What is the biggest drama you have had with one of your pets?

[glovestrains]

a few runaways

My dog ate and chewed a tub yes a wholesale tub of Nutella
Threw it up ate the throw up and had awful poos all over the house, then busted though the cat flap taking half the window with her and ended up at the local police station (still shittng and throwing up) they put her in the dogs kennels until I picked her up later that day.
She ate the curtains
She ate the Christmas tree
She ate doors
She ate an entire Thai curry
She brought home a warm roast chicken

This was years ago and she's long since gone now, but she was a fabulous dog

When we lived with my in laws they would kindly sort our dog out if they got up before me. I could hear the dog pacing outside our bedroom which was odd. I was tired so just opened the door so she could hop on the bed.
She started vomiting so I ushered her out, down the stairs and outside as she kept being sick. I ran upstairs to get dressed and call the vet as it was a bonkers amount of sick. When I walked into my bedroom I could smell alcohol. Yep, she was pissed! My BIL had a field party and the dog must have been lapping up dregs. That or his friend gave her some! Picked all 40kg plus of her up, plonked her in the car and off to the vets. 200 quid plus that cost. She was fine thankfully. I lost my shit with BIL and his friends when I got back. I can laugh now but thought we were going to lose her in the moment.

Funny story my very first cat was fat I put him on a diet he dragged home three, THREE joints of meat on a Sunday the dude was FAAAT who the hell leaves there door open especially after the first time

My current cat got stuck in the dolls house doorway it was on top of another unit so he was swinging in midair unable to get out

Not so funny dollhouse cat had a suspect blockage due to stress he is OK but hasn't been "right" since I used to think he was pretty bomb proof he watched fireworks played with his brothers loved life but we nearly lost him and the vet said its stress related im stressed trying to keep his stress levels down

One of my dogs was bitten about a week before we were meant to go on a 2 week holiday. We couldn't get a refund for the holiday. And had a real dilemma!

The injury was very serious as the saliva gland was punctured. (Treatment involved bicarbonate soda packes changed 2x/ day ...) So our usual dog sitter wasn't able to take the dog.

Anyway our vet was amazing! She recommended us to a pet & house sitting service in the next town. The company gives summer jobs to the local veterinary/ animal care students among others. They found us a 2nd year veterinary nurse student to look after our dogs. So that was fantastic!
And even better, the pet sitter was the daughter of a friend of mine- we sort of lost touch when I went back to full-time work.

I had a German Shepherd that was shot but survived, then a few years later was shot again and died. 😭

My dog got into a pizza delivery van and went off with them. We hadn’t ordered pizza. It was a summer evening, we were out in the garden with the dog pottering in and out. I got a call from a pizza delivery company saying they had my dog. Someone in our street ordered pizza. He had got out and got in the back of the van, unnoticed, until the next stop. My phone number was on his dog tag. They were lovely, dropped him back round to us.

My cat swallowed a condom

@AP5Diva thats awful, do you know who did it?

We lived in the middle east and our dog went missing. About two weeks later she was left on the doorstep with a note tied round her neck saying " we stole your dog but she was sad so we have brought her back sorry"... bizarre.

Hamster escaped whilst we were on holiday and she was staying with Granny. She managed to get down the stairs and make a nest in the TV cabinet out of chewed up photos (Granny not impressed at this) and hyacinth flowers ❤️, staying there for 3 days til Granny heard her chomping when she switched the telly off.

Also cat brought massive blackbird into our bedroom at 3am and let it go by my side of the bed. Took 20 minutes to get it to fly out of the window. Fuck knows how he got it through the cat flap.

DD brought her boyfriend home to meet us for the first time. We were eating dinner in the dining room - the cat brought a live blue tit into the dining room and let it go! Pandemonium!

DDog needed a wee at 3am, so I slipped on the lead and let him out into the front garden. I can't have put the lead on properly as he went off into the neighbours garden.

Despite the treats I offered he refused to come back so I woke up DH to help. Bloody dog kept standing there until I got close and would then run off onto another garden. In the end I decided to leave the front door, side gate and back door open and watch him from the bedroom, he was having the time of his life running in and out of the gardens, he was an old dog but was acting just like an excitable puppy.

