Naughty, Naughty Dog!!! Jff

My beloved Lab mix Guinness (had to finally put him down last year) had SO many funny stories, but this one happened around Halloween....before we had kids, we had a giant bowl of Halloween candy leftover on the hutch filled with a ton of dun-dum lolipops since we don't like them...well, we came home from work and there a million white sticks all over the living room rug and kitchen floor....Guinness had eaten about a hundred lilipops...but not the sticks! HAHA!

We have a short haird dog (kind of looks like a border collie just short haired). Some lab in her also - don't know what else. Love her to pieces. But she has a naughty side. She gets food (like left over sandwiches someone left out) and takes and hides it. Typicall under my pillow on my bed. My hubby found the remains of a peanut butter sandwhich the other night. I've found leftover scrambled eggs and an apple. Then she has started chewing. This summer she chewed up a pair of my son's baseball pants, my favorite pair of shorts, and holes in too many blankets to count. She's about to drive me nuts !

I am a veterinarian, so I end up being on the receiving end of all the dogs (and cats!) that choose to do naughty things. Especially if I happen to be working emergency late at night. There's all the dogs that I have to induce vomiting on, because they get into something toxic, like chocolate, or rat poison, or sugarless gum (if it's sweetened with xylitol), or human medications or overdoses of their own medications. And there's all the dogs and cats that have gone to surgery because of something they have eaten that is now stuck in their GI tract and can't be passed - socks, towels, leashes, string, toys, corn cobs, rocks, etc. I once had, as a patient, a little dachshund puppy, that kept eating pacifiers that got left all over the place. He had to have surgery to remove the first one and did fine. Came back 2 weeks later to have the sutures removed and the owners reported he had managed to poop out a second one the day before (and it was NOT there at the time of surgery, we would have found it!). A month after that puppy was having surgery #2 to remove pacifier #3. You would think after the first incident the owners would have been a little more careful about keeping the pacifiers out of reach!

There is a veterinary publication that holds a contest every year for vets to submit x-rays of the the craziest things they have seen pets swallow. Amongst the entries there have been:
- a Lab that had accumulated 14 golf balls in his stomach
- a boxer that had swallowed a rubber ducky (you could see the perfect outline of the ducky in its stomach)
- a young pit bull that had swallowed an 11 inch knife that was in its stomach and esophagus
- a cat with a stomach full of fake plastic grass from a plant arrangement
- another cat with a metal TV antenna down it's throat
- a Husky with a choke chain as well as a metal lock in its stomach
- another boxer that kept eating pea gravel until there was about 20 lb of it in its stomach
- a Lab that was a habitual rock eater and ended up with 2 rocks as well as part of a corn cob in it's small intestine.
- a cat that swallowed the plastic googly eye off of stuffed animal
- another cat that had a game die in it's small intestine (you could see the perfect square outlined by barium)

I also sometimes get dogs that decide to try to make friends with a porcupine and end up with quills stuck in their face - sometimes hundreds of quills that are in their face, nose, mouth, throat, and all have to be pulled out by hand. That requires sedation and all the extra people you can muster. Even better is when a dog gets "porcupined" more than once - like they didn't learn the first time!

BTW, Labs are the worst for this kind of thing. :)

Had a lab years ago. Memorial Day cookout, probably 12 people at the house. Hamburger patties were all made and ready to grill in the fridge. I went into the house to get the patties, I set them on the counter and ran back outside for something... Came back in literally 2 minutes. 5 POUNDS OF RAW HAMBURGER......GONE! She didn't even knock the tray off the counter. And get this, she didn't get sick either.

I could write a book...seriously a VERY LONG book about it.

She steals food from our toddler, you can NOT walk out of the room (even to simply go to the bathroom) if there is food with in reach of her.

She learned how to unlock and open our sliding door. Not kidding. Came home and it was wide open....in 20 degree weather....TWICE. Had to stick a pole in the sliding glass door.

Things she has eaten include. 19 balloons, two lbs of biscuit dough, glass, 40 unwrapped peppermints, a box of Easter chocolate, dirty diapers, used sanitary items, rolls of toilet paper, a whole bag of carrots (really dog carrots?), gosh and those are the only things I can think of off the top of my head.

