My goldendoodle has a strong affinity for remotes - tv, video game, dvd, etc...and he's sneaky as hell.

I was watching a show the other night when the channel suddenly went back to the Roku home screen.

I looked around thinking I bumped the remote or something...wait a minute, no remote...what's that crunching sound?

Dammit Gus, give me the remote back! Never saw the little turd steal it.

It still works but has teeth holes all over it.

skelso said:

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Well let's see what all I can recall...

Baby rabbits, swallowed whole so she could swallow it before I could clear the 10' to get to her.

Cow **** - seemed to be a delicacy to her.

Whole dove / quail - she would eat the first bird every season.

Case of rat bait (neurotoxin, not the one that hits the kidneys) - 17 times the lethal dose!

Kleenex and tips from the trashcan in the bathroom - another delicacy...

I'm sure there are other things I'm forgetting...

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She must be my 4.5 month old black Lab puppies' soul mate. He's eaten two baby rabbits and thrown up a dead baby bird on the couch so far. Loves bathroom trash, especially the female type if you get what I mean. I know there is more to come. I always laugh when people say "you paid $900 for a puppy?". My response is - that's just the beginning...

My lab has this weird thing for bread, like whole loaves at a time. The wife had to get a bread box to keep him from stealing it off the counter. Still feed him pizza bones. Always amazes me how fast he can swallow anything we throw at him, kind of scary sometimes.

My 7yo lab, whom I've had for 6 years, has never once chewed on remotes, shoes, furniture, siding, etc. Hell, we buy her femur bones and it usually takes her at least a year to consume it. She does, however, have an affinity for people food, especially sweets.

When my wife and I bought our house, the pantry door had standard butt hinges on it, requiring it to be physically closed after going in. We were usually careful about it, but noticed a few times our lab would investigate the contents of the pantry while we were cooking. One fateful day, we had left the house for most of the day to run errands and had apparently left the pantry door ajar. While we were out, our lab ate the following in a single sitting:

-an entire bag of chocolate chips
-an entire bag of pecan halves
-a box of baking soda
-a box of bisquick
-a loaf of bread
-a bag of brown sugar
-half a bag of granulated sugar
-16 tea candles

She then proceeded to puke and **** all over the kitchen living room, and at 4PM, the roomba started.

The artwork on our floor when we came home looked like a cross between a garbage man on an acid trip and jackson pollock.

We now have spring hinges on the pantry door.

txagfisher said:

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My 7yo lab, whom I've had for 6 years, has never once chewed on remotes, shoes, furniture, siding, etc. Hell, we buy her femur bones and it usually takes her at least a year to consume it. She does, however, have an affinity for people food, especially sweets.

When my wife and I bought our house, the pantry door had standard butt hinges on it, requiring it to be physically closed after going in. We were usually careful about it, but noticed a few times our lab would investigate the contents of the pantry while we were cooking. One fateful day, we had left the house for most of the day to run errands and had apparently left the pantry door ajar. While we were out, our lab ate the following in a single sitting:

-an entire bag of chocolate chips
-an entire bag of pecan halves
-a box of baking soda
-a box of bisquick
-a loaf of bread
-a bag of brown sugar
-half a bag of granulated sugar
-16 tea candles

She then proceeded to puke and **** all over the kitchen living room, and at 4PM, the roomba started.

The artwork on our floor when we came home looked like a cross between a garbage man on an acid trip and jackson pollock.

We now have spring hinges on the pantry door.

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I would have sold the house.

It was one of the times I was grateful to have tile floors

burtonsnow said:

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Our black lab chewed down two peach trees we had in the back yard like a damn beaver. We had another that I put chicken wire around the base on to protect it. She jumped up and grabbed a branch and the tree snapped in half above the chicken wire. I love the dog to death, but she really tested me with those trees.


Edit: she also ate my Luccheses.

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My Vizsla ate my Luccheses, too -- that my grand dad gave me for High School graduation.

Not Cool.

I have a ten month old lab/boxer mix and she is a total destroyer. She loves to take anything she can get her mouth on and take it out of the doggy door to chew up outside. She's eaten corners off of tables, couches, ottomans, couch pillows, her "indestructible" dog bed, clothes, toys, lawn chairs, etc. etc. etc.

The other day I was about to sell a couch and the guy was supposed to be there in 30 minutes to get it when I got home. I walked in and noticed some of the pillows were missing. They were in the back yard in the rain and mud because my wife didn't have the heart to lock her outside or put her in the cage. I spent the next thirty minutes cleaning the pillows and desperately trying to dry them with a blow dryer and heat gun. He didn't show up until the next day and bought the couch, but still what a pita.