He eventually came in the front and I rushed down to close the front door - he raced through the house, out of the back door, through the side gate and back into the front gardens!

He looked so happy - I swear he was laughing at us!

Two hours he was out for - and to top it off it was the first time baby DS had slept through the night!

I couldn't find my small cat, but I could hear him. Figured out he was somehow in walls/floor of the house. I could hear him best when I was in the stairwell but couldn't pin him down - he was moving around.

Had a rough night. Worried he would dehydrate and stop meowing so I wouldn't be able to find him. I was about to start smashing holes in the wall when he found his was out. High up in the garage was a vent for the old heating system & somehow he had got in there and couldn't find his way out.

Horrible 24 hours.

My cat hopped into a supermarket delivery van at my lunch time delivery and hitched a ride all the way to the depot — 41 miles away— she spent the night in the van and they took her to a near by vet then next day and I had to go an collect her - she yowled the entire car journey home

Went missing at 10 months old, after walking the streets day and night he was located 3 days later in a locked shed which backs onto our neighbour across the road. He'd jumped on the rotten roof and was trapped. When located we had to get the Police involved as the arsehole who lived next door to the house with the shed was kicking off. There was no reply to the house so my neighbour produced some random spare keys she had and luckily one fitted the lock. DP and BIL rescued him and at that moment the owner of the house turned up saying "is your cat trapped? " The Police had located him (probably had his number because more than likely has had a previous run in with his arsehole neighbour).

About a year later he went missing again for 2 days and was found stuck in the gated alleyway across the road next to the neighbour who was involved in previous rescue. She was upset because he didn't make a sound but her cat located him. Some months after he didn't come when called, yes the dull sod was trapped in the alleyway again.

My dog killed our family pet lamb so had to be put down. Farming community, no one would have rehomed her, and I had toddler & baby sisters too. It was out of character for her so we didn't want to take any chances.

A happier story: my parents' dog drank fermented ginger beer and got drunk. She climbed up into my Dad's truck and got her head stuck between the gear stick and the seats.

My 17 year old sister took my dog for a walk whilst I was at a friends birthday lunch and threw a stick for him, he caught it but tripped and landed on it. It pierced his tongue and the back of his throat.

She called me and I was 20 miles from home with no car as I was drinking, she didn't drive and had no idea where the nearest vet was, he was laying and bleeding on the floor.

I managed to get hold of my Aunt who was only a few minutes away from them and picked them up, took them to the vet where he had emergency surgery.

He's a very lucky boy and I'm thankful every day that he is as okay! My poor sister still has nightmares about it but she actually ended up doing a dog walking course and now knows dog first aid etc.

My cat took such a dislike to the post lady that she refused to deliver the post (the cat was a sod for getting out despite me making the house into Cat Colditz). The post lady moved on and the new post man and the cat came to an arrangement - the cat would follow him round the close at a distance and then see him off the property.

I came home to a very guilty face by the stair gate and then noticed he'd chewed up the naughty elf (9yrs ago.....) and DDs were literally driving up the road with daddy.

Frequently decides to take himself on wee wanders when couriers etc don't close the gate after them!

About an hour ago my 9mth old puppy got hold of a wooden toothpick. Managed to fish some of it out of her mouth but she'd swallowed a sharp end. Naturally Google scared the fuck out of me!

Rang the vet who advised syringing 10ml of hydrogen peroxide into her throat. Result - she vomited the sharp bit in about 5 minutes! As a precaution I've also given her bread soaked in lots of olive oil so I won't be walking barefoot through the kitchen tomorrow morning...

