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Dog disasters? Let’s hear the stories.
Tonight. Finished my dinner of kimchee fried rice. Feed my dog his kibble. And watch him eat. Pick up his bowl to put into dishwasher. Dog goes outside to either graze for food bits that i scattered while wok-tossing the rice or to poop. He goes thru a dog door.
I pop a beer. Dog comes diving thru the dog door fast. Like a bee just stung his butt. Nope. He had eaten a string and the string was still hanging out of him with the biggest DINGLE-BERRY I’ve ever seen at the end. He thinks something is chasing him. He keeps trying to sit down or shake it off. It was like a tiny poop demolishing ball swinging around. I dive on him and my wife leads him to the back yard where he finishes his business. Leaving me inside to survey the damage. Wow. Just wow. Out comes Clorox wipes. The rug? I drag it outside and lather it up with a stiff-brush and hosed it off. It’s drying on overturned ladders to maintain air circulation on both side. Tomorrow Is a hot day. It should dry quickly. Showered. And a fresh beer. Dogs! Love them! Haha. Let’s hear the fun stories. ![]()
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Had coffee with a friend yesterday at a sidewalk cafe. Saw a pit bull and this little dog both got loose from the owner and went at it. It lasted about 2 seconds. Pit had this thing in his mouth shaking it like a rag doll. It tore its stomach open with guts and ribs hanging out. People were beating the crap out of the Pit and he didn't want to let go. Its was pretty bad.
I am not sure how or what to feel? I am terrified of dogs, big or small, doesn't matter. They all want to rip me a new one. Thank you, I am a big wuss. |
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Got home from Greece and picked up the puppy. The GF had bought a huge round block of cheese back in the open suitcase left on the bed. We all went outside on the porch for a while. Someone went missing very quietly. Ended up with a very happy dog and half a block of cheese.
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Our now departed parti-poodle had a taste for, ahem, ladies soiled underclothes. Especially when he was young he built up a pretty good record of damage. He had a particular taste for Agent Provocateur I recall.
Walking in the back yard I see some shredded lace. Yup, he did it again. I go to pick it up and there's a huge dingle-ball swinging from it. This wasn't just something he picked up and destroyed - it had been through the system.
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I was about 10 years old, doing my paper route in the afternoon. All of a sudden, two doberman pincers attacked a customers cat right as I was throwing the paper. The dogs were roaming the hood, obviously had gotten loose.
That was the hardest phone call to make, but I had to let them know why kitty kitty isn't coming back for dinner tonight because it was dinner.
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Vash, I am sure you were not laughing at the time, but dang that is a funny story. Come visit this thread a year from now. You will see the humor.
I think it was Will Rogers that said something like falling down on icy sidewalks is funny, as long as it happens to someone else. Glad it is all cleaned up.
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We had a Rottweiler that loved roman candles. He went nuts over them. He'd play center field and come back to the patio exhaling smoke! One of his play pals, a Chesapeake, would always wander off with the food bowls. They would be all over the yard, all 4 bowls. Every night, open the door at feeding time, say fetch'em up, and she would get em and stack em. We didn't even have to go outside.
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Few years back we fostered a dog with a number of issues.
Has separation anxiety. Was destructive when left alone - even for a minute. Exhibited resource guarding and tried to dominate the kids. The usual for a male dog that was untrained, unneutered and given up at about age 2. There’s likely $10k of remediation to various pieces of furniture and other woodwork in the house that needs to be undertaken still. Not counting what we replaced. Final straw was when he jumped out of the car on the way for a walk. Still not sure how the leash fastening him came undone, but I wasn’t there. Ran across the road to see the neighbor dog and they ended up in a fight. Neighbor dog was dog aggressive and they left both the door and the gate to their fenced yard open so the two met in their driveway. About a k later in vet bills for their dog and a couple of c notes for this one it’s ok. Rescue found a permanent home for it. Saw some pictures of the destruction in their house, but they don’t seem to care. I’m talking drywall eaten through, chewed steps, furniture, all sorts. We have our own - another rescue we took as a puppy. He’s far better adjusted. |
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LOL...I can't top vash dawgy tales
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No longer have a dust ruffle around the bottom of the couch.
Rodents and snakes were vacant from the back yard until late one evening golden was sitting about 10 ft from a great horned owl on the post of the stockade fence. She would make noises that were the same tone as the owl, then it would hoot back. Went back and fouth several times. For a couple of months the golden quit asking to get out to chase stuff in the yard. Now she just chases them off, doen't catch and shake and try to bring leftovers in.
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We learned that dogs can pick up a parasite from wildlife, which gives them uncontrollable diarrhea. Found this out the hard (and expensive) way. 36hrs in a Pet ER and a month of a boiled chicken diet.
The silver lining is that our dog apparently LOVES boiled chicken.
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I’m walking Nigel (90lbs Rottie Mutt) and Sophie (60lbs Heinz 57) along a busy roadway in Downtown Jersey City, NJ. The sidewalk there is narrow, right alongside the curbing, so I am paying close attention to the gutter because Nigel is a ninja at scarfing up food bits people have tossed on the ground. I’m worried he’ll jump right into traffic for a chicken bone, and thus fail to notice on the opposite side of the walkway from the road there is a dead cat...victim of the busy roadway. Nigel uses his ninja skills and efficiently grabs the dead cat in his jaws. I start yelling at him “No” “Drop It!” and tugging hard on his lead. Nigel thinks its a big game and is enjoying this new toy he’s discovered...he’s prancing around with it, giving it the “rat shake” all while I’m yelling my head off at him, and trying to keep from getting tangled up in dog leads. So it’s a proper ‘scene’ and right on the other side of the roadway is a popular pancake restaurant, it’s Sunday morning, and the flapjack joint has people lined up out the door, watching the spectacle. A woman in line sees what Nigel is playing with, freaks out and comes running at as from across the road yelling “Oh my God!”
I yell back “Lady, this cat was already dead! I swear!” I did finally get Nigel to drop it moments later...then I cursed him out. Nigel was an ********* sometimes, but I love him (RIP buddy) |
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My daily doody is to find and toss two piles of poop back into the woods behind my fence. If I don't, the golden from next door will munch down the treats when she visits.... why do they do that?
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This is Reuben. He is my early warning critter detector. He will start circling the storage shed on the hunt for any living critter. He thinks mice are tasty snacks and saves me a disposal effort. He is smart enough to know this rat snake (AKA the right angle snake) was more than he wanted to tackle on his own, so he just barked at it. We locked our dogs out of the yard and the snake moved on with no further prompting. Reuben has been sprayed by a skunk twice last year. Right now we have a skunk trapper in the neighborhood with traps set. We checked one trap and it has caught something so the trapper has been called to find out what is caught. For some reason I just don't feel like checking it real close, I will let the pro do his job without my help.
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