"sweetft5" wrote in message
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Hello, I have a flowering dogwood I am trying to save from my boxer's
attempt of killing it. Last fall this tree stood about 4ft tall and
through the winter my boxer puppy started bitting off the branches. I
thought I could teach her to leave it alone (wrong) but she got every
last branch and at that point I thought it was a goner and so I just
let her use it as a chew toy. She got the main trunk down to about
1ft. This spring I pulled it out so I could put in a new tree and the
roots looked great, I checked under the bark and amazingly it was
green, so I planted it into a pot to see if I could get it to grow and
sure enough a few weeks later a few buds started sprouting from the
trunk. I have now planted it back in the yard and it is doing great,
although it now looks like a small shrub. My question is should I cut
all of the branches off except one (the highest one?) that will become
the new trunk or do I just let it grow as is? I am not sure if the
main trunk will gain height with it being severed and all. Thanks for
any advice.



The growth sounds more like suckers than normal growth. Are the sprouts
coming from anywhere near the bottom? If so, give it a nice funeral, buy a
new tree, and shoot that stupid dog. Attacking plants like that is pure
evil.