The problem with antique stuffed animals is they always have some loose thread or button that needs to be pulled:
A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children's museum."He just went berserk," said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney.
Barney ripped the head off a brown stuffed bear once owned by the young Presley during the attack, leaving fluffy stuffing and bits of bears' limbs and heads on the museum floor.
Completely out of control, Barney had to be wrestled to the ground to make him stop. In the aftermath of his destruction of the $900,000 collection of antiques, Barney announced he'd be checking into rehab.
UPDATE: "The callousness of the Blogosphere": a panderbear speaks.
Then he blamed the Jews. "Are you Jewish?" he woofed at the animal control officer...
Posted by: ken at August 2, 2006 07:33 PMHeh.
Posted by: Donnah at August 2, 2006 09:02 PMYour flippant comments in the face of tragedy are callous. The carnage inflicted upon the innocent teddy bears hardly constitutes a "loose thread."
Posted by: Professor Pudge Bear at August 2, 2006 11:05 PMI guess I just don't get the concept of "collectibles". Well, unless they're muscle cars. But teddy bears??? I could buy several choice GTOs, Firebirds, Mustangs, Camaros, Buick GSXs for $900,000. AND a dog couldn't eat them! Who decides what is a collectible anyways?
Posted by: hamous at August 2, 2006 11:09 PMPudge, I'll see your callousness and raise you an ironic "compassionate conservative" jibe.
Posted by: Donnah at August 2, 2006 11:13 PMThat's considered "damage"?! Not a very impressive performance by Barney and I think that is reflected by his posture in the photo; He doesn't seem very pleased.
The Olive could've taken out all of those bears including those top-shelf models in the background and she would've had them digested in the time allotted Barney. We stopped buying her stuffed toys as none could survive longer than five minutes with eyes and squeaker still intact or any stuffing left inside after fifteen minutes. She managed to maul a car radio once - after ripping it out of a shipping box. She ate the remote and the wiring harness along with most of the installation instructions. We think this may explain her desire to always ride shotgun.
Just bragging, I guess.
Posted by: tfhr at August 3, 2006 05:21 AMmy last pooch was a Johnson American, if you have to ask, nevermind. The good news is, stuffed animals
were low on the list. Usually some neighbors pet or
low horsepower lawn tools were his favorite, until
some guy jumped our fence (after robbing some old lady) and left the gate open on his rampage. Oscar (Jim Beam's grandfather) won the 'helpful K-9' award
that month...all 137 lbs of him.
On local morning drive-time, they mentioned Barney the Guard Dog was put there by the collection's insurance company.
Posted by: Ken at August 3, 2006 01:04 PMWhat a puss; my two vandals could have totalled that collection of cuddly critters in about five minutes flat, then given Barney what for.
(I'm basing this on the time elapsed to seek and destroy tissue boxes, stray Nikes, antique Persian rugs and things they're actually supposed to "play" with, including a stuffed fluffy bunny with squeaky things in each extremity, which made piteous squeals and blood-curdling shrieks as it was dismembered- I'm surprised the neighbours didn't call the cops and the RSPCA).
Posted by: PB at August 4, 2006 02:12 AM