anyone have a pet attack your charger

[RGA]

I love my dog but........ She is a 100 lb pit bull and always wants to play, yesterday ran through my garage jumped on my 69 charger grill and shattered it. She almost got shot. It still may happen, haven't calmed down yet. Anyone else had to deal with this ?

[Ghoste]

Nothing like that.  The old dog on tire routine and thats about all.  A friend once had a 69 Charger that his mothers cat apparently thought the hood scallops were a litter box.  That wasn't too popular with him as I recall.

[Dans 68]

Nothing like that.  The old dog on tire routine and thats about all.  A friend once had a 69 Charger that his mothers car apparently thought the hood scallops were a litter box.  That wasn't too popular with him as I recall.

I had to read your post twice before I realized that you meant "cat" and not "car".    I had strange thoughts....  

No, the only animal related problems I have had are of my daughter planting her butt on my hood. She subsequently got one of her Dad's lectures...on my mark roll eyes    ....  

Dan

[Lennard]

I hope you are being sarcastic. If you would kill your dog for that then he is better of dead then have you as an owner.

[RGA]

Half sarcastic. 69 charger grill $1000......... crazy pit bull free........ she's lucky my daughter loves her.

[XS29L9Bxxxxxx]

If in my house, dog would already be gone... Seriously... 

[Ghoste]

Nothing like that.  The old dog on tire routine and thats about all.  A friend once had a 69 Charger that his mothers car apparently thought the hood scallops were a litter box.  That wasn't too popular with him as I recall.

I had to read your post twice before I realized that you meant "cat" and not "car".    I had strange thoughts....  

Dan

  Fixed.

[bull]

So far the only problem I've had is the cat walking on the Charger. But generally she's afraid of the garage because the air compressor comes on randomly. My dog never messed with it, but then she would never mess with the mice that stole her food and packed my heater core and decklid with it either.

[triple_green]

just the neighborhood kids on their bikes who decided to ride their bikes around the charger while it was in the carport. only 3 or 4 feet on each side of the car and left me a few scratches from their handlebars, before I caught them. Thankfully nothing too bad.

I thought this took a lot guts since the carport is at least 60 feet off of the private road infront of our house.....

[daveco]

Never had a pet damage a car I care about, but our Doberman had a go at the front fenders on my Neon.

[Marck]

Never had a pet damage a car I care about, but our Doberman had a go at the front fenders on my Neon.

Holy..... 
Did you rub the fender with bacon or something?!?

[moparstuart]

Never had a pet damage a car I care about, but our Doberman had a go at the front fenders on my Neon.

He must have needed more iron i his diet   

[daveco]

A rodent of some variety sought refuge in the engine bay, Doberman logic dictated removing the fenders for access.

[Tilar]

Half sarcastic. 69 charger grill $1000......... crazy pit bull free........ she's lucky my daughter loves her.

My daughter (if I had one) wouldn't be so lucky. That dog wouldn't make it to suppertime at my house.

[Mopar440+6]

I love my dog but........ She is a 100 lb pit bull and always wants to play, yesterday ran through my garage jumped on my 69 charger grill and shattered it. She almost got shot. It still may happen, haven't calmed down yet. Anyone else had to deal with this ?

I have two APBT's that I'm pretty sure produce as much energy as TMI so I understand your situation. The youngest is a 95lb male who thinks he's a chihuahua and just barrels through everything. His gigantic skull left a nice dent in the quarter panel of my GTO a while back. Neither of them have ever damaged anything as high value as that grille but I've learned that if they do wreck something, its usually my fault. Either I should have put the item away properly, had them on a leash or the most common, simply paid more attention to them. Dogs will be dogs. Take her out and throw a ball or frisbee a couple times a week. They're high energy dogs that need to get the lead out sometimes. You'd be surprised how much difference a couple of minutes of playtime can make...

A rodent of some variety sought refuge in the engine bay, Doberman logic dictated removing the fenders for access.

Thank you! I NEEDED that laugh after the day I've had.

[Fred]

The worst animal (and I use the term loosely) encounter I've ever had is..............bird shit!!  And that's plenty bad enough!

[bill440rt]

Never had a pet attack one of my Chargers, but...

As a little boy I had a pet rabbit, at one time we kept the rabbit's cage in the garage. My mom (all 4-1/2 feet tall of her) had a '72 Caddy Fleetwood at the time which was garage kept. One night the rabbit decided to escape & take residence up in the engine compartment of the Caddy. Next morning my mom comes out to try and start the Caddy. My dad nearly sh*t his pants come to discover the rabbit chewed the crap outta all the underhood wiring!    Damn, he was pissed!  (Kinda funny looking back at it now.) Could have been MUCH worse if the rabbit stayed in there. 
Needless to say the rabbit never stayed in the garage again! 

