I spent the day with some friends dying rabbit strips a dozen different colours, only to come home the next day to find that the dogs had broken open my office door, and helped themselves to much of the rabbit. My living room looked like someone had murdered the easter bunny. Much of it was saved, but it did suffer from the drool test. At least my dye didn't run.
Those 5 hunting dogs have kept me in a lifetime supply of pheasant feathers, so i guess we're even.....