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Destroyer Doggies you love anyway


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I had a dog, a yearling German Shepard, and she was so friendly, she's lick you skinless if you let her.

She was almost full grown when I got her -- physically. Back in 1986.

Mentally, she was a puppy, and she chewed with powerful jaws that destroyed all she could.

She chewed a plastic screwdriver handle (I still have it) and mushed it, I can barely dent it with my teeth.

She uprooted about 10 newly planted roses. Cut her tongue, bled and licked my white t-shirt.

She raided the cat box for cat [poop] and ate it.

I made a mistake and left a couple of bags of manure in my utility room with her. She ripped them open, and joyfully tossed the contents all over the place. Made a huge mess.

She picked up a potted queen palm baby, and played with it, tossed and caught, punctured in a number of places. Planted the palm, it grew anyway, now it's about 50-60 feet tall.

Cried for a month when I gave her away when I went back to school.

By that time, I'd had her a while and she grew older and a bit wiser and a lot less destructive, though she retained her fondness for cat-stuff.

How about the rest of you?

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I got a mutt a few years back from the pound. Andrea really felt bad and wanted to rescue a dog. We have plenty of property, other dogs to hang out with ( all got along together), a pond to swim in, etc,etc. The dog made it to about a year or two and finally we got rid of him. He was the dog from hell. He constantly chewed on all sorts of wiring in the ground, landscape lighting, etc. Of course the pound wouldn't take him back, so we put him down. Horrible!

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

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I got a mutt a few years back from the pound. Andrea really felt bad and wanted to rescue a dog. We have plenty of property, other dogs to hang out with ( all got along together), a pond to swim in, etc,etc. The dog made it to about a year or two and finally we got rid of him. He was the dog from hell. He constantly chewed on all sorts of wiring in the ground, landscape lighting, etc. Of course the pound wouldn't take him back, so we put him down. Horrible!

Our dog chewed the Verizon cable in half 3 times before we fenced in the area that it was buried under. About a week after that we saw her sticking her head through the fence and biting the air trying to get to the cord!

Keith 

Palmetto, Florida (10a) and Tampa, Florida (9b/10a)

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Cats sometimes get a taste for wires, too.

I had a kitty that liked to bite electrical cords. He bit live ones a couple of times before he stopped.

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I could never put a dog down for being destructive to things in the yard, It would have to being chewing on people for that to happen, people I like that is.

Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

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He knocked over a few pots once chasing an Armadillo out of the yard, otherwise zero damage from him in 9 years. Fortunately Setters aren't known much as chewers or diggers. :) He does like to carry around coconuts though.

-Randy

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"If you need me, I'll be outside" -Randy Wiesner Palm Beach County, Florida Zone 10Bish

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This big beast destroys all plants small as she chases lizzards all day, I wouldn't have her any other way. I can always plant small things some other time.

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Jupiter FL

in the Zone formally known as 10A

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Our Pyrenees is free-range. He can do what ever he wants, wherever and whenever.

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That's a nice doggy!

A BIG nice doggy.

"He bite?"

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"Well?"

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I've got a British Lab and a Great Dane. The lab digs all my gopher holes which is usually by the palms, which can be good and bad. Most of the time he shows me where the holes of the gophers are

Grateful to have what I have, Les amis de mes amis sont mes amis!

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I've got a British Lab and a Great Dane. The lab digs all my gopher holes which is usually by the palms, which can be good and bad. Most of the time he shows me where the holes of the gophers are

My doggie of doom (and the cats) all learned to catch gophers, and showed me too.

You wait at dusk, morning or evening, and look for a newly opened gopher hole that's not full of dirt to plug it. You wait. When the gopher appears (it usually does) if you're a cat or dog you bite your fastest bite or hook with claws and drag it out and bite it, and listen to that squeak of death. I shot the [expletive] with a waiting, cocked pellet gun. Squeak! Death! Victory! :evil:

Which of course, required that I stop using poison. Which I did.

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This guy doesn't destroy anything. He's awesome.

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Your dog just likes to dine on kentia!

Fortunately our german shepherd doesn't have a palate for anything from the vegetable kingdom with the exception of bread and peanut butter. But she is a rescue dog that is the all-time pro at leaving landmines all over the garden. She likes to poop right in the middle of whatever walkway or pathway she can find. She does some damage in the garden because she loves to dig up my licuala and dig enormous holes especially in fresh planters. I most likely planted my licuala on top of one of her stashes, but when I dug the hole I didn't find anything. Over the years many things have disappeared, we're pretty sure she stashed them away but we've never found them.

She cannot be left alone with anything because she will destroy it in the house or outside the house. The general diagnosis appears to be separation anxiety. We brought home some baby chicks a few years ago and knew better than to leave her in the house where she could get to the chicks. Well, within 4 hours of our chicks arriving, she forced her way through one of our patio doors and dined on the chicks. Once she was accidentally left alone in the house right after we baked a bunch of xmas cookies. She ate a bunch and to this day we sometimes still find a stale xmas cookie stashed away somewhere where she hid it for posterity.

She doesn't like to waste any food and feels all poop must be digested a second time. She has a particular affinity for toddler poop, which can actually be quite convenient when accidents happen. She loves to clean the kitchen floor and will also "clean" the tabletops if we're not around while she is still in the house. And if all that isn't enough, she can rip farts that will make you turn blue.

Despite all that crap we love her.

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Hmm. My doggie once drank half a crankcase full of used transmission fluid (can't say "tranny" anymore!) and left piles of metal chips all over the yard.

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