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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
I have a new puppy who is at the stage where everything (and I mean
everything) goes in his mouth! This includes flowers, leaves, twigs and anything else he finds around the garden. I checked up which plants were potentially poisonous and to my horror found that the list includes many common species including virtually all bulbs, philadelphus, ivy, delephiniums, lily of the valley, cherry laurel, clematis armandii, dicentra and many more! Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stop a puppy chewing these plants? Many thanks Sally Hayward http://www.garden-marketplace.co.uk Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. - Ancient Egyptian proverb |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
"SallyJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a new puppy who is at the stage where everything (and I mean everything) goes in his mouth! This includes flowers, leaves, twigs and anything else he finds around the garden. I checked up which plants were potentially poisonous and to my horror found that the list includes many common species including virtually all bulbs, philadelphus, ivy, delephiniums, lily of the valley, cherry laurel, clematis armandii, dicentra and many more! Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stop a puppy chewing these plants? Many thanks Sally Hayward http://www.garden-marketplace.co.uk Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. - Ancient Egyptian proverb No smart ideas. The same issue can arise with children and grandchildren. Close attention, correction and reward is all I can offer. Regards David T |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
On 19/7/06 12:24, in article , "david taylor"
wrote: "SallyJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a new puppy who is at the stage where everything (and I mean everything) goes in his mouth! This includes flowers, leaves, twigs and anything else he finds around the garden. I checked up which plants were potentially poisonous and to my horror found that the list includes many common species including virtually all bulbs, philadelphus, ivy, delephiniums, lily of the valley, cherry laurel, clematis armandii, dicentra and many more! Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stop a puppy chewing these plants? Many thanks Sally Hayward http://www.garden-marketplace.co.uk Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. - Ancient Egyptian proverb No smart ideas. The same issue can arise with children and grandchildren. Close attention, correction and reward is all I can offer. Regards David T When our still young Jack Russells & older wire haired dachies were paying too much attention to the ducks, we put a very low voltage rabbit fencing round the enclosure. Each dog touched his nose to it just once..... I do stress *very* low voltage but it's unexpected and was just enough to keep them away from that area as long as the ducks lived there. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (email address on website) |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
Sacha wrote: On 19/7/06 12:24, in article , "david taylor" wrote: "SallyJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a new puppy who is at the stage where everything (and I mean everything) goes in his mouth! [...] Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stop a puppy chewing these plants? [...] No smart ideas. The same issue can arise with children and grandchildren. Close attention, correction and reward is all I can offer. When our still young Jack Russells & older wire haired dachies were paying too much attention to the ducks, we put a very low voltage rabbit fencing round the enclosure. Each dog touched his nose to it just once..... I do stress *very* low voltage but it's unexpected and was just enough to keep them away from that area as long as the ducks lived there. It isn't at all cruel to tap a puppy _gently_ on the head while sharply saying "No!" when he's in the very act of some crime or folly. In fact, it's rather cruel not to: that's the way their mothers and aunts train them in nature, after all. A well-trained dog is a happy dog, as well as being safer among the hazards of life. I don't think there's much need to worry about the poisons in plants: a nasty taste will often do the trick without help from the owner, and they rarely swallow a lot. If they do swallow a bit too much of something, there'll probably be more damage to the carpet than to the animal, and you probably don't let him on the carpet yet anyway. -- Mike. |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
SallyJ wrote: I have a new puppy who is at the stage where everything (and I mean everything) goes in his mouth! This includes flowers, leaves, twigs and anything else he finds around the garden. I checked up which plants were potentially poisonous and to my horror found that the list includes many common species including virtually all bulbs, philadelphus, ivy, delephiniums, lily of the valley, cherry laurel, clematis armandii, dicentra and many more! Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stop a puppy chewing these plants? This year I've had to make a little fence, poles and green wires, to stop one of my youngest dogs (now 1 1/2 yrs) to go into the triangle which has my favourite plants. As much as my 2 other dogs understood very quickly not to walk on it, this one just didn't. She has the memory of a gold fish ... I however had to distract her too, everytime I could see her going for a good dig or a good chew. Eventually with patience they do understand. Also, one does learn with experience, my dogs all had to learn not to drink the sea water nor chew something they shouldn't, especially my shoes! However, you ought to provide your pup some grass to eat so he/she can be sick if he/she needs to. You will find even at a small age that if they eat something that upset them they will try to be sick by eating something else. Mine are either going for the grass or the solidago. Don't ask why though I suspect the solidago to have a quicker reaction. Also treat him/her with chews, and keep some wood he/she can reach in the garden. I also keep their favourite sticks on the side of the house so that if they go for something they shouldn't, I remind them where their stuff is ) |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
Many thanks for all your ideas .. I have now fenced off the patio so he
can roam on this while staying safely in my sight ... have bought him a wider range of chews.. am starting to teach him "drop".. and I keep his favourite things within easy reach for rapid distraction. Once again many thanks. |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
