We have yet to find a conventional dog toy that Oliver can’t destroy in an hour. It is very surprising to me that he doesn’t chew random things in the house like chair legs or bedspreads. We leave him in our bedroom during the day and he hasn’t ruined anything in there. He knows when something shows up in his bed though that it’s his for the taking.
The only thing that has lasted so far is a racquetball. It took him 10 days to finally gnaw through it. Luckily, they come in cans of three.
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Duce destroys every dog toy he’s ever been given, as well..
See? It’s only time before Oliver starts diving for your spleen.
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Chickie said:
January 17th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Oliver doesn’t have the jumping skills that Duce dies. My innards are safe as long as I don’t fall down in his path. I think.
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January 17th, 2010 12:50 am
Ooooooo….I hope he’s not ingesting any of that stuff! (Sorry…not a comment on your mama skills, just a free floating anxiety about the troubles animals get themselves into.)
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Chickie said:
January 17th, 2010 at 9:31 am
He doesn’t eat any of it. I watched him to make sure. He’d bite a plug off, spit it out and then get back to work. When he’d made a pile of trash around himself that’s when he moved to mess up somewhere else. Smartest dog ever!
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January 17th, 2010 8:40 am
We had two dachsies when I was growing up. The boy was a red and the girl was a black and tan like Oliver. The boy, Max, would shred things to bits. We had to put a mailbox outside because he would rip up the letters when they were pushed through the slot in the door. He also had a thing for digging holes and chewing on rocks. But we loved them both so much! – G
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Chickie said:
January 17th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
The digging? Ollie is a digging fiend! He’ll randomly stop outside & dig ferociously for a bit before continuing on his way. I don’t care that he gets dirty because his little feet are so cute when he digs!
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January 17th, 2010 10:05 am
Maybe you should give Oliver Chair Legs and Bedspreads as his toys ;)
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Chickie said:
January 17th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Oh, no! If he becomes destructive I’ll have to take him off his pedestal & he would cry. You don’t want The Best Dog Ever to cry, do you? I think not.
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January 17th, 2010 12:22 pm
Why does Ollie have demon eyes in the top picture? Did he not like you taking a picture of him destroying a toy?
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Chickie said:
January 17th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
I think he’s got a streak of devil in him. Sometimes he barks at me like he’s an asshole and I can tell he’s not all sugar and spice.
He was pissed that I was in his face during his “fun time” too!
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January 17th, 2010 5:18 pm
The more you tell us about this boy, the more I like him!
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:52 am
I haven’t found anything not great about him yet!
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January 18th, 2010 12:09 pm
Incredible! I’ve heard of dogs that destroy telephones and cell phones, etc….Hopefully Oliver won’t be doing that…lol!
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Chickie said:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:52 am
I hope not. He seems to like rubber things. He pulled a coaster for glasses off of the coffee table to chew on but I caught him. So far, that’s been all he’s tried to get at in the house.
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January 18th, 2010 8:05 pm
My boston terrier would hold the raquet balls in his mouth, and bite down as hard as he could… just to shoot you in the leg with it. Eventually, it would bust down the seam, and he would mourn its death.
Right up until we gave him another one.
Whoever said humans were the higher life form, never talked to someone who had a dog.
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Chickie said:
January 24th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Oliver will let the ball shoot out and then chase it if we aren’t playing catch with him. He seems terrified of the vacuum but he’ll also bounce it off of that if it’s out.
As I type, he has just killed another racquetball and it tearing it to tiny bits.
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January 21st, 2010 12:10 am
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