Has Your Pet Ever Broken Something?

Lee

Lee

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Chatham, Ontario
There is nothing like the sound of crystal shattering into a gazillion bits, nor the sound of a cat running lickety split knowing darn well he should not have been trying to reach where he should not have been trying to reach.

It was once part of a pair of candlesticks, a 15 year anniversary gift kept all these years. Chalk one up to Riley.

Sooooo.......what has your pet destroyed by chewing or accident?
 

I can remember in years gone by of our large dogs running thru the house and upending furniture, but I don't recall ever having anything of value being broken by them.

However, my current old dog, Lil'Bear, a small bichon, used my very expensive leather sofa as teething material when he was a baby years ago.
We were gone one evening, and came home to a hole in the top of one cushion ... a total disaster.
 
Oh yes..........rabbits like to chew wood among other things. I am fortunate that my house bunny has never tried to chew an electric cord as most do. I keep them away from him the best I can. But he has chewed on my wood dressers and the corners of the rugs. Photo albums that were on the bottom shelf of a book case. I learned to put cardboard in front of everything but it seems that he has grown out of those items for now. So I took the cardboard down. Lately he has been trying to chew the back legs of my recliner. I had to put socks on it.
 
My daughter (many years ago now) rescued a Great Dane (had been dumped, starving, on the road side 😔). He recuperated well but the thing was so big, he’d knock over things just wagging his tail. We called him the walking billboard

he was also tall enough to reach stuff on the kitchen counter with all four paws on the ground. One loaf of bread met its demise this way 🙄

And my poor yard… let’s not even start on that!

fortunateky, we found him a permanent home on a farm with lots of room to run and no unattended loaves of bread 😆
 
My daughter used to have four, yes four, Siamese cats. They ranged from typical Siamese to psychotic.

The psycho twins did not care for anything on a shelf or mantle. So, there were bare surfaces throughout the house.

One night, someone forgot to close the door to the office and at 2 a.m., there was a loud crash. In the office, there was a computer monitor and keyboard smashed on the floor and two Siamese sitting smugly among the wreckage, not even TRYING to appear that they didn't know what happened. It looked like they had tried to push the tower off, too.

Psycho cats.
 
When we first got Marley, she was very destructive and a thief to boot. But when she was shamed, she felt terrible and never repeated something when I made her feel ashamed of doing something. This is one perceptive dog and she wanted so much to be just loved and accepted, but did not know how to go about it, until I taught her. What a gift she has been. Fills my heart with joy.
 
Yes, we watched as our cat, Andy, nonchalantly pushed a vase off our console and didn't give it a second thought.

Our cat, Bugsy, likes to open anything that contains food. I heard the cats pushing something around today and saw that Bugsy had opened a chocolate cake in a plastic container and they were both eating it.

Our brown leather sectional is also full of scratches due to our various cats getting freaked and launching off of the armrests.

They drive me crazy, but I still love these little demons!
 
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Lee said:
No ill effects from the cake? I know dogs should not have chocolate, maybe cats can tolerate it. Not sure.
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No. I don't think they were able to lick anything significant from the container before I busted them!

Bugsy's foster told us he was able to open cabinets and containers. He stayed in my home office when we first brought him home and he opened my desk door and tore open a bag of treats. They were all over the floor. He is very clever and we have to watch him constantly!
 
Our first dog was a German Shepard which we got soon after we were married.. We were both at work and he tore the arm off our new sofa. This was totally our own fault because we didn't realize how lonesome he was when we were away and we never should have gotten such a high energy dog when we were both working.
I was so upset I cried but I knew it was our fault.
It taught me a lesson though.
Before you get a pet of any kind make sure you have the pets well being upper most in your mind.
I say that to anyone who asks about getting a pet. There is so much to consider besides how much you love that little ball of fluff you see staring at you.
 
My big boy pulled me down on concrete smashed my face and my glasses. He was not mine at that time, I was helping his Dad take him to the vet. His Dad died in April of 2020 and he came to me. He is a very good boy, I am too old to be a good Mom to him but I promised his Dad I would keep him safe if anything ever happened.
 
My ex wife had a Siamese cat when I met her. She had the cat for 7 years before I came into the picture. The cat like me more than she liked her. Whenever I left any clothes I wore previously on the bed or on the floor, we'd come home & find the cat sleeping on top of them. Just for a joke, I left my jeans on top of the refrigerator before we went out. When we came home, the cat was sleeping on top of the refrigerator.
She followed me everywhere & it made my wife jealous & angry.
A few days after we split up, my ex called me & said the cat was howling all night.
A week later, my ex called me & was furious that the cat destroyed a new expensive sofa we got a few months before. She shredded one entire side of it & scattered the stuffing all over the living room. I went to the house to look at it. I couldn't stop laughing.
 
win231 said:
My ex wife had a Siamese cat when I met her. She had the cat for 7 years before I came into the picture. The cat like me more than she liked her. Whenever I left any clothes I wore previously on the bed or on the floor, we'd come home & find the cat sleeping on top of them. Just for a joke, I left my jeans on top of the refrigerator before we went out. When we came home, the cat was sleeping on top of the refrigerator.
She followed me everywhere & it made my wife jealous & angry.
A few days after we split up, my ex called me & said the cat was howling all night.
A week later, my ex called me & was furious that the cat destroyed a new expensive sofa we got a few months before. She shredded one entire side of it & scattered the stuffing all over the living room. I went to the house to look at it. I couldn't stop laughing.
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You know I have to ask why did you put your jeans on to the top of the refrigerator. What was cooking in that kitchen? LOL I don't buy that just for a joke thing. Just having fun with you. I married my husband for his scent, That is the thing I miss the most, I would just bury my face in his neck. After he passed I spent many a night just sitting in his truck crying, That was the last place I could smell him.
 
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You know I have to ask why did you put your jeans on to the top of the refrigerator. What was cooking in that kitchen? LOL I don't buy that just for a joke thing. Just having fun with you. I married my husband for his scent, That is the thing I miss the most, I would just bury my face in his neck. After he passed I spent many a night just sitting in his truck crying, That was the last place I could smell him.
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LOL - We were talking about it & I said, "I'll bet I can put my jeans on the fridge & the cat will sleep on them."
My wife said, "No she won't, she's scared of the fridge because of the noise it makes."
Even I couldn't believe it when we got home & saw her.
 

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