Has this ever happened to you?
Maybe I should have posted this in the “biting my whistle” thread.
Thank heaven it wasn’t Ray’s whistle! 
Feadoggie
Clearly, the dog is an agent of Chiff & Fipple’s Mission Impossible team, on a mission from Dale. Either that, or Fido is really, really not a fan of Mr. Charles’ soulful stylings. Especially when accompanied by recorder.
On the other hand, maybe wrapping the instrument in a tasty strip of rawhide, as was apparently done, had something to do with it. Honestly, that’s not the first enhancement I think of when I purchase overpriced rock and roll memorabilia at auction.
We’re about to get a new pup in and this is a good warning to keep my whistles well out of reach. Last time we raised a dog, he ate my copy of “The Wall” by Pink Floyd…
one of the water dogs, was it?
Once I washed a down parka and hung it up on the backyard clothes line to dry.
It was a lovely sunny day.
Later, when I looked out the window, the dog was frolicking about the
backyard with the parka.
Ah, the white white feathers against the blue sky!
A couple of months later, he ate the sleeves off a suede coat.
perhaps this lady in Texas could help you with the dog
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/odd-news/64882/133
Ah - dawgs and whustles .. here’s my cripto-post on the subject .. somewhere in there..
https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/mcgoldrick-mcsherry-new-album/91/1
Maybe the dog simply isn’t a Ray Charles fan…
Or maybe the dog just doesn’t like rec¤%&/!?s… 
A.
Let’s just hope that Ray realised that it’d been chewed before he picked it up to play. (Yeah, I know that it happened after the whistle had passed out of Ray’s ownership, but the mental image won’t leave me).
By the way, are there many partially sighted/blind whistlers out there? I know one who wrote a few tunes that I had the pleasure of recording.
I am glad I don’t own a wooden whistle or flute, otherwise my three “house” rabbits would have made mince-meat of them. They love anything wooden to gnaw on…
Matt
“Fetch!!!” well, anyway it’s a re&%$#… not a great loss! 