Need advise on a dog training problem

[ACoyle]

OK - Now the thread turns downhill. How about a branch from an evergreen that went through intact, or a full pair of panty hose, or a box of ritz crackers chased with a metal tim of smoke oysters.



They can get into a lot of trouble, but y' gotta love 'em.



Everyone jooin in - What's the wieredest thing your dog has eaten?

 

[GIT-R-DONE]

When I was in the service, a friend of mine had his Black Lab, get into his fishing equipment and swallowed a treble hook. He had to have surgery to have it removed. I saw the x-ray, as it was hard for me to believe, but he did.

 

[daytripper63]

The guy I work with has a German Sheperd that just pooped the missing remote for his Wii game he got for X-mas :-laf

 

[RobertP]

wow i could go on all day with some of the odd things my siberian husky has eaten. a bath towel, that was an expensive surgery!! tons of cd's, chocolate cake. center of my wall!! including the dry wall nails! and the list goes on... ... .

 

[bighammer]

One (or both?) of our Rotts developed a taste for Christmas lights (just the glass part) and ornaments. I worried that was going to be another holiday expense...

 

[daytripper63]

My Black Lab/heeler mix eats rose bushes, thorns and all and I have never seen blood

 

[Erik@LCD]

Same dog, ate about 6 glow-in-the-dark rubber bats that were stuck on a window at Halloween. In January, we saw the last one. Unreal.

 

[6BT-Dakota]

I may have a compromise between the crate and total freedom:



I had the same problem with my 100 lb German Shepherd. When we got him he was 2yr old and crated for most of his life. The first few days we had him in our 8 room house I dont think he slept for more then 3 min at a time and of course neither did we.



After the 3rd day we decided that even though we hated crates we needed to do something.



Off of our kitchen we have a "MUD ROOM" which has in it a toilet, sink, washer & dryer and a walking space about 6'x3'. We laid down a blanket and put some water down for him closed him in with a baby gate which he was deathly afraid of so he wouldnt go near it. We put him in the room and closed the gate before we went to bed and he slept thru the entire night.



We continued that for a few months and then pardoned off a bigger area until eventually he was able to trust him to be left in the house alone.



The moral of the story is that some animals need their "Own Space" or to be confined to feel comfortable. I know it worked for me and my dog so it might work for you also.



Rob

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

If you are a shrewed horse(dog)trader, and get lucky, you might be able to trade both of them in on an old well behaved three legged Border Collie. :-laf Might have to settle for a one-eyed model too.

 

[Champane Flight]

Work....

You have to work em, hard. They love it, they love to please. Put a pack on em, run em on a treadmill, walk em on a leash, just work em. I have a big old short haired young mutt that thinks he is a sleg dog, work him daily, he sleeps and snoozes all night. If I don't, he turns into Cujo! Wants to play ball all night, wakes us up with cats on the porch, and so on...



Here are my two wonder pups...



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