Bad Berner - no eating the furniture
I hate to say this, but I NEVER trust my dogs if I'm gone longer than half an hour, and we put them in the kitchen, with no dishtowels, dishes, rugs, or anything else they can destruct if they decide they're bored. Almost every time we've left the guys with free roam SOMETHING has gotten eaten. I do this for their protection as much as for my sanity. I don't want them getting into something harmful, or even eating too much of something not harmful. Once, when we left them in the bedroom, they shredded a pillow and threw stuffing everywhere. Hahaveryfunny until I realized that the pillow CASE was MIA. Steamboat (Tiny) had completely slurped it down! Fortunately, he had managed to shred it first, so as it, (ahem), emerged from hiding, it was in pieces rather than in one whole long big wad wrapped around his intestines or something equally as horrible. It's just not worth the risk to me. They get left, they get bored, and the way they seem to like to stimulate their minds is to read magazines, and do some redecorating projects, like eat the rug. I don't crate them anymore, but I definitely do confine them. Steamboat turned 2 in March and Tugboat turns 3 in August. Our first boy got confined in the kitchen his whole life. I figure for his own safety. We have chicken-sissy dogs, so we just prop up a gate - it's not even secured - so if they HAD to, they could push it over and walk on out into the house - like if it caught on fire of something. That makes me feel better. But they're scared enough of it that if it's not an emergency, they'll just leave it alone. Dog = teeth = rampant and random destruction. Andie Reid, owned by Tugboat the Bad and Steamboat the Weasel Wilmington, NC
Re: Bad Berner - no eating the furniture
It must depend greatly on the dog. We have 2 (a husky-x and a BMD) that we leave alone in the house and we have never had any destruction while we are gone. If the weather is nice, we leave the back slider open, so they can go in and out, but in bad weather they are in. We are not usually gone for more than a few hours at a time. Maybe it's cuz there are two of them, although they don't really play together. They are 7 and 9 years old, and they mostly sleep ;-) Liz Steinweg The Crew Blue Moon's Baloo Berry Torte Balou (11/06/95) Bobby Sox (husky-x 10/31/93) Rio Sahara (the Rat Cats) and in loving memory of my 1st BMD - Toby (6/29/97 - 6/30/00 lost to MH) Colorado Springs CO http://www.ccrtiming.com/personal/personal.htm - Original Message - I hate to say this, but I NEVER trust my dogs if I'm gone longer than half an hour, and we put them in the kitchen, with no dishtowels, dishes, rugs, or anything else they can destruct if they decide they're bored. Almost every time we've left the guys with free roam SOMETHING has gotten eaten.
Re: Bad Berner - no eating the furniture
Our first boy got confined in the kitchen his whole life. I figure for his own safety. Meet Memories Break the Bank Penny . an 8 month old Berner baby that was placed with a perfect couple. Of course they knew all about Berners as they had loved one for years and years before she passed away. The first time Penny redecorated while they were out, memories of puppyhood flooded back to the perfect couple. I answered a do-you-have-any-suggestions phone call with all of my usual suggestions and received an avalanche of impossibilites for my time. Too restrictive, too cruel, too much training, too hard, no room, no way, the list went on and on why a crate or room confinement wasn't the instant, cure-all suggestion to Penny's on again, off again home renovation. A couple of months passed and I received another phone call from the perfect couple. Penny had been left loose to do as she pleased while they were out to dinner with friends. Their evening of relaxation ended abruptly as they returned to find a semi-comatose Penny.Penny was doing a little clean up for them while they were out ... after all, she loved her perfect couple to death. Penny died within 16 hours of ingesting a bottle of Phen-fen diet pills that were absentmindedly left on a low table. I cringe and cry each time I hear those avalanche of excuses and say a prayer that another perfect couple, or family, isn't loved . to death. Tailwags, Cathy Burlile In memory of Penny
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Hi, That story just brings tears to my eyes, so tragic. I have my house doggy proofed. My Orion has free roam while were out, short of a few problematic rooms. I'll be late to somewhere rather than not checking to make sure he'll be safe. Audrey Seiler - Original Message - From: Burlile\MemoriesBMDs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Berner-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:04 PM Subject: Re: Bad Berner - no eating the furniture Our first boy got confined in the kitchen his whole life. I figure for his own safety. Meet Memories Break the Bank Penny . an 8 month old Berner baby that was placed with a perfect couple. Of course they knew all about Berners as they had loved one for years and years before she passed away. The first time Penny redecorated while they were out, memories of puppyhood flooded back to the perfect couple. I answered a do-you-have-any-suggestions phone call with all of my usual suggestions and received an avalanche of impossibilites for my time. Too restrictive, too cruel, too much training, too hard, no room, no way, the list went on and on why a crate or room confinement wasn't the instant, cure-all suggestion to Penny's on again, off again home renovation. A couple of months passed and I received another phone call from the perfect couple. Penny had been left loose to do as she pleased while they were out to dinner with friends. Their evening of relaxation ended abruptly as they returned to find a semi-comatose Penny.Penny was doing a little clean up for them while they were out ... after all, she loved her perfect couple to death. Penny died within 16 hours of ingesting a bottle of Phen-fen diet pills that were absentmindedly left on a low table. I cringe and cry each time I hear those avalanche of excuses and say a prayer that another perfect couple, or family, isn't loved . to death. Tailwags, Cathy Burlile In memory of Penny
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