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06/19/2013 07:56:07 AM · #101 |
Go to PetSmart and buy some Bitter Apple spray. Spray it on items that you do not want destroyed and that the dog is attracted to and wants to chew. It is a safe and healthy deterrent that will not harm the furniture. Chew toys are not usually a suitable diversion compared to the legs of a wooden chair in the kitchen or a yummy chesterfield corner.
During the teething period, take a potato and put it in an old, dirty, sweat sock of yours and let the dog chew it. The baby teeth get stuck in the potato. Change the potato regularly and the stinkier the sock the better. The dog loves to chew your stuff if it has your scent on it. After the baby teeth are gone, the chewing should stop. But chewing from angst can continue. So, it may be best to crate the dog while you leave it alone at home or cordon it off in a part of the house when damage can be minimal or tolerated.
Some people see crating as a form of punishment. It is not. Dogs love crates as it gives them a safe place to sleep. After a few months, we removed the crate door and the dog still sleep there for the longest time. We put old socks and a blanket in the crate for the desired doggie aroma too. While the crates are long gone at our home, the dogs all try to sleep under my desk. Yesterday, I had two of them trying to sleep where there is just room for one. Add in the legs of my desk chair and it is a challenge. But, they love to be near you and love to sleep in a protected space.
Sweep the areas of your home for hazards as you would for a child that crawls. A dog will find everything so get down on your hands and knees and scope out the dogs domain first hand to see what it sees.
Best of luck, I have three dogs, two English Setters and a Golden Retriever. So, I have been there and learned these lessons the hard way.
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06/19/2013 08:37:51 AM · #102 |
Potato in a sock, interesting. I get a kick out of giving her different experiences. An ice cube was good entertainment for both of us.
Yesterday our cat took a nice, fresh poop, and Yuuki ate it. Wife's fault, I wasn't home. The cat's litter box is now in the laundry room, behind a cats-only door. But it got me thinking... we could save on dog food and wouldn't have to clean the cats' litter box as often. It would be perfect if we could get the cats to eat the dog's poop as well. Then they could sustain each other indefinitely. The Circle of Poop. Cue Lion King music.
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06/19/2013 09:34:00 AM · #103 |
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06/19/2013 01:22:15 PM · #104 |
Yes, agreed; the ice cubes are a riot. We would place them in the dog's water bowl and watch them dive for them. Hilarious. One of our English Setters would stick his head into the water bowl for maybe a minute and not come up for air until the cube was his. Absolutely hilarious and scary at the same time. Dogs are my muses.
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Potato in a sock, interesting. I get a kick out of giving her different experiences. An ice cube was good entertainment for both of us.
Yesterday our cat took a nice, fresh poop, and Yuuki ate it. Wife's fault, I wasn't home. The cat's litter box is now in the laundry room, behind a cats-only door. But it got me thinking... we could save on dog food and wouldn't have to clean the cats' litter box as often. It would be perfect if we could get the cats to eat the dog's poop as well. Then they could sustain each other indefinitely. The Circle of Poop. Cue Lion King music. |
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06/19/2013 05:41:58 PM · #105 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
But it got me thinking... we could save on dog food and wouldn't have to clean the cats' litter box as often. It would be perfect if we could get the cats to eat the dog's poop as well. |
Clumping cat litter is a great thing, unless the dog eats it. If consumed in large enough amounts clumping litter turns into a cementitious lump that will block their intestines and can only be removed by surgery. A similar thing happens sometimes with horses who develop habit of eating sand (yes, horses can be as weird as people) or just can't separate out enough sand ingested with their feed and they get the sand impacted in the intestines. Most animals can survive losing a few feet of intestines to surgery, but it is better to avoid than treat.
If you like to give your pet a wide variety of exciting things to chew on, especially ones that smell like you, do not blame them when they chew up your shoes, sofas or decides to romp in your laundry basket. After all they are just following the rules you gave them. My dog's toys look like nothing else in the house and he only gets a few types (tennis balls and lamb fleece chew toys) so he knows what is his and what not to mess with. He ate one shoe a few days after we got him, and nothing else since.
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