Dog disasters? Let’s hear the stories.

[jwasbury]

Originally Posted by KC911

LOL at these tales ....

I hafta ask.... just how many times wuz the cat dead already ?

Cat was fully expired upon discovery, though the corpse was in rather good condition.

There was another time where I was letting Nigel play off leash in a park along the banks of the Hudson River/NY Harbor. I was throwing sticks into the water and he would swim after them and fetch. He found a dead seagull, and the corpse was rather decayed. It was a stinky, disintegrating mess...he was really proud of it though. I tried (unsuccessfully) to make him drop it by poking a stick through the corner of his jaw, in an effort to make him gag. He eventually dropped it...thank goodness. I was afraid he would try to eat it.

[GH85Carrera]

Not my dog disaster, but that is a mess.

[LWJ]

Not a disaster. Just funny.

I attended University of Oregon. Where Animal House was filmed. I joined a fraternity, Phi Kappa Psi. Our house was featured in the movie as the big white fraternity next door to the AH. It was in fact, next door.

At the time, late 1980's, the AH was just a ratty old shack with some drunks living in it.

My fraternity had a mascot. A large St. Bernard named Baron. That dog left very large piles of crap. My buddy (later to rise all the way to Lieutenant in the local sheriffs department) had the job of clean up.

He took a shovel and flung the crap over the fence into the AH yard as it was sort of abandoned.

Fast forward to my Junior year. The AH is demolished and a new building is constructed for a women's clinic.

Buddy continues his former disposal method. Over the fence.

A hazard of living next to a fraternity I guess.

[!pse203]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Not my dog disaster, but that is a mess.

That looks awful!

Our Frank ripped his lip open, had stitches. Was home for 3 days and ripped his paw open. More stitches. $2k later in vets bills and he is fine. Cleaning the blood out of my car both times was pretty gross.

[vash]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Not my dog disaster, but that is a mess.

hahhaha...

[flipper35]

We had a yellow lab that would catch all sorts of rodents and bring them to us for a treat. One day my sister was visiting with her golden retriever that had a tendency to eat things it could not keep down and as they were packing to leave our lab brings a ground squirrel and drops it for her treat. To my sisters horror her GR dog decides that would be an awesome treat before the three hour trip home and try as they might, the could not get him to drop it. Unfortunately for this thread, he did make it home before the runs got him.

[gtc]

This was Mr. Bear. He was very territorial. Unless you were his family, you would be wise to stay clear of a) his food bowl and b) his car.
One day while Mr Bear was waiting in the passenger seat, Jeff Higgins thought he would tease Mr Bear a little bit, and got a little too close to the windshield of Mr Bear's car. Mr Bear did not like this, and told Jeff to take a hike (or something to that effect).
And that's the story of how i came to replace my 911's windshield for the first time.

[rfuerst911sc]

Where do I start !

1. When I was a kid we owned a Labrador retriever named Suzan . We were camping at Wesley Island state park which is the last park in NY before the Canada border . I was walking Suzan on the beach of the St. Lawrence seaway when I decide to let her off the leash so she could swim . She spotted a seagull and it was game on ............ she swam to Canada !!! Found her exhausted on the beach on the Canada side they had quite the laugh at border patrol .

2. My wife and I got married and decided to get a dog ....... Pepper the beagle . The bastard ate half our couch along with parts of the zippered cover . After a few days of pain he passed some interesting yard art . The following week he ate part of the matching chair .

3. My parents retired and moved to their retirement home in the Tenn. mountains . Napoleon their Weimaraner was a great dog but major seperation anxiety . They went shopping for aprox. half the day and when they returned to the house Napoleon was sticking half way through the front door . He had chewed and clawed through a solid oak door ! There was blood and wood splinters everywhere .

Good times 😁

[pavulon]

College freshman daughter "always wanted" to walk a dog around campus. Goldendoodle (pretentious mutt but good dog) about 9 months old loaded into small sedan for 2.5 hour trip. Dog seemed restless from the begining. At 1.5 hours a distinct smell of somewhat digested dog food begins permeating the cabin. Yup. Car sick. Windows down for an hour before clean up.

[TimT]

Netflix and chill when I was younger...

My Husky Spike and I fought for household dominance for the 15 years or so that he graced my life with his quirks..

My GF and I finished the horizontal bop, knocking boots etc.

In the inebriated state i was in, I just tugged the raincoat off and apparently dropped on the floor next to the bed..

A few days later Spike the Husky was having a bit of trouble with his bowel movement...the pirouettes he displayed on his hind legs were worthy of the Bolshoi..

He finally passed the condom I wore while banging my then GF

Dogs....

[varmint]

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by TimT

He finally passed the condom I wore while banging my then GF

Dogs....

Ha.

Off topic but related. Back in the 40's my grandfather had his septic system cleaned out. Not sure of the system but they had to pull a big cover off to gain access. A squillion floating condoms he had tied off and flushed down the toilet were proudly displayed.

