LizStreithorst
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| 01/28/2008 2:20 PM |
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How could we punish her? Tink was standing in the middle of the pillow stuffing, wagging her little tail with smile on her face. She looked up at daddy proudly as if to say, "See what I did, daddy? I killed the bad pillow". Amazing how much stuffing can be pulled out of a tiny little hole. |
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DaisysMom
Moderator
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| 01/28/2008 2:40 PM |
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Oh, Liz!!! I'm sorry. To be frank, you really can't/shouldn't punish her after the fact. Did you correct her at all while you saw her pulling out the stuffing. So many ratties are absolute killers when it comes to stuffed toys, and they are very, very proud of their 'kills' LOL. Hopefully you can restuff it and sew it back up. I would make sure she has plenty of her own toys to destuff. Wal-mart has some either in their toy section or in the check out lanes that are 88 cents! I buy Daisy these the majority of the time, because they're just going to get destroyed. Occasionally I'll splurge, but it really doesn't pay. I haven't found a stuffed toy that'll stand up to the rattie urge to destuff and desqueak 
P.S. Daisy does the "make a tiny hole and pull all stuff out through it too"  Silly dogs! |
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Tracey - Darlin' Daisy's Mom
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treble02
Alpha Feist
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| 01/28/2008 2:52 PM |
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| LOL...awww sorry about your pillow, but i have to laugh....i can just picture her pride when daddy walks in! LOL....they are killer dogs! |
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~ Mary, Trixi and Toa's Mommy,
Ratbone Rescues Database Manager
and Applications Coordinator
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Vickie
Newbie
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| 01/28/2008 2:53 PM |
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Oh No!! I'm sorry. Mikey did the same thing to me when he was a puppy. Went upstairs came back down and in less than 2 minutes he had dug a hole and was pulling the foam out. I couldn't punish him either, but I didn't let him out of my sight for quite a while after that. I just sewed it up and put a throw over it. Ratties will be ratties..... |
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Caesar & Julia's mom
Alpha Feist
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| 01/28/2008 3:02 PM |
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*Vickie~love your avatar!!
LOL!!! My ratties love to destuff everything!!! Sorry abt your pillow!!! Hopefully you can fix it...Did you at least take a picture??hehehe |
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Diane~ loved by Caesar and Julia
"Don't count the days, make the days count..."
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Mitzy's Mom
PAWesome
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| 01/28/2008 3:05 PM |
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Oops! Sorry about the pillow but you really can't get too mad at them, can you? LOL
Mary's little Toa tried to de-stuff one of our chairs Saturday morning when he was visiting (our cat had started the process and he was just continuing the effort!) Silly pup! |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom, www.newrattitude.org
Pics of my current fosters:
http://imageevent.com/newrattitude/caradoc
http://imageevent.com/newrattitude/willow
http://imageevent.com/newrattitude/fiona
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treble02
Alpha Feist
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| 01/28/2008 3:07 PM |
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Mary's little Toa tried to de-stuff one of our chairs Saturday morning when he was visiting (our cat had started the process and he was just continuing the effort!) Silly pup!
uh oh...sorry MB!!  ...maybe he just wanted to help the cat! |
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~ Mary, Trixi and Toa's Mommy,
Ratbone Rescues Database Manager
and Applications Coordinator
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Mitzy's Mom
PAWesome
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| 01/28/2008 3:11 PM |
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OMG Mary, it was so cute because I was sitting there, drinking coffee, and he would start pulling at the upholestry about 3 feet from me. I'd say "hawkeye, no" and he would look at me very quickly and sit down very "properly" and say "sowwy". .....then after another 10 minutes he'd be back at it!
I loved having a puppy visit. Wish I had room for another puppy because I would so get one. I've never been one to worry too much about furniture...the coffee table still has Mayfly's teeth marks on it!  |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom, www.newrattitude.org
Pics of my current fosters:
http://imageevent.com/newrattitude/caradoc
http://imageevent.com/newrattitude/willow
http://imageevent.com/newrattitude/fiona
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bluesman
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| 01/28/2008 5:15 PM |
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Liz forgot to tell you this was a brand new couch we have saved all year to purchase. My dog doesn't like old throw pillows, must eat the new ones. Oh well, pillows don't cost that much.
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swatson6
Attention Starved
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| 01/28/2008 5:20 PM |
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| Well new ones just taste so much better! Haha. Sorry! They are so darn cute though, it is hard to stay mad at them! |
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Sarah
Mom to Jack, Jeter and foster mom to Teagan
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buttonbutt
Newbie
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| 02/03/2008 11:07 AM |
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| Button was so bad about chewing the corners off my throw pillows I had to remove them all. |
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