I recently got a dog and he loves to chew on things, lots of things, I'm afraid to have him even in the den, where my collection resides. Is this fear justified? Has anyone here had a problem with this? If so, how did you handle it? Thanks.

Does he have other things to chew on? Like a bone(s), I guess that should stop the random chewing.

My cat either broke my Hogwarts or Imperial Star Destroyer (can't remember which) when I was a kid by knocking it off my window sill. I was not happy.

Does he have other things to chew on? Like a bone(s), I guess that should stop the random chewing.

Yes, but he gets bored with them and tries to bite other things. Maybe in time he will get better?

Some dogs, especially when they are young, will eat/swallow just about anything. If the dog swallows the wrong part, you could be in for some big vet bills to remove it.

Yes, but he gets bored with them and tries to bite other things. Maybe in time he will get better?

You could maybe try put a small bowl/bowls of apple cider vinegar by your Lego. My cats get up on the table while we're eating but we had a few fruit flies one week so we had small bowls out to catch them. When he would get up, he wouldn't go near the bowls and then would run away

I was able to educate my cats to not play with the pieces. Now everytime I play... I mean, practice this adult hobby, they just lay on the table and watch my creations appear. The finalized models are out of their reach so the only damage is the occasional cat hair laying on top them. Those hairs appears everywhere, you know.

My cat either plays nice...

...or not with my LEGO.

My cat runs off with my GBC soccer balls. Sometimes he knocks MOCs over trying to get to the balls. My other cat peed in a tub of 1000 bricks.

My biggest problem is cat hair getting onto everything, my cat sheds a lot and I have to vacuum every day to keep up...it gets into everything! Never had any problems chewing on things, I keep the Lego off the floor and he is trained not to jump onto anything other than his chair, and one table to look out the window...

I've never had a problem with a cat, other than them getting in the way (as they do when you're trying to read) by sitting on parts or in front of the parts when I want them, and shedding some fluff.

With dogs, when we had dogs, I never let them into my room because of how bouncy and large they were. They did once get in when my door wasn't shut properly and they did chew a small set (luckily didn't swallow anything) damaging the parts, and knocked some things over. It might be easier just to keep the dog out completely but if you/the dog want company then you could try giving it a bed under the desk and its own chew things. I personally wouldn't ever leave it unsupervised though...

All my Lego is in a dedicated "Lego room" I have one of those baby gates in the doorway to keep my dog out

Edited August 17, 20159 yr by mediumsnowman

My dog constantly eats my bricks and figs. Just yesterday she showed me the inside of a big fig.

He ruined an instruction book once, but I did leave it out on the floor...

Having recently built the Scooby Doo Mystery Mansion, my cat decided to chew one of the towers, I was mortified but I have since managed to replace them parts. The other night my cat decided to wake me up and at the bottom of my bed I had placed the SHIELD Hellicarrier set, to my horror I found her standing on top of the runway of the ship, I thought it was going to collapse but luckily enough the structure held her weight and I found a way of removing her from the ship (I tend to get frightened when she jumps onto the top shelve where my tower of Orthanc is residing).

I have a Bunny who bit off most of the Longsword from my Hun Warrior.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129793939@N07/20496474420/in/dateposted-public/

Edited August 18, 20159 yr by Dosenbrot

I actually leave my dog in the Lego room when going out. She never chewed anything, unlike letters or carpet that seem to be much tastier than bricks or liftarms. I did wonder if there is something wrong with my dog not being interested in Lego, but well...

I only ever had rodents as pets (I don't count fish) and never let them close to my collection. My friend once tried building little houses for his pet hamster - both from original LEGO and from cheaper clone bricks. The hamster would only nibble on original LEGO and not on the clone brand. That little furball had a good taste in bricks...

I think the more appropriate question for the OP is "has your LEGO ever caused damage to your pet?"

I'm always worried about my dog swallowing a brick, but it's a worry about the heath of my dog, not about (or not primarily) about the integrity of the LEGO. A part can easily be replaced, a pet not so much.

I have a Great Dane, but she is pretty well behaved now and never really chews anything she isn't supposed to. She sticks to her toys and bones. She never really chewed any of my Lego when she was younger, but then again I always had it up on shelves or is display cases that she couldn't reach. My table legs are another story...

When I was younger my parent's dog would chew on Lego pieces I left on the floor or that dropped to the floor when I was building that I didn't notice until after the fact. Unless you are leaving your Lego on the floor, I can't imagine dogs really having easy access to them and being able to get a hold of them to chew...? Cats are another story, those damn ninjas can jump anywhere.

My cay sat on piles of bricks when I was building.

My cats are just stealing parts:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=48198&st=0

but sometimes accidents happens:

http://mocpages.com/image_zoom.php?mocid=301766&id=/user_images/68992/1325027826m

http://mocpages.com/image_zoom.php?mocid=301766&id=/user_images/68992/1325027831m

fortunately, with Lego there isn't often permanent damage when things fall

Edited August 20, 20159 yr by antp

Yeah, both my dogs when they were puppies chewed bricks. But once they reached 3 years old they "mostly" grew out of it. The real trick is learning not to display stuff on the floor, or in a place they can access. (Not to hard for me seeing my dogs are Shi-Tzu's...)

Forgetting cats are ninjas, I displayed my models on shelves all over my room, including on my working desk. One day I'm back home and I find my AT-TE having a nap on the carpet... That was 14 seconds before finding out that my current SW Base was destoyed by a separatist cat... Since this day, my room is closed when the cat is inside haha

My cat has pretty much left my lego collection alone, although one night this past summer when a moth got into the house and she wanted to chase it. No big deal untill the moth landed on one of the trees in my ewok village, yep you guessed it she jumped right into the set. Very funny untill I remembered how long it took to put toghter