Bloody dog!

[BroccoliSpears]

Having previously spent time posting rather earnest comments extolling the virtues of our 2-year old lab - oh she's so well trained! Oh she knows her place! Oh she's bloody Lassie with bells on, I have just gone downstairs to find she's chewed up Horsie.

I thought dog and dd (18 mths) were playing together, and stopped to lovingly watch their game from the stairs, but it turns out that dd was trying to put Horsie's feet and tail back on, shaking her head sadly and saying "Ow. Ow. Clip clop. Ow. NO!"

Bloody dog. Free to a good home.

When our dog was young she chewed through our telephone cable. We didn't realise for days we just thought nobody wanted to talk to us!!

Awww poor your dd, I hope shes not too uspest.

Oh no Dustin! I can't help laughing, but it's so annoying!

The most infuriating thing is that you can't stay cross with them for long. Dog is now lying on the landing, sighing deeply at the unfairness of it all and giving me puppy-dog eyes.

Aaahhh bless!!!! Poor Horsie though!

Im sorry i have to say this, you left an 18m old child alone with a dog, a dog big enough to inflict serious injury in a split second??? Now the same dog is staring at you from a position of importance, higher than you, on the landing?? .

We have 2 'Ladies' as DH calls them.
'The Ladies' - I ask you!?

The sighing thing really does my head in!

Non dog owners never believe me when I say if you scold the dog it sighs!

Tis tre LOTF, both of my dogs sigh when they have been told off!!

My dog sits facing away from me after a telling off. It really makes me laugh.

I once had a dog who would close her eyes when I was cross with her - if she couldn't see me then I couldn't see her, apparently!

lucyellensmum - you know as little about my dog and child leaving habits as you do about my landing, which is not higher up than my computer room. Thank you for your concern.

i think your landing arrangements are adequate then in that case. I am worried that you leave your dog alone with your child, but you don't so thats all good too. Sorry

Brocolli, i am really sorry - what an arse!! I dont know what was wrong with me yesterday, i managed to upset another mnetter as well . I was wrong to make presumptions about your DD (and your housing layout!!) and i apologise, its not like me to post like that, perhaps i was possessed or something!! I have to say, your come back was spot on - remind me to come to you when i need a quick and pithy retort for the bank manager or the likes.

Oh don't worry about it! I actually feel strangely accepted as a real mumsnetter having been on the recieving end of some unsolicited Judgement. I'll be getting a mooncup next.

I know all the 'experts' say dogs don't sulk but mine do too.

Waiting for the 'labrador chews up mooncup' thread.

even i am not going that far (mooncup), also, i am expecting great admonishment from the mumsnet gods today as i actually brought my DD a cheese puff from the butchers today and gave it to her in her pushchair!! So clearly i am in no place to judge It could have been worse, she could have washed it down with a fruit shoot .

My dog eats EVERYTHING that is on the floor, he drives me nuts, a six month old terrier cross that may not live to see 1!!

Our dog eats tissues & carrier bags when she's nervous. Then eats either finding a puddle of vom somewhere or poo with asda logos

lucyellensmum at least its cheaper than using the hoover!!

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LOL at poo with asda logos. You should get asda to pay for the advertising

FGS don't let your dog eat carrier bags, I've seen dogs die as a result of that particular habit.

i agree with chubby, ive seen dogs die from this too, the bags tangle the gut and it concertina's, a painful and traumatic death if untreated.

I worry about my dog eating everything, he was sick recently and the vet felt "something odd" in his abdomen. He was scanned and it turned out he simply had an enteritis and the gut was just in spasm but i spent an uncomfortable few hours thinking he had a foreign body and was plagued with guilt, as it was, i could blame my DP as he had given the dog a bloody bone .

Labradors eat EVERYTHING, its the law

It's true. Labs do eat everything. Mine once ate the same sock twice [grim].

(That wasn't a typo btw - I did mean [grim] not .)

my dog isnt bad with chewing things, but ive had a few that have!
pip, dog that i have now, is a lab/staffy x n he sits in the corner of the room if he has been told off!