Post by: Elliott on May 12, 2009, 11:10:39 PM
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Post by: Caseyd on May 13, 2009, 12:02:09 AM
I did buy some of that "bitters" spray(sour apple type crap) heard it works good and I think you can spray it on most stuff.
Post by: 7mag. on May 13, 2009, 12:11:01 AM
Fortuantly never had a problem with my lab...he's 2 and honestly has never chewed anything he's not supposed too.
I did buy some of that "bitters" spray(sour apple type crap) heard it works good and I think you can spray it on most stuff.
My labs were chewing my siding on my house, so I bought some of that sour apple crap. The dogs were licking it off the siding as I sprayed it on. :bash: I switched to Tabasco with water.
Post by: Huntbear on May 13, 2009, 12:29:24 AM
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Post by: Wayne1 on May 13, 2009, 04:33:11 AM
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Best thing I found, is bar bitters. Mixed with water. Dogs will not touch the stuff. tastes like chit.
LOL Had to laugh when I read that.. Can't believe our dog's will pick up some of the training ducks we use toward the end of training season....you can smell em a mile away... can only imagin what the hell they taste like. :IBCOOL:
Post by: ICEMAN on May 13, 2009, 05:45:02 AM
I came home today to find my brand new flip flops $10 and a new pair of leather shoes chewed just enough to throw them away. Effin lab, what do you guys do to keep this stuff from happening?
Easy answer! Just Wait! After a while the dog will run out of shoes to chew on and will finally move on to house furnishings.
Post by: boneaddict on May 13, 2009, 06:10:16 AM
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Post by: jackelope on May 13, 2009, 08:44:41 AM
use some sort of pepper/tabasco/tapatio mixed with water in a spray bottle.....but i gotta say, when you got the lab you signed up for the potential of this happening.
Post by: Intruder on May 13, 2009, 08:51:39 AM
.....but i gotta say, when you got the lab you signed up for the potential of this happening.
Yup, he's a pup, that's his job... piss you off to no end. All you can really do is monitor his actions, isolate him or the objects of his desire, properly correct him, and give him appropriate substitutes. It's simple but not easy... just gotta be consistant.
Post by: bowtech721 on May 13, 2009, 09:12:17 AM
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Post by: jackelope on May 13, 2009, 09:24:57 AM
that will just reinforce the idea that it's okay to chew on shoes.
the bait sneaker might be an idea, but just make sure it's always baited.
Post by: whacker1 on May 13, 2009, 09:33:15 AM
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I'm obviously not a very good dog trainer, as I would have beat him a breath short of death with said shoe.
I didn't go this far, but my lab got a few licks from said shoe. He ate two pairs of my dress shoes, a few flip, flops, a couple pair of Danner Goretex Romeo's. Each time he got punished with said shoe, and the intervals at which he ate shoes became longer over time.
He is now 18 months old and hasn't eaten a shoe for 3 months or so. His behavior in general has improved dramatically over the last 3 months or so.
Post by: Happy Gilmore on May 13, 2009, 10:08:52 AM
Post by: Elliott on May 15, 2009, 10:11:15 AM
Might try it out. And I think he was missing me cause I hadn't been home all day and he had chewed my shoes for about 6 months. Oh well
Post by: GoldTip on May 15, 2009, 01:44:40 PM
Post by: gasman on May 15, 2009, 04:12:38 PM
Chewed on the leg of the rocking chair "ONCE", again, beat his a$$ and he never did it again.
We provided lot of chew toys and played with him with the chew toys and he loved it. He found that if stayed with the chew toys he was OK, but if he got ahold of some thing else he was not supose to he got punished. I think he learned quickly.
I guess the worst thing is that he loved to chew on "tree bark". He would grab some cedar bark and chew on it and drag it in the house and leave bark all over the house. He even started to rip the bark off of the cherry tree in the back yard.
Post by: ICEMAN on May 15, 2009, 08:02:36 PM
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,5097.0.html
Post by: wasapolarbear on May 17, 2009, 11:12:53 PM
He pissed you left him home alone....all the chew toys in the world won't keep a dog from getting back at you when they wanted to go with Daddy....
Yeah my girls will still do that to both my wife and i. its there way of saying @#$% you for not taking us with. the thing that worked for us was catching them in the act and either smacking them with the object on the nose or spraying the bitter yuck straight in to their mouths. i tried the spray on objects and it didn't work but directly in the mouth and they hated it. it works for some dogs and some it doesn't. :twocents:
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Post by: popeshawnpaul on June 13, 2009, 10:28:11 AM
By the way, that's how shick shadel does it... Beer = shock. Beer = shock. Beer = shock. Sooner or later your mind gets the point.
Post by: Head-shot on June 14, 2009, 03:13:46 PM
When my last dog was a pup, he had the whole house all day, with another dog and one cat. He chewed all sorts of stuff including: Most all of my wife's left pump shoes....just the lefts...(I told my wife her right foot stinks...)....the dog ate a live lamp cord off. Ate it off. Still plugged in, copper wires sticking out nearly touching. Maybe a foot of wire missing. He chased the cat up a shelf, cat knocked the decorative glass top of our wedding cake off the shelf and onto the floor....ate half of the glass cake top. Ate half of the glass. Dog got my wallet one day....chewed every license and credit card into mungy. That dog crapped everything out and went on to live to 18 1/2 years...(after I beat the living crap out of him multiple times). Still, the coolest mutt around. God I miss him! Even though he peed on me in public.
Damn Ice man! your dog sounds just like the dog in "Marley and Me" .....however I can relate, the first rottweiler I had chewed EVERYTHING, in addition to all of his toys. I came home from work at lunch once to find him in a pile of what was left of one of our couches, now it was just shards of foam and a few sticks that used to be the couch frame, another time he got into the laundry and chewed the crotch out of about 6 or 7 pairs of my (first) wife's panties and in the same session had chewed the corner of the bathroom door off enough that I could put my hand through the hole when the door was closed, then another time he decide to lay his wrath down on one of my big Cerwin Vega home speakers the ones with the pair of 12" speakers in it, completely ate the box and the insides of the speaker up, FUBAR'd the metal frame of the speaker and bit the magnet in half! Eventually he turned his tasted to the out doors at my dads farm and he and my wolf cross killed and ate various parts of three 400-500 lbs caves my dad had been raising. at the site of that Dad 30 Cal-ed both of them :dunno: who knew?
Post by: ICEMAN on June 14, 2009, 04:34:42 PM