For Dog Owners?

I just finished reading Marley and Me - Life and Love with the World%26#039;s Worst Dog by John Grogan. My question is, what bad things did your beloved dog do that drove you crazy but you loved them nonetheless?





My Bichon, Mo, is probably Illinois%26#039; worst dog - besides tearing off freshly hung wallpaper, chewing numerous pieces of furniture (including two leather sofas), slippers and eyeglasses, he is also a clever food thief and master escape artist (Houdini would be proud). He is the light of my life.





So please, tell me, what did your %26quot;bad dog%26quot; do?

For Dog Owners?
I thought standard poodles weren%26#039;t yappy, like the smaller ones. I got a yapper. She barks when one of the family members makes a noise in another part of the house. She barks at people walking by the house. And when the doorbell rings...lets just say I%26#039;m thinking about disconnecting it.





I bought her one of those anti bark collars that sprays citronella when they bark. She didn%26#039;t stop barking, but she freshened the air very nicely.





Despite all of that, I love her dearly. She is full of personality and she loves to be groomed. (Which is a huge plus for me since I am a groomer) I guess they are just like our children. They have their faults, but you can%26#039;t help but love them!
Reply:I read that book, it was great. Things my dogs had done that would make him a bad dog to some but not to me!!!!! I still love him to pieces.





1. The week of Thanksgiving 2002 , I had my entire order of new


kitchen cabinets delivered to my home for complete kitchen


renovation in Jan 03, they were in a spare room with no door,


I went out on New Years Eve and never thought about


fireworks (which he has issues with), well when I returned that


night, my new right side stove cabinet was destroyed in the


box, the closet door frame was destroyed in the room. The


result was that on New Years day my husband and I went and


ordered a new cabinet and to offset the cost, I had to choose


a less expensive ceramic tile floor.





2. Then there was the dog bite to my husbands lip that required


7 sutures.





Yes, I love my dog!
Reply:We just got our 10 week old yellow lab and my husband just got a new surround sound for the tv room. Biscuit decided that the speaker lines were a really good way to satisfy his chewing frenzy. I knew after we found the cord chewed into...and my husband wasn%26#039;t so upset...he was a keeper...lol...he was gonna be anyway...





I have also had repair men come in and fix DSL...just to find a cord chewed into.





But like you said....It doesn%26#039;t matter...they are the best....
Reply:My youngest dog is a year old, he is so large that all he has to do is stretch his neck a little and anything on counters, tables and stove tops are fair game. Not an easy habit to break him of either. He has eaten alot of margarine in the past few months. It drives me crazy, but he finely has me trained, I leave nothing out in plain site.
Reply:i never really get angry with my collie (Bess) because we are so similar. I%26#039;m 13 and me and my dog do everything together. if i get angry with my parents and storm upstairs and slam my door Bess will slam into my door open it walk in and sit next to me staring where ever i am this always seems to make me feel better because of her angry little face that she does to like me (its so cute). also if i ever shout at my brother she barks and growls at him too, its great she%26#039;s such a good mate the best you can ever wish for.





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Reply:Oh my gosh! I read that book aswell! Excellent book! And during the entire book I swore up and down my lab was related to Marley. But instead of describing Zoey my lab, I%26#039;ll talk about Spot.





Houdini would be as proud aswell. Spot could never stay locked up, or chained up.


Once, we were trying to get him to go in his dog lot, we already had his sister in it, but we had to get him. He carfully dodged us at the last second so we knew how cuories he was so we pulled out a five dollar bill. Spot carfully crouced up and right when we were about to jump out and get him when he grabbed the money and ran!


%26quot;Don%26#039;t spend It All In One Place!%26quot; I yelled behind him. Then my dad pulled out a dollar bill and he crept up again with the five dripping with slobber and he tried to get it but we knew his tricks and grabbed him. The five dollar bill was then useless soaking wet, lol.


Besides that, he took our things and hid them, ran off and played with stray dogs, and he ran the neighbors cat up a tree. He was the light of my life, and when we slept on the bed with me we would lay his head on the pillow, cover himself up without help and streach his legs till more than half the bed was his.





Zoey, the lab, lord have mercy on her soul she eats everything. Her and spot would have been good friends.


Hoped you enjoyed! Also, ginger his sister came runnin down our hill and did about 15 flips because she tripped! :)
Reply:LMAO! omg...i have 4..basically they are the doggie mafia!


i swear to you, they gang up together.


okay, i have 5 acres....totally fenced in, BUT my dogs were getting out of my gate and i had no idea HOW! i thought some jerk was opeing my gate, (it%26#039;s a simple drop horseshoe latch, like the kind a chain link fence has).


so i set up a video camera. i was going to find the punk letting my dogs out!


two days later, i caught IT! of course after i chased the dogs down and brought them back home. *that took 2 hours!* lol, so my husband and i go into the house and look at the tape.


Patch ( my Catahoula walks over to the gate and looks around...then....Angel comes into frame ( my Shepard mix) and she lays down next to Patch...then Dodger (mini doxie) and Peggy Sue ( doxie/chihuahua mix) walk up to the gate. Dodger starts pushing the brick i have bungee corded to the inside of the gate (to keep HIS butt inside) out of the way....THEN Peggy walks over and now that the brick is out of the way of the bottom of the latch on the gate, she jumps up on her backlegs and puts both paws on the gate....and lifts the latch with her muzzle until it stands up!


then Patch and Angel paw, and bump the gate till is opens and they all run out!





LMAO...my husband and i were ROLLING with laughter!


then we bought a padlock...and took care of the %26quot;GREAT ESCAPE!%26quot;





that is just one thing my doggie mafia does. lmao i love dogs!
Reply:My %26quot;bad dog%26quot;, Sadie is a black lab/shephard mix. She is a mud dog! She loves playing in mud! She rolls in it, digs in it, roots in it, etc.......


The problem is, she%26#039;s an inside dog. She has outside time to play and do her business, but she always manages to find a mudhole somewhere and play in it.
Reply:That is such a cute book! I cried at the end though.


My dog is a Siberian Husky, and she has a lot of energy, and tends to get hyper.
Reply:She chewed up a lovely comfortable pair of sandals just before I was due to go away to a hot place in the winter when it is impossible to buy sandals, then a few days later she chewed up another pair. But she looks at me with those eyes and I still love her to bits!
Reply:I have 2 Siberian Huskies. One of them chewed the cable on our satellite dish for our TV. My husband had to take the cable down, run it through PVC pipe and then re-mount the cable to the side of the house.
Reply:My dog has torn down curtains, chewed every kind of little yard statue in our yard, chewed up all the little fences I had around my garden, knocks over trash, got on the table and ate a box of crackers. The first really destructive things were when we first got her. She still occasionally knocks over the trash.



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