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What is the worst thing your pet has done?

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Elnudzio · 05/03/2019 18:57

I would say either ripping up the book I borrowed from the school library or peeing on my brother's bed during heavy rain.

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BibbityBobbityEars · 05/03/2019 22:35

Far too many awful things to list

Today dog 1 has eaten lots of dog poo on our walk and rolled in sheep poo
Dog 2 has eaten half a packet of butter and half a tea towel and has attempted to escape twice

disneydatknee · 05/03/2019 22:35

When I was pregnant with dd, my husband drove around for hours trying to find these fizzy rainbow sweets I so desperately craved. I had about 3 of them, left them on the shelf while i went for a wee. When I returned my lovely jack Russel had devoured them all. I actually cried.

PersonaNonGarter · 05/03/2019 22:45

Ate my dashboard, three sets of seatbelts, various door and handles. The Christmas ham - gone. He is bad to the bone. And he farts a lot.

dottycat123 · 05/03/2019 22:48

My bengal cat stands guard at bottom of the drive to chase the dogs which are walked past to a park opposite. Several regular dogs cower past the house waiting for his attack. A new low was reached when he chased a guide dog who was very good and didn't react.

BigStripeyBastard · 05/03/2019 22:59

Ate a woodpecker.
Punched me in the nose and gave me a huge nosebleed. Twice.
Attacked and basically plucked the very expensive siamese cat from down the road.
Came home with a whole Yorkshire Pudding one sunday.
Damn cat's a fucking liability. He stays in now.

Echobelly · 05/03/2019 22:59

Now our cat throws up quite a lot, and I joked when we got our bedroom recarpeted she'd throw up on it within hours. It was fitted in the morning, in the afternoon she hadn't thrown up on it... she'd hacked up the biggest, most vile hairball ever, accompanied by a load of disgusting dark coloured slimy bile - she has never done that before or since!

Fortunately as it's quite liquid resistant carpet and I think I found it quite soon after it happened I wiped almost all of it off and the residual stain vanished fairly fast!

Hallomother · 05/03/2019 23:01

Ddog went missing, everyone out searching for him, returned from many houred search with the neighbours to find he had somehow got in the neighbours house and had been chilling in their living room while we all frantically called for him

Little git. Luckily the neighbours adore him!

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 05/03/2019 23:09

When dh was a teenager, his parents had a compost bin where you bunged the stuffing at the top, and shovelled the compost out of a hatch at the bottom.

Their lab puppy went missing, and after an extensive search, she was found in the compost bin, having got in at the bottom and started eating her way up.

She was epically sick, but suffered no further ill effects. She must have had a bomb proof digestion!

ithinkmycatistryingtokillme · 05/03/2019 23:10

We had a pair of staffies when I was a teenager who were horrors:

dog1(nickname houdini!): my stepdad got a phone callfrom police to.say.they had him a cell after.nearly causing a car crash outside the station. Caught neighbours cat by tail, thankfully cat was rescued before serious harm. No matter what we did he was always finding away out of the garden

dog2: nearly blew up.the house after chewing on a gas pipe in the kitchen and puncturing it, dm and stepdad came back to a house full of gas. Also destroyed a fridge by getting open and chewing through the back of it.

Others things, chewing through the phone line,licking the grout from between the tiles on the kitchen floor, licking a hole in the plaster on the wall

They must have cost us a fortune over the years

TrainSong · 05/03/2019 23:17

Threw up down the back of a radiator
Beheaded a mouse then brought both ends and lay them out on my pillow as a treat for me to wake up to. (Currently lying like a fat furry cherub at foot of bed, having given up mousing a year ago)

chuffnstuff · 05/03/2019 23:18

Pesky cat killed my Yucca plant. Would stand on the rim of the pot and pull leaves off!!

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 05/03/2019 23:38

DDog has many social faux pas under his belt, including

  • biting my lower legs, hard, when he sees something he's scared of
  • kicking off at a guide dog on the bus because it wouldn't say hello to him
  • starting a scrap over ownership of a stick in the park (sticks are now banned)
  • eating his last owner's best suit
  • chasing a bike (we avoid them, but sometimes they turn up in places they technically shouldn't be)
  • refusing to let visitors into the house

On the plus side he's never destroyed anything of mine and is actually perfect 95% of the time. When he's nice he's very very nice and when he's bad he's awful!

ilovesooty · 05/03/2019 23:39

Cat got upset because I was talking on the phone. Jumped up into net curtains and got trapped. I stood on the table to get him. The table collapsed, the net curtain ripped releasing the cat and I fell backwards being lucky not to break my neck. My fall was followed by the old style heavy computer monitor which crashed into my chest giving me significant bruising and three broken ribs.

jarviscockatiel · 06/03/2019 00:15

Our various cockatiels have managed to chew through wires for our telephone, sky, keyboard, headphones and cooker extractor. Also they've gnawed chunks out of the fireplace, mantelpiece, mirror frames, antique desk and all of our books. Finding a poo in my hair is also a low light of my days!

ineedaknittedhat · 06/03/2019 00:23

I once had a hen that nicked a chicken kebab off the barbeque and was running around the garden with it 😂 she did eat it as well once she'd stopped running.

