My Friends Thousand Dollar Pedigree Puppy Destroys Her Business

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My friend makes her living as a psychic and relies heavily on a landline to do many of her readings over the phone. It's all set up with her home number on her website, has been for years. Cell phones are ok but can be unreliable at times.

So, her puppy goes into her office and out of all the cables it could possibly chew (including electrical ones) it chews the telephone cable connected to the wall. And I don't mean just plugged in with a telephone socket, for some reason, its wired into a box.

Otherwise it would be an easy replacement with a cheap (Rj11) cable, off the shelf, easy to get. So she calls the telephone company who will be out "sometime" this week. The chewing did not completely destroy her phone lines functionality, she can receive calls but they go straight to voicemail, the phone does not ring. She can call out on it, but that would be expensive considering she gets custom from abroad, so they phone her. If she did pick up, the incoming callers voice would be garbled. So, if she gets a lead, she's giving out her cell number for now.

She's let her cats and other dogs roam freely in that room for years and despite my warnings about pet hairs and computers not mixing, she let it go on, however, they never chewed anything. But, a puppy will. On Wednesday she had a new fiber optic internet installed which saves her 57 bucks a month and is faster than what she had before. It is great but has an ultra thin fiber optic cable connected to her modem, something else the dog could have chewed.

I did source a replacement cable but would probably take several days to come.

Her usual booming business has become rather scant of late, perhaps people not being able to afford it due to prices going up. So, when the phone rings, she picks it up pronto. Now its down to frequently monitoring the answering machine, just in case.

Keep those small dogs away from your wires!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Puppies - of any size - are chewing monsters. The first two weeks after adopting Ginny I followed her around replacing cords, etc, she chewed on and trying to prevent as much of it as I could. There are cord storage boxes and covers that are inexpensive.

    There are bitter sprays you can get (Amazon was my source) that will at least slow the chewing...and as he grows the pup will stop the destructive behavior.


    Tell your friend to buy split elk antlers - her dog will prefer those as a chew to the household cables, etc. They aren't cheap but last a long time and dogs LOVE them.


    She's let her cats and other dogs roam freely in that room for years and despite my warnings about pet hairs and computers not mixing, she let it go on,
    That's funny - no animal lover would listen to your warnings. That's just how we are.
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    My brothers dog was a chewer of everything.. remotes, beer cans. Anything expensive or hard to replace.


    The cutest thin ever happened the last week I stayed at my brothers. He had finished a beer and was holding the empty can on the arm of the chair. The dog put s her paw on his hand and started looking between him and the can.

    Until he dropped it on the floor for her
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  • Plz don't get me started on CHEWIN' or I will become an undeniable abomination.
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    Bummer. Nobody could have seen that coming.
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    • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
      Originally Posted by Frank Donovan View Post

      Bummer. Nobody could have seen that coming.

      Dammit. You got there before me.
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre View Post

        Dammit. You got there before me.
        You should have seen that coming. Your psychic abilities are on the wane.
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    With her psychic abilities, you would think she would have seen this coming...
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    • Profile picture of the author Ken Leatherman
      Originally Posted by max5ty View Post

      With her psychic abilities, you would think she would have seen this coming...
      Brilliant! I busted out laughing

      And I really needed that laugh.

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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        Originally Posted by Ken Leatherman View Post

        Brilliant! I busted out laughing

        And I really needed that laugh.

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        Wassup Ken, good to hear from you again, everything ok with you?
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        • Profile picture of the author Ken Leatherman
          Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

          Wassup Ken, good to hear from you again, everything ok with you?
          Hey Lanfear,

          The best I can say right now is I'm alive and kicking. (not very high though)

          Trying to pull my life back together after my wife, 58 years, passed away
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          • Profile picture of the author Claude Whitacre
            Originally Posted by Ken Leatherman View Post

            Hey Lanfear,

            The best I can say right now is I'm alive and kicking. (not very high though)

            Trying to pull my life back together after my wife, 58 years, passed away
            on 9 July. The grief is overwhelming at times. Frankly it is kicking my butt.
            I think the only way I'm going to survive is to keep myself busy.
            I'm so very sorry you are going through this.
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    Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

    My friend makes her living as a psychic and relies heavily on a landline to do many of her readings over the phone. It's all set up with her home number on her website, has been for years. Cell phones are ok but can be unreliable at times.

    So, her puppy goes into her office and out of all the cables it could possibly chew (including electrical ones) it chews the telephone cable connected to the wall. And I don't mean just plugged in with a telephone socket, for some reason, its wired into a box.

    Otherwise it would be an easy replacement with a cheap (Rj11) cable, off the shelf, easy to get. So she calls the telephone company who will be out "sometime" this week. The chewing did not completely destroy her phone lines functionality, she can receive calls but they go straight to voicemail, the phone does not ring. She can call out on it, but that would be expensive considering she gets custom from abroad, so they phone her. If she did pick up, the incoming callers voice would be garbled. So, if she gets a lead, she's giving out her cell number for now.

