AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Took my eyes off the pup today for two minutes to wash some dishes.  In that time she removed and demolished the 3 clock knobs and the ignition knob on my year old range cooker and at some point she has also chewed the bottom corner of one of the kitchen cupboard doors since last night

She was only 3 feet away and is so sneaky!  I have never caught her taking any of the things she has chewed!   The booby-trapped teatowels have been ignored totally!

Can't bear to look at her at the moment, I'm that fed up with her :( so she's out in the garden.

I've never had a pup that chewed or destroyed things at this age, it's usually far earlier when they're really teething, but all her teeth are through!   This is just pure mischief!

I've told her if she chews any more of my stuff she's for sale or going into rescue - she doesn't seem Bovvered tho :(

Talk about a Kevin!

Have e-mailed the company to try and buy new knobs - fingers crossed

My dog has just started this behaviour again in the past few days. He has taken to chewing the door frame where he sleeps.. Grrr. I have pasted the area with tabasco sauce, hoping that stops him.

And when she's old and has been your most successful dog ever, you'll be heard to tell fond stories of what a naughty little tinker she was...when she was young...ah bless ;-)

It sounds so cute when it's somebody elses pup!

This may be totally futile, but is it worth giving her something to shred when you know you can't watch her like a hawk?

I've been very lucky with Buster not destroying anything other than an Argos catalogue and a sheep skin rug that was used as dog bedding, but I have always given him cardboard boxes with treats hidden inside, sometimes I'll scrunch the treats up in newspaper pages so once he has got into the box he has to unwrap the treats. It makes a whopping mess, but it really keeps him occupied and he loves shredding all the carboard afterwards.

What a little terror!! Dont give up though!! You will get there in the end will just take time. Sounds a right cheeky little nipper though!! Its so frustrating when its one of your own

Sounds like me and you have the pups from hell lol.  Fleur has peeled two of my kitchen draws and has destroyed countless amounts of tea towels.  We still love them though (so we keep telling ourselves) :-)

Mine has been here a day and has the look of a Angel!! hmmm i think not lol:)

My Golden bitch removed all the knobs off our cooker when she was a year old. It somehow made one of the two ovens malfunction (if you ever try using it, it trips the electric in the entire house), and then, even though we managed to salvage ONE knob and ever since then (a year) have used it to switch the cooker on and off with (just moving it around the hotplates etc), she then broke off the little metal pin underneath the knob to the main oven, so the oven now cannot be switched off or the heat setting changed. I e-mailed the manufacturer and asked about spare knobs -never even got a reply! We really need to buy a new cooker now and I was going to fork out £650 on a digital one with NO knobs at all, but then decided it's too much. So we're buying a cheaper one and I'm asking hubby to build a fence around it!! The things you do for dogs....... But with two pups in the house again, I don't want to risk having to buy another cooker again. And I never caught mine in the act either, ever!

So it's not just you, even if your cooker was more expensive than mine by the sounds of it. :(

If you bought an Aga they couldn't chew the knobs orf! ;-)

Oh I have soooo been in your shoes Dill....

I was too scared to tell my husband that my wee girl had chewed all the knobs off his playstation controller, thought if he found out later he would realise it was far too late to get cross about it which worked brilliantly :-D :-D

I did feel bad for him though trying to play his game with just a couple of sharp stumps rather than the nice padded toggles :-D

Another time one of my Chows was so naughty I gave him time out in the bathroom, just for a short time, but he just removed most of the door frame!!! The cheeky tikes always seem to get the upper hand and then have the cheek to give you that butter wouldn't melt look :)

My Lexi chewed the ignition knob off my Creda cooker, an itty bitty thing, and they can't replace it, grrr.  she is five now, and that was when she and cooker were about 6 months old.

>This may be totally futile, but is it worth giving her something to shred when you know you can't watch her like >a hawk?

At the time she had two hand brushes which she loves 'killing' and shredding and chewing the handles and a small dustpan, various squeaky toys, two steamed bones and two 'brand new' plastic drinks bottles (empty, lids removed) which she gets really excited about, she gets these before they go in the recycling bin.  So there was really no excuse.

She's currently on a leash and everywhere we go, she goes, that way she knows we're watching her.  Even OH can manage that ;)

Marrianne,

Have received a reply from Belling, all they need are the serial no etc. of the Range to know which to supply.  Reply came within hours so can certainly recommend their customer care :-D   Should be good, the 'Range' did cost an arm and a leg (to us anyway) but I got really fed up with shoddy cookers.  It was a treat, along with a new Kitchen for our 26th wedding anniversary ;)    When researching the different makes and models I was amazed to find that Belling actually make the Stoves cookers too  (my Range came with fitting instructions for the Stoves Range cookers too ;) )

Sorry,
Just couldn't help having a good laugh at that. My oldest ate a brand new staircase when she was 4 months old, army house so you can imagine how inventive a repair job it was!!!! LOl.
She is like a different dog now she really is 100% bomb proof and nothing fazes her in life, so maybe it's a good sign of things to come!

