Howling Tonight

Padstow

Yes, but it has to be done, howl or not.

Seven years of age I think, brought from a rescue kennel. Yeah! That is a story of its own!

So he's been here for eighteen months. Seems like eighteen years, in stress terms.

From him coming home, he has had a bed at the foot of mine. He loves his little wooly bed and always waited until I stirred in the morning, then jumped up for a cuddle. So all was good.

Now, he's found the fruit in the garden.
I knew he was taking chunks from the peaches, still on the tree.
Who could blame him? A bite from a peach would have juice running down your arm. Nothing like shop bought. No probs, he could wreck my peach tree and the blackbirds could take all the cherries.

So you see I'm pretty relaxed. Until this morning.

He had been sick, bright yellow peaches of course all across my cream bedroom carpet, including a pile of peach stones! So he'd been swallowing the stones as well!!

He is perfectly ok, but I'm not. The house is up for sale, now with numerous yellow patches in my bedroom, I tried the pink oxi stuff, but it's still yellow. Any help with that please?

Now on to leaving him. He must now sleep downstairs. I know he will howl, but how many days do you think it will take for him to settle and how to cope with him? Do I bang on the door and shout No!

I've had three puppies before and cracked it, but I worry that I have a mixed up kid, who was never walked or socialised, and is now being shut off from me at night.
I should have done it from day one, but him being a rescue, and me a softie, I slept downstairs with him for three nights, then took him upstairs.

He's just walked straight past me and climbed on to a sofa. He's never done that before. I don't know what's going on with him.


I have a small utility room and I think that's where he is going tonight.

It's like I have taken delivery of a different dog.

olias

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Got to win the prize for the weirdest post of the month!

Olias

meerkat2007

For the carpet, try this:

http://www.ozkleen.co.uk/products/carpet.php

I've no connection with the company, but I am a very happy user of the product - it cleaned a particularly unmentionable type of stain out of a bedroom carpet, to the point where there's no trace of the stain at all.

Oh, and that was quite some time after the incident that caused the stain.

Caroline_a

He's doing what dogs do when they have no or little discipline. You've allowed him to sleep upstairs, eat fruit from the trees, and basically do whatever he wants. Now you are going to find it difficult to get tough, but get tough you must! We all tend to use anthropomorphism with our pets 'mixed-up', etc, but he's a dog. He needs to know that it's your house and your rules. Did you check whether dogs are ok eating peaches? Why on earth did you not think that he would leave the peach stone? Dogs eat anything they can!

Taken from Wikipedia:

If dogs eat the pits of fruits such as peaches and apricots or apple seeds, they can get cyanide poisoning due to cyanogenic glycosides. However, the dog has to chew on the pit or seed to release the cyanide.[citation needed] Swallowing them whole will not cause poisoning but may lead to choking.

Of course he would eat the stone, and it's a wonder he didn't chew them up too.

Elle7

I do think you will struggle with putting him downstairs now...you'll have to just ignore his howling, banging on the door and shouting at him is likely to make him scared, so while he may be quite for a few minutes, it will be out of fear, and then he'll howl more because he's frightened.

If this is the only issue with him sleeping upstairs, just stopping him from eating the garden fruit would be a lot simpler, and I'm not sure dogs are supposed to have peaches anyway, although I can't remember why.

If you are going to put him downstairs, move his bed down, and hopefully he'll associate that with sleep. Give him a fuss, put him in at bedtime and go to bed. He will howl, and if he's anything like my dogs, scratch the door down as well, but it's new to him. He is used to being with you, and that's where he will want to be. After a few days, with you not going down or shouting at him, because you'll either frighten him or encourage him, hopefully he will be settled.

If you've got neighbours, I'd go round and apologize in advance, and do it over the weekend so you don't disturb them too much.

Owain_Moneysaver

He's probably got tummy-ache. Hopefully it will have put him off eating peaches in future.

Remove any peaches from within his reach or fence off the tree.

Put rugs over the manky bits of carpet until you can hire a Rug Doctor. Tell any viewers that the carpet does have some stains on it so you're not sure yet if it will be included or not in the sale.

CFC

Padstow wrote: »

He is perfectly ok, but I'm not. The house is up for sale, now with numerous yellow patches in my bedroom, I tried the pink oxi stuff, but it's still yellow. Any help with that please?

Now on to leaving him. He must now sleep downstairs. I know he will howl, but how many days do you think it will take for him to settle and how to cope with him? Do I bang on the door and shout No!

I should have done it from day one, but him being a rescue, and me a softie, I slept downstairs with him for three nights, then took him upstairs.

He's just walked straight past me and climbed on to a sofa. He's never done that before. I don't know what's going on with him.



It's like I have taken delivery of a different dog.

Let me get this straight.

You want to shut your dog, who you have taken from rescue and allowed to sleep with you since you had him, into a utility room on his own overnight, because you allowed him to eat fruiit from the garden and he was sick on your cream carpet?

And now you're wondering why his attitude towards you has changed and he's in a sulk?

Are you just dim, or are you trying to be a comedy artist??

If you're determined because you cannot cope with accidents of nature on your carpet, then do it the same way you would do it with a puppy. Perhaps a radio left with him, or a clock, and use a lot of treats and patience. It won't be any easier for him than it is for a puppy. Perhaps harder, who knows how he was treated before you had him.

As for your carpet, if it is polypropolene, you can usually actually use bleach solution on it if nothing else will work. I had a friend who even needed to remove hair dye from such a carpet! Try it in a small patch, use a hidden place under the bed . If it's wool you're going to have a problem. Although wool is lovely, it is not good when it comes to stain removal.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Has he been taken to the vets for an xray to establish that he doesn't have an intestinal blockage from eating so many peaches?

They do pass all the way through the system sometimes - but so many in such a short time might be a problem. And then you wouldn't be worried about your carpet, you'd be bereft and inconsolable.

suki1964

The vanish foam cleans the yellow stains from dog vomit off cream carpet a treat. The only carpet I have in the house is in the bedroom - its cream - and thats where my lad aims for when he vomits every time. Even moves from the tiled kitchen to vomit there:rotfl: