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To ask what the worst thing your pet has done?

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GoosetheCat · 27/03/2019 11:24

I got in this morning after doing the weekly shop to find my fur brat has chewed the zip off one of my sofa cushions and ripped out all the stuffing 🙈

And she greeted me at the door, proud as punch and wagging tail, the little shit 😂 I have yet to tell DP.

What's the worst thing your fur brats has done?

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Princessmushroom · 27/03/2019 11:26

Just moved house, had to pay two months deposit because of our cats AND pay more rent per month.

We’ve never lived anywhere with wallpaper before. Sooooo the cats don’t like wallpaper and have ruined it 😭😭😭

girlwithadragontattoo · 27/03/2019 11:27

Chewed my passport, one ate the mattress topper we'd just bought, ate a new wallet my partner had spent €45 on the day before. My personal favourite was when one of the dogs was a puppy (i have 2) he got on the bed and left me a present lol

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GoosetheCat · 27/03/2019 11:29

@princessmushroom that's the thanks you get for forking out more money so they can live the life of luxury!

Preparing DP's favourite meal to soften the blow 😂

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ConversationCoat · 27/03/2019 11:29

Ate DH's very expensive, custom-made ear plugs.

steppemum · 27/03/2019 11:30

ddog killed one of the pet chickens.

He also ate most of dds birthday cake (fortunately after the party, so at least we had one for the guests)

dh made a pizza and left the room for a second......

We have to remember not to leave any food anywhere ever.

onanothertrain · 27/03/2019 11:31

Chewed my passport 2 days before I was going on holiday, chewed an ipod and a chain, broke the door of my oven and washing machine and chewed all my benefit make up.
That wasn't all one dog though!

GooodMythicalMorning · 27/03/2019 11:31

ate the wall and the arm of the sofa

Climbingahoneytree · 27/03/2019 11:31

Learnt that if he really puts his mind to it, he can lift off our self adhesive floor tiles

steppemum · 27/03/2019 11:33

oh yes, cat has gradually scratched the end of the sofa to shreds

nowshesaturtle · 27/03/2019 11:34

Nicked a box of matches and started chewing them underneath an armchair. I've no idea how he managed to strike one of them but he seemed to be enjoying watching it burning a slow hole in the carpet

Ragnarthe · 27/03/2019 11:35

My cat steals my expensive woolly hat and tries to kill it.
He has jumped on my head to get it. Wool seems to drive him wild.
His brother likes to bring me mice. Had two last week. Managed to rescue one, the other was a goner.

Onepuddingisneverenough · 27/03/2019 11:35

One of our dogs somehow chewed the bottom 8 inches of a upvc patio doorframe trying to get a squirrel that was in the garden -he was home alone for all of 45 minutes.
The other dog decided to bury 8 cushions that were on my sofa... the same hound also some how unavelled an entire rug by finding a loose thread Smile
100% wouldn’t be without either of them

CabbageHippy · 27/03/2019 11:36

so so so many things - unfortunately she passed away in January but our lovely little cat delighted in hiding under the bush at the end of the garden & jumping out all puffed up at dogs & old people that walked past

she also loved to put lego in shoes as she flicked it around the house playing with it

molemonkey · 27/03/2019 11:36

Chewed the walls by the back door.
Weed on my side of the bed twice, never my dh side tho. She's now not allowed upstairs she we are out.

My sister's dog that we looked after for 6 months scaled the kitchen worktop and the breakfast bar stools to eat half of a 3 tier birthday cake is made for my son.
We later learnt that jumping on the worktops was a trick they had actually taught her 🙄

Treaclesweet · 27/03/2019 11:37

Yesterday chewed through the pocket of my favourite (and only babywearing) hoodie looking for treats.

Previously ripped open a parcel of supplements which turned out to be extraordinarily toxic to dogs (5HTP if anyone takes them). Ate half one and cost near on a grand in emergency vet.

ButDoYouAvocado · 27/03/2019 11:38

Mine pulled up all the upstairs landing carpet and underlay, brought it all downstairs and used it to line his bed.