[RallyeMike]

There is a reasonably well known NW Mopar parts dealer who once told me that he fed his cat to his guard dogs for simply walking on his Hemi car. I guess he considered it an attack of some kind. It seems to me that an intelligent person knows that cats walk on cars, so keep the cat inside, keep the garage closed up, get a car cover, or don't have a cat. If you screw it up, it's not the cat that deserves punishment! True or not I don't know, but he seemed pretty serious about it. I'm sure I'm not the only one he tried to impress with the story.

[Fred]

These people that feel the necessity to punish other's (in particular animals) for their negligence OR SHOULD I SAY...........JUST PLAIN STUPIDITY deserve to have their hides tanned. I hate bullies of any kind and cruelty to animals is out of the question!! what a bloody MORON!! Don't ever want to meet him.

[Arigmaster]

Do Ex-wives count?

[daveco]

We have actively encouraged our Dobies (and our GSD's) rodent control activities. They get paid 1/2 of a hot dog for a mouse and a whole hot dog for a rat (they both get paid if either one scores).
The trade deal is to discourage them from eating the rodents, it did not take long for them to make the association .
Anyway, since it was a working mistake, punishment was a simple scolding. Thankfully, no repeat offenses.

[Fred]

We have actively encouraged our Dobies (and our GSD's) rodent control activities. They get paid 1/2 of a hot dog for a mouse and a whole hot dog for a rat (they both get paid if either one scores).
The trade deal is to discourage them from eating the rodents, it did not take long for them to make the association .
Anyway, since it was a working mistake, punishment was a simple scolding. Thankfully, no repeat offenses.

Beautiful story and nice looking dogs  

[Lennard]

These people that feel the necessity to punish other's (in particular animals) for their negligence OR SHOULD I SAY...........JUST PLAIN STUPIDITY deserve to have their hides tanned. I hate bullies of any kind and cruelty to animals is out of the question!! what a bloody MORON!! Don't ever want to meet him.

and to the topic starter, your dog does not know if that grill costs $1 or $1000.
It's a dog, you have to think for them! Needles to say that if anyone ever touches my dogs I'd go to prison.

[RGA]

I like my dog. I treat that dog well, its a part of our family. But in the end it is just a dog, and they come and go. Not a person !!!!! There are some serious issues here on this thread with these animal lovers. ITS JUST A DOG. In the end I did not shoot her.

[Finn]

Needles to say that if anyone ever touches my dogs I'd go to prison.

I like my dog. I treat that dog well, its a part of our family. But in the end it is just a dog, and they come and go. Not a person !!!!! There are some serious issues here on this thread with these animal lovers. ITS JUST A DOG. In the end I did not shoot her.

Same could be said about your car.

[RGA]

True

[Fred]

I like my dog. I treat that dog well, its a part of our family. But in the end it is just a dog, and they come and go. Not a person !!!!! There are some serious issues here on this thread with these animal lovers. ITS JUST A DOG. In the end I did not shoot her.

Take heart RGA, I was referring to the dickhead that bragged about feeding his cat to the dog.

[RECHRGD]

The more people I meet, the more I love my dog......

[Lennard]

I like my dog. I treat that dog well, its a part of our family. But in the end it is just a dog, and they come and go. Not a person !!!!! There are some serious issues here on this thread with these animal lovers. ITS JUST A DOG. In the end I did not shoot her.

A dog is a living breathing creature, a car is just a dead piece of metal... they come and go.

[Tilar]

A dog is a living breathing creature,

So are rats and mice, are people going to cry big boohoo tears if we kill them?

[69hemidaytona]

Never had a pet attack one of my Chargers, but...

As a little boy I had a pet rabbit, at one time we kept the rabbit's cage in the garage. My mom (all 4-1/2 feet tall of her) had a '72 Caddy Fleetwood at the time which was garage kept. One night the rabbit decided to escape & take residence up in the engine compartment of the Caddy. Next morning my mom comes out to try and start the Caddy. My dad nearly sh*t his pants come to discover the rabbit chewed the crap outta all the underhood wiring!    Damn, he was pissed!   (Kinda funny looking back at it now.) Could have been MUCH worse if the rabbit stayed in there.  
Needless to say the rabbit never stayed in the garage again!  

A while back I read an article about a big problem they were having at the Denver, Co airport . Seems they had a lot of hungry rabbits that thought they could eat wiring on the underside of cars parked there. Quite a bit of damage from those wascals.

[RallyeMike]

Screw mice and hamsters. What about the chickens?!

http://www.petitiononline.com/chik3ns/petition.html

No chicken has ever willingly harmed a car! Join our cause.

[Dino]

The more people I meet, the more I love my dog......

Although I no longer have a dog, but I do have two great cats now.  Still agree...

[elanmars]

I don't know why you'd let the dog run through the garage with a grille where it could be easily damaged...if I had a '69 grille, I would keep it on a table, no animals or kids allowed in there or something. but that's just me.

