OMG! I don`t believe it! The moment I turn my back! Does anyone want a unruly garden-wrecker of a labrador???!!!! I went downstairs at 6pm to put something in the oven for my dinner when I happened to look outside the backdoor. 
I was confronted by my own version of the Hound of the Baskervilles covered in compost and the garden looked like it had just been ploughed. The new plants I bought last week were spread all over the lawn, pots, canes etc. The Clematis I thought was ruined but i managed to save it and have repotted it. The Peony has seen better days but hopefully it will recover minus 3 branches! The Magnolia I think he saved for another day. ( He`s hoping) Oh yes and another door mat has bitten the dust as well! Chewed to bits as were the canes, pots and labels, I don`t know why he didn`t eat the compost and be done with it! So there I was with a trowel and the indoor broom , it was the only one I could find, doing a quick salvage job, while the guilty culprit was hiding in the hallway with his head down. I am just wondering what any of our neighbours thought about the mad woman who was sweeping the garden lawn as it was getting dark.......I don`t know.......dogs....... who`d have `em?
As for the hound. I suppose I`d better go downstairs again and tell him not to worry , I still love him..............just!
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I know you love him, but that's why I want "little" dogs! The holes they might dig will be small. I'm sorry you had so much work. Penny
o my gosh! I have had that happen! I cried! I wanted to kill them!
Oh dear lord!! I'm surprised your still talking to him !!
Why don't you get in touch with "Ground Force" Sandra? Haven't seen them do a dog proof garden yet. Keep smiling.
Sylvia x
You must have been furious after all that work - I certainly would be! What a shame - but it sounds as if you were quick to salvage what you could. Plants are often tougher than we think, so hopefully most of it will recover. You'll just have to put them all behind Jake-proof fencing from now on!
David.
You had to be angry ..... oh....that is dogs for you! My little one chewed up EVERYTHING from electrical wires to expensive shoes...but after a few years she settled down. :D
It will be alright Sandra...
Are you going to plant the garden all over again?
Love and Hugs,
Sharon
Get a cat;-)
Jake and Jason should team up!
Jason likes to 'deadhead' stuff. He once saw my Mum doing this and thought it looked like a fun thing to do, and helpful too, right?
Not when the flowers are just opening J!!!
Grrr!
Sara x
Oh my! You are not alone Sandra. My two 'kids' have totally destroyed the backyard lawn...ummm, wait, there is no lawn anymore, but there used to be. Know what I'm sayin'? I could tell you stories about Rumbeau, lordy! By the time he was 8 months old EVERYONE at the vet's office knew him by sight. One vet tech, when he asked what the problem was, upon hearing my narrative of events, merely said, "Labs!!!!" and shook his head. But we do love them so....
~Dona
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Don't worry, Jake! Me and the boys regularly help Daddy make his own vegetable patch from his prize lawn!
Mopsy
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