[OgrGlgHu]

So, I couldn't sleep last night. I went to be around 4am. Left my glasses on my desk. Got up at 8 with just enough time to get the kids off to school. In the rush to get everyone fed and watered. While I mixed up a batch of greens, fruits and veggies for the bird, I let Renee out of my sight for 4 minutes and she freakin chewed my glasses. Totally destroyed. Now I have to wait 7-14 fays for a new pair after I go to the vision center. This means I will have dizziness and headaches until I get the new pair and then more dizziness and headaches while I adjust to them once they are here.

Totally my fault for letting the pup out of sight, but I still want to wring her damn fool neck. This is so going to suck.

Course, I guess while I am getting my glasses replaced I can shop for some new flip flops and summer sandals seeing as how I lost a total of 6 pairs last summer to Owen being a puppy....

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I know some of you folks get all sad and emo when your pups grow up, but I can't wait for mine to be adults. Never have this kind of problem with Rita and Ike. Heck, even Owen is good now!

[Eltabaco]

I'm with you, I can't wait for mine to grow up! It's like having two children.

[GillTeepbew]

Mason got my reading glasses a couple of weeks ago and was having his way with them. Luckily I got them before they were destroyed. Luckily too, they are off the shelf reading glasses and wouldn't have been a great loss.

Just last night, Mason had taken my Bic lighter and was jumping around all happy and proud of himself with the lighter dangling from his mouth. All I could imagine was if the dang thing was compromised and had exploded (if that's possible) !!!

Funny thing is, in a few years ... I might miss these days LOL

[OgrGlgHu]

Funny you should mention that, Joe. Renee loves to steal lighters off of desks and tables to chew them. She has had 2 explode in her mouth. I thought she had a cewie on the dog bed (which is where she likes to take her Kong and Nylabone plastic chew toys) both times and only caught her with the lighters when I came to investigate the *POP*. Lil freak actually likes making them explode. She gets all wiggly and waggly proud of herself and prances around. Now I put lighters up high or in my pocket and tell friends and family that come over to do the same.

[AnypecekceS]

With Boo it is the wooden pants hangers!!!

I have to dress nice, yet comfortable for my job as a pharmaceutical research chemist, and I hang my sweaters to dry. Every morning I have to make sure the wooden hangers are hidden away. Otherwise she turns them into toothpick like shards in the blink of an eye. I cannot even put them on a hook because she jumps up and gets them! She has a million chewie things, but only likes hooves and my nice wooden hangers from Bed Bath and Beyond.

[dosugxxx]

Years ago my Basset Frannie Abigail chewed my glasses. I took a nap with her and put my glasses on the top of the couch. Frannie woke up first.

Still...I get all sad and emo. I love puppies, even though they are usually PITA's and brats!!

[OgrGlgHu]

OwnedbyBoo, lol. My adults are really good 99% of the time, but each has a particular things they just can't resist. Ike's is plastic clothes hangers. If a kid leaves one out after getting ready for school Ike will come along and steal it so he can break it into 1/4 inch pieces. Thank God they're cheap!

Heck, Jazzy, I don't much like human kids. But at least they can talk and understand what you tell them. Puppies are pure evil! I see puppyhood as what you have to endure to get to the great dog stage. Only thing I miss about pups is their breath!

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Oh, and I called the vision center. The earliest they can get me in is Saturday. They were actually booked solid even then, but the doc took pity on me when I explained the situation and is seeing me after hours just to get me in. They don't start the clock on the glasses order until Monday, so it's going to be a rough few weeks. I feel so icky! Dizzy, headachey, a bit disoriented. Can't wait for the new glasses!

[AnypecekceS]

so, are you saying Boo will never grow out of her lust for wooden clip type pants hangers? I will either have to keep a standing order delivered to my house, or stop using them? ugh. I have looked for good plastic ones because she does leave them alone.

And she also destroyed 2 pair of glasses right after I got her, but they were not my favorites so she lived.

