Apologise for moaning but have had a few bad days.  First off was when I was getting ready for a walk and was bending down to put my boots on, Meg banged my glasses into my eye with her head and now I have a real black eye   Then while we were out she found a lovely pile of what was probabally fox poo because it didn't smell anything like a dog - she had smeared that merrily down her coat before I could do anything.  I cleaned her up and washed her lead that was also pretty niffy.  Meg pulled the lead down from it's drying place and chomped it into little pieces
Then  she gives me that 'butter wouldn't melt' look.  What can one say!  However I do start wondering if she is ever going to stop chewing - I have never seen a dog chew on anything and everything.  Her blanket is getting smaller and smaller as she trims bits of the edge. 

i completely sypathise with the chewing! My 9mth lab is chomping on anything and evrything. We have holes in the walls, the skirting at the top and bottom of the stairs has been started on..... We had the same thing with the older lab at the same age, but she took it out on a piano!! I wouldn't care, but its been passed down from my mam, her mam etc, and it was an original of a manufcturer that folded years and years ago. Oooops! I never wanted it anyway, but my mam ran out of room for it..... She did grow out of the chomping habit though, so i'm sure yours will!

i can also sympathise with the fox poo. Teka (the oldest of my two) decided she'd have a roll in some the other week. It as everywhere, but worst of all she'd rubbed it in right behind her ears, in her ears, round her eyes, in her collar..... i had to grab hold of her while a dog passed, so my hands reeked of it from the crap on the collar, as did my coat because she rubbed against me. then a very pleasant man with an equally pleasant man asked if his dog could play with mine, which they did, so i had to spend 10 minutes reeking of crap talking to a stranger! Unfortunately i had no tomato sauce to get rid of the smell (i knew i should have bought some just incase!), so had to make do with three doses of doggy shampoo, but you could still smell it :rolleyes:

dogs-who'd have em!

oh dear what a bad day you've had .....
hope your black eye improves soon try ...steak ! !

as for the chewing I have had to remove all the furry toys from my pup 13m as she loves to chew the end and remove  the stuffing all over the floor ...luckily she doesnt attempt to swallow it !
she has also found my hiding place for them and tries to sneak them out without me knowing .....so clever !

hope you have a better day today..
Roni

Tomato sauce!  I haven't heard of that one.  As for furry toys Roni - those got torn apart at the age of 6 months.  I sympathise with the poster who said can anyone recommend any toys that can't be chewed up! The Kong seems to be lasting well as do those nylobones - the blanket is lasting very well too but I don't know how much she swallows.  She must have a tough constitution - unlike our last dog who couldn't eat a rawhide chew without developing diaorreah.  I have started giving her these chews now because her need to chew is enormous.  We are so glad we have the cage to put her in when we are out.  But when we are home my ears are always pricked to hear what she is up to.  She is about 8 months old now.
Christine

Ceejay it sounds like you've got the post-Christmas blues.

My dog rolled in fox or something a few months ago and I bathed her twice before coming on here and being told about the ketchup.  What a palarva!  Even after that I could smell it a little bit but is was a lot better and after acouple of days it had gone (or I had got used to it :D)

yes but think of all the cute lovely hings she has done!!

What a day, ceejay! Unfortunately fox poo seems to have an irresistible quality to it - I often wonder whether it could be bottled somehow and used as a training aid!!! - because all my dogs have been unable to resist a roll in it. Having got Nips past 5 months without a single incident I was silly enough to assume he might be the only dog in the world immune to it but he managed to excel himself by two particularly disgusting but positively orgasmic rolls in the stuff in one week! The second being when we were visiting my terribly house-proud sister in law's home just after Christmas and he found a pile of urban fox poo just around the corner. So muggins here had to spend the next 15 minutes outside on their patio in freezing weather with bucketfulls of warm water and what had been a small white dog...

Yes, my horrible pair love to roll in that, and I have to drive home with the windows open and horrible smears all down their coats. Then they get the hosepipe in the back garden treatment!!