Andy,
Yep, Hog and I also hosted a "dog party" once. Kind of like having teenage kids take over the house when you are gone and all hell breaks loose. Been there too!! LOL
We walked in and the garbage was everywhere. Every single plant I owned was turned over and dirt was everywhere. I was in the process of making pillows and the stuffing I had in bags was torn to pieces along with a few card board boxes. The worst of it all was my 24 pack of diet coke was used for footballs. There was exploded diet cokes on the ceiling, walls and even in the middle of our bed.
I cleaned for days!! They had even went down stairs in the basement where I was storing my pots with dirt for the next year to plant my flowers and they had turned all them over and there was dirt as deep as your ankles in the basement.
We were not even gone for 2 hours. The lab and the boxer/rot had escaped out of the jail house I kept them in and it was "Party Time"!!!!!
Needless to say the boxer/rot weighing in at almost 125lbs at the time made his way outside to a permanent home in the back yard.
After a few months of just the lab in the house we came to the conclusion that she was the guilty party that started all of it. She would be outside if we didn't plan on breeding her. I would have her fixed in a minute and place her little behind in the back yard as well. We have since adopted another half lab that is worse than a lawn mower. She chews anything and everything she can get her mouth on!!
Mrs. Hog