Eating my back yard
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| Young dogs like to dig and chew. Mine did a lot of damage to my back garden. I fenced off some areas where I could, gave them a sand pit for digging in and made it clear by hiding bones in the sand pit that that was the digging place. I had to cover the sand pit if the dogs werent outside to guard it though or the local cats used it as a toilet.  I also took them on long walks and left lots of puzzle toys outside for them to play withNow I live in a house with a paved courtyard and the one garden bed is fence off. Mind you Tiggy ate all the corners of the wooden out door furniture instead of destroying the none existent garden.   |
| We had to put gates or use other items to block their path to prevent stuff like that. Eventually our dogs outgrew chewing on stuff. Also meat tenderizer or cayenne may work and my vet recommended both. |
| Mim what kind of puzzle toys did you leave for them.... he is very smart and likes to try and figure things out. I am willing to try anything.... |
| Go to http://www.petsmart.com and under toys look at the interactive. There you will see various Kongs, Buster cubes, Jolly Ball. Most of these get the dog's interest because you hide food inside and the dog has to roll the toy around to dispense the food. Since the pup is also chewing, have a variety of chew items. Dogs at this age or still teething and testing the world with their mouth. I've had wood piles shredded with dog carrying off the logs and ripping them, buckets were a particular fav of one boy......Rubbermaid had a real work out...and when he was done it was often atop his head  Bored pups get into more trouble, so now is the time to introduce him to many new sights, smells, sensations.......and not keep him alone in the yard. I love the idea of the dedicated sand pit and buried treasure. |
SheepieBoss wrote: Go to http://www.petsmart.com and under toys look at the interactive. There you will see various Kongs, Buster cubes, Jolly Ball. Most of these get the dog's interest because you hide food inside and the dog has to roll the toy around to dispense the food. Since the pup is also chewing, have a variety of chew items. I agree toys that have to be rolled around to get the food out are great. And I was always swapping different shaped Kongs and other safe rubbery type toys in and out of action. I keep a bag of toys in the house and rotate so they're not as boring. Also I stack all the toys in a bucket in the morning. Sometimes I think she liked the bucket best, but she did have fun emptying it to see what was in there.  |
Quote: but she did have fun emptying it to see what was in there. oooh, what fun! Put the treat at the bottom of a container filled with items of different mouth feels....soft, squishy, squeakly, ribbed, pokey so the little imp has to remove each before finding the treat. Of course it would be nice if they put them back into the container when finished. |
| my oes loves wood, fortunately only wood, not furniture. he just chews through off cuts usually. however, this weekend he found an old barrell planter i have in the garden and has managed to pull each slat out one by one and chew them up!! i have a pile of soil in the yard where the barrell stood!! i read on a site that some ppl think this wood eating means he is lacking something in his diet, but he doesnt swallow it, just chews and leaves the shreds behind. he also chews on the old tree stump. any ideas? should i be concerned? he is 8mths and is on the barf diet |
| Perfectly normal behavior for a teething, energetic and bored dog. Make sure you have plenty of chew toys, coat them with a flavoring like peanutbutter or lard, whatever to get the pup's attention. (Obviously don't coat the fluffy toys, just those that are washable) What a smart and strong pup! A friend's OES pup took special delight in digging up all her potted plants including window boxes.....it took some thinking how to get up there, but she had a great time until the whole thing pulled out of the wall. |
SheepieBoss wrote: Perfectly normal behavior for a teething, energetic and bored dog. Make sure you have plenty of chew toys, coat them with a flavoring like peanutbutter or lard, whatever to get the pup's attention. (Obviously don't coat the fluffy toys, just those that are washable) What a smart and strong pup! exactly! You'd think that the back yard is fun for a dog but it's not. It's just another room where you leave him. Left unattended he's going to chew (8 months....ohhhhh is he going to chew!) Our OES chew our deck, stampeded our garden, ate ALL of the blooms off of my flowers, dug holes and DESTROYED the lawn!!! This year we are reseeding the grass portion by portion. The deck we just stained over where she chewed it. The garden is fenced off and she's learning to stay out of it. And she's so far only eaten the raspberries and blueberry's. Next season you won't have anywhere near the hard time. You will eventually enjoy your yard and your garden and flowers AND your dog ALL in the same space. Hehe. It's worth it. I promise. |
| he is getting much better in the back yard, we brought him a plastic kiddie swimming pool and he LOVES IT!!! we leave lots of chew toys around. I hide the raw hides every where he loves to try and find them!!! the ones he looses in the house he will start barking at the couch for no reason, but when we look under the cushions and in the places he can't reach we usually find a small chewed up raw hide that he smelled. He is a lot of fun and we love him lots!!!! Our friends have property in woodstock, ny took him up there over the weekend. He had a ball. we did not let him run free, just in case. but he swam in their private pond, right in the water he went and didn't want to come out. he was so happy.... and oddly enough the whole time up there with all the stickes on the ground he didn't eat a one! But he also didn't stop the whole time... dogs friends, pond and games... he was one tired puppy on the way home!!! |
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