What we do is have a "word" that is associated with doing something naughty
like chewing anything - we use a sharp "Ah Ah" ... and it is currently in use a lot with two five week old Jack Russell puppies ... they get used to it and it soon works. You just have to be consistent with the "word" and it's use - never needed to touch them at all. Trained the pups' mother this way when she was a pup too ... |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
Tugger wrote: What we do is have a "word" that is associated with doing something naughty like chewing anything - we use a sharp "Ah Ah" ... and it is currently in use a lot with two five week old Jack Russell puppies ... they get used to it and it soon works. You just have to be consistent with the "word" and it's use - never needed to touch them at all. Trained the pups' mother this way when she was a pup too ... This reminds me ... with Matilda, my 8 years old dog, we found ourselves desperate as she, at 14 months old, kept peeing in the landing, or worse on our shoes as we arrived home. We thought that she had a serious problem, couldn't understand why. Until a friend dog trainer came to our house and watch what was happening. Within an hour she had worked out our problem. When we got Matilda (our then 3rd dog and same breed as the others) we trained her like the others - one thing we did was as puppies let them into the garden for the last pee of the day. We then used to say 'have you been? Good girl!'. When we come home from work we used to say as we opened the door "have you been a good girl?" and then Matilda peeing either whilst we opened the door or on our shoes as we greeted her. She took the 'been' word as a cue for peeing. Simple when you know ) |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
On 21/7/06 12:18, in article
, "La Puce" wrote: Tugger wrote: What we do is have a "word" that is associated with doing something naughty like chewing anything - we use a sharp "Ah Ah" ... and it is currently in use a lot with two five week old Jack Russell puppies ... they get used to it and it soon works. You just have to be consistent with the "word" and it's use - never needed to touch them at all. Trained the pups' mother this way when she was a pup too ... This reminds me ... with Matilda, my 8 years old dog, we found ourselves desperate as she, at 14 months old, kept peeing in the landing, or worse on our shoes as we arrived home. snip When we come home from work we used to say as we opened the door "have you been a good girl?" and then Matilda peeing either whilst we opened the door or on our shoes as we greeted her. She took the 'been' word as a cue for peeing. Simple when you know ) Sometimes they do that from excitement, too. One of my old dachies used to pee whenever people he really liked arrived at the house, so we had to make sure he got over his delight outside. We called it "Dudley's stress incontinence". -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (email address on website) |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 21/7/06 12:18, in article , "La Puce" wrote: Tugger wrote: What we do is have a "word" that is associated with doing something naughty like chewing anything - we use a sharp "Ah Ah" ... and it is currently in use a lot with two five week old Jack Russell puppies ... they get used to it and it soon works. You just have to be consistent with the "word" and it's use - never needed to touch them at all. Trained the pups' mother this way when she was a pup too ... This reminds me ... with Matilda, my 8 years old dog, we found ourselves desperate as she, at 14 months old, kept peeing in the landing, or worse on our shoes as we arrived home. snip When we come home from work we used to say as we opened the door "have you been a good girl?" and then Matilda peeing either whilst we opened the door or on our shoes as we greeted her. She took the 'been' word as a cue for peeing. Simple when you know ) Sometimes they do that from excitement, too. One of my old dachies used to pee whenever people he really liked arrived at the house, so we had to make sure he got over his delight outside. We called it "Dudley's stress incontinence". -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (email address on website) Dogs do not have a monopoly on stress incontinence. My *female* cats have a similar problem along with a few humans. |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
"Rupert (W.Yorkshire)" wrote "Sacha" wrote Sometimes they do that from excitement, too. One of my old dachies used to pee whenever people he really liked arrived at the house, so we had to make sure he got over his delight outside. We called it "Dudley's stress incontinence". Dogs do not have a monopoly on stress incontinence. My *female* cats have a similar problem along with a few humans. So how do you teach a pet to do Kegel exercises? -- Sue |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
Sacha wrote: Sometimes they do that from excitement, too. One of my old dachies used to pee whenever people he really liked arrived at the house, so we had to make sure he got over his delight outside. We called it "Dudley's stress incontinence". ) But she wasn't just peeing of joy, she would actually crouch down and have a huge pee on your shoes!! Now if you say to Matilda 'have you been?', she goes around the garden frantically and pee. She's marvelous for this when we're camping or at friends, peeing on command is quite a bonus in some situation. Beulah does it too, though she needs to hear the word 'pipi' LOL!! |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
On 21/7/06 13:01, in article , "Rupert (W.Yorkshire)"
wrote: snip Dogs do not have a monopoly on stress incontinence. My *female* cats have a similar problem along with a few humans. Well, I don't know how YOU greet your friends but I can assure you that I use a hand shake or a kiss on the cheek! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (email address on website) |
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Puppy chewing plants: Any ideas?
"SallyJ" wrote in message oups.com... I have a new puppy who is at the stage where everything (and I mean everything) goes in his mouth! This includes flowers, leaves, twigs and anything else he finds around the garden. I checked up which plants were potentially poisonous and to my horror found that the list includes many common species including virtually all bulbs, philadelphus, ivy, delephiniums, lily of the valley, cherry laurel, clematis armandii, dicentra and many more! Does anyone have any good ideas about how to stop a puppy chewing these plants? Have it put down!(:-) Alan Many thanks Sally Hayward http://www.garden-marketplace.co.uk Peace is the fruit of activity, not of sleep. - Ancient Egyptian proverb |
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