....when you give a dog a plastic Vitamix jar to clean up -- covered with
creamy soup smelling of chicken broth? *Crunch*

I saw Wife give it to him and I didn't say anything, and I probably
should have. The jar is still usable, but I don't know how you'd ever
clean it properly with all the gnaw marks around the spout.

Replacement jars are kind of expensive, unless you get just the jar w/o
the blade and lid from a restaurant supply place. How hard is it to
remove the blade assembly from the old jar and install it on a new one?
Any tricks? (like silicone grease or teflon tape on the threads, etc)
IIRC, there's a spanner nut on the bottom.

Bob