What has your dog used as a chew toy that really made you upset?

Question

My dogs, despite having expensive Kongs, pork twisties (at $10.00 a bag!!) and other toys, have chewed:

The insoles out of my slippers.

Chapstick.

Lipstick.

A cell phone charger.

Blankets on the bed.

Mind you, the lipstick, Chapstick and cell phone charger were all left on the bedroom floor of the resident slob here and were not my doing.

The youngest one is the worse culprit...I read they kind of grow out of this after three.

My friend's 2 y/o pit bull ate all of their solar lights, their driveway markers, chewed the siding on the house and chewed the stump where they cut the tree down, even though he has Kongs, etc.

I think this is the worse: this woman's dog ate her couch http://dandelionarts.com/blog/postwarcouch-thumb.jpg

Answer 1

My wedding shoes! Yes, about a month before my wedding, my dog somehow got into my closet, into the shoebox, into the bag that the shoes were in, and chewed them to bits. Luckily, they weren't hard to find another pair.

Oh, and our engagement photos. On Christmas day! Oh, the things that boy has chewed...

Answer 2

The faceplate to my $500 car stereo... the passenger side head rest, the rear armrest, numerous doors, floors, and walls.. c/o Chansey the pit bull

Wood work on the windowsill and banister in a 1700's apartment.. also part of the wall eaten away.. c/o Kairi the Great Dane

Pine cones and sticks.. c/o Zephyr, the pit bull.

Oh, and all 3 have been caught chewing on the bed frame, and Chansey has killed A LOT of stuffed animals, as well as several other stuffed items.

Answer 3

Your dogs is a year previous so he has his grownup enamel. you are going to could perform a little education. there is no way around it. Your dogs would not understand what he can and would possibly not chew. you may tutor him. changing issues he's gotten with something he's permitted to have is a great thank you to tutor him. save each and every thing you do not opt for him to have up and out of his attain (evaluate the reality that he can upward push on 2 legs to realize something too). save what you may in a separate room and save him from that room. save him with you in any respect circumstances. Leash him to you once you're homestead so which you recognize whilst he's entering into something he isn't allowed and examine crate education, and crate him once you're actually not homestead. you may not get mad at your dogs for having issues he isn't allowed to have. you besides could can not anticipate him to immediately understand the adaptation between what's toys and what's your stuff. greater beneficial excerise can help besides. A drained dogs is a nicely behaved, non-bored, chuffed dogs.

Answer 4

Many many expensive high heels! The most expensive were: a $200 dollar pair of heels and another $200 pair of boots. Obviously it is my fault for leaving them out or for naively believing that if I put them on top of a cupboard they won't be able to reach it.

It's funny that she only goes for nice and expensive heels coz I can leave thongs and sneakers around with absolutely no problems at all. I guess she has good taste :)

Though it is a bit annoying that she will only chew one of the pair but now if I can, I just paint over the chews bits and still wear them!! LOL!!

Answer 5

When my female lab was a puppy, she used our trestle dining room table as a teething ring of sorts. Ate right through it and a leg on one of the chairs before we realized it.

She will eat anything on the ground or left unattended if you let her. I saw a piece of yarn hanging out of her mouth once and started pulling...and pulling, and pulling...she had almost a quarter of a small ball of yarn swallowed. I still don't know from where. Crazy thing. Our male lab mix is only 6 months older than she is and we have never had to worry about him like this.

Answer 6

As a professional dog trainer for over 16 years, I have to tell you my strong opinion that you need these group classes for obedience training. http://OnlineDogTraining.enle.info/?5s21

Other pet warehouses are there to get you to buy their products and hang around their strore. And their trainers are their employees...never forget they have an agenda. Most of the trainers have very little education--if they had actual training and skills they wouldn't be there making just over minimum wage--trust me on this. But even if they did have experience and talent...a group setting is a terrible place for learning to take place. It's distraction training and it is the LAST phase of training not the first. You wouldn't have your child try to do their homework in a toy store, would you? Of course not...the level of distraction would be too high! It's the same with dogs. Having said that, these classes can be an excellent way to socialize dogs...but not to train them. And while they appear to be cheaper than a professional trainer...you have to attend many more sessions to get the same results because of the poor learning environment--so you wind up spending MORE money for less training than you would with a professional. Save your money and go to someone who actually knows how to train dogs. OR, read books and try to train your dog yourself. There is nothing they train at a Petsmart or Petco that you can't do yourself with a couple of hours of reading.

Answer 7

dogs chew because of anxiety and boredom. mine has chewed:
cell phone
almost 70.00 and had to tape all those pieces back together.
tv remotes (5 all together at 50.00 each)
queen size bed frame
tie out cable
pvc pipes
but if you want the best most inexpensive chew toy you could ever buy, it is.....................a 2 liter soda bottle. after i gave them that, they never chewed anything of value again. u would think the batteries would give them a little zap and they would never touch it again wouldn't you.

Answer 8

My youngest dog is now 18months and he love to chew my hose (not cheap to replace) and pull my cloths of the line - i was lovin' that i had holes in all my cloths. If i don't watch them they chew up there dog beds (cushions), boxes of tissues, they empty the bin really quick so it's generally placed up high

Answer 9

all of My reticulation is now ripped up from my little ANGEL, he is a 9month old pure bred german shepherd ( not that i think breed matters) other things he has chewed up are rear passenger seatbelt in my car, shoes, solanoids in the garden, hose ( he pulled tthe hose reel right off the wall actually then attacked the hose), his beds .. and im sure ill find sumthing else when i get home tonight :-)

Answer 10

A remote remote control for my TV that cost me $75 to replace because I had to order it from Toshiba. The cheapo ones that you can buy for $10 wouldn't work on my TV.