She kills things. To date it's been 5 birds, five mice, a goose, and if it wasn't for the fence jumping into her path she would have had a rabbit. Seriously that dog was just getting ready to clamp down when the rabbit shot through a hole in the fence, the dog who was focusing solely on her prey ran head first into it hard enough to dent it. While funny for us....she was PISSED. Just went ape barking, I swear if I spoke dog I would be washing her mouth out with soap.

When our German Shepherd was still an older puppy (she was not quite 2 years) her favorite past-time, when we were not home, was to "de-nose" my daughter's stuffed animals. She is a very careful and particular dog. She never damaged the actual stuffed animal---only removed the hard plastic nose from the tip of the stuffed animal's face! You'd pick up a stuffed dog and look at it's face and the tip of the nose fur would look a little damp and the hard plastic nose would just be removed. A tiny little hole might be evident. A few times, we actually found the nose and were able to put it back on. She would remove it again the next time we were out. She never touched the ones that had sewn on thread noses. Only the plastic ones.
She was our "de-noser", lol.
She doesn't do that anymore (she is 7 now) but the kids still remember and laugh about it. She is an extremely intelligent and well-behaved dear, who is not destructive at all, generally speaking. She did, however, scratch some paint off the door jamb of my bedroom the first week we moved into our brand new home. We had closed the door so she wouldn't get on our bed. While we were out she noticed the lever style handles (which we never had before this house) and promptly jumped up with her paws a few times to open it and let herself in. Her nails scratched the edge of the jamb in the process.
Now she lets herself in through the garage/laundry room door the same way if the kids somehow return inside without her.

But true naughtiness? Meehhh... she sneaks onto the sofa sometimes when she thinks we won't notice (have been away from the house for a few hours, or in the dead of night in the winter sometimes).

our 6 month old puppy, ripped the screen off the deck door, snuck inside, jumped onto the counter, and stole 3 thawing chicken legs, tore the skin off ate every thing else. So when i come in to find the mess and about to chase the dog I slip in the skin, go sliding into the kids play table, fall on one of there chairs completely smashing it, and breaking my wrist in the process. She is still naughty at 7 months, but more typical stuff. She a 4 way mutt. Australian Shep/Blue Heeler/Great Dane/Husky. She is big, beautiful, and completely infuriating.

Labs, do they ever outgrow the puppy stage???

Our Lab ate a free sample of antioxidant vitamins that she got off the counter. Luckily she held it until we got home, but proceeded to have to make trips outside for the entire rest of the evening. She ate one of our couch cushions. She still at age 13 gets in the trash if we forget to set it up. She gets in the bathtub when my loud husband is watching football or there is a thunderstorm.

She also loves our two children beyond distraction and her favorite toy to this day is a frisbee. She would swim for hours, but we ended up having to throw her in for her very first swim because she was afraid of the water.

When walking on trails she will not go farther than 6 feet ahead of us and will not let us pass if there is a snake ahead (thank you). She will run for hours off the trail if she sees something and you make the mistake (was not me) of telling her to go get it.

Yes, I love this dog : )

don't be annoyed at me...but why is the lab sleeping outside? Can't he sleep in the house?

LOL We have a Labradoodle and he's almost 11 months old and he can be so naughty. He digs in our garden, he stole squash to chew on. He steals the kids toys whenever he gets a chance (especially my daughter's dolls). He chews up crayons if they're left out. He absolutely loves my slippers and will hide them from me. He torments the cat any chance he gets. Oh and drinks out of the toilet whenever we leave the lid up (thanks to my husband who "forgets" all the time). But I love him and he can be so sweet!

Oh, we had a dog that would chew up my bras and expensive shoes :( NOTHING could be left out.

For our doggie we have now, I just caught him this morning jumping up on the dining room chair and eating all of my daughter's vitamins right off the table! grrrrr.... But probably the worst thing he does is taking used sanitary products out the bathroom trash can and chewing it and having it strewn all over the house. How's that one? YUCK. One night he did this while I was asleep at night so instead of waking me to deal with it, my poor husband cleaned it all up (what a dear!). So now I have to throw those directly in the closeted kitchen trash otherwise die of total embarrassment!! I'm just waiting for a female guest to come over and have this happen. Can you imagine??

My cat darted out the front door one day, but I was working nights and was exhausted, so I went on to bed, figuring he'd come back when he was ready. When I woke up that evening, I went to open the door and couldn't. There was a DEAD BIRD blocking the door, and my cat was sitting there twitching his tail, waiting for my thanks. I had to call my boyfriend to come move it, because the house I was living in didn't have a back door, so I couldn't get outside! A few years later, that same cat woke me up in the middle of the night. He had found a mouse (I lived in a duplex and the neighbors weren't the cleanest) and was tossing it from one side of the living room to the other, playing catch by himself. The poor mouse was still alive!! It was the funniest/creepiest thing I have ever seen!

