A Boxing Day disaster! 🐶

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!

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!

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."

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

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

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.

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

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 .

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.
is this post real?

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.

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

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.