my OES eating the wall
Any advice anyone can give? |
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| It sounds like he's chewing out of boredom. He needs to be crated, confined or constantly supervised or he could get really sick from swallowing something he shouldn't. |
| Tonks ate a really large area of our linoleum floor when she was a puppy. ButterStotch is right; it was out of boredom and because we'd given her freedom in the kitchen when we went out, instead of crating her. Sometimes this sort of behavior can also accompany separation anxiety.
Going to that part of the floor became habit after a while for Tonks; we had to cover it with some boxes to get her to leave it alone, and when she forgot about it, we were able to uncover it again. I'd say cover the area that your dog is chewing (if its only one or two) and crate while un-attended. |
| Welcome to the community, jewjin! |
| When my parents' old sheepie was young she ate the floorboards in the kitchen, where she was confined while they were gone. She did it out of puppy boredom.
My dog Barney ate the grout from the kitchen tiles when he was a puppy--again, from boredom and I think to get back at us (I know, they don't think like that, but that's what it seemed like!). So I agree with the others--keep the dog confined unless they're being supervised... |
Ah yes, eating the wall. Winnie started chewing on woodwork very young and then graduated to the wall. I concur that it was boredom - and she would even do it when we were right in the room with her  We would of course, correct her - and then found what she wanted was the attention - even negative attention. Instead of attention, we give her a "time out."
One thing I have found that works to deter her - mixing flour with hot sauce and a little cayenne pepper mixed in. "Paint" the paste around woodwork and on walls. (It won't hurt the paint.) She is always crated when we cannot supervise her or we have to leave the house, so she doesn't get into trouble then.  |
getting anotehr puppy would help they can chew on each other  |
suzptcruise wrote: getting anotehr puppy would help they can chew on each other
HAHA Edgar chewed a small spot on the corner of the baseboard as a puppy. We sprayed bitter apple spray on it. Otherwise we were lucky and he never chewed on anything else like that. Ditto on what everyone else said.  |
| Thank you to all the replies. |
| my Samoyed ate a patch of lino underneath our dinner table, but only when we were sitting there for dinner. We thought he was chewing on his paw (he had allergies and got itchy), so we'd give him a rub with our feet to get him to stop, so he'd take a break and then he'd go back at it, it was a cycle. It was a while before one of us noticed he was chewing the floor, right "under our noses". We had to move the table over so my foot could cover it up while we ate. What is it about building materials that some dogs like? We'll never know. |
| Our first Sheepie, Winnie once ate the window sill. Must have liked the pine flavor I guess. |
| Hudson (AKA Evil Puppy) STILL eats our walls. There's one spot at the top of the stairs where he's eaten both sides of the corner, about ten or so inches from the actual edge they share.
It looks like he's eating his way through to a new tunnel from both sides. Whenever my husband fills it and paints it, Hudson will wait a week or so and then start again. He's got one spot in our TV room where he does it. In our bedroom he has one wall spot he scratches. I have NO CLUE what those particular spots ever did to tick him off. He's nearly 15 months now, and no signs of improvement. (Incidentally, I am sure it's boredom chewing, but at this point my hubby takes him for two walks a day, with Portage, and an additional two roller bladings. I can't imagine what else we can do to tire him out. We have been toying with the idea of a weighted vest...or perhaps having him drag a large cinderblock behind...) |
| BTW- I would pay to see Hudson dragging a cinder block.
I've always wondered about the weighted vests. Have you ever put weights on your wrists or ankles and worked out? Remember how you feel when you take them off? It might backfire and give him MORE energy when he comes home and you take it off! If you try it, let us know how it works! |
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