I have a 10 month old Goldendoodle. She just recently chewed through the wires on our a/c. Whenever the grass is wet she pulls the pads off our outdoor chairs to lay on in the yard. She has chewed up our son's teeter totter and our hose. We let her keep the piece of hose and she runs back and forth across the yard dragging that hose behind her, her favorite toy!

My yellow lab, Daisy, was a crazy pup! At 9 months I took her to obedience school. It took 3 of us to get a gentle leader on her and we almost got kicked out the first night. All she wanted to do was play with the other dogs. So they moved us to the far corner, by ourselves, and she mostly behaved. Funny thing was she did the best on the final test with all the commands :) she is smart, but wild!
She ate 4 dozen cupcakes off the counter that I had cooling, wrappers and all, while I went to use the bathroom!
She brings home dead skunks and has been sprayed more times than I can count. She has been hit by a porcupine 3x.

Once our lab got out the front door of our house and was on his own, unattended, for about an hour. When I came home, I found him frolicking and bouncing around on our postage stamp front yard. SOOOO happy to be outside, but too good and sweet to leave the yard.

I love labs!

Haha oh no!! That's so funny (albeit naughty!!)

I used to have a Rottweiler/German Shepherd mix. She was very sweet, but one day I came home from work and my room mate forgot to let my dog out... I thought someone had broken in!! My room was torn up like you wouldn't believe; she ate all my CLOTHES, pulled the mattress off my bed, and chewed a huge hole through my box spring... she was so proud of herself too, and showed me how she could crawl under the bed, up and out the hole.

Then, I was 'babysitting' (PERMANENTLY!!) a friends Husky/Malamute mix. Huge, gorgeous dog. I was supposed to watch her for a week while they checked out homes in AZ... they never came back!! I had no business with a dog, I was in an apartment!! So I went to go buy a crate... I put the dog in the bathroom so there was only so much she could get into while I was gone... came home, and she was at the front door. I was like 'how did she get out!?'... SHE ATE A HOLE THROUGH THE DOOR!!!!! (Side note, we ended up giving her to a woman who was a dog trainer... she called 6 months later begging me to take her back, the dog was impossible!!)

Now, we have good old River dog, he's a German Plotthound... he's pretty good :) I think the only naughty stuff he really does is sleeps on the couch at night when he knows he's not supposed to... he's eaten a few of the babys toys, but that was our fault because he didn't know the difference between his soft dog toys and a squeaky soft baby toy :) I love my dog!!

Nope..no stories. But I will read all of yours to help curb my yearning for a dog right now. Reading all your naughty dog stories might fight the urge for at least a good 6 months. Dogs are sooo much fun,so sweet...and yet a ton of work and a test of patience. So the latter is keeping us from biting the bullet and getting a furry friend...but I know it is a-coming!!!

Good luck and best wishes!

Okay this is a gross story but.... My dog ATE A PAIR OF MY UNDERWEAR. We didn't know until after taking a poo one day, it came out :p Well, kind of out...it was stuck and had to be pulled out. An entire pair came out. The poor puppy and yes we stopped to take a picture because it was so funny

this story is horrible and i just wanted to let you know if you have not already talked with your neighbors about the dogs you def need to. a neighbor dog knawled and riped out wires in a truck and that truck owner shot that dog! it was expensive damage to the truck but the truck owner over reacted and hurt the dog badly. the dog surrvived but the dog owners were shocked and spoke with the truck owners inquiring as to why he took such extream measures? make sure your neighbors have the same light heart as you do about the things dogs mess up! so far it has been little things. and people really do need to keep there things put up. but seemingly normal people can boil over quickly!

My lab was a jerk! She chewed up the swingset!!

One night, shes laying on her bed, under the living room window chewing on her bone, I go out for a little bit (shame on me) came back, my husband is laying on the couch next to the dog on her bed. I looked down at her and she had completely chewed the windowsil OFF!!
How my husband didnt notice she was doing this I have no clue. The dog is gone, but my chewed up windowsil remains. Still pisses me off to look at it.
Those a just a few, the dog chewed up our life!!!