She ate the wall!?

[dawn27]

Originally Posted by docmartin

Crystal became an excavator when she was about 10 months old and my wife was away for 3 weeks on her annual trip back home. I believe it was stress related. She'd only been with us 5 months then and it mainly happened when I too had to leave her, perhaps for only an hour but I think she got perplexed as we are both retired and she does get constant company. A combination of the spray and lots of fuss and reassurance seemed to work. Ocassionally she has spasmodic tendencies for wall licking. This variant is less destructive and seems to be an attempt to gather nutrients from the paintwork, or add variance to the decoration? She's obviously been an architect in a previous incarnation and feels the need to keep her paw in...

Examples of her handywork appear below;

Oh no . . well if that is the case that my gals Ruby & Miah must have had past lives' that included some sort of Waste Management !!!


They love eating POOP

[GrammyNina]

My pup is 7 months old and will do her best to chew up the carpet, we are just moving out of a rental and she has a few holes in the middle we are buying a home and I sure hope she outgrows this chewing soon. AND she loves the bitter apple spray.

[dawn27]

Originally Posted by GrammyNina

My pup is 7 months old and will do her best to chew up the carpet, we are just moving out of a rental and she has a few holes in the middle we are buying a home and I sure hope she outgrows this chewing soon. AND she loves the bitter apple spray.

When my pups were young I was a stay at home mother so they were under constant supervision so we got by with very little chewing. Ruby was the worse of the four. It seems like every time there was an insolent they had been left alone with the kids or my husband. So yea . . there goes my newly installed baseboard and drywall. You really need to watch them like a hawk. Make sure that when no being surprised that they are in an x-pen or cage where they are safe a sound away from danger and Temptation !!