Masticated Gear

[luwayo]

my dog enjoyed a $40 pair of gloves yesterday. he extricated them from the black hole of a hockey bag, which remained unpacked from the weekend. [sigh] yes, i accept contributory negligence. this is just a fraction of a list of ghastly crime scenes i've returned to:

 

energy bars/power gels...untold numbers,

silnylon sacks....lost count,

lovingly customized belay gloves (2 sets), and

aforementioned, fricken expensive winter gloves.

 

what's your domistic destructo been up to?

 

don't make me feel worse

[Toast]

I don't know about gear, but my ex girlfriend's dog pretty much destroyed the siding off the back of her landlord's house about a week after she moved in.

[kenp]

My friend and hiking mate 'Ringo' nearly chewed through the waist belt on my rucksac, that wasn't so bad but he also pissed on it.

 

What's worse the wife said I DESERVED it cuz I left the smelly thing by the front door (where I dropped it two days prior) so what did I expect? Now I know she was a wee bit miffed that I was a few measly hours late...I explained that I simply couldn't meet the turn-a-round time, the summit was right there!

well anyway, if you see a Lowe pack listed in the yard sale...it isn't the same one...

[DirtyHarry]

I returned home to find that my dog had consumed my '88 Rotschild, smoked all my cubans, and was in bed with my wife!!! Man's best friend, my ass.

[Alpinfox]

A built a nest in the glovebox of my car and used my proof of insurance card and registration as nesting material. Of course, I didn't discover this until pulled over by the police for having expired tags one night.

 

"Um... yeah officer.... uh.... a mouse seems to have eaten all of my paperwork".

 

$700 ticket.

 

[MountaingirlBC]

I think i've gotten off relatively easy in this dept. My dog is 2.5 and until a couple of weeks ago had not destroyed anything. I was packing for a trip and as usual had all my gear spread out all over the dining room. She picked up my brand new ear warmer things and decided the destroy them. I was SO pissed because I've wanted those things for years but was too cheap to buy them. I'd picked them up on killer sale at REI just 2 days before so I was feeling pretty pleased with myself. So that made it especially painful when I heard the 'crunch crack' sound of teeth on plastic. BAD DOG!!! She totalled them. She's lucky she's cute.

[cj001f]

I returned home to find that my dog had consumed my '88 Rotschild, smoked all my cubans, and was in bed with my wife!!! Man's best friend, my ass.

Coming home to find 2 bitches in my bed sounds like paradise.

[G-spotter]

Well it's hell if you had the munchies and were suddenly out of peanut butter.

[RogerJ]

I had a dog once chew up my HP12C. However I've managed to keep my climbing gear unmasticated, which is a good thing.

 

Apparently my dogs are smarter than I think.

 

 

-r

[DirtyHarry]

I returned home to find that my dog had consumed my '88 Rotschild, smoked all my cubans, and was in bed with my wife!!! Man's best friend, my ass.

Coming home to find 2 bitches in my bed sounds like paradise.

 

You dog.

[Mr._Natural]

my dog developed a very expensive mythos habit in his late puppyhood/early adolescence. bastard always went for the left shoe so i was left with a worthless pile of rights. 3 or 4 pairs total.

[luwayo]

Addendum:

the usual climbing apparel trimed with bunny fur...all have been rendered more dead.

[luwayo]

tx for cheering me up with that one. i'm a little more vigilant about keeping the mythos out of harms way.

[mattp]

Our cute little kitty seems to pee on my ropes and packs about every chance he gets. Doesn't compare to eating them, I suppose, but I wonder what cat pee does to climbing ropes?

[whirlwind]

not good, its pretty acidic, better ask cbs

[still_climbin]

Have a year old 85 lb chocolate lab named Mooser. I turned on the lawn sprinkler system last weekend getting ready for the desert's summer heat only to find that The Moose had eaten nearly all of the sprinkler heads during the winter...Bad Moose!

[DirtyHarry]

My step-siblings' Chesapeake does that when the sprinklers turn on. He's destroyed a bunch of expensive sprinkler heads at my mom's place. Also attacks water coming from hoses. That dog is fucking retarted.

[EWolfe]

The classic Yosemite scenario:

 

Euros fly in to LA, rent a car, load it up with groceries and gear for a week in the valley to do a bigwall. They drive up to camp 4 parking, arriving late at night. They throw down their bags in the woods, and wake up the next morning to the following series of events:

 

Bears have broken windows, ripped doors, and popped the trunk (or torn out back seat) to get to the food, which is gone with trash strewn about. Easy access to the gear finds the car pretty picked over by the valley rats, as well.

The rental car is destroyed, so a healthy towing fee is involved to get the vehicle out of the Park. Then the ranger shows up and writes tickets for littering and keeping food in the vehicle.

 

Vacation ruined.

[luwayo]

Eric, where's the woofy in your story?

 

ok - allowed. anything with teeth

Edited April 12, 2006 by luwayo

[EWolfe]

I've had birds eat my hat, bonsai and blinds.

 

Has to have teeth?

[G-spotter]

Cue Blake to post Kea picture, 3, 2, 1...

[luwayo]

i just gorged on triple choco birthday cake. i think it was made with chocolard. will that shot induce upchucking?

 

do it E!

[DirtyHarry]

Snaffle attacks are a whole other topic.

[luwayo]

don't birds have teeth?

[G-spotter]

don't birds have teeth?

 

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