She's also an escape artist and constantly digs holes under my fence and gets into the neighbors yard. My neighbors have a pair of boxers that assist her in her destruction. They'll ram their heads into my privacy fence and knock the boards off so that she can get through. They'll also bring her stuff from their yard, that they'll put close to the fence so that she can climb in a hole she's dug, reach up and grab the stuff and then make a giant mess in my yard. I'm constantly filling in holes and fixing fence boards.

Saturday, I went out of town on a day trip to Shreveport and as I'm pulling into town, my next door neighbor calls me and tells me she's running around the neighborhood. This was the first time she had ever gotten out on the road side of the fence and she chose to do it the day I went out of town. He was nice enough to catch her and put her in the back yard for me. An hour later and nice lady in an Aggie hat rings my video doorbell with the same story. She also put her in the back yard for me. Finally my brother came over and locked her in a cage in my house.

Sunday night I installed an electric fence around the bottom of my privacy fence, so hopefully a few jolts will fix her escape habits, but I have a feeling she'll figure out a way around it.

She is really sweet when we're at home and not sleeping in (her favorite time to destroy). She gets a lot of attention, exercise, and chew toys.

I just feel sorry for my six year old boxer who is extremely well behaved and now gets locked outside all day instead of having access via doggy door to our game room like she used to.

Not sure I ever want to go through this phase again, she's destroyed a lot of valuable furniture.

ntxVOL said:

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My lab has this weird thing for bread, like whole loaves at a time. The wife had to get a bread box to keep him from stealing it off the counter. Still feed him pizza bones. Always amazes me how fast he can swallow anything we throw at him, kind of scary sometimes.

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Same here. Damn bread box cost me $110 because it was "antique". Convinced I'm going to come home one day and he's in a carb/sugar induced coma, because he still gets into things if we leave them on the island or counter.

KorbinDallas said:

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Jeez, I'm now considering crossing labs off of my list of potential breeds. I have seen them be the most chill dog in the world and other ones that are absolutely bat**** crazy. I know folks can't leave a sock laying around due to their yellow lab eating them.

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I pick up socks, or what is left of them, all of the time out of the yard. Usually after mowing and the mower disentegrates the pile of dog crap and flings a partially digested sock out the discharge chute.

Between the lab and socks and our basset mix and my underwear, there is some form of digested clothing in our yard at most given times.

Haha, put an electric fence around my "fence" to keep mine from digging out. One shot and he wouldn't go back out there.

Had to lead him around with a leash and pull him back from the fence when he started getting too close. He's been fine ever since, now, I rarely ever even plug the thing in.

PearlJammin said:

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txagfisher said:

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My 7yo lab, whom I've had for 6 years, has never once chewed on remotes, shoes, furniture, siding, etc. Hell, we buy her femur bones and it usually takes her at least a year to consume it. She does, however, have an affinity for people food, especially sweets.

When my wife and I bought our house, the pantry door had standard butt hinges on it, requiring it to be physically closed after going in. We were usually careful about it, but noticed a few times our lab would investigate the contents of the pantry while we were cooking. One fateful day, we had left the house for most of the day to run errands and had apparently left the pantry door ajar. While we were out, our lab ate the following in a single sitting:

-an entire bag of chocolate chips
-an entire bag of pecan halves
-a box of baking soda
-a box of bisquick
-a loaf of bread
-a bag of brown sugar
-half a bag of granulated sugar
-16 tea candles

She then proceeded to puke and **** all over the kitchen living room, and at 4PM, the roomba started.

The artwork on our floor when we came home looked like a cross between a garbage man on an acid trip and jackson pollock.

We now have spring hinges on the pantry door.

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I would have sold the house.

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Or burned it down "accidentally."

We just got ourselves a Roomba, and this is my greatest fear.

my dog ate a few hundred paintballs one day.

she **** rainbow color for a week and had super soft hair, since the paintballs are made of vegetable oils. she's not full lab (mostly pit bull) but will eat anything you put in front of her, except for babies.

theJonatron said:

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my dog ate a few hundred paintballs one day.

she **** rainbow color for a week and had super soft hair, since the paintballs are made of vegetable oils. she's not full lab (mostly pit bull) but will eat anything you put in front of her, except for babies.

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Have you tried dressing them up a little bit with seasoning or a quality steak sauce?