    She's let her cats and other dogs roam freely in that room for years and despite my warnings about pet hairs and computers not mixing, she let it go on, however, they never chewed anything. But, a puppy will. On Wednesday she had a new fiber optic internet installed which saves her 57 bucks a month and is faster than what she had before. It is great but has an ultra thin fiber optic cable connected to her modem, something else the dog could have chewed.

    I did source a replacement cable but would probably take several days to come.

    Her usual booming business has become rather scant of late, perhaps people not being able to afford it due to prices going up. So, when the phone rings, she picks it up pronto. Now its down to frequently monitoring the answering machine, just in case.

    Keep those small dogs away from your wires!
    Sounds like she needs to do a horoscope chart for each of her pets, (assuming she has their date of birth and location) and see when Pluto, (had to say it) or whatever signifies a period of time when their chewing tendencies emerge.

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  • Profile picture of the author Jamell
    Her best option might be tubing and or wire connectors .She might also want to snake the wires through some accessories .
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    The stupid question is why is there only one point in the house to plug in. Back when I had a landline there was a point where the phone line came into the house and I was able to unplug the house connection and plug in a cordless phone. When there was a problem with the wiring inside the house
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

      The stupid question is why is there only one point in the house to plug in. Back when I had a landline there was a point where the phone line came into the house and I was able to unplug the house connection and plug in a cordless phone. When there was a problem with the wiring inside the house
      That's a good question, she did have multipule telephone sockets around the house. But, the line in was updated some years back and it was replaced with a single access point so they were all redundant.

      Fact is, most people these days get an inexpensive multi phone setup where you have one base station and multipule wireless receiver phones around the house. It is no longer a priority for phone companies to update the access points anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    I run all of my cables that "dangle" through something like this ( https://www.homedepot.com/p/AFC-Cabl...E&gclsrc=aw.ds ) keeps critters and pets alike from having th ability to ruin your day or week.
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  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    Update, although it looked like the cable to the phone had been nibbled at, the problem was outside and it looks like the fiber Internet installers had somehow screwed up the telephone connection coming in.

    That was a quick response, perhaps the phone company does not have that much work these days.

    Anyway, going to have to exonerate the puppy for now until all DNA testing on the cable is in.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    So your friend is clearly not a pet psychic.
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      So your friend is clearly not a pet psychic.
      Funnily enough she does pets as well as human's. But, I don't like this dog. I don't trust it, it has a look of evil in it's eyes and probably uses advanced techniques to avoid psychic probing.
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    That's it - blame the poor puppy. I'd be saving my skeptical looks for my 'friend'....
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    • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      That's it - blame the poor puppy. I'd be saving my skeptical looks for my 'friend'....
      I think if you met Zoltan (Hound Of Dracula), you would agree with me. Despite it's diminutive size it terrorizes the other dogs she has.

      She has been rather successful over the years appearing on TV and radio, writing and appearing in articles etc, written three books. Doing the pets thing though is fairly recent.

      She has impressed me no end. Starting from when I walked up to her and she said: "I feel your headache" I had a humdinger of one at the time.

      Psychics generally just tune into the person, or pet they are dealing with at the time, as far as humans are concerned she can do that in person or over the phone. A picture helps her focus.

      What she comes out with is the most obscure stuff about the person. Their is no question of "Cold Reading" here. No time to do that and the subject offers nothing to go on.

      Update two: She just texted me, phone still crackling. She called the phone company again. Crackling, or demonic dog interference, I'll be bound.
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    Update. A second visit from the telephone company resulted in the technician saying the fault was down to moisture and took steps to remedy it, spent over an hour or two working on it.

    When he left, all was good, but then a few hours later the crackling on the line returned. So now a third callout has been scheduled. It just goes on and on.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Ken - so sorry to hear of your loss. Nothing more to say.
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  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    Ken, there are no words like Kay said, Deepest Sympathies

    Good that you got yourself a project/challenge to get your teeth into and judging by that pic of you and a grandbaby?, a loving family to support you through this. Take all the time you need to grieve though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hamid Gull
    It's all game of Luck once my puppy destroy all my plants on which I gave my 3 year. Website
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  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    Well, update, 4th visit from the phone company, no improvement. The phone company will not come inside the house to do anything unless you pay them $170.00. They say that anything going wrong on the inside is the consumers responsibility.

    So, this $6.99 cable replacement has been ordered and I checked out a you-tube vid or two as to how to install it, very easy.

    If this solves the problem, and I suspect it will, then the puppy, the major suspect in this case will have to suffer the consequences.
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