Puppy safety around a Christmas Tree??
So Mika is now four-and-a-half months and getting more curious by the minute. To be safe, we got a teeny Christmas tree and put it up high on a kitchen cart in our living room so she can't access it easily. Still, though, do you have any safety tips for puppies around Christmas trees? I have been (and intend to continue) vacuuming up needles but can we do anything else? What happens if she does ingest a few? Mmm... Christmas tree aroma and puppy breath---my two favourite smells.   |
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| Good move! Between pups and little grandkids, we've pretty much migrated to a smaller tree - on top of my flat topped steamer trunk. Don't have to move furniture to make room for it either.  |
I've been fortunate over the 40 years, they haven't tried to eat anything off the tree, but the Irish Wolfhound did try to nest behind the tree  So we started putting stuffed bears around the tree to keep them from getting behind. Now we are careful about not blocking the dogs' normal pathways and everyone is cool. I find it amazing Jack hasn't taken the beeswax ornaments off the tree, surely there is residual honey scent. Time for Ron's cottonball dipped in cream treatment for dogs who injest glass ornaments. |
about 20 years ago went out came home to my oes had eaten and opened all the presents under the tree still never found that earring for my friend  never wrap a treat under the tree |
Quote: never wrap a treat under the tree nooooo, if a dog can sniff marijuana inside a gasoline canister, a rawhide chew inside paper is nooooo problem at all. One year I made special embroidered pillows for family members. Apparently the odor of my dogs was on the pillows tho they never were allowed near them.......doggie-people-pillow transfer. One fam member reported her dog growled at the wrapped Christmas present eventully pouncing on it assuming there was another dog wrapped inside. |
| Good thinking!!! Heart was about 6 months for her 1st Christmas with us....  I opted for a shabby chic tree!!! And, I think Heart loved it!!!!!! Pictures would be wonderful!!!!!!  |
| I have a 10 1/2 week old oes and a 10 1/2 mo old wolf hybrid (and an 5yr old coonhound mix but he doesnt bother anything). We decided to put puppy gates around our tree this yr and not take any chances. Neither of the puppies are interested in getting over it or curious to get to anything under it. Although i wouldnt trust our hybrid if the baby gates werent up. He loves ripping up paper. When we had our husky mix, she was something to worry about when it came to the xmas tree. She got the idea that crunching the ball ordaments was a fun thing. You would go to the bathroom and when you got out, she would be sitting outside the bathroom door with her face covered in glitter  (yea it was a messy xmas) |
| There are alot of things usually put on a tree that can be VERY dangerous to dogs...Tinsel is one...Glass balls if they bite them misletoe is poisonous as is Pointsettas...the metal hooks from any ornament if ingested...Everone wil dogs should be very careful with holiday decorations and call the poison hotline with any questions... Also be careful of guests giving the dog chocolate... Me, of course, with two sheepies and super worried about everything, has a sorry looking table top tree with no tinsel and no ornaments! ha ha...Makes the after the holiday clean up much easier! |
Just to add my two cents about the wolf hybrid mix...Just re read your post and you mention you have a 10 week old OES and a 10 month old wolf hybrid...Please be careful of the OES pup with the hybrid. At 10 months old, your hybrid may be coming of a "mature" age, with a very HIGH prey drive and the 10 week OES is still so small and baby like, running and chasing and not intending to but setting the hybrid into motion to "chase"...I am sure you educated yourself about wolf hybrids and the breed of OES so I'm sure you know this already  |
| Ritz, isn't my first hybrid. He is low content. I wouldnt worry too terribly much. Except for the constant dening in my yard, hes very dog like. He is an omega. He is extremely gentle with smaller animals (his best friend is a weiner dog/chihuahua mix they grew up together, the weiner dog mix often beats ritz up) Just to add wolves and hybrids usually don't hit maturity til about a 1 1/2 to 3yrs for hybrids, wolves 2-3yrs. Thats generally when they become "set in their ways" and you can tell how they are going to be for the rest of their lives. So you can generally guess when your hybrid will hit maturity based on what percentage they have. Ritz and Lily (my oes) have become inseprable. This is them playing. Ritz just kind of holds on while Lily leads him around.  |
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