Dog vs. drywall

[ff347]

Why do dogs (or maybe just my dog)choose a random spot and chew on the wall? More importantly since I really don't give a crap why, how do I stop her? I have patched it and she is now chewing around the patch. She has chew toys, squeakers, ropes, etc. to chew on but the wall still must call her. Sprays and bitter apple stop her for a few days but she goes back.

Any ideas to stop it?

Thanks,
Scott

 

[tag3]

Chinese hot sauce.

 

[patride71]

I'm assuming you are not home when this occurs...
I'm also assuming this is a younger dog.

Have you read up or attempted any dog training?
Have you considered crate training the dog and keeping her in a crate when you are away?
How much exercise is she getting daily?

From my experience, you have to spend A LOT of time training your dog and it requires research.
Crate training worked well with my dogs. They were kept in their crates at night and if we were not home during the day. This kept them out of trouble and helped with house training.
We exercise our dogs daily, so that keeps them tired...and out of trouble.

 

[canucksafari]

What Patride71 said.

BTW, teething puppies need to chew. No training will stop it. Just the crate. If able, they will even try to chew the crate.

If your dog not a puppy and is bored, then you need to be giving it more exercise. A tired dog will sleep not chew stuff up.

Some dogs just have a real need to chew. It wouldn't hurt going down to your local butcher and buying a couple knuckle (knees) bones. I get mine for a $1.00 each. I just pop them into boiling water for about 5 minutes to kill any surface bacteria. You don't want to cook them. My dogs will work on one each for days happy as can be. It's also the best thing for them to properly clean their teeth without falling for expensive vet teeth cleaning.

Finally, it wouldn't hurt to mix in a package of fine ground Habanero pepper to your patch. The dog will only chew it once.

 

[ff347]

She is crate trained, 1.5yrs old and the chewing is like some sort of random thought. Amazingly she will do it for a few seconds and just walk away. It is as if she forgets about, remembers and chews at the wall and just forgets it again.
I think I will try some pepper and see how that works.

 

[patride71]

That is a puppy, so could be teething still and bored.

Exercise and knuckle bones might help a lot if you have not tried that yet.

 

[wakesetter]

1.5 years old might be a puppy in the head, but all puppy teeth have fallen out and new ones grown in, its not teething.

I think that its hilarious that you boil bones to get rid of bacteria, dogs eat crap, lick butholes, and eat any dead thing that they can find, regardless of how long its been sitting around. A knuckle bone isnt going to do anything to a dog.

 

[canucksafari]

I think that its hilarious that you boil bones to get rid of bacteria, dogs eat ****, lick butholes, and eat any dead thing that they can find, regardless of how long its been sitting around. A knuckle bone isnt going to do anything to a dog.

It isn't the knuckle bone its the bacteria growing on it. The butcher makes a distinction between human consumption bones (for stock) and dog bones. He does that for a reason. Dogs die all the time from bacterial poisoning. I started doing this after a neighbour, who was also the local conservation officer lost his prize bird dog (yes, a GR), to a snack in an open compost box. I also give mine regular doses of probiotics with their kibble because I know GR often are more susceptible. Laugh if you like. IMO, it is a lot easier to do this than deal with the loss of a family member or pay a big vet bill.

 

[patride71]

1.5 years old might be a puppy in the head, but all puppy teeth have fallen out and new ones grown in, its not teething.

I think that its hilarious that you boil bones to get rid of bacteria, dogs eat crap, lick butholes, and eat any dead thing that they can find, regardless of how long its been sitting around. A knuckle bone isnt going to do anything to a dog.

I disagree about not being a puppy and having the chewing tendency.

I can't dispute that they can have their new ones, but I've experienced chewing with bored dogs beyond 1.5 years. I think the key is keeping the dogs active, exercised and tired...not that I'm being revolutionary here. It is pretty much a fact.