Puppy eats EVERYTHING!

Lirin

Mine were bad enough for chewing- Lab the worst.
She had a habit of going for the base of the kitchen units. They're wipe clean, so spread a little mustard on them (with a big bowl of water handy, she needed it!). Never had a problem with her going for that again.
Did watch her try and eat a concrete paving stone in the house though- she was doing her best!

katie1234

Thanks so much for your help. I'm horrified at what could happen her especially as we let her play with milk cartons as she loves them. Not anymore though. It's not really the chewing that worries me as I no she's still so young but it's more she chews stuff and then swallows it that worries me.
I will definitely keep the muzzle idea in mind though if she continues. She might get a few strange looks but it could be worth it! Also, all bedroom/bathroom doors are now being kept closed. I couldn't believe what could potentially happen if she ate some fabric again. She also chews her blankets so she's getting watched like a hawk from now on.
Thanks for alerting me to how dangerous this could get.

wragh

A puppy training class could work well, but a good technique is to put vinegar on things you don't want to be chewed. In terms of stones and stuff like that, ignoring the pup can work as it's mostly attributed to attention seeking.

dragonmonkey

Does she have a kong? ...... have you tried filing it with stuff? and even put in freezer?

Turtle2010

Roxy is also a wee chewing machine. She used to eat, but grew out of it a few months back, and now just chews and spits out (which is LOVELY to pick up!)

It's mostly plastic she goes for...she'll chew it until she gets fed up. You can't drink out of a bottle without her mooching for it! She'll wreck a cuddly toy for the squeaky thing, chew it and discard the fluffy stuff, we bought her a kong but she wanted the plastic ball out of it (total waste of money!) so now we don't bother, we just give her washed plastic bottles and when she's bored of them we put them in the recycling bin haha!

In all seriousness though, we only let her chew plastic when she's with us so I can keep an eye on her.

When she was a puppy though she'd eat flowers out of people's gardens, bees, flies, other dog's poo (she still does that), grass, stones etc....

Her favourite "toy" at the moment is a broken truncheon hubby took home from work.

adviceforall

Not quite the same but Our 8 1/2 year Lurcher has always liked his food (since we first meet him as a 7 week old puppy at Dogs Trust when he did a yoyo impression at the girl dishing out the other dogs feed the other side of a wall about 4ft high and he went up and down up and down)
The other day on our walk he discovered horse manure on the path, wild grab for it on the way when I was not prepared for it, On the way back on a tight lead he managed to grab a mouthful by forcefully pulling me towards it. Disgusting dog...No kisses from him that day

katie1234

She has two kongs one of which she actually managed to eat a bit of! On filling them though she can't really eat normal dog treats as they give her a bad stomach and the dry ones either don't fit in that well or fit in so well she can't manage to get them out. Any suggestions for this?
I'm also glad to see I'm not alone with this problem!!

Indie_Kid

My parents spaniel x retriever chewed everything - slippers, (we have a video somewhere of him destroying dads' slippers!) cushions, etc. After having enough of things being chewed, we got him some rope toys. He's now 2 ( :eek: ) and appears to have grown out of it.

Their Jack Russell (he's about 2.5) prefers flies, moths and peoples hands...

EmptyPockets

katie1234 wrote: »

She has two kongs one of which she actually managed to eat a bit of! On filling them though she can't really eat normal dog treats as they give her a bad stomach and the dry ones either don't fit in that well or fit in so well she can't manage to get them out. Any suggestions for this?
I'm also glad to see I'm not alone with this problem!!

I've had the same issue regarding filling Kongs for our two - too many 'proper' dog treats gives them the runs something terrible. I have stopped using these now and, thanks to suggestions from people here, have started filling their Kongs with things like chicken, rice, pasta, meat, their own dry food mixed with a little chicken paste, and peanut butter to block up the ends and make it more challenging.

They are totally focused on getting the food out and it takes them a while if I put the Kongs in the freezer for about an hour beforehand. Things like chicken, rice, scrambled egg and fish, are all things the vet will recommend to settle their stomaches so it stands to reason that these would make better fillings and treats.

Keep an eye on her and when you see that she's losing interest because she can't get any more food out, use the handle of a teaspoon in the small end to slightly push the filling up more for her.

thistledome

Missy_Spud wrote: »

unfortunately im a dog owner who saw the bad side to a dog eating something ti shouldnt, I had a boxer x mastiff called henry and in the beginning of january he ate some of his blanket from his bed (he had never touched it before so no idea why he had) turns out he had a blockage in his intestines and stomach it was connected with a stringy piece of fabric, they operated on him but he died a few hours later, we were devestated, he died 4 days before his first birthday

That's so sad but thank you for posting it here. I think a lot of people don't realise how dangerous it can be when dogs swallow foreign objects or cloth or whatever. We didn't.

We used to let ours play with empty 2lt milk bottles and he loved them. It was just the once that he destroyed one and swallowed some, all the previous times he'd just played with it or pulled a bit off and spat it out straight away.

OP, we used to fill a Kong with left-over mashed potato and freeze it. He got one sometimes if we had to go out and leave him for more than a couple of hours, however, I've since been told that they shouldn't really eat much white potato - so whatever you decide to give him - have a quick google of it first!

It's amazing how many things are bad for dogs that are good for us.