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I like Reuben. Story about acting ashamed for sunning himself tickled me.

[JavaBrewer]

I grew up (infant) with a GSD. Loved the breed my entire life. Wife and I, with small kids of our own, make the jump for a GSD from a reputable breeder. First 6 months were great, but our boy, Ryker, was dog aggressive and insecure. We spent many $K looking for training and help, most of which was training for us. About 3 years in I am on work travel, and Ryker is sitting in the rain and the wife calls him in the house. He does not move, so she goes out to see whats up and he growls at her. She says F it and calls me to say she is done. We have neighbors with little kids next door and I finally recognized Ryker was policing the fence line, any finger or worse is going to be attacked. I knew then he was outside our control and I could not deal with the liability. He was raised in a loving home, no abuse, but he just wanted to dominate. I/we failed him but I am good with returning him to the breeder who replaced his forever home.

I reached out to them but they have not responded after a year or so. Guessing Ryker did not work for them either. Sucks.

[stealthn]

Not really a disaster but,

When I was young I was walking a family friends beagle in Victoria. It was on cliffs near a beach and the dog stirred a hornets nest and they attacked. Both the dog and I got swarmed, I got bit on my face, arms, inside my mouth, and ran screaming with my eyes closed off the cliff (16ft?) and fell, my Dad heard the screaming and ran to the edge and caught my fall. The dog ran down the side of the cliff (still being stung) and right into the ocean.

My parents saw the dog and immediately put me in the ocean too, within minutes I had no pain whatsoever....

I continue to use salt water to treat all kinds of bites to this day.

True story

[mattdavis11]

Same Rottweiler (Jake) same Chesapeake (Taylor). She's in heat, and is staying inside with a chastity belt on. Well, someone let her out to go and forgot (me) to let her back in. We got a call from the neighbor in the morning saying Taylor was stuck halfway through the wooden fence. She had puppies!

When it was time for the puppies to be adopted, one Saturday afternoon, my brother took the puppies and a picture of Jake with him over to low the rent district, sat on the tailgate in the parking lot of the grocery store, and drank beer until they were all gone. He wasn't there very long.

[Scott Douglas]

I don't have a dog, just wanted to make that clear from the outset here.
My sister-in-law and her hubby do though. They have a 'baby' St. Bernard, Baxter.
He goes about 215#'s these days. He likes to ride in the Mustang John has had since his college days. It's a convertible and Baxter takes up the whole back seat.
One day, while out for a ride, John notices that Baxter has to do his thing. So he stops and puts Baxter on the leash. As soon as he opens the door, Baxter takes off like a bolt of lightning. Said leash is wrapped around John's left hand and fingers, which promptly give way to the fast exiting dog's pull.
A couple of surgeries later, John is on the mend.
At least he was still able to hold his beer.

[masraum]

Mini dachshund got to a partial box of chocolate, chocolate chip cookies.

Have you ever tried to pour hydrogen peroxide down a dog's throat when the dog didn't want it? It's not easy. But they do eventually barf up whatever is in their stomache.

We had 2 dogs, a mutt that looked kind of like a stocky GSD puppie (short and 35#) and the mini-dachshund (11#). The bigger dog liked to chase squirrels. I think she caught one once and killed it. I went to check on them in the back yard after they'd been out there a while. Both were just hanging out doing their thing. Mini-dachsund was chewing something (usually that'd be a stick), but I felt the need to check this time. When I got out there, I noticed that what he was chewing was the dead squirrel's head (still attached to the rest of the squirrel). I could see brain and bone getting squished out of the squirrels mouth. It was like when they de-stuffed a toy, but juicier.

[GH85Carrera]

Once again with our dog Reuben, 9:30 at night in the early spring, it is dark outside. We hear lots of barking from Reuben at something. He had a skunk trapped behind the trash can. He got a good dose of stinky spray. So at 9:40 I head to Target to get some hydrogen peroxide and baking powder. Wandering through a store trying to find two products in different areas is no fun. I get out of there just before the close. Head home and we give Reuben a bath in the skunk stink neutralizing concoction and it works pretty well.

A few months later, he gets nailed by a skunk in the face. We had the ingredients to make the concoction on hand this time. He got a bigger dose of spray and it took several tries to de-stink him.

We called a skunk trapper and we had seen the skunk burrow in the neighborhood association common area. The HOA is paying for trapper. So far he has caught the mother, and one young skunk. The traps are still up and hopefully they will all go away.

[Scott Douglas]

When I worked on a vineyard in Mendocino County way back when, I lived in a renovated old house that had been put on a foundation. Our dog (black lab) caught a skunk under the house. Skunk shot off a really good dose of spray, luckily missing the dog that time. House smelled for a good two weeks after that. Funny how your nose never really gets used to that smell no matter how long it's around.
The next time Toby got sprayed he just sat outside in the backyard with the most pitiful look on his face as he'd gotten it right in the face. His poor nose must have really been hurting with that shot.