Hi,
Another story you may find interesting.... When I was working with greyhounds we also kept Arab horse, a couple of rescued Dartmoor ponies and in the winter we took in a couple of horses from the local riding school as some of their pasture flooded. (As well as a couple of pet cows, a pig and some chickens rescued from a battery farm) One of the riding school horses was an enormous Clydsedale cross, grey, unflappable and totally claustraphobic! He refused to budge as soon as you asked him to go into any building. We had lovely, expensive post and rail fencing on all our paddocks. Barren was very happy with us until he had had enough of his own field and simply walked through every fence that stood in his way! He didn't lean or push his way through - just walked. Well all hell broke lose as we tried to stop him. The Greyhounds all taken back to the kennels and the house dogs shut in the kitchen wher they had a bed. About an hour and half later when things were under control again I went to let the house dogs out and phone the owner of Barren to let her know what had happened. As I went into the kitchen no happy squirmy dogs came to greet me! The two collies were lying on their bed looking like butter wouldn't melt and the eight month old Labrador was trying to make herself dissapear under the table. She was only held back by the telephone, still attached to the wall. Yep, she had eaten the whole thing, handset and all! She regurgitated most of it shortly afterwards and suffered no ill effects except being banned from the kitchen!!