i don't know how to get him to stop eating things on the ground

[jmdt]

All 3 of mine look like little goats in the backyard. What the heck are they eating now??? They are always chewing. I'm constantly digging stuff out of their mouths.

[KJLive]

Originally Posted by jmdt

All 3 of mine look like little goats in the backyard. What the heck are they eating now??? They are always chewing. I'm constantly digging stuff out of their mouths.

Sophie will stick her snoot in the ground and come up chewing something. I literally believe she is digging something out of God's green earth and eating it. I can never figure out what it is either. I suspect little bugs. We're knee deep into beetles, lightning bugs and other little, teeny-tiny things at the moment here in Pa. It's almost not any fun to take her outside with me (we like to sit outside in the evenings/weekends). I spend the whole time giving a gentle tug to her harness telling her to stop eating all the crap in the grass!

[lemonlauren]

When Nikko was a young puppy, he would eat EVERYTHING. Our backyard is gravel instead of grass, and he decided that even the little rocks looked edible. It was so difficult. But he gradually started to outgrow that level of eating obsessiveness, and now he's more of just a regular vacuum cleaner.

If anything new and interesting hits the floor, it must go in his mouth (chapstick, tissue, folded pocketknife, a nickel, nail clippers, etc). And if anything is crawling or flying, that also must go in his mouth (giant beetles, flies, spiders - this really makes me worry, but somehow he doesn't seem to have been affected by any poision or bites yet, knock on wood).

So it might get better for you with time. Maybe a little better, maybe a lot better. Or maybe not at all.

[QuickSilver]

Hey lemonlauren, did you ever get him to stop eating leather scraps?

[yorkie_lov3r]

my four and a half pup has the same problem. I will tell him to "drop it" when i see he is chewing on something and once i say "drop it" he will swalow it. He does it so he won't have to drop it!!! what a brat huh?!

[wantayorkie23]

Originally Posted by tinal

oh my gosh i have this problem as well. Pebbles eats everything off the ground i am forever telling her to "leave it", but i think, she thinks i say "eat it" lol. Right now i have a rabbit living some where in our yard so pebbles thinks the rabbit poop is food yuck!!
Sorry no advise for you just share your frustration.

lmao thats funnt

[jeanm1963]

I honestly believe Laci prefers ants over food, she actually cries at the door to get out and eat the bugs.. it really drives me nuts.. she love them , flies beetles , anything that moves is hers for snack!! I only wish she liked her food as much as she liked the bugs.. urrgghhhhh

[AceNJacks Mom]

My 10 mo old Yorkie/Silky does this same thing! His obsession is mulch. Everytime we come back inside I have to pull it out of his mouth!! There are times when I have to just put him back in the house b/c he won't stop! Let me know if you find a way to deal. My older Yorkie never did this!!

[lemonlauren]

Originally Posted by QuickSilver

Hey lemonlauren, did you ever get him to stop eating leather scraps?

LOL, no... Leather is just too delicious. We have the shop gated off, and he's just not allowed in there. He's become calmer as he is growing older, and now he's usually happy to nap on my chair while we work.

We're usually really careful, but last weekend he got ahold of a leather keychain we'd braided... He had actually eaten about half of it by the time I caught him. Thankfully, that's the only damage he's ever had the opportunity to do to anything we've made.

Lauren & Nikko

PS: Weirdo little bug-muncher that he is though, he did throw up a little puddle of neon green with bug legs floating in it a few days ago. Uggh, I really worry with all the wind scorpions we get here, on top of some of the more rare but even more dangerous spiders like black widows and brown recluse spiders. :-(