LMAO @ Toni

Oh my, this is hilarious and I feel sooooo much better about myself.

My beloved, late Sheltie, Chatter gutted two sofas and a love seat before I figured out what she was trying to tell me. *sigh* I knew she was smarter than I am. Once we figured out how to communicate, she turned out to be the best dog I ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Panda ate a remote control - with batteries. By the way, batteries look cool on x-ray. And someone keeps chewing my charger cords in half, multiple cell phone chargers, one lap top charger and *blush* the charge cord for the remote training e-collars. I think someone is trying to tell me something - again.

My Rain (Border Collie) dug a hole in the sheet rock, from inside her crate. Apparently, there was a mouse in the wall. She fixed that. Rain also liked to make designer jeans if you left them where she could gnaw them through her crate.

My most heartbreaking loss was my parrot. My daughter's cattle bred Kelpie chewed through her crate to kill/eat Brooklyn while I was at work. I will never forgive myself for that. I still miss that obnoxious, sweet, bratty bird.

I'm so sorry to hear about Brooklyn

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Kelly...is the dog who climbed the house the dog in the photo? The dog in the photo looks like a Dutch when the dog in the story was a Mal. Dutch's can scale 10' walls...but I would think a Mal could as well...but a house? Whoa. Awesome. Horrible to have happened...but awesome.

Yes, Sharon, Toni is the dog in my signature pic. And believe me, she is ALLLLL Mal At 9 years old, she can still jump to the top of a round hay bale from a standing position (they are about 6 feet tall).

I've been very lucky in not having any pup of mine destroy anything BUT....
Any outside dog I've owned spends the first 7-9 months in the house learning basic manners.
My present old guy Thunder (10 in Jan) was no different. By 6-7 months he had earned the right to have his crate door left open at night but confined to the kitchen via a baby type gate.
Our hall and living room butted up to the kitchen and during one night Thunder chewed a 1" by 12" or so section of the carpet that touched the kitchen floor.
I was totally flabbergasted because I had by this time already declared him the best dog of many that I've ever owned. Still is!
The wife reminds me of that when I start bragging to much on the old fart...but she feels the same as I do about him.

I'm so sorry about Brooklyn, Lisa. I guess I'm really lucky that my dogs all got along with my birds.