What was the worst property damage a pet caused to your home or possessions?

2016-07-09T19:23:03-04:00

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 9 at 2016 7:27 PM

2016-07-09T19:27:48-04:00

It's just a joke....but a funny one.

http://www.tickld.com/x/gumnutkoala

The Funniest Craigslist Ad Ever. Gumnut The Koala.

He gets along well with one of my two dogs

Response by CPT Aaron Kletzing made Jul 9 at 2016 7:28 PM

2016-07-09T19:28:23-04:00

ruined carpets in a place that I was renting. had to give my entire $1.5K security deposit to the owner to help replace the carpets. still have the darn dogs, though ;-)

Response by SFC Charles Temm made Jul 9 at 2016 7:35 PM

2016-07-09T19:35:40-04:00

My new puppy Courage The Cowardly but Real Fast Dog ate a recliner a couple of months ago.

The bright spot was I'd had the chair when I'd been married to my now (Thank God) ex so my wife and her friends considered it an exorcism of evil.

Response by SSG Daniel Deiler made Jul 9 at 2016 7:53 PM

2016-07-09T19:53:22-04:00

My dang dogs chewed up and shredded two of my foam cheeseheads!!! For any Green Bay Packers diehard coming across that kind of carnage is traumatic! Needless to say I had to have those two Bears fans euthanized. (Just Kidding!!! No animals were harmed!) I did however have a pet tear up a 2 sq ft section of carpet and destroy the bottom third of a door to the room he was being kept in while staying with my mom on leave while were out having dinner.

Response by SSG Roger Ayscue made Jul 9 at 2016 8:22 PM

2016-07-09T20:22:53-04:00

I had a Black Lab that used to love to eat Fiberglass Insulation. Whe ripped the flex ducts out from under the house causing the AC unit to burn out.

After replacing the ducts and the AC unit, I found her a new home and got a Beagle

Response by PO1 Brian Austin made Jul 9 at 2016 8:48 PM

2016-07-09T20:48:41-04:00

I've had good experiences with my dogs. Just an occasional turd in the house when they were young, nothing major.

When in Japan we watched our friends Sheltie for a week, while they went on leave. She was mellow, then we went out to dinner. When we came home, she had shredded or torn down all the drapes in our living room and family room. She became an outside dog until our friends returned.

Response by MSG Pat Colby made Jul 9 at 2016 8:52 PM

2016-07-09T20:52:48-04:00

We have an African Gray Parrot. One day my wife came home with a rescue St Bernard. The dog was a neurotic basket case. One afternoon our bird was out of his cage talking up a storm to no one in particular. The damned dog CHARGED towards the bird. As I swung my hand down to grab the dog, I hit her hard head with the side of my hand. Turned out, I broke the bone on the side of my hand. While at the VA I explained to the Doc what happened. He typed in my records "SM injured R/Hand while hitting dog". During the x-rays, the Tech read what the Doc wrote and gave me attitude. Snottily asking if I really hit a dog hard enough to break my hand. "OH! HELL NO! I gotta see the Doc again!" I explained to the Tech what really happened and she laughed about it. After the X-rays I saw the Doc and told him he REALLY needed to re-word what he put in my Official Records. Mercifully, he did.

That freaking dog would be laying calmly one second and in the blink of an eye turn into Cujo and attack any animal nearby. Cats, our other dogs, the bird... We could not leave the room as it would immediately start chewing something. Hell, she would walk from the food bowl and sneakily and nonchalantly pick up something off of the table and lay down to chew it. Her favorite flavor was the TV remote control. Went through 4 of them. She routinely saved up her functions while in the kennel and as soon as she entered the house, she'd take a piss or a St Bernard size dump. ON the couch was her favorite place to shit.

Two weeks of this nonsense and I told the Wife to get that damn dog OUT of my house and off my property. The next day it was gone. I neither know nor do I care where it went. I hope it died a miserable death choking on someones remote control.

Response by SSG Stephan Pendarvis made Jul 9 at 2016 8:53 PM

2016-07-09T20:53:52-04:00

Funny story...

Had this adolescent dog ...a JR Terrier/sooner mix. Sunday morning...hot San Antonio day. This was like 1995-1996. We has the dog chained...went to church. Got back home later...church was pointless because the devil came out of me! This dog...shit...all over the living room carpet. I don't mean just some shit....he shit like he been holding it for days! There is not a pile of shit that at least 3 feet from another pile of shit for a floor that is 9 x 12 in length!! That will never leave my mind even when I get Alzheimer's I am sure. We had that dog only 2 weeks. Hope that next family had good luck. I am sure that apartment still has some residual smell....lol!!!

