8 months and the damage is Piling UP :)

[xJazerx]

Oops i missed one thing. For some reason, dog beds arent safe with dante. Hes killed 3 or 4. If i recall correctly however, they were all destroyed out of boredom while he was gated in his hallway when we were out. Its odd though because he still has most of his toys that we got for him before we even brought him home. Small little stuffed toys. Lol. Fortunately hes not too destructive, and he just has a bunch of blankets in his crate instead of dog beds now, .

 

[RockyCody]

Yowzers!

Rocky never destroyed anything bad...I think maybe one dog bed when he was like 6 months old while I was in the shower. THa'ts it.

He was crated when we were gone up until he was 1.5 now he gets full run of the house and he sleeps on our bed all day.

I would suggest crating if you don't want to keep dishing out money to replace all of the damaged items!! Not to mention to keep your dog safe. If he eats something and it doesn't come out - that's thousands of dollars in testing and surgery to keep him alive!

 

[SlyR]

Our house is on lockdown...haha...we have safety clips on the cabinets with the cleaners and stuff. we dont need to crate him cause my wife works from home...but he spends the day annoying her (cause he does get bored i imagine and wants to play). Just recently he has been scratching and being vocal at 1 of our front windows cause he just recently noticed a couple of cats hanging outside in our front yard....he is so funny.

 

[GDOGS1]

WOW !!!!! I cant believe how lucky we have been with GDOGS as the only thing he tore up was a dog bed and some clothes.I really feel sorry for all you people that have a extra long list of damages.but like many of you when it came time to punish GDOGS it was extremley hard to do with him looking up at me with those big brown eyes.

 

[Ileana]

Brings back memories...

Our former girl, Lara, got her name from eating all but the hardcover of "Dr Zhivago" in her first 10 minutes in the house, while I was in the bathroom.

Oh well... from there the list went on, and on,and on... culminating with an entire sectional sofa ripped to shreds. What made it worse was that at the time I was renting a furnished apartment... I still recall the explaining I had to do, and how we had to literally reconstruct the darn thing, cause it had been a special order, very dear to the landlord's heart, hence irreplaceable, etc.,etc. Ugh...

But we learned something, and now our 13 month old pup Gracie can be trusted with couches, remotes and high heel shoes, regardless of their price.

What we've learned can be summarized as follows:
- no crate

- access to the front door of the house and the door to the garage. I cannot stress enough how important it is for dogs to be able to execute their primary mission in life - guarding the house. If they're kept from getting to the doors, they become overly anxious.

- hard rubber toys, no squeakies... All my diogs were made anxious by squeaky toys. She has a blast with some 20 tennis balls scattered around, and some hard rubber toys from jollypets - the monster ball and monster mouth. Loves those...

- every week a new real cow bone (femur section), raw, unflavored and boiled and left with her to chew at will. She'll get the marrow out in a day or so, then she'll work on ligament ends for another week, then... new bone! I get the bones at 50 cents each - waaaay cheaper than a couch!

With this treatment Gracie has been a sweetheart and has done no damage, although she has the livingroom, kitchen, and hallways to herself when we're away.

Good luck!

PS - I'm almost thinking of creating a picture collection re: doggie damage... we have tons of pictures of Lara's work!

 

[elgerdes]

Zoe isn't that bad, but she is a stinker.

Any toy that is stuffed, she feels the need to de-stuff it. I have thrown away sooo much stuffing lately! The problem is, Macy (our bulldog) loves stuffed toys. So Zoe ruins all of Macy's toys!

She did chew a little bit on the leather ottoman, has chewed off the tassels on the SIL furry boots and in the car she chewed up an instruction manual of some sort, along with a parking pass that was hanging from the rearview mirror. Overall, not a whole lot of damage from our pup.

 

[Roge]

GEEZ I must have a saint, the only damage Roge has done is destroy a sunlounger when he was a pup I thourght he was just snoozing on the deck until I saw all this white stuff blowing around in the breeze , he lay under it and attacked it from the bottom.

I must go and tell him now what a good boy he is !!!!!

 

[chrystel]

I think I have been lucky too! phew!

Well..

Snatch did
1 plant
1 table leg
1 shelf of books

Oxford did
3 caps (my husband learned VERY quickly to put his hats away!)
... that's it!

Oxford had a year where he would destroy his bed each time we packed our luggage for holidays - which i would consider it as stress, not anything else..

We are lucky as i work part time and DH always comes home for lunch. so the dogs are usually alone 3hr in the morning and 4 to 5 hours in the afternoon max.

At first they use to love taking our bed apart - no destruction - but we would find out pillows on the couch, our comforter in a dog bed, sheet everywhere accross the apartment thank goodness they stopped that pretty fast!

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[Roge]

I think I have been lucky too! phew!

Well..

Snatch did
1 plant
1 table leg
1 shelf of books

Oxford did
3 caps (my husband learned VERY quickly to put his hats away!)
... that's it!

Oxford had a year where he would destroy his bed each time we packed our luggage for holidays - which i would consider it as stress, not anything else..

We are lucky as i work part time and DH always comes home for lunch. so the dogs are usually alone 3hr in the morning and 4 to 5 hours in the afternoon max.

At first they use to love taking our bed apart - no destruction - but we would find out pillows on the couch, our comforter in a dog bed, sheet everywhere accross the apartment thank goodness they stopped that pretty fast!

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Funny you sould say that about Oxford acting up when you would pack your luggage, my sisters Lab used to hide when hed see them packing and I now know it was because he didnt like the bording kennel they used, I found out a few years ago that they were locked up for duration of their stay, she now uses the same one as me where they get walked twice a day and have playtime.How I know they get play time is that Roge has an obsession with the water hose( which the kennel owner didnt know about) and will try to bite the water coming out so when my son went to collect him after a holiday the owner told him that he never had such fun with a hose they used to play catch the water every day.

 

[TyTysmom]

I didn't think Tyson was that bad until I started thinking about it; here's the list of things I remember:

1 dog bed
countless rolls of toilet paper
package of maxi pads
many, many dog toys
2 blankets (used as bedding in his crate)
2 bath towels (also used as bedding in his crate)
plastic tray to a dog crate (in his defense it was a crappy crate that his previous owners' found along side a curb), he now has a sturdy crate that is pretty much boxer proof. LOL

He's going to be 3 years old tomorrow and hasn't torn anything up in almost a year!