Pete,
Several months ago, I bare rooted a 3 gallon 'Beer's Black' I bought last October. It took longer than expected to get the roots bare and it was dark by the time I was done. I put it in a bucket of water to hold it until I could pot it up. One of the dogs took off with it, and I found it the next evening chewed into three pieces. I potted them up... two (including the main trunk now in a 12 gallon container) survived. The third piece looks like it's gone tango uniform.
In 2007, I bought a 'Peter's Honey' which had been attacked by a rabbit from a nursery in NJ. The pics are below. It survived and I eventually took it back to Houston with me where Hurricane Ike did it in. To this day, I think this is the most expensive fig tree I've bought.