12 week old puppy fell from top of stairs to the bottom, broke her elbow, had operation and now has a screw in her elbow, £6k vets fees, 6 week crate rest which was a nightmare for a puppy…..3 years on and you wouldn’t know she had broken it, very grateful she was insured and for the specialist vet who put her back together

I LOVE this thread and your pets are all mostly wonderful! @NC4Now and @scrivette i love your pets especially

My dog got a bowel infection which paralysed his bowel and he was vomiting up poo! Vet thought it was an obstruction until he operated and noticed the bowel was paralysed. Few injections into the bowel and he was as right as rain.
Same dog also had a really unusual allergic reaction to a brand of dog food. He ended up with weeping sores all over his head, took him to a veterinary dermatologist who took biopsys and said she'd never seen results such as his 🤣 the results ended up being sent all over the world to experts and they were all stumped. Thousands in vets fees , medications etc and in the end I just decided on a whim to change his food and within 10 days it was all cleared 🙈 bloody dog is a nightmare

Old person who's had lots of pets...

Dhamster was Houdini reincarnated. First time it happened I had to remove some kitchen cupboards to free him. In the end he escaped so many times we used to refer to it as his holidays. He had a penchant for the recycling container. I swear one time he was pissed on the dregs.

Dcat 1 sparked minor neighbour war over 'fishing' in next door's pond. Eventually solved by buying them netting and telling Dcat not to do it again...

Dcat 2 stole other neighbour's roast chicken.

Dcat3 (who was the runt of the litter and never grew bigger than a kitten) brought home a fully grown rabbit, still alive. Couldn't kill it as not powerful enough but wouldn't let go. Stalemate ensued for about 3 hours with me trying increasingly bizarre methods to separate them. Rabbit lived amazingly!

DDog 1 slipped a disc in her back on the wilds of Exmoor. Her screams are one of the worst sounds I've ever heard and I've been exposed to some pretty horrible things due to my job. I was on my own with her but had to carry her as best I could back to the car (until a kind stranger helped). She was a large Labrador! She made a full recovery eventually.

Same DDog managed to escape overnight on a camping trip and helped herself to everyone else's unsecured food...

Dcat 4 came in one night around 3am through an open window. (Normally kept in overnight to protect birds but he got out so I left a window open.) He was carrying a very large rat. Saw me, dropped rat, rat ran into my then 9-year-old son's bedroom. I was on my hands and knees trying to catch the rat in the dark. Managed to trap rat in a trainer and release it eventually.

I'm sure there's more...

Dog chased a massive fox across the field. Fox dived into the hedge with dog close on his heels. Fox came upon the sheep netting on the other side of the hedge and turned round and attacked the dog (by this time my mum had yelled herself hoarse trying to get the dog back - it was on our own land so dog was off lead). The dog eventually got away and came back covered in blood and started to go into shock. We whizzed her off to the vet who shaved her head to stitch the massive gash there… only to find the hideous wound was actually fox blood, the dog didn’t have so much as a scratch on her, and she had to walk around looking like a medieval monk for weeks until it grew back.

Then there was the time she chased something under some farm machinery, somehow had to reverse herself out, and laid open a huge wound in her back on something (cutting blade on a mower maybe?). That took months to heal and she had to have tubes stitched into her back to keep draining it.

Then there was the cat who got himself wedged under a shelf and attacked my hand as I tried to free him. He was absolutely fine. I ended up in A&E for the huge puncture wounds in my hands, and had to take nearly a week off work as the swelling was so bad I couldn’t put on my own trousers.

And the horses - degloved leg from sticking it through a gate and pulling the gate over; both back legs stuck through the wire netting in the fence, getting him stuck upside down and necessitating taking wire cutters to the fence to get him out (he had been unsupervised for a full three minutes when he managed this!); an unexpected foaling; and the epic fight between a 15.2hh “brick shithouse” type and a Shetland pony in which the Shetland was bodily rolled over several times and both horses were covered in bloody foam. We had to evacuate the field and just wait for them to get tired as they were too dangerous to get near. That was terrifying.

And finally the bullock who got stuck upside down in a small ditch, causing (or maybe caused by??) some kind of neuro issue. I sat in the trailer with him on the liquid shitty floor to wait for the vet, cradling his head in my arms to stop him slamming it on the floor and walls deliberately. He lay down for three days, having injections three times a day. On day 3 he felt better enough to jump up and run off when he felt the needle in his bum, causing my dad to accidentally inject himself in the hand. That was an ‘interesting’ day for my dad!