Ever have a dog do this?

[jim]

Get the runs and proceed to just about every room in the house leaving a mess beyond description? Two rooms had carpet, and I've spent the night ripping that out.

I've never seen such a mess.

[Radbird]

No. I had one of my dogs let loose while on my lap while driving through Iowa on the way home from Wisconsin once.

The 10 miles to the next exit will not go down as one of my favorite life memories.

Sorry to hear about your carpet. Mine had nowhere to run...

[Ace]

Yep, we got rid of him the next day.

It was after Easter too, he got hold of a few baskets and you could see the string each time.

[cardinalkarp]

What a disaster. I've had a couple dogs that had exploded in their cages but never one that ran from room to room exploding.

[heyzeus]

I think you have to release their anal glands.

[cardinalkarp]

I think you have to release their anal glands.

calling Omaha!!

[jim]

The carpet downstairs was indoor/outdoor, and the upstairs bedroom was 10 years old. We have been slowly changing our carpet to hardwood throughout the house as the time comes, so this will just push our plans up a year or so.

In fact, now that I think of this, Dizzy is responsible for basically most of the house getting hardwood. When she took a bleach bottle off the counter and took it in the family room to play with it, we swapped that carpet out for hardwood. When Dizzy tried over the course of about six months to dig her way out of the house in the front room, that caused us to replace the carpet in there. And that room flows to the dining room, so we got two rooms done with that little digging incident. We have two bedrooms left to do, ours and our oldest kids. Once I saw the mess in there, I knew we were going to be calling to get that setup today.

Dogs are expensive.

edit - by the way, that smell on the indoor/outdoor carpeting after I tried to wash it out was absolutely indescribable. I took a bucket and really soaked it, which turned out to be a huge mistake.

[Simbagal23]

Yep...and it's when we rented an apartment. I worked my axx off cleaning the carpet (which was disgusting anyway) because I didn't want management to keep our deposit. Management sucked....there is no way they were keeping my moolah! I don't know how I was able to clean it...but I did. Probably my mom's favorite combo of detergent-dishwashing soap-oxyclean. I don't know whay my dog got into that day, but to return home from work to that surprise was not fun. Hardwoods are the way to go.....

[jim]

I might have contemplated cleaning the upstairs if she stayed in one spot, but she must have been walking and crapping at the same time. Just a runny glob followed by dribbles followed by another runny glob and more dribbles.

My wife was trying to talk me into getting that room replaced last week, I said we should wait at least one year. We compromised and decided to do it in the spring. Once I saw the magnitude of it, I just started ripping it up.

[arnie.k]

oh man oh man...

my little boy jolly had something similar happen today.

we left home to do some shopping, couldn't have been more than 15 minutes, and my gf left her advil bottle on the kitchen counter (she's sick, but even so that was a big mistake!!!!). we came home to find the advil bottle destroyed, and about half of its contents on the floor (the other half, we assume, was inside the dog).

we rushed to the vet, and the little boy got some epimorphine which induces vomitting. he of course spilled his guts in a bucket there, and then was fed about half a pint of active carbon (it's a gooey black liquid that absorbs poisons, and rushes them out through the digestive tract - inducing diharrea)... since then he's been oozing out black liquid all over the floor, and i've been practically chasing him with a mop (he won't go outside, because a.) it's very cold out today; and, b.) the epimorphine has made him drowsy - not to say high as a kite - and he's afraid to go outside).

more to come i guess...

i really hope he'll be ok...