VOTE NOW: Townsville’s naughtiest pet 2025
Voting is now open for Townsville’s naughtiest pet 2025! Pick who you think is the cheekiest out of our shortlist of 24 dogs, one cat, and a goat.
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Voting is now open for Townsville’s naughtiest pet 2025 on the Townsville Bulletin website.
We put the call out for the cheekiest animals reigning hell on your life, and have created a shortlist of 24 dogs, one cat, and one goat!
From collies performing unlicensed auto-electrical work on your cars, to G-string chewing cavoodles, and a ‘mini dachshund’ that has eaten a lounge, a door, and a queen bed, the competition is red hot this year.
Who you’re voting for
Walter
Meet Walter. Looks cute but has eaten: a lounge, a queen bed (mattress and base) and my outside door. He’s had X-rays to make sure he didn’t eat thumbtacks he found in a bag that was in a plastic storage tub. I’ve had to replace my cycling and running shoes as it turns out they are tasty for mini dachshunds!
Axel
This is Axel who was caught in the act destroying an old couch!
He often redecorates each night and I would walk out and find empty pot plants and all sorts of things on the front lawn. But this was one of his best efforts!!!
Axel again with a very expensive dog bed he destroyed!
And Axel again, tongue out, with his random decorating skills!
Hades
This is Hades- 10mth old GSD. Lives up to his name (kids chose the name!)
Hades has shredded 20L of kitty litter, a bag of guinea pig hay, a bag of guinea pig seeds and a box of crafts through the house. In one day. Note his chest is also slightly pink – courtesy of the bottle of acrylic he tried to eat. He also ate through the couch Ottoman, destroyed several cushions and tipped 16L of water through the kitchen.
George
Finally a category George should be able to win! The list is too long for George. From trudging mud through the house, to eating seven of his newborn human sister’s dummies!
Let’s not forget when he misbehaves at the dog park and has to be carried home!
All the clothes, dummies and baby toys ripped up and never misses the chance to bring mud all through the house and over the furniture on rainy days … lucky he’s cute when he’s a good boy!
Jimmy
This is Jimmy. He likes to hide at the top if the stairs and punch people when they get to face height.
Frankie
Frankie broke the TV jumping up trying to bite an animal in an ad … booped the TV with her nose a little too hard
Ripley
Seven month old poodle x. Has had cabin fever with all the rain and I thought he was under my chair but was running in the rain and found the mud patch.
Maverick
Maverick has chewed a total of five ABS wheel sensors on three different cars … very expensive chew toys. And he’s just generally crazy. Lucky we love him.
He thinks he’s an auto electrician … he’s also chewed the wiring on two cars and eaten countless other things that he’s not meant to.
Hugo
Can’t even leave a toilet roll down without Hugo shredding the whole thing all throughout the house, even goes on a rampage and chucks a massive tantrum when he can’t go to the dog park
Guido
This is Guido. He’s a two year old Italian Greyhound and he is NAUGHTY. Guido’s favourite thing to do is jump on the kitchen bench like a cat and take things off the bench and out of the sink to tear up or snack on
Alvin
Alvin loves the rain & the muddy puddles.
Mud bath – fun times
Bath time – bolts for the door
Stormy Girl
Stormy girl our bull arab loves chewing the paling fences
Stormy girl caught in the act ripping up winter blankets
Stormy girl loves chewing thru 240 volt pump cables, she also loves to chew the blinkers off the side of my ute
Sakura
Sakura – loves to dig holes so she can make it to work with her daddy at Hail Creek Mine!
Mr Bean
Mr Bean the Cavoodle absolutely loves chewing up underwear, not any old underwear only G -strings, he’s even eaten some too️
I reckon he's chewed about 40 pairs
Here he is caught in the act after these flipped over his head
Maya
Her name is Maya she is a 10 months old pure breed Maltese. She is a magnet for everything that she can’t eat just so she can trade it in for snacks. As soon as my wife leaves the room she straight on her bedside table looking for something to steal
Keira and Lady
This is Keria and Lady and they love nothing more than to run in the easement when it rains, they get so wet and muddy and then bring it inside. They also love to eat my crocs every chance they get. They are aunty and niece.
Nani
Nani as a pup playing in the water from the washing machine grey water hose on the grass. Nani also got stuck inside a crab pot as a puppy, she chewed so many things as a pup, cactus, bromeliads, tools, extension cord, wooden seats aluminium seats, countless toys and was forever up to mischief ......she went over the rainbow bridge last August, miss her so much
Lexie
This is Lexie caught in the act stealing Dad’s Weeties. Over the years she has stolen everything from zucchini slice to banana bread off the bench and a hot dog straight from my son’s hand
Tucker
This is Tucker – this is HIS trampoline to chew up, bounce on and then perve on next door neighbours swimming in their pool (and even jumped the fence to join them).
Little Girl
This is Little Girl … and no matter what type of fencing we have she gets out. High fences, wire, electric … she’s eaten our entire vegetable garden, strawberries, all my succulents. This was her at our back door when she was meant to be in the electric fence. The other two aren’t game enough to try. lol we got her at a day old as her mother died so I bottle fed her and we just always called her little girl. She’s a menace but I love my goats hahahaa they love the trampoline as well
Molly
This is Molly, in a crisis for toilet paper
Dudley
Dudley with his mud angles
Duncan
This is Duncan. He jumped off a two story balcony onto the carport roof to terrorise the neighbourhood, then managed to jump back onto the balcony and pretend nothing happened when I got home. Photo evidence doesn’t lie.
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