Having got up to "use the facilities" at 4.40am this morning, I staggered bleary-eyed back to bed.  When I got up "properly" an hour later and "used the facilities" again, I noticed not only had I left the loo door open after the previous visit, but also the loo roll was missing.

With a groan I realised.... ........and went with some apprehension down the stairs.

What greeted me was a sea of which tissue paper, 90% of which was in very small pieces.  I then spent the next 20 minutes on my hands and knees (and not in a good way) picking the damn stuff up. 

The culprit (who I most certainly did not tell off as it was my stoopid fault) looked soooo pleased with himself, and when I asked him "What have you got" in the happy singsong voice, I though he was gonna wag his bum clean off.

I'm sure if I had bought a Lab pup instead of the little orange bugger I have, he/she would have draped the loo roll tastefully around and over the furniture.

Did I make a mistake in my choice of breed?

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>I'm sure if I had bought a Lab pup instead of the little orange bugger I have, he/she would have draped the loo roll tastefully around and over the furniture.

You obviously have been taken in by the sweet charming little cutie pie who poses on TV as the sweetest little darling ever.   WRONG  Try a brand new 18 pack of loo rolls left on kitchen floor, all through kitchen, round, over and some under sofas in livingroom, into hall and out front door into garden.  All labs had a guilty smile while Tia desperately tried to spit the last remaining sheet unsuccessfully out of the side of her mouth. 2 days later I was still collecting little puffs of tissue.

Why don't you even try a bag of sugar on the worktop for an unhousetrained pup?
Scatter it everywhere then pee on it so it solidifies :( :(  ( I was hacking away with a knife on woodfloor for days!)

Ohhh those were the days! :D

I didn't close my downstairs toilet door properly a few weeks ago.  Went into the kitchen to find the same scene with the toilet roll and found Lastar still holding part of the toilet roll and grinning from ear to ear!!  You just can't help but love them can you :d

LOl  @  mygirl  :D

>( I was hacking away with a knife on woodfloor for days!)

Mental picture just too funny :P

LOL Kay - I know all about Labs.....I had two pups in 1989 - one black, one yellow - Barney and Fred were their names.  They did a good one to me - one of several - they opened my cupboard in the kitchen and removed two boxes of 160 tea bags and shredded the lot.  320 tea bags makes a huge mess and the kitchen flooring could not be seen.  I was out for 20 minutes!  Sadly "the boys" have passed on now.  They were litter mates and never ever fought - they were always sweet to each other and to us - I still miss them now (as I do all my previous dogs) - I think labs have a special quality..... :) and if I ever come into money, they will be first on my list...:D

Sorry Vicki, but I *have* to ask  :D

>I then spent the next 20 minutes on my hands and knees (and not in a good way)<

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Gardening, scrubbing the kitchen floor, .........  -  am I getting warm ;)  :P

Not even tepid Teri :D :D :D

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"Gardening, scrubbing the kitchen floor, .........  -  am I getting warm"

Hence my reply - "not even tepid"

ok now honey ??

I came home one day to find my Lab with the cat flap firmly wedged round his neck and a gapping whole ripped in my back door and guess what a big grin and a very waggy tail, Labs you can't help but love them!

ps Vicki does it involve doggies by any chance ??

How about a very large bag of rice :d  It was in Carina's no. two's for days!!  I still found grains of rice in the kitchen a week later :d

Very, Very funny!!
My half lab/boxer Gina,( now in doggie heaven aged 18 years!!) Loved my favourtie teddy which took pride of place on my bed every night of course next to Gina. I returned home from school one day to be greeted with the empty fur outer  of teddy that was placed gently between my feet as i came through the door. When i entered the lounge there was the foam insides of my teddy bear all over the place. She looked so pleased, I cried! ( I was only 7yrs old at the time)  my mum spent all night putting it all back together!! When i woke up the next morning there they both were my dog and teddie side by side . Ahhh!

er.....yes Caz...... (sheepish grin)

Yep

Labs, Our woody, loves nothing better than having a good shred :D

Anything thats left lying around. And he thinks he can slink off with he will.

A couple of weeks ago me and hubby treated ourselves to a rare night out.  WE left woody, with full kong, treats, plenty f stuff to keep him occupied. Put him in bedroom, cause he sleeps there at night. And a load of cardboard boxes.

Yep he shredded the lot. Personally, I think he does it to say "hey what about me, u left me" and went off enjoying yourselves.

Yep we slept in bed full of cardboard bits, and contented lab that night. Glad we where drunk :D

Alix

How about a bag of potatoes? We left one supposedly out of reach with our Cavalier and American cocker when they were younger, and returned to find the bag shredded, and one bite taken out of each and every potato to see if any of them were worth eating!!!! Dear little creatures!!!!

LOL yes anything that can be shreaded will be! Trouble is I forget that even other people with dogs arnt all prepared for the ways of a Lab. M In Law has lost countless items of food from the work surface, I thought she had learned but she was appaently surprised by a Lab that liked melon <roll>

Then there is the ganging up, we had a cat that could open almost any cupboard, she used to pass the food /toilte rolls etc out to the dogs and sit there looking smug while the dogs got told off. We must be the only childless household with kiddie catches on everything!

Hook has to sleep on newspaper for the first 18 months as he just destroyed any bedding, at least shredded newspaper is cheep if not very easy to clear up. Oh and soft toys have to be disected just incase they have a squeek.   

Dont worry it's not just Labs i have to keep the toilet door constantly locked or we wouldn't have any loo roll left, Nina my bully loves to rip it to shredds.

Warm regards Susan

I got home once, when poppy was still a puppy and found that my futon sofa bed not only had several large rips out of it, as well as a chewed slat on the back but that she had managed to pull most of the foam out of it.  I got home to find her gently sleeping on balls of big wiry foam - a little angel sleeping amongst the destruction - as it was a double bed the foam filled the entire room.  To add insult to injury, when trying to put it all back in she would leap across the room and wrestle it out of my hand....

My two would make brilliant shredders!!! They shred everything papery from paper to cardboard especially the bit you forgot to pick up or the mail if you don't shut the hallway door!! I guess it's the same for most pups. I must say Quito is the better Shredder out of him and Milo. Then again he's had more experience.
I'm a teacher and the other day i almost had to use of one my student's excuse about an exercise book. I left it on the bar stool and Quito had it on his bed ready to chew away. I saved it but i laughed when i realise what my excuse would have been giving back the half eaten book the next day if i hadn't had caught him on time... "My dog hate my homework!!!!!" LOL
So Vicki, not really to do with the breed...