Hopefully she will grow out of it soon, I am not going to tell you about my boy who is as good as gold (mummy's boy, 6 months :) )

Ha! guess who was mummy's girl at six months??? a perfect angel  :evil grin:   what a difference a few weeks can make

She looking all cute and angelic at the moment, very subdued because of the lead.   If she can keep this up I may not sell her in the Market on Friday :)

How much ? :)

Feelin like it's time for another terrier in my life :)

We called them sno cones and always had a heap of cardboard boxs in the office and we would chuck their ball/chewey in it and they would scramble in then tip the box up with them iit and watch them scramble out... We had such fun in our office trying to work with two pups but it did work, sno cones were ususlly a very small piece of cheese in a sheet of photocopy paper that were chucked around when we needed quiet for a phone call. Double action too they wipe their own bum on the way out!!!!

> At the time she had two hand brushes which she loves 'killing' and shredding and chewing the handles and a small dustpan, various squeaky toys, two steamed bones and two 'brand new' plastic drinks bottles (empty, lids removed) which she gets really excited about, she gets these before they go in the recycling bin.  So there was really no excuse.

Oh dear!! She's obviously a bright girl that gets bored with her toys easily and finds it much more fun to invent her own games!!!

Hi Dill, what a busy little girl your pup has been. :)
I too can recommend stoves customer care...
The knob from my cooker snapped off and we contacted stoves and they sent me a replacement free of charge! :)
a few months later another one came off, (OH too heavy handed)  they not only sent a replacement but sent 4 just in case it happened again!! :)
good luck with your little angel
Paula

had to have a chuckle, we have all been there.  Scarlet likes to chew slippers, and I was at the pet shop and saw a toy called Pet Peeves, that says on the tummy "Why cant I chew slippers".  LMAO

What tickles me is that my OH insists ours is the worst ever, much worse than previous puppy...hah...that is not the case of course, we do forget easily. Of course they are the all different,some more different than others.
Karen ;)

It's all coming back to me now :-) Our new pup was trying to have a chomp on my Dexter's manhood earlier, those darn puppy teeth!! :-) poor lad.

This thread brings back wonderful memories.  My very first Bearded Collie chewed the door frame and it became a nightmare.  There was hardly any wood left!  I painted every bit of wood that she could reach with mustard.  To find her drooling and going into raptures as she licked and licked at it.  The daft thing is, some years later, when I had a second Beardie, I was moaning to my vet, and saying how naughty she was in comparison to my beautiful girl, who could do no wrong.  He cracked up, and told me what a short memeory I had!

Sorry, but I had to laugh!

We have never had anything chewed by a pup, until Poppy, who is currently 9 months old. I did away with her crate as soon as she was toilet trained, as I haven't room for crates for all of them and felt mean that she was in one and the others weren't. She has since chewed several holes in our plastered walls and nibbled the skirting boards, all of which were forgiven. Then I came home the other day to find splintered bits of door frame all over the kitchen floor, which was the least straw, so back in the crate she is. I never, ever leave them for long, it's surpising how little time they need to do so much damage...

She also steals things (although to give her her due, she'll bring them straight to me when i ask her to) and likes to jump up at the ktichen worktops in search of food. She jumps over the stairgate to get out of the kitchen if she feels like it, and I once came down from my sons bath and putting him to bed to find her stood on the not yet wiped dining room table eating crumbs!

Oh, and did I mention she barks? Our other two don't really, but the spoilt little madam very quickly trained me to do what she wanted and i have been trying to train myself out of allowing her to do so ever since....

However, she is very easy to train, and I might try some agility with her when she is older. if I have enough hair left to go out in public....

good luck with your pup!

Sorry, edited to add, I can't shut her out in the garden, she is not allowed out there unsupervised as she likes to dig for Australia and it currently looks like the Somme out there....

Of all things to chew - I would never have thought of that one.  My last dog chewed the handles on the kitchen cupboards.  With this one I took all the handles off!  Made opening the drawers a bit of a nuisance but they were expensive handles.  I always made sure Meg had kongs when we left her but she took to shredding her blanket instead.  Now she just chews her bed for attention - she knows that if she runs off with the cushion I will swap it with a treat.  So she has a bare bed all day.  As for stealing - any children's toys left on the floor are fair game to her and SOCKS!!!    Hope you get replacements OK.

Hello Dill

Re your pup for sale, could I add two to the list and where are you advertising them.?

My beloved has just phoned me up at work to complain that MY BLOOMIN DOGS (not actually the words he used) have just eaten their way through the door frame and wall to the cupboard under the stairs :( and what am I going to do about it?
Well whilst sat at my desk with phones ringing and orders to process, not a lot!!

Of course these two devilish creatures are the worst dogs in the world and we soon won't have a house left.

He forgets when HIS dogs, GR and BC were young they ate the kitchen!! Goodbye floor covering and cupboard doors and rubber lining to washing machine door!!

I would say Dogs who'd have em but no I'll change it to MEN who'd have em!!
Come to think of it forget pups for sale, where can I advertise my OH?

Have you noticed when the dogs do something wrong or make a mess, OH always say Your Dogs have done this or that and when they are being good or getting praise they don;t belong to us they belong to the OH.  Anyone else noticed this.

Oh yes, if there are any funny smells, or stains then it is MY dogs.  When they are being cute and cuddly and he is picking them up and carrying them round like babies then they are HIS dogs.  I dread to think what it will be like when we have kids.

This is a common male trait, selective thinking I call it.
Whatever is bad is 'selected' to be mine
Whatever is good is 'selected' to be his. :)

my girl was a right madam when she was a puppy she chewed clothes chairs laundry baskets and even skirting board how i never got rid of her i dont know but glad i never shes lovely now