Lately my 7mo pup has been eating the broom. Everytime my wife goes to sweep, he get really excites. He chases the thimg around until he conquers it. Then he feasts on it carcass.
Should I be worried about anything besides the brisle carnage in the kitchen?
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Lately my 7mo pup has been eating the broom. Everytime my wife goes to sweep, he get really excites. He chases the thimg around until he conquers it. Then he feasts on it carcass....Should I be worried about anything besides the brisle carnage in the kitchen?
I think straw isn't the best thing for the dog to eat. One of my dogs loves the broom, too, along with all woven baskets, and he hasn't come to any harm, but I stop it because he (and most dogs) tends to swallow it in long pointy pieces rather than chew it to a pulpy mass. (And, of course, I'd rather he did NOT eat the broom and the baskets, anyway! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
My male pitbull does the same thing. I can't sweep the floor without chaos. The broom is more or less just a playtoy. The movement of sweeping is what gets him excited. I can take the broom out and he will not bother it till I start sweeping. Does he eat the handle also? If so you need to put the broom where he cannot get to it and keep him out when your wife is trying to sweep. My sister has a golden retriever who died because of splinters from her tore up broom.
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My dog goes crazy for vacuum cleaners, brooms, tree branches, pool nets, anything on a pole with something on the end to chase, it's like he doesn't realize it's ME pushing the dang thing so it's just another moving object for him to attack.... I just down/stay him whenever something like that is in use, makes for a good training distraction. Just keep that stuff outta reach when it's not in use, although now that Cujo's older I can leave stuff out and he'll leave it alone, but as a pup he'd destroy everything.
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