branch. Of course, Ginger promptly ate it. Ooh, her roommate was MAD. That was probably the funniest - how can you possible blame a dog for doing that??

And several years ago, she had a baseball given to her by her grandfather signed by the entire Phillies team, I think from the 70's. Either Shooter or Ginger got ahold of it and mauled it. That was probably the worst.

Before my wife adopted him, Magic was being shown by his original owner's friend, who left him in her Cadillac for a few minutes at a dog show. He proceeded to eat most of the dashboard. Oops.

Ruffshooter · Post by **Ruffshooter** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:33 am

Latest, Puppy Ceirra ate my favorite Cabelas hat have had it for eight years, there is a big C taken out of it.
Recently: The old dog Dexter ripped up my comforter on the bed because I left him home. I should have Known. He gets testy when I leave him home.
Couple weeks ago Stella ate my dinner off the table when I went to visit the magazine rack. Stella is timid but not when it comes to food.
Buster That little jerk just likes pissing on his house and in the garage part of the kennel, all the time, he is a pig.

Mercy, is in heat and is teasing all the boys. Tramp.

dog dr · Post by **dog dr** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:59 am

i am a little hesitant to post this, because most of the posts have been pretty lighthearted stuff. BUT, since you asked. the worst thing my dog ever did was bite my daughter. in the face. if you have never helped hold down your 2 yr old for stitches, believe me you dont want to. i was 100% ready to go home and euthanize him, right there on the spot. i had no doubts at all that it was the right thing to do, and then my wife talked me out of it. surprised the heck out of me because she doesnt even particularly care for the dog. but, my daughter doesnt even know it happened, the dog has never even looked at her or anybody else crossways since, and he is a good hunter. i came to the conclusion that she must have grabbed him in the wrong spot when we werent looking. we are more cautious now. learned a hard lesson.

markj · Post by **markj** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:52 am

I was dog sitting for a neice once, the kids upstairs decided to tease the dogs by talking thru the vents, the dogs almost tore thru a wall trying to get at those kids. I told their Dad he said my dogs better not hurt his kids. I moved away from that stupid fellow.

These were hunting Pit Bulls we used on wild pigs

very powerful long legged fast running pits. Had one catch a deer once, it was summer tho.

gsp-fan · Post by **gsp-fan** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:09 am

My mother-in-law (ex now) sent X-Mas presents and failed to tell us one had dog bones in it. Put all the presents under the tree and came home later to chewed open gifts. The dog finally found the box of bones - ate the whole box then puked them up.

Another dog would get made when you left her so again at X-Mas she would chew up X-Mas decorations - now I have quite a few Physically handicap decorations.

One would pull out all the plants she did not like and bring them in the house thru the doggy door.

The dripper systems were always fair game.

One was in the bathroom with a baby gate and she managed to turn the tub on - luckly it wasn't on hard and I came home just in time before it started going over the top.

That is just a few that my little characters have gotten into

bean1031 · Post by **bean1031** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 7:26 pm

My pup has gone through 3 dog beds In less than a year and a half. When me and my Dad went camping with the boy scouts, my sister thought that she could sleep in and a 5 month old pup could hold it for 12 hours. She crapped all over the kennel, and when my sister came to let her out, cash bolted across the house sending poo every where!

edondero · Post by **edondero** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:42 pm

i was sitting on the floor of a crowded living room on christmas morning, we were just about through opening presents when Lacey came in and licked my face. Her breath was delightfully scented, after a minute it came to me. Her breath was sweet and spicey, like cinnamon and nutmeg. I excused myself from the family to go to the kitchen, there lay the empty pie plate. She had eatten the pumpkin pie from the center out, brought by the inlaws all the way from Oklahoma to NC. My mother and I laughed so hard while trying not to make a sound and alert everyone. We considered a switch-a-roo but luckily the inlaws had a good sense of humor about it. That was Lacey's first Christmas.

Breton13 · Post by **Breton13** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:08 pm

Penny was chasing the cat, around the coffee table, over the couch around the chair and knocked down my laptop. The laptop was plugged in, and when it fell, it fell on its "back" on the plug and broke the board inside to pieces.... Other than that it's just been puppy stuff (socks etc) and one ink-pen on my livingroom rug. The cats are actually alot more destructive...

gwgdog66 · Post by **gwgdog66** » Thu Feb 07, 2008 11:59 pm

I was visiting my mom and brother during the Christmas holidays. Me and my brother went out deer hunting, and left Wiggles at my Mom's. Wiggles kept jumping the fence to visit the neighbors dogs. Well mom put Wiggles in the house while she goes to church. We get backback to her house before she does. Wiggles had knocked over the christmas tree, was on the kitchen table tearing up the window blinds. We cleaned up the house, put the tree back up, and replaced the blind before my mom gets back. She looks under the kitchen table, and spots the new straw cowboy hat she had bought for my brother with the top chewed out of it. Needless to say she was PO'd. My brother got a good laugh out of it. I think he still has it.

