AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phew that's better :(

took my eyes off her for 10 seconds today (literally 10 seconds) and she has crunched up most of my new pumice stone   I only bought it today and was putting some other shopping in a cupboard    She's that quick!

Thank doG there's only the one of her, I keep feeling the top of her head to make sure she's not growing horns !

> took my eyes off her for 10 seconds today (literally 10 seconds) and she has crunched up most of my new pumice stone

LOL, on the bright side,  her teeth have had a good clean :)

LOL

I'm pretty sure I swept up all that had been crunched, but if I haven't it'll be more than her teeth getting a good clean - OUCH!

LOL,
How can dogs do things like that - the thought of chomping on a block of pumice makes my teeth cringe - like the noise of nails scratching down a blackboard , urrrrghhhh!!

Dill, I'll swop you for the Demon Pup from Hell !!!
Just don't let that look of 'butter wouldn't melt' fool you.

Oh do I relate to terrier(terror) pups.................
Mine 8 months is to, I cant do washing without her insisting on helping, she like to sort it out with me and help me fold the clean stuff and so on.
She also aggravates with her jumping, she stands no more than 10" high but can reach work tops to clear anything left to close, is almost up on the bin and loves to get on the dining room table aghhhhhhh!  She too will chew anything that she hasn't tried before just incase.
I can see it starting to ease, at least I keep telling myself that!

Ohhh gosh cheeky little thing!! They dont seem to feel pain sometimes tho i am sure of it, ouch, that would hurt me thats for sure :)

Hee hee they do destroy some strange things don't they.  After recently having 2 dogs that went through puppyhood pretty easily (aged 3 1/2 and 2 yrs old) I have a 12 mth old Rottie that is hiding horns somewhere!  Turned my back the other day and she put her teeth through my lovely boots....after telling myself I was silly for leaving them in her way off they went into the bin...oh the joys of these lovely dogs lol!  But we keep on getting more don't we?!

ha ha a pumice stone, is that it? LOL.

My WSD was the puppy from hell, he chewed and destroyed:-

two walls,
a tv cabinet with six wooden shelves
3 model motorbikes - 1 wood, 2 metal (we only found the wheels)
3 banister spindels
1 window sill
1 sofa

What is a WSD exactly?   so I know never to acquire one LOL :-)

We call our terrier Monster Munch - at 21 months he shows no signs yet of losing his voracious appetite for anything that is in close proximity to his mouth. I am sure he thinks his name is Leave It :) He has been such hard work, is slowly improving in that he is now beginning to realise that humans are most definitely not on the menu, but I don't think he will ever get over his canine hoover stage. Strangely enough though he is not greedy for his own food and eats it very delicately and has been known to ignore the odd meal or two - he obviously has exotic tastes. My other dog is Mister Totally Trustworthy so Leave It has been a bit of a shock to the system :)

My dog loves things he discovers for himself, too.
He will go mad for a bit of mouldy bread or a tissue in the street, whereas his own dinner may be left.
He used to be absolutely terrible for chewing shoes, now he still sometimes steals them but he doesn't eat them anymore.

With all of that destruction I can now look at my chewed fireplace, door frames, skirting boards, cupboards knobs and walls and realise that my girls are all just angels :)

By the way dvnbiker does the biker bit signify bike and if so what sort?

My little Demon is only 3 months old,a and I suspect I am going to have a time of it in future.

Funny thing is even ultra strict grumpy great Grandma plays with her!  She is no respecter of persons, human or canien but everyone adores her, baggage.

Ohh Grandma thinks she's great!  This is the same dog who wanted to kill her a few months ago and was so strict with her own pup

Now grandma is as much a hooligan at 8 as her grand-daughter! 

I lost a teatowel to the demon yesterday - I'll launder what's left and use it as part of a booby-trap for the worktops as we've 'lost' a few items in the last week ;)  Sponges, a lovely ham roll, the teatowel...

She's going to get a bit of a shock lol

Oh and OH is struggling to install the new dog-gate as we speak!

My Mum had a Dobie..now long gone...but he was a dog from hell and chewed his way through many things...the washing machine, the plaster on the walls in the kitchen, he got down to brick !!... skirting boards, the dining room table legs, window cills, only the four Siamese cats had the better of him...he was terrified of them especially Pyewacket..the mother, one look from her and he was a shivering wreck!!!!..unless they felt cold when they all used to curl up with him..much to his ammusement!
Is it just Bernese or are lots more pups into landscape gardening??? Oh and a nice bit of re-potting !!!!
Aileen.

ah, and to think i was getting puppy broody yesterday, well thats gone! thanks guys!

My Bernese is well into his gardening. He digs a hole and we fill it up and we go round in circles.
He seems to of let it alone now he has taken up all the plants. Not bothered replacing them as yet and he seems to be leaving it alone?? Does he not like what we planted there? Who knows he is an odd dog with weird habits that i have grown to find quite funny, though the rest of the family don't agree.

I know a breeder over in Kent who said he garden is full of pot holes courtesy of her Bernese, though she does have a fair few.

Yep at 8 weeks great grandma was very firm and made pup squeal if she so much crossed her path.  Now with pup at 14 weeks she plays with her more than with the older half sister (nearly two), she is 11 years old, and grandma nearly 9 who loves to be a hooligan.

A WSD is a working sheepdog, i.e. a bc off a farm that is not registered with the Kennel Club.

In his defence JC has turned out to be a cracker, he is great with people and other dogs and loves playing flyball and agility.  He is a sensitive little chap but I love him dearly.

Yes the biker in my username is a bike.  Have a baby blade resprayed in rossi colours.

