My dog broke my husbands 4K (cost!) TV

[Florally]

I have to start this by saying… I told him not to buy it. But… he works hard and he is a brilliant husband / dad and basically he wanted one thing in the whole house.

So it’s on the wall, and it’s beautiful (I don’t see the difference) and today our dog sees (on Dog TV YouTube that we play for her)… a dog.

She is interested in dogs above all else. She runs. She jumps. She cracks the TV.

It’s not her fault. She’s a dog that saw a dog.

What TF do I do here? My husband is so upset (he really is amazing and this was his tech baby)… but he’s SO upset.

I can’t afford to replace this TV.

I also made a huge campaign for not getting this TV (because I don’t care for this stuff) but I worry it feels disingenuous.

Umm…. That’s it right. I have to replace it?

Normally when you buy an expensive tv like that it is under warranty. Hopefully your dh registered it when he bought it. Might be worth looking into and seeing if they cover repair.

Insurance

Sure many do it

Not saying it's right

I have insurance via accidental damage on contents. Always have

Maybe he should have bought himself a house in which to keep his TV.

My visiting dog runs in to the garden to shoo away wildlife on the television.

Worst was when I paused the picture for too long which went off, replaced by a single star shape.
He was terrified. Growling and cowering away from an asterisk.

You're saying it's acceptable.

Who do you think pays for the fraudulent claims? It isn't the shareholders.

You are being deliberately obtuse. 👋

Not really. He choose to ignore his wife's valid concerns, so the silly TV is his responsibility.

I know someone who has a dog that goes berserk whenever there are any animals on TV. They literally cannot watch a nature programme and have to keep the remote close by in case any random animal strays on screen.

Hope you have contents insurance, OP.

No @SoupDragon - just an option if can't afford to replace /mend the £4k

Fwiw I've paid accidental damage for 25yrs and never claimed

Will prob break something now .....

Can you imagine if OP had posted that she bought herself quite a fancy new handbag, designer, cost a lot of money, she had her eye on it for some time and her husband's unruly dog (who he had on marrying OP) and it got destroyed but the untrained dog.

Oh OP should have bought herself a house in which to keep her fancy handbag, who does she think she is having an irresponsibly expensive handbag.

What the hell is silly about spending a reasonable extra amount (more than I can afford, but still well within the normal price range for TVs) on equipment to improve what is, for many people, one of their main recreational activities?

Lots of people will watch at least a couple of hours of TV every evening. Some people have an interest in film, lots like to watch sport, some play video games through their TV, and all family members are likely to use and enjoy the TV at various times of day for various things.

A more expensive TV will have a clearer, more vivid, more accurate picture, which looks good from all parts of the room, which doesn't blur or smear with fast motion like action films or sport, which can show video games at high frame rates which feels better to play, which responds faster to inputs so your game feels more responsive and real, which can represent the full range of light to dark so that dark scenes in TV and films are easier to make out, and lots of other improvements.

He didn't spend ridiculous amounts — a good TV costs more than a bog-standard Tesco 50" special offer job, the same way a good sofa costs more than some adequate sofa from the DFS perpetual sale. And like a good sofa, a decent TV benefits everyone in the household.

If OP had decided that it was worth spending more (but not a ridiculous amount) to get a good sofa because the sofa is something that gets a lot of use from all family members, bought one that was more comfortable, had better back support, looked more attractive, etc., and her husband's incontinent cat ruined it with diarrhoea after being encouraged to sit there (a husband who claims he can't tell the difference from a crappy cheap sofa), would you be mocking OP's "silly sofa"?

Warranty generally covers manufacturing defects. The TV isn’t supposed to withstand being jumped on by an energetic dog so this likely isn’t covered by warranty

Why would she buy a fancy sofa knowing her husband had an incontinent cat? That would be equally stupid.

Doesn't look like the OP is coming back.

Hopefully you have accident insurance I have a 3 k tv the most expensive thing in my house it certainly would be bloody expensive to replace if needed
Op if you don't have insurance to cover it then theirs absolutely nothing you can do

All my tellys have their own insurance because they cost so much. Next one you get, it's worth paying for. Can you not claim on house insurance. Shop around if it's an OLED. It doesn't have to cost that much. Lush tellys they are.

Don't tell him I told you so though. There's no need.

I wouldn't be replacing it from my own spends. You didn't want it in the house. The dog was just being a dog. Your DH knew the dog existed and chose to house the TV in the home with a dog. He should have insured the TV. Are you certain it's not covered by home contents insurance? Although i suspect not if it's not been specifically listed as existing and it's value taken into account.

Home insurance doesn't generally cover damage caused by pets though?

Can't help but wonder how well attached it was, maybe a blessing the dog knocked it and it didn't fall off on top of a toddler.

Going against the trend a bit in a lighthearted way. If you're going to buy some kind of ultra high definition TV and then put dog porn on it, I think you have to take some responsibility for the dog getting excited.

You wouldn’t spend 4k on a TV and put it in the garden shed.

Maybe, but would you refer to it as "her silly sofa"?

Probably. We have nothing in our house worth anything close to that amount, so £4k would be a silly amount to spend on any sort of furnishing to me.

Do you realise that other people have different priorities to you or have more money than you? It's a weird kind of snobbery to dismiss a TV or a sofa as "silly" because it's nicer than the ones you can afford/are willing to pay for. I don't have that kind of money to spend on a TV or a sofa either, but it's not like someone spending £50k on a diamond-encrusted, designer-branded, but otherwise perfectly average TV — it's spending a bit more to get a better experience from something that gets a great deal of use. If you're going to put your excess money anywhere, best to put it where you'll get the most benefit from it, and a TV definitely fits that category.

And you didn't say that you felt it was a "silly amount to spend", you dismissed it as a "silly TV", which is slightly different.

Which is fine, but expensive stuff that you can't afford to replace when you've got dogs and children, is just plain silly.