What has your puppy destroyed today?

[AwkwardPaws27]

I'm desperate for a dog. DHs work have decided that, even in the post-Covid world, he can work from home and I'm likely to continue homeworking for at least part of the week, so we are finally home enough, but with lockdown demand meaning that rescues are inundated with applications and waiting lists for breeders being so long, it's not likely to happen any time soon.

So, please put me off / lessen the blow by telling me what your pup has eaten / peed on / buried recently?

I'll start with the time my dad's dog ate the CD containing the only copies of their wedding photos...

Ours is a little sod for eating anything he can get hold of. He is still a puppy though. In recent months he has torn the stuffing out of sofa cushions, chewed the new computer lead whilst it was plugged in. We had only had it unboxed for 10 minutes. A pair of birkenstorks and havianas are now looking a little worse for wear.... that will teach me for leaving them out. He was also caught with one of my handbags but fortunately no damage. Tonight he had raided the washing bin and is running around the house with a sock. He spent the summer months running around the garden with pots of seedlings, ate the blueberries and attempts to pull out anything we plan in the garden.

He melts my heart daily, makes me smile constantly and is so loving when not being cheeky. Im sorry that I cannot lesson the blow, I'd very much encourage you

Aw he sounds like fabulous chaos

Our springer isn't a puppy any more thank goodness, cute though he was but when he was small his worst crime was destroying a sofa, with the help of our older, usually sensible, dog. Luckily it was a fairly decrepit old sofa, but the sight of those savaged cushions with huge chunks chewed out of them and stuffing all over the room was a bit of a shock to come home to. I'd only been gone an hour.

I'm lucky my pup hasn't ever chewed anything but his bone. But he buries his bones also food then digs it up and brings it in the house full of mud.

My dogs not a puppy anymore, 6 year old basset hound, but somehow in the night has managed to chew, eat two rugs

I wonder how these extreme sofa-eating incidents happen. I'd love to see footage of the moment a little nibble turns into "eat the whole thing"!

Ps. Pictures of culprits are VERY welcome.

Ours waits until the kids are distracted watching telly then very quietly begins extracting toys from the play room to destroy. What gives her away is that she's so pleased with herself she prances down the hallway. Prancing toes make an unmistakable sound.

She also has a perfectly good dog bed but insists on squeezing herself into the cat bed....the cat is not amused.

Ours has:
Mangled the corners of the trunk liner in the car boot
Some some damage to a couple of nice new leads
Destroyed a wastepaper basket
Gnawed the broom handle
Chewed the edges off the back door mat, all the way round (I'll get a new one when she finally grows up)

Luckily she is fairly soft-mouthed and her retrieving urge means that if something smells of you - shoes, headphones - she brings them to you, all wriggly and smug, with minimal damage done.

I leave things around that she is allowed to chew, like yoghurt pots and empty plastic milk bottles. And then sweep up the shredded remnants with the gnawed broom...

Oh, and she has now trashed two pieces of the carpet that we lay over the trunk liner for the dogs. Luckily we know a carpet fitter who gives us bits for free...

Mine hasn't been destructive in ages but as a puppy he:

• chewed through a seatbelt in DH's car.
• peed ALL over a freshly made bed even though I'd just let him out to the toilet.
• chewed through our phone line
• ripped up and de-stuffed a sofa cushion
• peed all over the floor and up my leg when I took him into work 🙄
• opened the fridge and stole some chicken
• ate half a loaf of bread off the side
• chewed through two leads in a day

I'm sure there's more

More recently he discovered a rotting badger up the woods and decided the best course of action was to pee on it, poo in it, and then roll in it 🤮

The heart shaped silicone cake mould I used to make layer 1 of DD 13th birthday cake.

Ddog 1 is a labrador (Age 4 and cheeky opportunist) and got it down off the draining board

Ddog 2 is a dashound (age 11 and the partner in crime) did the chewing

Had to be resourceful to make the second cake layer!

MountainDog those eyebrows! She's a beauty.

vanillandhoney I thought crusty green cow pats or fox poo were the worst peril of rolling - clearly I was wrong!

Grumpy the retriever urges sound adorable. My friend's family dog (RIP) used to bring us our shoes after we left them by the door.

