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Result: Doghouse for husband.

LOL. Indeed.

I can make the inside of the house the doghouse quite easily by playing the Prokofiev I'm working on even louder. It's Prokofiev's flute sonata and I'm not sure which my husband hates worse: flutes or chamber music practiced repetitiously but missing the main instrument.

I'm very lucky in the canine department. Although my dog is energetic, he doesn't take it out on our furniture or other posessions. He seems content to use his toys for their intended purposes: balls for catching, rawhides for chewing, etc. He also likes classical music - especially lyrical pieces.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS6KhDRsjLE

But if I play any percussive pieces, like the Rite of Spring, or any rock-type music, he'll high-tail it out of the room.

My wife's dog (note that it was not our dog) chewed the cover off of my Henle hardcover edition of the Beethoven Sonatas (book II). Luckily the pages were still intact so the book is still usable for practice, but I still remind my wife of it. That dog has since passed on and my wife keeps her new dog crated when it is alone in the house.

Is his Bach even worse than his bite? (Can't believe nobody mentioned that.)

And I'm dead impressed that such a groan-worthy joke was what provoked you make it your first post!

That's dessert. Just wait …

My grandmother used to manage to spill coffee on at least one of my scores every time she visited.

I'm sorry about your son's frog, but the story reminded me of this delightful poem by A E Houseman:

As Into the Garden Elizabeth Ran
by Alfred Edward Housman

As into the garden Elizabeth ran
Pursued by the just indignation of Ann,
She trod on an object that lay in her road,
She trod on an object that looked like a toad.

It looked like a toad, and it looked so because
A toad was the actual object it was;
And after supporting Elizabeth's tread
It looked like a toad that was visibly dead.

Elizabeth, leaving her footprint behind,
Continued her flight on the wings of the wind,
And Ann in her anger was heard to arrive
At the toad that was not any longer alive.

She was heard to arrive, for the firmament rang
With the sound of a scream and the noise of a bang,
As her breath on the breezes she broadly bestowed
And fainted away on Elizabeth's toad.

Elizabeth, saved by the sole of her boot,
Escaped her insensible sister's pursuit;
And if ever hereafter she irritates Ann,
She will tread on a toad if she possibly can.

+1. Bitter Apple worked for me.

I used Tabasco also. The vet said that some dogs develop a taste fot it.

. Charles

Well, the dog either doesn't mind bitter apple spray, or she truly hates Carl Maria von Weber.

Fortunately, it was just an old single work piece of sheet music that nobody remembers ever playing.

Either way, all the music is now out of reach.

"...Might I suggest putting things (in particular somebody else's sheet music) on high shelves, out of reach, till this destructive phase passes?..."

This is the correct solution. And indeed, the phase is likely to pass... but it could get expensive before that time.

I'm stuck with training. We got rid of the tall bookshelves so they wouldn't fall over during an earthquake and brain somebody. The downside: nothing is out of the dogs' reach. I suppose you could get low shelves with doors. But my dogs love their daddy and want to please, so, after a fairly lengthy process of education, they don't chew the books anymore... or, the toilet paper rolls, which they once found so entertaining and irresistible. We provide them with rawhide chew toys (they do have an inborn need to chew, especially pups), so they have a different outlet for expressing doggie love.

Personally, I don't like crating. How would you like to be locked in a box for many hours each day? Dogs are intelligent, and they do learn how to behave in the house, if you make the effort to teach them proper dog deportment.