Last night she was casually chillin next to my dresser when I was putting on jammies and discovered the wood knobs of my dresser. I painted them with Wasabi oil, so I think she will never try that again. lol

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And.... am I the only person in the world who hates puppy breath? ewwwww. I don't care what you feed them, puppy breath reeks of puppy chow.

[saruxanset]

Peyton loves to steal shoes and take them outside or on his bed. He rarely chews them thank god, but it's odd he just carries them out. and...what's even weirder? He ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS takes your left shoe. No matter what. Freakin weird man. Dogs are weird!

[OgrGlgHu]

so, are you saying Boo will never grow out of her lust for wooden clip type pants hangers? I will either have to keep a standing order delivered to my house, or stop using them? ugh. I have looked for good plastic ones because she does leave them alone.

And she also destroyed 2 pair of glasses right after I got her, but they were not my favorites so she lived.

Last night she was casually chillin next to my dresser when I was putting on jammies and discovered the wood knobs of my dresser. I painted them with Wasabi oil, so I think she will never try that again. lol

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And.... am I the only person in the world who hates puppy breath? ewwwww. I don't care what you feed them, puppy breath reeks of puppy chow.

lol, maybe! Ike has loved hangers since puppyhood and at 3 and practically a saint he just can't resist them. No matter what I do he just can't help himself. I'm always on the kids to make sure they put the coat closet hangers back and close the door and I keep my other hangers in the laundry room up real high!

Good idea with the Wasabi oil! Does it work like the Wasabi chunks where its a burst of heat and then gone or does it linger for a bit?

Puppy breath is great! Your nose must be broken. Puppy breath induces a feeling of calm and relaxation

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Peyton loves to steal shoes and take them outside or on his bed. He rarely chews them thank god, but it's odd he just carries them out. and...what's even weirder? He ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS takes your left shoe. No matter what. Freakin weird man. Dogs are weird!

That's hilarious!

[AnypecekceS]

Wasabi oil packets from the chinese joint have always been my dirty little powerful wepon of choice. It is free, I have never seen a dog that can tolerate it, and for some strange reason I don't think it smells to them, because it always works!

Unfortunately. it will stain clothes, and I am afraid to try a hanger. But dribble a packet in the trash and leave the room. You will have a dog that will never ever dream of getting in the trash. Make a pate of food, douse it in oil, put it on the coffee table and I bet it will not have much gone from it.

I know.... I am mean. But I get creative when it comes to things like this.

And the shoe thing? my lab took every shoe she found and lined them up. It was soooo strange.

[OgrGlgHu]

I don't think it's mean. When I was a kid I was a thumb sucker. It was starting to cause me to have an overbite and I had a callous on my thumb from my teeth resting on the same place every night. My parents tried everything. At one point my dad snuck into my room and dipped my thumb in Tabasco while I was sleeping. It would have worked except I have always liked spicy food and didn't mind it, lol. Raising kids is really a lot like raising dogs.

People use Bitter Apple spray and vinegar on things all the time to get dogs to leave stuff alone. My dogs, being freaks, never became adverse to the sour flavors and would chew anyways. Wasabi oil is pretty much doing the same thing except I am pretty sure it'd be more effective. I may actually try the Wasabi oil myself. I was thinking maybe put my old glasses on my desk with some Wasabi on them and let Renee get a taste of it to see if she would be persuaded to quit raiding my stuff. Maybe try some on the bathroom trash can, too. I bet if I did that for a few days I'd never have a problem again!

[Eltabaco]

Gunther has the same attraction to plastic hangers. And the metal knobs on my coffee table. Luckily, neither of these things bother me. And he hasn't ruined anything of value, yet. But he's only 4 months. I'm sure it will happen one day!

[AnypecekceS]

lol. Raising kids is really a lot like raising dogs.