GSP_in_Maine · Post by **GSP_in_Maine** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 7:42 am

The list is endless....

My wife and I were home celebrating an anniversary. Bought a couple of expensive steaks and the were cooking on the grill outside. Went indoors to grab a plate - came back and my lab had no wiskers or facial hair, but he did enjoy those steaks. This was when wife and I were young and broke so that one stung a bit.

Same lab killed (well almost killed) and brought a baby porcupine into the house one night to let us view his sweet prize. Dropped the half dead animal in my wife's lap. That was a fun evening. The half dead part was the kicker when that darn thing was tearing around the living room with the lab close behind - QUILLS EVERYWHERE!!!

New GSP pup has chewed a hole in my son's favorite blanket, chewed the power cord off my son's new Wii, and has eaten countless slippers from my wife's collection. Thankfully he hasn't chewed any of my junk yet.

mountaindogs · Post by **mountaindogs** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:27 am

Dog Dr, That would be a tough call.

Much lighter for sure, but my lab chewed a piebald deer skin that had been my husband's first deer. It had been a doe, so he had it professionally tanned. Mabel thought it was very tasty after she pulled it off the wall. The cat is much worse. She has destroyed a wood duck mount. The FIRST time I put it all back together, rearranged the feathers and it looked nearly as good as new. Never noticed, then she did it again and ate some of it, so I did not have enough feathers, and breast patch was totally missing. I had to fess up. She is still alive, but less loved by that family member. The two turkey fans she destroyed have not helped either. :roll:

Many of these detructive things, are the things that make some owners get rid of their dogs, they are not prepared and don't have the patience and warped humer perhaps. I think I might put a link to this on my website.

"If you don't think you and your dog could live through this - then this breed, and in fact many breeds, may not be for you..."

SD Pheasant Slayer · Post by **SD Pheasant Slayer** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:32 am

Warning: Not for the soft stomached

When my GSP went through her first heat cycle, my mother decided to fashion a homemade diaper by cutting a tail hole in a standard pull-up diaper for kids. Haley has always been really good about going to the door to scratch when she needs out so my mom just assumed she'd be fine and take the diaper off before she sent her outside. Well, for whatever reason, Haley decided the diaper could just serve the purpose on her that it was intended to do on children. She FILLED it to the brim and came walking down the stairs to my mom who was cooking in the kitchen. My mom smelled it immediately and turned in horror to see a bulging diaper oozing from the sides. She headed toward's the door to take it off outside. About midway from the dinner table to the door Haley decided that poop filled diaper was quite itchy and stopped to "shake" that itch away. Needless to say... the poop logged diaper slipped down and dog feces went EVERYWHERE! It looked like a terd grenade went off in the kitchen. Everything within 20 feet was covered - no exaggeration! I walked in the house approximately 10 seconds after the "shake" and my mother was still standing there in disbelief that this had just happened. I kinda felt bad for my girl, wasn't her fault mom made her wear that thing.

Haley also managed to chew through the cords of 4 Xbox controllers that were left lying out one night, and chew the buttons off another wireless XBOX 360 controller and a remote.

Bird Dog 67 · Post by **Bird Dog 67** » Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:49 am

Dusty my weim at about 4 months old, had been crate trained and I wanted him to start getting used to behaving out of the crate, went to work one morning, left him out in the bedroom, 1/2 of a window sill..........................gone.

IANative · Post by **IANative** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:01 am

Had a lab once that dropped a banded woody drake halfway back to the blind in favor of a hen that'd just hit the water to the side of her. The drake was a cripple, and I couldn't finish him off for fear of hitting the dog. We were hunting a big bend in a flooded creek, and that woody managed to get into the brush at the edge and was never seen again. I was sick.

Needless to mention the training emphasis during the next off-season...

stlgsp · Post by **stlgsp** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:43 pm

We had a lab bite my son when he was 9, pulled two of his permant teeth out, stitches in his nose and chin. She was injured at the time and he leaned over on her bad leg. She was mainly his dog and he wouldn't let us put her down. After that incident she was his best buddy and protector.

Had two labs drag a 12 pack of beer into the living room while we were out and pop every can. The house smelled like a brewery even after several shampoos. The dogs slept good that night though.

