Eating the wall! Harlem is eating the wall. He has bitten 3 separate holes in 3 separate places on the wall. We keep him in the bathroom with a kiddie fence at the door and let him roam free in their until we get home. Harlem started to make the 1st hole in the wall behind the bathroom door and when he hears you oming he pushes the door close so we really never noticed it. We covered it up so he couldn't get behind the door and then he decided to eat a hole in the wall by his pee pad so we had to start leaving him in the crate all day while we were at work. I really didn't want to do that and it makes me sad but what can I do, please tell me. So now, that he's in the crate all day-he has finally decided to manuever his head outside of the crate and has now started eating another hole in the wall. WE have slide the crate in the middle of the bathroom floor. Help, what an I do to stop it? That's no life for a dog, especially a cute dog like Harlem |
I've been through the same thing... While at home. i caught cody chewing on 3 different walls all the way to the wood. i tapped him on the butt with the newspaper and said no firmly and started playing with him. I repainted the walls. he doesn't really mess with them anymore... now his thing is chewing up the carpet. GOOD LUCK!! maybe some of the other YT'ers can help ya more.. sorry i wasnt much help. |
1 Attachment(s) Barney chewed the corner of two walls. He has also chewed so many corners of baseboards. And this is a new house...I do not know what to do either....THe deodorant trick worked for a while. Now his new thing is to chew apart beds....Urghhhhh...You would have thought it snowed in my kitchen....Stuffing was everywhere.... |
That is interesting because ours did the very same thing when she was a puppy. It seemed so strange.:D |
yep mine chewed the bottom of the baseboard to the wood... im in apartment. so you now it's not good for him to be doing that. i repainted luckily he hasnt touched it again... but this carpet thing. i got to get it fixed before i move out. he is a yorkie terrorist to the carpet lol |
Do you have plenty of chew stuff for him???I always found that if they have to many toys and bones they dont chew stuff there not allowed to chew up. Hope this helps. |
Cody has more than 15 toys. he will play for a second and then decides he wants to try and chew the carpet and he wants to chew the legs of the dining table. last few weeks we've been going for walks around the apt and playing outside... it gives him exercise and keeps him out of house to tear up stuff so when he comes in. its nap time :) |
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yorkie none of my 8 yorkies were ever chewers...but my little kermie got mad when i put him in the dog house and chewed 3 holes in the drywall...there dog house is a small version of my home and they go there when i'm not going to be home for a few hours....mine did it out of anger...but if yours is still a teething puppy...i would get a bone as big as him and let him go at it and spay something bitter on those areas so he won't keep chewing on those spots.......good luck |
I was talking to hubby and telling him that we were not the only ones that had this problem...lol..But we got to talking and we had just now discovered that Barney did all this before Bennie came here. Since Bennie has been here, no chewing on the wrong things....lol.... I thought this was interesting. I had never put 2 and 2 together.... BTW, we have tons of toys, beds, bully sticks....The only thing that has been chewed up/torn since Bennie has been here is one particular bed. Bennie was asleep on it and Barney wanted it...lol...He destroyed one of the arm cushions on the bed....Looked like it had snowed in the kitchen...lol |
What's the deodorant thingy? |
I was told to use clear deodorant and cover the area where they had been chewing....Well it worked for us but he just went to a new corner....He is smarter than me sometimes...lol...Thank goodness, he is past this stage????? |
You can try putting clear deodorant on the places where he is chewing, or "Bitter Apple". Make sure he has lots of toys and chewies. Anytime you see him chewing on something he isn't supposed to, tell him no and give him a toy or bully stick. |
Is he in the crate and the bathroom for long hours and maybe bored? Bored dogs can really chew alot. Maybe put more chew toys in there that tastes yummy like the bullysticks? Or walk them tons before you leave? |
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