A Boxing Day disaster! 🐶

Nexus63, pups chew things, my mums chewed through the lamp cable. Im on my 12th dog, some daft immature young rescues 6 puppies on arrival. None of mine have chewed cables but one made a good job on the cd player and my lab on skirting boards.

nexus63
Have a heart. We feel guilty enough when our pups have a mishap without someone calling us stupid and being rude.

Don't worry Witzend. DH is an ex lighting director (Theatre Royal Haymarket) and tells me that Christmas lights these days operate
at extra-low voltage. Apparently they are
powered by a Safety Extra-Low Voltage
transformer that will reduce
the risk of electric shock, even if there
is a fault or if a creature chews the wires.
He looks very contented there and beautiful.

nexus63

stupid dd for not watching what the puppy was doing, it is a puppy they chew, i hope she took the poor little thing to a vet to be checked over, as for the lights....who gets upset about lights, they are now all reduced....christmas is over.
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I’m tempted to use one of the ruder acronyms recently mentioned on another thread!

As I said before, the puppy was fine! - almost immediately charging around again with the adoring Gdcs.

Here he is, a day or two later enjoying a snooze on a blanket I knitted for the Gdcs.

I laughed and laughed over the puppy eating the lights .
Mine haven't done that - baubles were a problem .
As they loved apples out of the fruit bowl baubles were just a festive alternative .

My favourite cat managed to pee on my old Dansette ( remember them ?) record player .
And shorted out the downstairs .
We were amazed that she was not hurt and just as naughty afterwards .
I think that the next target was the sewing basket .
She got the entire contents out and wove the wool and the cotton reels around the legs of the dining room table and chairs .

One puppy chewed our bed when I took the linen downstairs to wash it!

Tizliz

One of our puppies ate my husband’s shoe. Quite normal you think but he was wearing it and didn’t notice. You just can’t train some people 😀

I am still laughing at this post. Yes, pets chew things and as humans we can't be up to all of their dodges all of the time. I once bought a hamster and foolishly left it alone in a cardboard box in the car. Of course it chewed an escape hole and disappeared into the air vent. I had to wait for hours until it poked its nose out and could be caught.

Bit harsh nexus. I don't think OP needs a lecture and I certainly don't think OP needs to be called stupid.

We haven't put the tree and decoration this year, we know what Baxter is like, a complete vandal and hooligan

We had a Boxing Day disaster once back when I was a child, and we were looking after my Nan's elderly budgie, Joey, while she was away. Overnight poor Joey's leg fell off! We got up in the morning to find him a uniped. He seemed remarkably unconcerned about the disaster, but poor Nan was most upset when she got back. The vet said there was nothing anybody could do "it's his age."

When DS1 had a puppy she managed to eat some grapes - trip to vets on New Year’s Day. Also, back from the vets she jumped on the kitchen table, tore open a box of mince pies and ate several. Second trip to vets at enormous cost! She is no longer a puppy and managed to find a box of mince pies but this time there was no trip to the vets and she was fine. However, if I had eaten 4 or 5 mince pies I would have been poorly I think - she seemed to have no problems!

I had a budgie once that would perforate little holes around any newspaper, magazine or book that had been left open. I often had to explain to my teachers why my exercise books had holes all round the edges.

I hasten to add that he never actually ate the paper - he carefully dropped all the bits onto the floor!

I've been very fortunate none of our Border Collies have been chewers except kira who liked a nice shoe! I did know a hamster that got out and chewed through the central heating wiring now that was expensive to fix.

We had a dwarf rabbit, taken in from the local school, and he quickly established himself as the senior pet. My tumble dryer refused to work, and after messing about for ages with fuses and sockets, we discovered that he had somehow got behind it and chewed the cable in half almost under the machine, so to anyone looking from the front, the dryer didn't show any sign of damage.

Meant safe place or a crate.....

Totally agree. Glad puppy is ok. Lights can be replaced! She should have shut pup in a 'safe' are a crate.

One of our puppies ate my husband’s shoe. Quite normal you think but he was wearing it and didn’t notice. You just can’t train some people 😀

Goodness! Poor puppy! Yes, like toddlers, take nothing for granted with any pup or really any “strange” dog staying in your home which doesn’t belong to anyone living in said home! Glad all turned out ok in the end, as a lifelong dog owner I wouldn’t have cared less about the tree lights!

I have always been very fortunate, but then we had both dogs and cats / puppies and kittens in my childhood, and I am the elder daughter, so it was part of my upbringing that when there were kittens, puppies and children under five, one adult always either kept an eye on the youngsters, or on the Christmas tree.

My mother firmly believed that if you cannot hear where a kitten, puppy or todler is and what they are doing, then they are probably doing something they shouldn't, and immediate investigation is called for.

As a school-teacher I have found that precept very useful with children of all ages!

One year our Christmas tree capsized and landed gracefully on the sitting-room floor.

Believe it or not, nothing broke, and happily, our two young kittens were both with us in the kitchen, where they were being fed, as the rest of the family sat down for dinner, and we were three adults who all saw that the kittens were not responsible for the tree collapsing in a faint.

We put it up again and added a couple of guy ropes for safety's sake.

stupid dd for not watching what the puppy was doing, it is a puppy they chew, i hope she took the poor little thing to a vet to be checked over, as for the lights....who gets upset about lights, they are now all reduced....christmas is over.
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We also had a house rabbit who would always chew the landline wire.
At least your puppy was ok. I looked after a cat once and very sadly lost it. Was mortified. It sneaked out and despite many searches never was found. Worse as it was someone else’s pet.

We had a pet rabbit that we used to let loose in the house, and it was only some time afterwards that my husband discovered he'd been chewing through the electrical cables at the back of TV and computer. Luckily the rabbit didn't electrocute himself. He did have a sad ending though, when a fox managed to unlatch the door on his hutch 😢. It was years ago but still very sad 😔

We have three Goldies, two are still 'pups' (10 months) although already large dogs. Basically they eat everything including unmentionable stuff. If they are late being walked they rip up the garden. Don't know why I love them so much...

My nephew put up an xmas tree with blinking lights. The cat sits for long periods watching it and seems fascinated by the reflections in the baubles. His previous cat jumped into the tree when she was a kitten so they havnt had one for years.

When our Doberman bitch was a youngster, we went out for an hour and a half's visit to nearby neighbours, and shut her in the kitchen with her bed and snacks to compensate her. Clearly an insufficient bribe, as we returned to find, in what was evidently a tantrum, she had stripped the plaster from the wall back to the bare brickwork, of an area approx a foot and a half wide, up to nearly waist height!
On another occasion, when she was in season and must have been broody, we returned to find she had decided our 3 seater settee was a good nest and had torn out the stuffing on all 3 seats.
Her predecessor, while a pup, managed to destroy his beanbag, and we returned to those little polystyrene balls everywhere, and for good measure he had deposited a little 'present' in amongst it all for us.

'Aww bless' - to use another thread under discussion on GN!