This is just a short list of victims from the Labs a GSP and a Vizsla - photo albums, shoes, books, tv remotes, eye glasses, chest of drawers, sofa.
And then there was the time the GSP made confetti of three one hundred dollar bills.

CBRenthusiast · Post by **CBRenthusiast** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:22 am

We had a large Golden named Simba after his mane, who was a huge thief. He'd run around the neighbourhood(in the country) and steal all the kids sleighs and gt's in the winter. Bring them back home and run out to get more. He stole so many tools from neighbours ie wrenches hammers large sockets etc. any visitors shoe that was left unprotected would disapear. Once he performed a running swipe and stole a hammer from a neighbour while he was using it and ran like the wind back home. I miss that dog he was too comical

1vizsla · Post by **1vizsla** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:14 pm

Oh gosh, where to start...the couch, the bed mattress, shoes, socks, underwear,conforters, pillows, you name it Dyson has eaten it. We joke that if you come to my house bring your own chair.

Carla

CBRenthusiast · Post by **CBRenthusiast** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:39 pm

Oh I forgot...my gf's lab came with us to a camp that was down the road from mine. We are all standing around the fire and he comes from out of nowhere and lifts his leg while standing behind her. She had baggy jogging pants on and didnt feel him urinating on her leg. I watched it take place but was laughing too hard to actually warn her. I had to stand guard by him to make sure he didnt get in trouble, he was innocently marking his mother for the other male dogs...I think if he marks mommy again though I wont be able to save him

utahmomof4 · Post by **utahmomof4** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:52 am

CBRenthusiast wrote:Oh I forgot...my gf's lab came with us to a camp that was down the road from mine. We are all standing around the fire and he comes from out of nowhere and lifts his leg while standing behind her. She had baggy jogging pants on and didnt feel him urinating on her leg. I watched it take place but was laughing too hard to actually warn her. I had to stand guard by him to make sure he didnt get in trouble, he was innocently marking his mother for the other male dogs...I think if he marks mommy again though I wont be able to save him

My husband's dog did that to me a few years ago, too. Only there weren't any other dogs around to prove a point to. I felt it right away - I suddenly felt a warm, wet sensation on my lower leg and looked down and saw the dog there with his leg lifted. It took me a second or two to process what was happening.

Disgusting!!!

GSP 4 me · Post by **GSP 4 me** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:35 am

utahmomof4,

The dog probably thought you were stung by a Jellyfish and was just trying to help you out.

mikeyair · Post by **mikeyair** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:08 pm

my 3 year old gsp pulled one of my duck mounts off the wall while we were gone and destroyed it as far as dollar amount i think it cost $300 to have it mounted but unfortunetly it was my first and thus far only banded bird i had shot so the sentimental value is priceless. its a good thing my fiance got her out of the house befor i got to my gun and amo because i was dead set on killing her at the time mainly because i didnt see the band and i was set to get itback one way or another. but after i calmed down and found the band under the couch i have forgiven her. also after i looked at the paper work she destroyed it 8years to the day from when i shot it

mikeyair · Post by **mikeyair** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:27 pm

thats funny reminds me of a pit bull i had as a kid i knew he had to go out but i was laying on the floor ignoring him untill he came over cocked his leg and pissed on me.

AnnaBella · Post by **AnnaBella** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 12:39 am

Chewing on a entire brand new set of kitchen furniture.

alaskantruck · Post by **alaskantruck** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 1:36 pm

My wife is a Type I, insulin dependant diabetic and is on a insulin pump, which she removes when she showers and leaves on top of the bathroom vanity. Upon exiting the shower she could not find her pump. Hearing a crunching noise in the living room, she found our 10 month old GSP chewing on the pump to the point it was destroyed. Since the cost of these pumps are in excess of $6,000, needless to say when I received the call from my wife at the office, she was ready to get rid of me and our pup.

I am happy to report that thru a very understanding pump manufacture; Medatronics and our insurance company, we had no out of pocket expenses to replace the pump with a new and updated model. That was over two years ago and both the pup and I still have our happy home,

Trekmoor · Post by **Trekmoor** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:39 pm

Among many, many other things my present pup has chewed , his worst was my false teeth !!! I had to go to my daughters wedding toothless, the wedding photos are a source of family laughter. I didn't laugh when I found that new ones were going to cost me £700, think that's about $1200 !!!

Bill T.

Vman · Post by **Vman** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:12 pm

While it was not my dog, it was a customers dog, he ate my hearing aids to the tune of $6,000. Glad I had Insurance that didn`t cover them.

gGla

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gar-dog · Post by **gar-dog** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:30 pm

Chewing the bottom up of a $2,500 Ethan Allen sideboard in the dining room.