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[tetsujin]

My GF moved in at the start of March and has always wanted some Guinea Pigs so we picked these two little 8 month old boys yesterday....



there names are Boris and Hugo

[markedkiller78]

My dog went **** crazy yesterday. He was in the house for 3 hours and he ripped up 7-10m of carpet. Ate some letters, ate a box & some gnet art & spilled about 3 million (this is the only exaggeration) foam peanuts.

[Devil Soundwave]

Maybe you need to get another dog for him to play with?

[markedkiller78]

Maybe you need to get another dog for him to play with?

That could lead to twice the carnage! we would consider another dog, but it would be after this one is settled & not chewig everything. Did I also mention that he bites ?

[Devil Soundwave]

Maybe you need to get another dog for him to play with?

That could lead to twice the carnage! we would consider another dog, but it would be after this one is settled & not chewig everything. Did I also mention that he bites ?

How do you stop him doing it though?

[markedkiller78]

Other than watching him 24/7, which can't happen, ongoing training when we see him doing something give him a row for it.

I've also sprayed the carpet with the most foul smelling crap ever that stops dogs from chewing.

Or give him back to the pound

[Devil Soundwave]

Or give him back to the pound

Nah, don't do that!

[geotrig]

shock collar !

no only joking !! bu i have to say dogs do thrive on discipline and training ,they need a boss ,well most do as they want to please! mine have kinda stopped chewing stuff !!

except for the poo eating which he wont stop!

[markedkiller78]

I couldn’t do that. He’s part of the family, he is by far the most destructive, but meh

edit: He also eats poo, not his own right enough

[calium]

He also eats poo, not his own right enough

alert! if dogs do that, in most cases the have to less of vitamin k (not c, its k)

not the missing vitamin k is in the end the problem, a lot of dogs get very ill and will die becouse of the poo and worms in their stomache

you can buy it cheap in every drug store

btw. i am not kidding. you can translate it with google too

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&clien ... =&gs_rfai=

[markedkiller78]

We gave him a lactic acid supplement over the winter. I’ll have to check if that included vitamin k.

Thanks for heads up calium. I’ll know how serious this could end up. He was abandoned & we think he picked the habit up from those days.

[Parris]

... he picked the habit up from those days...

It's quite common, but not as bad as Calium suggests. It's called coprophaegia. I know loads about it because our dalmatian used to do it, but we simply moved the cat tray and he got out of the habit. The whole vitamin c or k theory is controversial (I don't care, so feel free to argue with a vet) and although not healthy (i.e. makes them smell to high heaven and also can cause parasite and disease transfer) it wouldn't generally kill a healthy dog. So, don't panic!

You can read about it here: http://www.canineconcepts.co.uk/ccp51/c ... eces.shtml

[calium]

@parris: dude, we have a well known labrador kennel for year and i don't make panic, ok? we read also about that in a lot of magazines and had the problem with one of your dogs too.

i just said what it COULD be and didn't say that thats the reason/problem/whatever... fact is, a dog CAN die from that, when the dog eats it often

another possibility is, that the dog is a "die hard" alpha dog but if so he would eat poo since he was very young.

[Parris]

@parris: dude, we have a well known labrador kennel for year and i don't make panic, ok? we read also about that in a lot of magazines and had the problem with one of your dogs too.

i just said what it COULD be and didn't say that thats the reason/problem/whatever... fact is, a dog CAN die from that, when the dog eats it often

another possibility is, that the dog is a "die hard" alpha dog but if so he would eat poo since he was very young.

It's okay, I really don't want to argue over poo eating pooches lol - it's really common though, so don't worry too much, just try and keep it away from any poo and perhaps even muzzle him on walks to avoid him sneaky munching of la merde!

[Bingo83]

Other than watching him 24/7, which can't happen, ongoing training when we see him doing something give him a row for it.

I've also sprayed the carpet with the most foul smelling crap ever that stops dogs from chewing.

Or give him back to the pound

The older dog we have came from the pound, she was an absolute nightmare for months. Nothing we seemed to try with her made any difference. At one point I would have happily took her back after I came home to find a bin emptied, the contents in practically every room in the house, sick and **** in most rooms, the power cable to the washing machine chewed threw, the sky cable chewed through. I am not violent or abusive to animals but if I had got my hands on her she would have been booted to the moon.

She had a lot of bad habits as she was previously a stray. We have always had dogs so I knew I could get her trained but it took a hell of a lot of patience and trying to get her trust. She was given a safe zone where nobody would go near her (basically a bed in a cupboard at the bottom of the stairs) and when she had done anything she was shown what she had done and sent to her bed.

Slowly but surely we gained her trust and now she is an absolute star. The difference between then and now is unbelievable and it was well worth the effort in the long run.

So dont take it back, earn its trust and I am sure you will have a great dog

[markedkiller78]

He's not going back. I was being facetious, but it was the first time I thought WTF have I done

The carpet runs for another, well the floor, 6 meters.

[markedkiller78]

Did i mention that he ate the cordless phone & the tv remote

[tart31]

Mark has he had his nuts off that usually calms them down

[markedkiller78]

he's been de-nutted.

He's only 13 months old. I'm assured he will grow out of it.

[johnbud]

back to the carpet, i had a samoyed bitch. i bred her at 3 yrs. i sold all the pups but kept the only dog in the litter. anyway i had shar since she was a pup and never ever did she eat carpets. however as the pups all left and we settled into normality again. every day we came home the carpets would be ripped up. my dogs have the run of the house so access all areas. in order to cut down damage both targa (baby dog) and shar (mummy bitch) were locked in the hallway. we had thought it was boredom so supplied the dogs with lots of toys, still no let up by this time the hall had been redone in carpet 3 times.through out this period we had assumed that the pup was to blame, unfortunately i have to admit that we punished the pup almost everytime it happened. but the simple fact is both dogs were obedient, i even showed shar before i bred her. i was at a total loss my house was a mess. i had tried to solve the problem but failed the pup was just under a year but was starting to over take his mum size wise. i decided to set a trap so 1 morning my partner and i did the usual bit cheerio a kiss and a clap. my partner took the dogs into the living room and closed the door and i came back in through the back door and into the bedroom. she left and i sat on the bed listening it was about 7-10minutes before it started, i could hear barking and growling, yelping the whole bit. so after about 15 minutes i crept up to the door and waited until it kicked of again. whoosh and the door is open, the pups in his bed his mum is trying to dig her way out via the carpet. easy option kill the bitch. only kidding it was some sort of weird female thing eventually targa eventually told her who was boss. i know its of topic but thought i would share it anyway. cheers.
john bud