Inpeace they sound like a comedy duo. Well done on completing the cake despite their "help"!

When she was a puppy she ate my ugg slippers. They obviously tasted good because she then ate a pair of ugg boots. Brand new pair of running shoes. And despite never chewing the furniture before, I came home one day and she'd eaten a hole into the back of the sofa and dragged her bed in there.
Now she's older it's purely fox crap she likes to chew. Then spit out and roll in. I love her to bits but she's pretty gross.

Mine isn't really a puppy any more so these days the worst he does is knock over mugs and create garden craters in the flower beds. And embarrass me in public by planting his bum and refusing to move if I start leading us home.

As a puppy he:
chewed up all of our skirting boards
destroyed our coffee table
ate my slippers (he liked to 'catch' them as I walked down the stairs)
peed on another dog walker
ripped all the carpet off the stairs
chewed up our bed frame
ripped up my (very expensive) bedsheets
destroyed 3 door mats and one area rug
ate 2 hairbrushes
broke our garden gate by, quite literally, running through it (he's a big boy)
ripped up 2 dog beds (he has to have XL beds, so about £70 each )

We got him just over a year after moving into our first house, so pretty much everything he destroyed was less than 2 years old!

The dog we had when I was a child once ate all of the fat out of a chip pan while we were at my aunt's house, and then produced the inevitable fallout onto her brand new carpets

OP, have you seen your parents' marriage certificate? That 'The dog ate the only cd' sounds a bit dodgy to me.

Ipods
Phones
TV remote controls
Cowpats
Freshly baked bread
Next door's Christmas turkey
Knickers
The cat's dinner when visiting Grandma (repeat offender)
Biscuit snatched out of a DC's hand on a picnic
Vomit on pavement
Any dropped food items
Spiders
Manky water from rusty manhole cover
Manky water from stagnant pond
Pet gerbil (released on command and thankfully unhurt but the intent was there)
Christmas trays of nuts and chocolates
Sprouts and cabbage from veg basket
Cups of tea in garden
Ice creams being eaten by a DC

Some just chewed, others consumed.

My DM's childhood terrier ate the bottom off a tortoise ;((

*I wonder how these extreme sofa-eating incidents happen. I'd love to see footage of the moment a little nibble turns into "eat the whole thing"!
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I think they just start chewing absent mindedly then something comes out and they think Ooh! Exciting! and get carried away.

Next door's Christmas turkey

Oh my. I think I'd have to move house...

As a puppy
Ripped the living room carpet
Chewed the hall carpet
Destroyed a pair of my visiting daughters designer shoes
Chewed a pair of my primark shoes,
All done when I dared to use the toilet

Shameless knicker eater here. He once actually climbed a ladder to get in the laundry basket (that I have to keep up high out of the way).

Very embarrassing if you have people to stay over and have to specifically ask that they keep their door shut and their underwear hidden!

CatsAndEyeliner I had a boyfriend as a teenager who had a family dog that did this. She always seemed to come downstairs with a mouthful of lingerie when we had company

You're all doing a terrible job at discouraging me. A friend has a litter of cockers, and potentially one of the litter is now reavailable...

Cockers have adorable personalities but masses of energy and tirelessness...

A friend has a cocker puppy atm and he’s quite hard work, but lovely.

When mine was a puppy he sneaked into the hallway and chewed off the molds of my DS10s brand new football boots the rubbery plastic was just too irresistible

Ellmau yes, I've been reading up on them (have met friends cockers but these have been adult dogs rather than pups/teenagers, so a bit less loopy - although not without their quirks). Found the concept of exercising their mind through scents etc interesting. I'd have to be creative with daily walking routes to keep them mentally busy.

We have a 10 year old cat, and would like to TTC again in a year or so (previous miscarriage, no DC yet, and I'd like to get a decent way through my accountancy qualification before taking mat leave).
I'm tempted as a) DCat is healthy and active now, but only going to get older - I wouldn't foist a new puppy on her at, say, 14, so if we wait we could be waiting til lovely DCat is no longer with us (not that I want to think about that) & b) I know a puppy and a baby/toddler is not a good combo, whereas we could put a lot of time into training and socialisation before any DC arrive.

Looks like all the dreadful tales of woe haven't put you off at all ;)