Busted!

[texasmom]

I knew that dang dog was up on my couch.  Funny how it works: by the time I enter any room, those little mutts are long gone from the off-limits areas... but they do trust the kids well enough to pose for the incriminating photo!

[hubsonfire]

You realize that this means the kids are involved in the dog being in the Restricted Areas in the first place?

[texasmom]

No, actually... I hadn't thought about that!

Double busted! Thanks to Hub the detective! TY!

[bj229r]

My dog is a proud idiot!

WHAT did I do NOW?

[DREDIOCK]

Every once in a while my dogs will get into the garbage.
You know the deal.
Come home and garbage and coffee grinds are spread all over the kitchen.

I know which one is the one that initiated it by which one greets me at the door and which one is hiding.

[Obie303]

Gotta love'em!   I miss having a dog around.  Real soon though.  I've got the wife on the verge of breaking down....hopefully!

Txmom, who gets punished? 

[CyranoAH]

It wasn't me, nobody saw me do it, you cannot prove it!

[texasmom]

       good stuff!

[SFRT - Frenchy]

  Priceless pictures.
My dog is actually ok so far, but my whitw ninja monkey killer cat as window seems and kitchen counters off limit. When you enter the room, you sometimes ear the sound of the cat jumping on the floor, then he acts all inocent and cutely. Little punk.

[LePaul]

My Australian Cattle Dog would tear up apart her toys just to get the squeaker thing out.  Just like that Dalmatian photo, 5 minutes after getting her new toy, there would be a pile of stuffing, an inside out toy and a happy dog chawing on the 25 cent plastic squeaker.

  

[Elfie]

I just put our dog down 2 nights ago. He was a little over 10 years old and having some pretty serious pain issues w/ arthritis and a couple other health issues. We decided it was time to say goodbye and end his suffering.

He was a good one for getting into the trash, then act all innocent when we see it. 

[ROX]

I have two German Shepherds...the male is 7 and the female is a pup (21 weeks).  The pup can rip the stuffing out of a squeek toy in about 15 minutes.  The male helps if he wants to play.

We got new leather furniture after the last kid left the nest (you can't have anything nice with kids in the house) and let the male know the new couch is off limits.  I let the hedge in front of the window grow another foot higher so he can't see out the window if he does jump up on the new couch, so he's pretty much left it alone.

If the female starts to get destructive---I WILL break out the puppy launcher!


ROX

[Charon]

We fought the dog on the living room couch battle for about a year then gave up. We have disciplined the dog pretty well otherwise, he's very obident, but this was a loser.

He knew it was wrong, and he knew how to avoid getting directly caught most of the time (you could hear the plop as he jumped off the couch as your walked toward the room). In the end it was a battle we decided to not spend the time and energy on fighting. Less stress for all involved, and since we allow him on other couches it was also probably a bit confusing for him.

It helps that he doesn't shed at all, and is usually very clean and the couch is dark colored. And, generally, we like having him close to us when we are relaxing. A small price to pay for what he gives back in return.

Charon

[avionix]

Couple of years ago, I went into a movie theatre.  In the parking lot, was a Jeep Grand Cherokee with a german shepard inside sitting nice and pretty.  Nearly 3 hours later after my movie, I saw the dog still in the same car.  Except for now, he had ripped all of the cloth and foam off of all the seats.  Nothing but bare frames left.  He was sitting with a kind of grin on his face and foam bits hanging off of his mouth.  Funny as heck.  Wish I would have stayed around to see the look on the owners face.   

[wrongwayric]

Don't know what you'd use for dogs but with cats it's easy to keep em off furniture. Find a citrus based spray, lemon seems to work the best but orange scented also works, spray your couch, chair, etc... You won't see them on your furniture till the smell wears off.

This worked with every cat i ever owned except for 1 and he had a permanent sinus problem. His name was Snort, for obvious reasons, and you didn't want to be anywhere around when he sneezed.

I won't describe what it looked like, only to say, green slime had nothing on him.