the puppy likes to shred the newspapers. any suggestions on how to stop that? something that tastes nasty but wouldn't repel him from the area is what i'm imagining. i can't put crate him... he'd be in there too long.
Lyn, I am assuming you are trying to paper train this pup, correct?
Puppies like to shred paper. Heck even some older dogs do (yes, my dog really did eat my reading assignment professor)
You can try bitter apple, but I don't think it will work. Are you keeping the pup in a specific room while you are gone?
I too, wonder how long you are gone at a time. Even with the dog confined to a room there is plenty of mischeif he/she can get into. (chewing moldings, puppy paint(think about that one), and not to mention the pup could hurt itself.
If you are, are you aware you are teaching your puppy it is ok to urinate and defecate indoors? Also, the odor WILL get through the paper, so whether paper is there or not the smell is. The dog smells it says hey I went here before lets do it again. Pretty soon the whole house smells like that to the dog, so now they never care where they go. Just a thought.
Seems I didn't think of that angle... I thought paper training was a thing of the past....didn't even occur to me! If you are paper training, stop it! and don't leave papers where puppy can get them. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />
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thanks for all your replies. yes i am paper training. i have a large sun porch with a brick floor that he stays in when necessary. "too long" is more than two hours, in my mind, to crate a dog. sometimes nobody is home for about 7 hours. what's the problem with paper training? are you suggesting that i should let him do his thing anywhere on the floor in there? except for the papers on the floor, the room is pretty dog-proof... nothing else for him to destroy in there except for his toys, of which he has plenty. i would keep him in the back yard when i'm away except for two things: i'm not finished fencing it yet, and he has a tendency to eat dirt & dig holes. i don't want that to develop into a nasty habit while he's young.
No offense but if you feel two hours is too long to crate a dog, you have a long life ahead of you with this particular pup. I can already sense other things that are going on that are either going to confuse this pup or create a very difficult dog.
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