[nintenda]

Today I am going to repair the pocket door between the upstairs and basement. Ike started the process as an adolescent when he figured out he could repeatedly head butt the door to move it just enough to stick a paw in there and work it open. Over the last year the hardware failed and the door was being manually slid back and forth. But since it is off track, Renee came along and learned she can hit the door hard enough with her head to make herself a space to escape into the great upstairs where there is glorious little supervision and a lot of things to play with.

Um, yay? I get to learn a new home repair skill thanks to an evil marauding puppy and her older housemate.

I am also going to repair my super odd sized wooden slated bi-fold doors that open into my two basement closets and the laundry/storage area. When Ike was a pup he learned how to remove the slats with his teeth so he could crawl through the hole he made and get into the laundry. The hole got bigger as he grew and needed to remove more slats.

I can't just buy new doors because of the very odd size. Even tried the resale places like the Habitat For Humanity store. Nothing fits, so I decided to take out the remaining slats, fix any frame damage with screws since they won't be visible, cut some MDF inserts and use 1/4 round to make it pretty, then paint and rehang. Just need to get to the home improvement store and buy materials.

So, what have you replaced or redone due to your dogs? What do you need to do, but have been procrastinating?

[WaicurtaitfuT]

I've had to repaint my bedroom door when I was in high school because I left my pit mix, Niisan, at the time in my room for a little bit with out thinking and went outside. She scratched the door up!! D: i was so mad when I got home. Couldn't blame her but she did start staying in a crate from then on. Also with the same pit I was constantly on my toes with repairing her pin. LOL. I'd fix one hole and she'd tear another. I eventually had to hot wire the inside of the pin.

0o; Koi has chewed so many of my clothes... does that count? Though I just threw them in the trash rather then trying to repair them.

Um.. I can't think right off anything that Snow has done. Doesn't mean she hasn't though

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Oh! I remember now, Snow ate my cousins wall when I lived with him. ^^'

[egershna]

If I owned the place I'd tear out the carpet after Sasha got sick like she did. Best I could do was have it steamed cleaned. Oh well I am moving soon anyway.

Honestly I have a lot more kid related repairs than dog related ones. lol



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However I do know my Dad once had to repair the wall. His beagle ate through the wall, including the drywall to get out of a room.

[isogeople]

Rowdy was left in the backyard while I went to the store ... he made grand progress in removing the vinyl siding across the back of the house. Its since been reattached, but there is still some toothy mark reminders.

Sugar and Rowdy were left alone in the house while I partied and painted the town. Returning home drunk as hell, I found they had completely destroyed the blinds on 7 windows. There was bits of white plastic both large and small completely strewn throughout the house in a manner that no tornado could hope to match. Next day with a terrible hangover, I replaced the blinds. The neighbors across the street had been sitting on their porch when it happened and they said it was Amazing and Awesome to watch. The blinds are never half-way up any more. They're either all the way up or down and covered with curtains.

I have a rocking chair and a ladder back chair that both have rush/cane/woven backs and seats. Mason has tried to tear/chew both of them up but so far I have been able to catch and correct him. I think it's just a matter of time.

[EliteFranceska]

I haz good little doggie who hasn't destroyed anything in our house, knock on wood. HOWEVER, I have had to refill more holes in my backyard than I can count and scoop more tiny dead bodies of woodland creatures he thought were fun to give heartattacks to.

[ovH9wfSJ]

I've had to replace the door trim, fill in scratch marks on the door and repaint it. I've had to pull up the carpet and place down tile. Replace sections of fencing and replace several artciles of clothing lol. Thats it for me though

[fuslssdfaa]

We pretty much have to replace carpet, but we needed to do that anyway, glad we waited until after giving Trigger a home. It has really turned a shade darker and we will replace with wood flooring.

Also, we have a tone of dried up slobber to chizel away on the glass door ...waiting until we take him home....but nothing that can't be remedied.

[kabelshik]

As a puppy Slayer was teething and her toy dropped out of reach, my husband and I were asleep so she scraped the wall with her teeth for a good hour or so.

[nintenda]

Door fixed! Easier than I thought it would be. I'll have to re-caulk and do some minor paint touch up later, though, but the door is working properly!

Reading your repairs, everyone, makes me lol and feel slightly better. It could be worse!

[Phoneemer]

I've had to replace the door trim, fill in scratch marks on the door and repaint it. I've had to pull up the carpet and place down tile. Replace sections of fencing and replace several artciles of clothing lol. Thats it for me though

How did you fix the trim?

