Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Ju_xx — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 21:29:38 GMT

[quote user="diverdippy"] I keep being asked what breed she is as she isn't fat!!! [/quote]

I have a lab too and she is small (and correct weight!) and I have been told she is underweight before and she needs to put weight on and whether she is a cross breed. People just aren't used to seeing those type of labs. I personally love labs but not the very chunky ones, like the working/leggy ones more

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Pippa Louise — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:07:05 GMT

I've got a lab x fox terrier - chews everything he can get hold of!

Even caught him chewing a tub of butter once!! He goes for anything he can sink his teeth into and rip up - fries to go packets, my winter hats, the baby's clothes - just everything!!

But I wouldn't swap him for the whole world!! He has a unique personality - real fox x terrier mix haha!! xx

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Dawn Seabrook — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:54:44 GMT

Hate to scare all you lab owners but one of the nurses at work has a 4yr old lab who hasn't grown out of eating things the list that I know of goes something like this

2 pairs of glasses,several tv remotes,whole tray of flower bulbs, half a fence pannel,multiple shoes, at least 2 mobile phones, a whole roll of kitchen roll, one very expensive necklace, a 12v battery and one of my handbags when I went over for dinner.

Thankfully they have all passed through so no exlap yet but we just know its going to happen.

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Susan Jackson — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:56:17 GMT

Random croos breeds are fine as long as you don't call them the stupid names like:

coc-a-poo, labradoodle etc

These make them look posh when it's just a cross breed! People paying £300 plus for cross breeds, why?

My brothers new cat is just as bad as any puppy, he wants to eat everything, play with everything. He's in the bath watching water, running accross the floor with plastic in his mouth. I caught him chewing the cord off a curtain and then swallowing it. I had to pull it back out for him, thank fully still attached to curtain. I'm just wondering if the tree's next to come down, he does the simon's cats and i find him playing with the decorations from half way up.

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Tracy Windler RVN — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:28:20 GMT

[quote user="Katie Brocklebank"] can't wait to get him a mate one day, maybe a bichon frise! [/quote]

Bichons!! I love em!! I want a bichon x cavalier, but I can't bring myself to encourage random "designer" crossbreeds

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Katie B — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:27:57 GMT

[quote user="Karen Wilkins"]

1 x lab 3 yrs, 1 x labxspringer 1 yrs, list of things eaten (through my own stupid fault, on the whole!):

4 mobile phones (expensive)

1 x carpet (pulled up and underlay destroyed)

3 x shoes (never a pair so lots of one useless shoe in my cupboard)

1 door frame chewed (no idea why as always has lots of nylabones, and in a random place)

2 x tv remotes

1 library book

3 x cuxhions (zips are very interesting, don't you know..)

1 1/2 leather gloves (requiring a swift trip to vets for them to re-emerge after a rather unpleasant 45 mins, fortunately).

I love my dogs me!!! Hopefully I'm at the end of this now! Still, wouldn't be without the little monkeys....

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LOL, oh dear, mine does love socks and particularly when I am doing the washing, I think its his chase me mum game. He causes lots of mess and I have to hoover everyday but would be lost without him, can't wait to get him a mate one day, maybe a bichon frise!

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Karen Wilkins — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:56:26 GMT

1 x lab 3 yrs, 1 x labxspringer 1 yrs, list of things eaten (through my own stupid fault, on the whole!):

4 mobile phones (expensive)

1 x carpet (pulled up and underlay destroyed)

3 x shoes (never a pair so lots of one useless shoe in my cupboard)

1 door frame chewed (no idea why as always has lots of nylabones, and in a random place)

2 x tv remotes

1 library book

3 x cuxhions (zips are very interesting, don't you know..)

1 1/2 leather gloves (requiring a swift trip to vets for them to re-emerge after a rather unpleasant 45 mins, fortunately).

I love my dogs me!!! Hopefully I'm at the end of this now! Still, wouldn't be without the little monkeys....

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Deemus — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:45:26 GMT

[quote user="diverdippy"]I keep being asked what breed she is as she isn't fat!!! [/quote]

LOL! We spent the weekend with some friends who have a new Lab puppy. He was utterly gorgeous but did run my poor old boy ragged! It was lovely to spend some time in the company of a pup who I could just enjoy. I almost managed to banish all VN thoughts whislt being down there.

Luckily, his mum and dad are pretty clued up. He's already quite well trained for a 16 week old puppy.

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Catherine Goulding — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:22:45 GMT

I think its just a common trait with labradors - mine eats everything in sight too. Her favourite at the moment is socks but she has eaten her way through radiography positioing wedges, door frames and shoes too. I am hoping she grows out of it but she is only 18 months so I suppose we have a fair way to go yet. I suppose it also doesn't help that she goes to wrok with me as she roots through the students bags - they are good though and are used to extracting things from her mouth too. I think the record so far is 18 items in 20 minutes!!, I keep being asked what breed she is as she isn't fat!!!

Re: Stop telling me my dog is doomed!!!

Katie B — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:40:36 GMT

Thats sweet. My lab was the same, he ate everything in sight and our door frames (we live in rented accomodation). Just watch your shoes, he has eaten about 5 of mine! He also loved stones and snails but luckilly never got lungworm! It's always worrying when their little but they do grow out of it but he still loves my shoes, new shoes normally lol!