We have a garden seat, with a large pot attatched at each end, full of soil and plants. A certain young lady ( age 12 weeks) managed to turn the whole thing over on her own today, and covered the patio with squashed plants and soil. How she managed it will always be a mystery. Kai, the other pup, is guilt free, he was with me at the time!!!! Anyone want a real little devil on four paws?

Yes please Phil ;-)!

Thinking ahead....Ben plus Kloud = Mayhem!!!!!! lol

LOL Phil, but I was really thinking "Our house minus Madame La Piranha (which I suppose it inevitably will be before too long:-(), but plus Kloud might equal not much change ....

:) Not much change at all Sharon, just a bit worse!! lol

Worse?! Impossible!

Phil, you've never met her, but you've got to promise me (and yourself) that pleasure soon :-)

I'll swap you for mine Philippa :D :D :D

I came home yesterday and found my hallway covered in ripped wallpaper ...again :D Just been off on a weeks holiday...so she was obviously missing me !! :D

Natasha

Oh god Natasha, at least Kloud hasnt destroyed the house....yet!! Poor you, more decorating :(

Ah now, you have a dog that does DIY? I'm sending Teelin over to help. Her score at last count was four mattresses, one easy chair, one table plus four dining room chairs, a gear stick, a pair of curtains sundry panelling and no doubt a few odds and ends I've forgotten.

LOL @ Sharon...at least she's not that bad...:D

Philippa...if you want a hand with decorating..let me know and you can have India for the weekend...she can help rewire plugs too !!!:D

Just as well my landlady never does spot checks !!! :D

Natasha

No thanks Mate, already got one :D :D

Phillippa,
Had the same problem, Bodie would eat the plants then Lucy would dig up the roots,after 2 weeks no more flowers,no need for pots ,no more digging

Hi craig, I dont mind too much really. The rest of our garden area is fenced so the babies cant get into it. It just amazed me how one little lurcher pup, could manage to push it over !!

On a slightly more serious note about clever longdogs, does anyone have experience of good dog-proof door latches? We have the old fashioned thumb latch sort, and each and every one of our female deerhounds can open them. It wasn't a problem until we got cats again, but now they open doors and sneaky around the place at all hours playing hunt the cat food. At the moment we are just piling bags of dog biscuit behind the kitcken door when we go to bed, but Himself 'forgot' that I was staying up late last night, and barricaded the b***dy door so well that I had to climb out one window and in another just to get to bed! And then I stupidly moved the barricade, so we were woken a hour later by the tiny patter of a couple of dozen big Whiskas hunting feet!

lol @Sharon :) :D
Sharon my mam uses this long piece of wood and it slots down into a receiver at each side of the door like in the cowboy films. Mam is very inventive Sharon, to make sure she never gets locked out she has this nylon string attached to a little screw on the wood and drapes it over the door to another screw and if that was to happen then all she has to do is pull the string and up it will come . :) mari

Thanks Mari, though I've yet to find anything without a key that's Piranha-proof (and even then I'm not always sure :-)). Worse, what Madame knows, she teaches! But I do like the lock-out protection in the system, so I'll give it a try and let you know if it works. Can understand why Phil thinks its funny, but I'm a tad old for breaking into my own house at 3 am :-) :-).

:D :D LOL visual picture of you climbing in and out of windows :)

We have round door handles in our house. I would imagine they would be more difficult for an animal to open - nothing to use as a lever. I know they're a blooming nuisance for humans when you have to put down the drink and sandwich you were taking to the pc with you! And heaven help you if you've put hand cream on!:D
LynnT

Lynne, we had some round handles before we renovated the place, so Madame had those sussed almost before she could reach them :-(. But I could try smearing the old bag with hand cream ... now there's a rare thought :D!

You'd laugh even harder if you could see the plant life under said windows. Ian is a magpie about everything, even plants, so they are like ruddy triffids!

Hope there are no spiders hiding in them ;D