Response by SGM Erik Marquez made Jul 9 at 2016 9:08 PM

2016-07-09T21:08:22-04:00

Bo, our 150% above standrds weight / size American eskimo pup ate the bottom of every cabinet door front in the kitchen... this was brand new housing at Fort Ord, we were the first to live in it.
He also laid in the corners of several rooms and chewed the inside corner of the walls...And the 4x4 that held up the roof on the patio .

This was his way of saying i was wrong for leaving him at home, dressed in civilian clothes, he never misbehaved if I walked out the door in uniform.. But if I left in civies, and did not take him with me (or us) he chewed on something while I was gone..and did not matter if my wife was home or not.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 9 at 2016 9:27 PM

2016-07-09T21:27:47-04:00

We had a German Shepard / Labrador retriever mix that we adopted in Germany, he was huge (120 pounds) and when he got bored he would chew on things and dig. One night he got bored and laying on his side dug a hole through the kitchen wall into the pantry. Another time he chewed the corners off the kitchen cabinets, half the leg off the coffee table, I was laying on the couch reading a book and thought he was chewing on one of his bones.

Luckily for us, the housing was being turned back over to the Germans... so I didn't have to pay for any of the damage.

Response by LTC David Brown made Jul 9 at 2016 10:04 PM

2016-07-09T22:04:14-04:00

Actually tt was my son's dog. He ate the window sill in an apartment I was renting. The funniest thing was the dog ate the remote control for the TV. I took the remains to the cable vision store and could only get the remote that had very limited function. My son returned and didn't like the limited option remote so he went down to the cable vision office asking for a better remote. They told him sorry, we can't get the old remote. They pulled out the chewed remains and said " some guy's dog ate this one and we we couldn't get him a better one", Needless to say my son felt a little chagrin !

Response by SPC Jim Johnson made Jul 10 at 2016 12:25 AM

2016-07-10T00:25:42-04:00

My cat Bugger the name fits broke rods for my drapes. He is quite large at 22 pounds. He only eats cat food, no human food.
Our Dog Pixie decided that tearing up and eating the tile in our bathroom was a good idea plus calling the door frame as well.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 10 at 2016 1:06 AM

2016-07-10T01:06:03-04:00

Puppy chewed the cornersof the wooden pillars on the back patio of our first home. Before that he scratched all the paint and drywall off behind the bathroom door of our apartment. We didn't know until we were moving out and cleaning.

Response by Alan K. made Jul 10 at 2016 6:18 AM

2016-07-10T06:18:37-04:00

I figure 20K in 30 years .....The most painful was a custom made chaise for my wife that the dam cat peed on and claw marks on my favorite leather chair and foot stool

Response by MSgt Richard Rountree made Jul 10 at 2016 10:54 AM

2016-07-10T10:54:10-04:00

In 1999 I gave my wife an Alaskan Malamute puppy for her birthday. When the dog was about six months old, we discovered that he had crawled under our 1999 Lincoln Navigator and ate through the wiring harness. The Lincoln dealer, after he stopped laughing, fixed it under warranty.

Response by SFC Wade W. made Jul 10 at 2016 2:50 PM

2016-07-10T14:50:38-04:00

All of our curtains needed to be replaced along with throw pillows and our cushions for the couch and chairs. We had an Aussie Shepherd that had separation anxiety. Normally she was ok but all it takes is one bad day.

Response by Capt Vickie Adams made Jul 11 at 2016 1:55 PM

2016-07-11T13:55:31-04:00

I had two wild half Dobie-half lab pups who chewed the squared edges off the trim around outside windows.

Response by Capt Vickie Adams made Jul 11 at 2016 2:00 PM

2016-07-11T14:00:31-04:00

Had cats that destroyed $1600 sectional bought new in 1983. Clawed back and sides. Same cats climbed on top of China cabinet and slid, claws out, down the side.

Response by Cpl Justin Goolsby made Jul 12 at 2016 10:48 AM

2016-07-12T10:48:28-04:00

When my puppy was still going through his chewing phase, he literally chewed the outward corner of the wall. In 2nd place was when he wanted to watch me leave for work, so he would jump up to the window and pull the blinds down just so he could watch me.

Response by SFC Charles Temm made Jul 15 at 2016 2:04 PM

2016-07-15T14:04:07-04:00

I don't feel so bad after seeing some of these wilder stories...and she (our dog Courage) seems to be calming down some now that she is about 9 months old!