[cdr]

last night my wife wanted to take the dogs for a ride in her pathfinder,i forgot to turn on the outside lights & she let the dogs go out to load up in the back, well that did not go so well,we have to rotties [large dogs] the male cant see very well & the pathfinder is black .so he takes a running leap onto the hood thinking the hatch was up, he was wrong, he fell down & hit the driveway kinda knocked him silly but he's ok ,the hood got scratched up pretty bad & now he is scared of the truck.  also in the mid 80's had a 70 road runner that i had just painted car was in garage backed in,put dog in garage & he decided he wanted to look out the garage windows so he jumped on the hood & made a really bad mess out of my hood.    ps no dogs were harmed in the making of these stories

[Lennard]

A dog is a living breathing creature,

So are rats and mice, are people going to cry big boohoo tears if we kill them?

Obviously not everybody possesses common sense...

[RECHRGD]

Screw mice and hamsters. What about the chickens?!

http://www.petitiononline.com/chik3ns/petition.html

No chicken has ever willingly harmed a car! Join our cause.

I signed!!!!!  I don't understand why we don't all just buy our chicken and meat at supermarkets, so they don't have to kill anything...

[Fred]

The more people I meet, the more I love my dog......

Boy do I second that! 

[jar1292]

Who here has heard the new country song about how the guy sings about how he wished his wife loved him as much as his dog did? I dont know who sings it but OMG its right on the spot! LOL IF any body knows who sings it let me know I may just play it christmas morning to wake the wife up!

[Lennard]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gtt2mSK0N4

[Tilar]

A dog is a living breathing creature,

So are rats and mice, are people going to cry big boohoo tears if we kill them?

Obviously not everybody possesses common sense...

Many people wouldn't know common sense if it slapped them in the face.

[aussiemuscle]

There is a reasonably well known NW Mopar parts dealer who once told me that he fed his cat to his guard dogs for simply walking on his Hemi car. I guess he considered it an attack of some kind. It seems to me that an intelligent person knows that cats walk on cars, so keep the cat inside, keep the garage closed up, get a car cover, or don't have a cat. If you screw it up, it's not the cat that deserves punishment! True or not I don't know, but he seemed pretty serious about it. I'm sure I'm not the only one he tried to impress with the story.

what if it's not my cat? i saw muddy foot prints all over my car, so went and check the security footage...

[slamooo]

I was working on my 69 Chrysler convertible in the garage and it looked like it was going to rain so I put the 73 charger out in the hay shed. I did not close the gate to the shed and my kids let the cows out. Do you know what a 1300lb cow will do to the side of a 73 charger when there is only 2 feet between the car and the hay !!!!  I do but I had some good steaks a few weeks latter. And I sold half the beef to help pay for the repairs.

Having a small farm we keep cats around and it does not matter where you park the car the cats will find it and walk on it. so I have to always put the car cover on inside or out

[RallyeMike]

what if it's not my cat? i saw muddy foot prints all over my car, so went and check the security footage...

You are seriously asking if its ok to kill someone elses pet for leaving muddy prints on your car? In the USA, this would be called animal cruelty and it can land you in trouble. Having never been down under, maybe you guys fry them up for breakfast or something? 

[moparsons]

This brings up a question of mine........anyone know of a humane/legal way of keeping the neighbor's cat off of the car?

[bill440rt]

This brings up a question of mine........anyone know of a humane/legal way of keeping the neighbor's cat off of the car?

Yep, it's called a "dog". 

Or a car cover. Seriously, there has to be a "silent fence" or something like that for cats to keep them away from your yard. Pretty sure they have them for dogs as well? 

Never had a pet attack one of my Chargers, but...

As a little boy I had a pet rabbit, at one time we kept the rabbit's cage in the garage. My mom (all 4-1/2 feet tall of her) had a '72 Caddy Fleetwood at the time which was garage kept. One night the rabbit decided to escape & take residence up in the engine compartment of the Caddy. Next morning my mom comes out to try and start the Caddy. My dad nearly sh*t his pants come to discover the rabbit chewed the crap outta all the underhood wiring!    Damn, he was pissed!  (Kinda funny looking back at it now.) Could have been MUCH worse if the rabbit stayed in there. 
Needless to say the rabbit never stayed in the garage again! 

A while back I read an article about a big problem they were having at the Denver, Co airport . Seems they had a lot of hungry rabbits that thought they could eat wiring on the underside of cars parked there. Quite a bit of damage from those wascals.

That wabbit was a crafty, wascally lil' varmint. Don't even ask about the time we found it stuffed up in the lawnmower bag!    

[moparsons]

If my boxer got a hold of the cats.....it probably wouldn't exactly be humane 
Some kind of deterrent from my yard/driveway would be great.

[RallyeMike]

1300lb cow will do to the side of a 73 charger when there is only 2 feet between the car and the hay !!!!  I do  but I had some good steaks a few weeks latter. And I sold half the beef to help pay for the repairs.

Ouch. You win.

(Si that where "slamoo" comes from?

[charger490]

and what would you do if you saw a seven year old kid walking around a car show with an ice pick in his hand.

[Tilar]

and what would you do if you saw a seven year old kid walking around a car show with an ice pick in his hand.

If he were using it on a car....  

If not then I would just take it away from him.