Springersrock · 27/03/2019 11:39

Chewed the heel off the only expensive pair of boots I’d ever owned, less than a week after I got them. They were beautiful and I cried

Decapitated DD’s beloved bedtime snuggly giraffe - I tried to repair it but it was beyond saving. DD cried - a lot, for days

chickenalapesh · 27/03/2019 11:40

When I was a teenager I had a Bichon, he went in my friends overnight bag (we had learnt to not leave bags on the floor) and he ate a full packet of cigarettes and a Packet of birth control pills! That was an awkward convo when I had to ask my mum if we could take my beloved little shit to the vets as I suspect he may become pretty ill!

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GoosetheCat · 27/03/2019 11:42

Our fur brat isn't allowed off lead as she has zero recall! She's a rescue and quite old now. However, that didn't stop her backing out of her harness when DP was walking her! I laughed for a solid 10 minutes whilst DP was chasing her around the field 😂

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MyDobermanIsABeaut1 · 27/03/2019 11:43

Oooooh I have a list as long as my arm Grin
We have a 2 year old Dobermann who is crazy. We love her to bits though. Here are a few from the list.

  1. When she was about 6 mo she, unknowingly to any of us, ate a pair of DD2's knickers, and proceeded to throw them up in the middle of the night when DH was on a night shift. I woke to retching sounds just managed to get the light on as she threw up this slimy, brown lump and then tried to eat it again!! I wrestled it from her to find it was underwear...blurghhhhh.
  2. She considers duck poo a delicacy along with fag ends and other unknown stuff she finds on the ground.
  3. By 4 mo she had learnt how to open the fridge and eat everything she could reach, including eggs in their shell and then proceed to throw it all up. She once got to some chicken skewers and ate them all including the wooden stick so needed a vets visit (Thank god for pet insurance)
  4. She has ruined both of our sofa's by ripping and destroying various bits on them.
  5. by 8mo she figured out how to get out of her crate and damaged DH's favourite guitar. DH was not best pleased. We now have a new crate with more than one lock/handle!
  6. We occasionally offer her little bits of left overs from our plate which she refuses but will then eat out of the bin.
  7. We are on our 4th kitchen bin since getting her due to her breaking them.
  8. She ate the wall next to the fire place!
  9. She tries to eat the fire when we have one on, so we had to buy a childproof fire guard because we never needed one for the DC.

I could go on and on with the crazy, stupid things she has done but I won't because she is the sweetest, softest, cuddliest and daftest dog I have ever known and although she almost broke me when she was a young puppy I wouldn't be without the dickhead now.

SenecaFalls · 27/03/2019 11:43

Rescue Lab ripped a sofa apart down to its frame the first time we left him alone.

Aroundtheworldandback · 27/03/2019 11:43

Ate a £50 note with a cheque.

RavenLG · 27/03/2019 11:46

Guinea Pigs rarely get into trouble. But we had them in a cage in front of our TV unit while building their actual cage and the shits managed to chew about 4 wires for video game consoles in the hour maybe they were there.

DParents husky managed to escape the garden late at night and went on a jolly, no idea how far she got but we found her a few hours later walking up our street. She was covered in hay so I'm guess she ran to a farm (a few miles away). She's not really a chewer either but she did chew the hell out of a pair of proper manky old primark flats I had. I'd had them for years, astounded they'd lasted so long. Used to just wear them for work, they we're rotten (I was a poor student) but she went mad for them.

Welsh Collie managed to chew a door stop as a puppy.

Border Collie they owned when I was a kid (now passed away) managed to eat some cooked rib bones out my aunts bin when we visited at xmas and he had to have surgery to remove them as he was bleeding from his stomach. We'd only had him a few months, felt awful. Oh and he used to bite the post, and bit through my NVQ qualification, so it's one one single tooth mark pierced through it.

Ridingthegravytrain · 27/03/2019 11:46

Chewed through the back seat of the car from the boot

RMogs · 27/03/2019 11:47

Destroyed 6 pairs of shoes I had just had reheeled, destroyed the longest carpet, the kitchen lino and had a go at the hall carpet.

We then got a cage, but she howled so hubby took her to work, she ate his lunch.

She did eventually settle down and now as an almost 3year old is as good as gold.

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