Stupid Solo chewed the trim on my stairs and the trim in my bathroom.
Besides that I had a yappy pain in the ass little Spitz thing that I rescued from a pet store I worked at (didnt pay a cent for her she was going back to the puppy mill the next day so I took her and found her a new home). The dog pissed every where and just wouldnt get the hang of being house trained.

And Wendy the poodle was still in the midst of being house trained after living in a apartment.

That will all be fixed with some steam cleaning though.

[nintenda]

Ali, you can either buy new trim or you could sand the damaged trim, use wood putty to fill in any holes and gouges, sand it again and repaint it.

[FelikTen]

Sema ate her way through a door (no saving, had to buy a new one) and a wall, which required new drywall, paint, etc...she also ate a sofa that day. All in about an hour and a half. That's the day I bought a crate.

My kid's dog Achilles chewed the satellite dish cable up once, which required a call to Dish network for repair. It's been about a year, and he will still run and hide when you hold up a piece of black cable near him.

[ARKLqAZ6]

Chewed up wood trim on the corners, a hole dug in the drywall and a hole chewed through the new carpet in the middle of the living room!! thats all so far!!

[Nikitka]

Honestly Kylie isn't that bad. She has destroyed her kennel. Lol she is not bad now but she used to fit her head under the bottom the the door and bend it up and squeeze put lol. She also broke the little piece that flips up to hold the plastic bottom in place. That how she got the scar above her left eye. So that was an easy fix, just welded it back. She's due for a new one for sure. We are planning on getting her new one when we get one for the pup .
Honestly other than the random " thing " left on the floor she only chews her toys. They never last long but.... The rope she has now is almost to the point of trash, but last time I was going to toss it Joe said not to, that old toys are the best lol.

[gedsiz]

Does a fractured shoulder blade count?

[rockboyzaza]

Other than the flooring and furniture, my dogs really don't damage the house much. The only real damage we have from the dogs was when I was fostering a male Dogo escape artist and he got out of his crate and him and Casper tried to kill each other. They busted several kitchen cabinets, busted a hole in the drywall, and then I ruined by bedroom door and doorjam by slamming the door on the heads until they let go and then held the door shut until I got them calmed down enough to stop slamming it. They did bust a hole in the door, but it didn't go all the way thru.

Then later on since they hated each other, one was inside, one outside, they busted out a window to get at each other. Then Dexter busted another window trying to get to a sheep that my idiot neighbor had in their yard.

Now the yard is another story. Casper is a shadow chasers and those pesky shadows apparently hide in the ground and Casper tries to dig them out! Jack likes to rip the plants up and chew on branches.

[liontutuxx]

We have a 1ftx2+ft hole in our floor. Carpet and padding gone, its just bare cement, where Harley ate through the plastic bottom of his crate and then proceeded to eat the flooring. What a way to learn your dog has SA lol. We are waiting until we move before we bother replacing it though (we were given carpet to replace it, not sure how to fix the lack of padding yet, but its just to much hassle to bother right now). Thats the only doggy damage to the house.

[Savviioor]

Had to replace a door because a dog ripped off the bottom half and the stair carpet replaced several times

[Arexytece]

We've had to replace our bedroom door from Karma, trying to run right through the bottom portion as a puppy. And our back porch door, which both dogs have literally peeled apart the layers of at the bottom, not to mention the paint that's all scraped off by them as well. lol O well, nothing too crazy so far.

[nintenda]

Other than the flooring and furniture, my dogs really don't damage the house much. The only real damage we have from the dogs was when I was fostering a male Dogo escape artist and he got out of his crate and him and Casper tried to kill each other. They busted several kitchen cabinets, busted a hole in the drywall, and then I ruined by bedroom door and doorjam by slamming the door on the heads until they let go and then held the door shut until I got them calmed down enough to stop slamming it. They did bust a hole in the door, but it didn't go all the way thru.

Then later on since they hated each other, one was inside, one outside, they busted out a window to get at each other. Then Dexter busted another window trying to get to a sheep that my idiot neighbor had in their yard.

Now the yard is another story. Casper is a shadow chasers and those pesky shadows apparently hide in the ground and Casper tries to dig them out! Jack likes to rip the plants up and chew on branches.

I think you're in denial, rofl! That's quite a list of damages. Impressive list, really.