People use Bitter Apple spray and vinegar on things all the time to get dogs to leave stuff alone. My dogs, being freaks, never became adverse to the sour flavors and would chew anyways. Wasabi oil is pretty much doing the same thing except I am pretty sure it'd be more effective. I may actually try the Wasabi oil myself. I was thinking maybe put my old glasses on my desk with some Wasabi on them and let Renee get a taste of it to see if she would be persuaded to quit raiding my stuff. Maybe try some on the bathroom trash can, too. I bet if I did that for a few days I'd never have a problem again!

so, I wonder what would happen if I added a pack or two to the high quality bourbon. Think it will work on teenage sons? lol

and I have nevr has luck with bitter apple. There is a bottle in the cabinet and Boo will lick it. She ate Toxic Waste candy too.

[loikrso]

Jeez. I don't know where to start. I'm glad I got my eyes fixed. I couldn't imagine keeping up with glass' and having puppies around. I had a hard enough time keeping up with them myself. And thats without the help of a dog wondering off with them.

I think the only weird thing about my pups and dog is that my oldest female will take food off the counters/coffee tables and your hands like a ninja. You don't see her coming, until it's too late. She PISSES my old lady off something serious. I mean seriously bad!!!! My pups love ANYTHING wooden. Sticks, pencils, hangers, or old toys. They have chewed to corners and legs of both of my coffee tables. I don't mind them doing it to MY coffee table down stairs, but the old ladies coffee table is a red oak coffee table and is really nice. She DOES mind. But the dogs don't. They chewed it too. My dogs have even chewed 2X4's. Really?

Oh the shoe thing...... LOL

My old lady HATES this subject...... hahahahah....... All of my past and previous puppies have only chewed HER shoes. Don't know why that is, but they will only touch HERS. Not mine, and not the kids. Just her shoes, flip flops and even her socks. I guess mine and and the kids stuff stink too bad!!!!

[OgrGlgHu]

Kamdon, my brothers dog is so wood crazy he dragged a ginormous tree limb back to my house from the corner grocery when he went on a walk with my brother. We still have it in the yard. My dogs gnaw on it here and there. They also love chewing wood.

My rocking chair and my basement coffee table bear the scars of various puppies we've had over since we bought the house. Mine, friends, family's...Something about wood really appeals to dogs and parrots, I guess. I used to have a cool wooden kitchen utensil set, but the kids would leave them on the counters after using them and the pup (whichever was young and untrained at the time) would steal and chew. I think I have one spatula/spoon thing left and that has a couple teeth marks on it.

Someday, when the dogs are all adults and the kids are grown, I will have nice stuff. Someday!

[huedaanydrax]

I'm glad my two don't chew my glasses. I always put mine on eye level to the dogs because it's the table right in front of me and I was sick of putting them so far out of reach. I've been lucky, so far. When I was much younger, the side of my glasses was chewed but I haven't had a problem since and my dogs are chewers but my glasses are only off when we sleep and the dogs are sleeping so it's not a worry. I've fallen asleep with my glasses right beside me on the bed and the dogs have left them alone so I'm praying they'll always be good. I have spare glasses so I'm lucky.

Though.. Once my friend left sun glasses on a table, a higher table ten the one I use. When she couldn't find them, I was confused and said 'I don't know what happened to them but I know the dogs wouldn't have touched them'. Well, after she went home and I was in the yard, I found her chewed up sunglasses. I decided to keep that a secret and not tell her what happened. I still don't know why Sunny grabbed them but he did.

MJJean: how old is your pup? I didn't know you had any young dogs.

[nd90t3sf]

This thread hits very close to home. I have a 3 1/2-month-old Malinois pup. He actually hasn't destroyed anything (yet) due to vigilance, but I really, REALLY can't wait until he's about two. I'm not really a puppy person, but I really wanted to do my own foundation work.

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[OgrGlgHu]

MJJean: how old is your pup? I didn't know you had any young dogs.

Renee just turned 10 months old. She is maturing very slowly mentally and physically. And she is scary smart, so if she wants something she will figure out how to get to it most of the time. Gah. Can't wait til she grows up!

[LongaDonga]

OMG MJJean, Sam got my glasses a week ago too! The bad thing is Im almost blind without them so Ive been wearing my ONE pair of contacts all week. My eyes are so dry lol.. and why only one pair of contacts? Sam at the other 5 pairs.. Grrrr I feel your pain!