SpaceCadet4000 · 06/03/2019 02:30

One of my cats has definitely managed to eat a couple of DH's fish from his fish tank. Serves DH right for leaving the lid open though...

He also loves picking stuff up and dropping it in the garbage disposal in our sink. We then turn the macerator on and it makes a horrific sound and mangles whatever he put in there. Most irritating was my keys.

maddiemookins16mum · 06/03/2019 05:17

Proudly rescued next doors Easter Sunday leg of lamb that had been cooling on their kitchen worktop (their kitchen door was ajar) and dragged it through our cat flap.

We moved shortly after.

HeronLanyon · 06/03/2019 05:34

Lovely cat spent 2 years compulsively hunting frogs and newts from neighbours pond and bringing them home live during the night. Woken many many times by frog screams. Managed to save almost all and home them in safe pond. She was such an outside cat we really couldn’t keep her in at night and neighbours did what they could to make pond less attractive/accessible for her. Came close to thinking about rehoming her (can’t bear to think how close we came to this). She may have picked up vibes because she then lost interest and our nights returned to normal. Learned a lot about newts - beautiful things if a bit much to rescue in dead of night.

OneTitWonder · 06/03/2019 05:39

Cat killed an Eastern brown snake (we are in Australia) and in the process was bitten. Cost $2500 in vet bills to save him, and in the two years since he has ongoing liver issues which have cost about $4000. We also had to build an enclosure to prevent him from going out hunting again, that cost nearly $1000.

Expensive little fucker. Lucky he's gorgeous.

cricketmum84 · 06/03/2019 06:25

Set my house on fire. No word of a lie. This is probably really outing but:

Had left a basket of washing on the top of the cooker before I left for work at 7am, dog walker came round at 11 and all was fine. Got home at 6pm to a small slow burning fire in the kitchen and the entire house and all of my possessions extensively smoke damage. DDog had jumped up at the oven knocking one of the dials on the electric job which had heated up and ignited the basket of clothes. Poor doggo spent a night in the vet hospital on oxygen but made a full recovery.

GertrudeCB · 06/03/2019 07:56

Very timely thread. Been up since 4 with dickhead dog who must have eaten grass late last night so started throwing up on the bedroom floor then on every single step on the stairs. Every. Single. One.
Dickhead dog then falls asleep on the couch whilst I deal with the sick tsunami, then wakes up at half 5 hungry and wanting his hours walk.
Back from walk I'm now knackered and pong faintly of dog sick and of course I have a management meeting at work at 9 .
Just off to scrub myself with Dettol .
Ddog happily asleep again on the couch.
Bastard.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 06/03/2019 08:22

Our old cat once pooed in a dd's knicker drawer. The smell was so appalling it was quite a while before I could psych myself up to tackle it. He'd never done anything like it before, and never did again.

I once left a dish of lots of cooked chicken on the kitchen table while I nipped to the shop for onions.
Came back, couldn't find the chicken (or dish) anywhere. Thinking I was going mad, I checked fridge, oven, cupboards etc.

Eventually found empty dish (licked clean) in the corner under the table and ddog also lurking there, looking very sheepish. He was a lovely boy - I suppose the temptation was just too much.
But I had to find something else for dinner.

A subsequent ddog took a couple of neat slurps off the side of a carefully decorated, home made salmon mousse I'd just put on the table, while I went to summon guests for dinner.

Luckily they were all dog-owners/lovers and found it hilarious, so I just had to cut the slurped bit off.

Jinglejanglefish · 06/03/2019 08:26

She was ill so I don’t blame her too much, but...

We had to come back from holiday two days early as she had done a nasty poo, her fur had become matted over her bum and she had dragged her bum all over the cream carpet in our rented flat. The cat sitter had over fed her (we didn’t use her again). She was absolutley covered in shit. Dp had to take her in the shower, obviously she ripped him to shreds while he cleaned her. While he did this I went around scrubbing the carpet.

lavenderbongo · 06/03/2019 08:27

Got expelled from doggy day care for repeatedly humping every dog there. He was only allowed to return once he’d had the snip 😊

drinkswineoutofamug · 06/03/2019 10:47

Tell you when I get home. She's been alone for 20 mins......
Last time she ate the dinning room carpet