Ive got one of those his favorite is the wall for some reason, he has grown out of chewing the skirting now. But we have had to fill and repain the office wall where he would lick and chew the plaster.
Touch wood, neither pup has ever eaten shoes or anything. My OH did moan about losing socks, we found them under the BBQ (so must have been the cocker as the BC didnt fit). But no real damage, odd chair spindles but they were old so we brought metal one's.
Is your ISDS registered? If so they can be kennel club registered if you feel the need? we dont ISDS is more elite!! but we have had people ask if he's got any Border collie in him!!! cheek.

Well the new dog gate is installed and it's been very interesting watching the reaction of pup and the others

All of them are regularly testing the gate to see if it has any weaknesses ;) and they are watching us like hawks when we use it, as they try to figure out how it's opened :-D

Little-Un reckons they're like the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park :-D

It's interesting watching them watching us, and every so often casually testing the gate when they think we aren't looking :-D  Of course it's a very tall one so they can barely reach the top of it - I doubt they'll be able to open it even if they figure out how it's done :-D

No JC isnt isds registered.

Hi Dill, you said your new dog gate is " a very tall one" can I ask what make it is and exactly how tall as my little devil has learned he can just about (not very gracefully) jump ours!!!!!!
So now everything we own belongs to him!!! :(
Paula

It's the Lindam gate from Argos - pet version.  It's 95cms high (up to the middle of my chest I'm a hobbit! )  as the Bedlingtons are only 16" high it's enough to keep them in when we need to ;) 

I've heard some on here mention the fancy Wrought Iron gates for keeping in larger breeds who aren't fazed by normal dog gates :-D 

One of my OVEN GLOVES 'bought it' this morning :(   the booby traps are now up and she's being a perfect angel - typical!

Booby trap consists of -
One chewed tea towel + low metal tin with dried peas and sealed with sticky tape on top

One chewed oven glove + low metal food bowl on top

both near the edge of the worktops

She's acting all innocent now and totally ignoring them - she's a lot craftier than either of the other two, but I can be patient ;)

My boys no longer seek and destroy, but the Pointer collects any item that may be with in reach and collects them all on his bed. No longer damaged just hoarded. This morning he had , a belt, a slipper, a handbag, a boot, a tea towel, the oven gloves , two cat bowls, a teddy and one cat. Although the cat was there of his own accord it would appear it is warmest but most crowded place to be!!

We always refer to our pups having a stash of 'Stuff'  they are always looking to add to 'Their Stuff' Lol.  Nothing like having a puppy to make you tidy.

If something is missing you need to check at the base of the Hazel, the kennel or the dog beds/crate :D

I also have the Lindam gate across the door between kitchen and Living room.

My other half says pups are natures kleptomaniacs!

Bilbo that really made me laugh.. All those items and the cat.. I had this mental image of your dog picking up the cat and placing it there..Lol.

Me too :D

Thanks Dill, I think that its the same as the one I already have. :(
OH has just raised it 3" off the floor so hopefully Charlie will realise its too tall now and he can't get his shoulders under it!! :)
Paula

> I had this mental image of your dog picking up the cat and placing it there..Lol.

I think he would if he could work out how LOL

Things we have known and had chewed by our lovely little guy...

--about £1000 worth of shoes, admittedly over a period of a few months
--three sweaters
--four towels
--endless supplies of vetbed
--a chair
--dustpan and brush (2 sets)
--countless socks and knickers
--a tent

It seems to be slowing down a little now that he has reached the grand age of one year, but this is not a complaint. The moral of the story: train the family to put everything away, it's marginally easier than convincing the dog to concentrate on his own toys or chews.

I did once have a Lancashire Heeler who ate his way through a front door in a single night...

well my darlin hud-lum has just pinched this weeks dog paper-the show supplement bit- and managed to shred the only page that I really wanted to keep, and to make matters worse he p'd on it too

Barbara

Well I'm sorry chaps but my little 'Pog-dog' at 10months is just perfect....the worst thing is eating used cotton buds..yukkk ...but other than that....... perfect :-) :-)
Pog's mother was the same... born with tiny angels wings and I dont remember ever telling her off......


Now if I were to tell you about my other bitch line........

Madam (or madman :-D ) still hasn't even looked at the booby trapped items :grr:  we have moved them about and used them too in the normal course of using the kitchen, but she KNOWS "SOMETHING'S UP" :-D

When we decided to keep her we knew she was the sharpest pup, but I don't think we realised how sharp she really is LOL  

Never mind, I'll set up different booby's every day and sooner or later she'll fall for it :-D

Her mother never chewed anything she shouldn't have - apart from a bit of vetbed when she was bored, and was almost an Angel, her granny was into furniture design until I discovered the power of VICKS LOL

hi felt i had to add my pennies worth! our ES pup is now 5 months old and is a definite opppurtunist! i have previously posted about him being able to obtain and chomp through various boxes of cereal, bananas (leaving the skin), getting the lid of an oil bottle, any recycling left out etc.
but this week he's just found out how much he's grown by putting paws up on sink and getting cloth from behind the taps, anything left in the bowl, including the bowl, paws up on work top and reaching up to get knife block from top of microwave!
but i think what i found most enjoyable to observe was that last sunday we had a roast and after dinner pup crashed out in hall and i'd forgotten about dirty roast pan so when it was his bed time i put it inside the top oven as dishwasher was full and too lazy to wash it up! lights out and gate shut i watched from afar as pup put paws up on cooker and began to pull on the handle of cooker! if i had left him i know he would have succeeded as it was a pull down door. so at midnight i ended up washing the pan after all!!
now i know what it's like to have spotless kitchen - very not me!!