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09-17-2007, 10:22 AM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Oklahoma
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| CHEWING up ALL the blinds! Has anyone ever had their yorkie chew up their mini blinds? I"ve bought 6 new ones and I have to go today and buy another because I forgot to close the door. Don't get me wrong, it's a cheap fix, at least it's not the carpet again! Have any ideas? I bought some material to put up about 2 foot up the windows for downstairs, and if we aren't home I shut the doors upstairs. She doesn't do it when we are home, it's like she is looking for us out the window. But she doesn't do it anywhere else we stay. Even if we leave them for awhile. We're never gone over an hour, the most they are even left is about 2 and 1/2 hours. and... We do get plenty of walks. Twice a day. Sometimes 3. Just thought I'd ask?
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09-17-2007, 10:27 AM | #2 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Salt Lake City, UT
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| Yup, my Kalani LOVES plastic - blinds, mats, moldings - if it's plastic he will eat it I put up a low x-pen (extended) in front of my front door and my front windows to block them from running out and also to keep him from nibbling my blinds. I've tried the bitter apple spray, the clear deodorant, ammonia, etc., and none of it worked. I can't wait till he outgrows this stage so I can stop living in an x-pen - LOL!
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09-17-2007, 10:34 AM | #3 | |
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Well. I don't live in a pen, but I feel like I can't open my windows. This just started about a month ago, and she's 1. How old is yours? It makes me SOOOO mad! I know its her because Bentley isn't tall enough to get to them. We we're gone less then an hour last night and she totally enjoyed ripping them up. She loves looking out the window, but she also likes plastic things. My mom said lay them out on the floor and let her do it. If I did that she wouldn't want to do it, she'd still pick the others on the window to chew on.
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09-17-2007, 10:40 AM | #4 |
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| Kalani is almost 10 months old. He only does it when I go out the front door and don't come back in right away. I watched him and what he did was jump up at the windowsill trying to see me and when the blinds bumped him he snapped at them and then started chewing the edges The x-pen is high enough to block the bottoms of the blinds so I can still open the windows but low enough that I can easily step over it when I go in and out.
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09-17-2007, 10:44 AM | #5 |
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| Here's a couple pics of what my set-up looks like
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09-17-2007, 10:45 AM | #6 | |
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09-17-2007, 10:48 AM | #7 |
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| Thats a neat idea. My material is hidden by the curtains, so far it's working. Since it's almost winter I guess the extra material on the windows is a good thing anyways!
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09-17-2007, 11:13 AM | #8 |
Piper & Sebastian Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: florida
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| I think their just doing it to see where you think you're going without them.
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09-17-2007, 11:15 AM | #9 |
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| not blinds.. but mine loves to rip the carpet up. and he has chewed on 3 different corners of different walls. |
09-17-2007, 11:30 AM | #10 |
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| I Have The Answer........... Dear Yorkie friends.... ITS called CRATE TRAINING! When we got Chelsea 2.5 yrs ago, she chewed ALOT of things, I wouldnt imagine she could, even the handles of a refrigerator-two of them. I only had poodles before a yorkie, so I had no idea what I had gotten myself into, living with a terrier....my husband lovingly calls her the TERRORIST! I had crate trained my poodles, but they were never such chewers. If I got a new Yorkie puppy, I would immediately start crate training, especially when I left our home, for whatever time limit. They are much safer, and less expensive, when it comes to replacing household items. Now, when Chelsea seems me getting my keys, purse, etc. she heads to the crate on her own. She knows that if she gets in, she gets a treat-Cheerios. Save your money, headaches...CRATE TRAIN them.
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09-17-2007, 11:42 AM | #11 | |
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I think so too! that was my theory
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09-17-2007, 11:47 AM | #12 | |
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Actually I've never had any trouble before with them getting into things. This is my third. I tried crate training but the apartments we lived had such paper thin walls we couldn't leave them in there barking for that long. We had an annoyed neighbor get very upset with us. So after that they had one room in the house we left them in while we where gone, and they were content with that. At our new house they are free to run. This just started this last month. Now I have the material on EVERY window. But, it works. So it shouldn't happen again. I can't believe I left the door open upstairs anyways, oh well.
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09-17-2007, 11:48 AM | #13 |
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| We had a carpet problem for awhile. But. No more (knock on wood!) No more blinds problem either. I put material on all of them now. Problem solved. I'm glad she doesn't do it at other people's homes.
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09-17-2007, 11:55 AM | #14 |
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| Gizzie has chewed up my blinds So I know how you feel, I just started keeping mine raised Good Luck!!!
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09-17-2007, 02:39 PM | #15 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Palatka, Florida
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| Cody was crate trained (potty wise) when i got him. when i leave he goes in his crate i dont let him free roam.. he chewed the walls and the carpet while i was on the computer and he knew i wasnt looking lol |
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