General list of things to get - Page 3

DnP · 06-19-2009, 06:33 AM

Phoenix doesn't eat unusual stuff (except his poo), he just didn't find the apple bitters, vaseline/pepper or dish soap a deterrent for pulling up the plastic border. I sprayed the apple bitters on my fingers and he just licked it like there was gravy on my fingers. The other two items he didn't really eat, he just didn't mind them on the border when he pulled it up. He also didn't eat the border, just ran around with is and treated it like a toy...He's a toy destroyer, but not a toy eater. He's a high energy dog, so he needs a lot of both mental and physical excercise and if he doesn't get enough, he'll find ways to entertain himself with digging holes to china, burying toys in said holes to china and pulling out my plastic landscape borders.

Sorry for the thread hijack...

short1cake · 06-19-2009, 03:23 PM

Try to get the strongest toys you can find. When my beloved Chief (RIP dear-boy) would go to PetSmart 14 years ago, I would buy him "indestructable" dog toys. Seriously, it said it right on the package. I remember one in particular that didn't make it out of the parking lot. I'd go back in with the receipt and tell them to try again. They knew him by heart and would laugh everytime I would take him in. They knew it wasn't going to stand up to the money-back guarantee written on the packaging.

Chicagocanine · 06-19-2009, 07:06 PM

I stopped using rawhides after I had to pull one out of my Golden's throat as she choked on it--
Of course I'd heard about dangers of rawhides but I always figured that it would be fine to give her since I always supervised and she always chewed off very small pieces, did not try to swallow large chunks...until the time she was licking a large gooey glue-y piece and it stuck to her tongue, so she tried to swallow it to get it off her tongue, and it got stuck blocking the back of her throat... It was so slimy I had trouble pulling it out but luckily I was able to get it.

06-19-2009, 06:33 AM	#21 (permalink)
DnP Elite Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 1,248	Re: General list of things to get Phoenix doesn't eat unusual stuff (except his poo), he just didn't find the apple bitters, vaseline/pepper or dish soap a deterrent for pulling up the plastic border. I sprayed the apple bitters on my fingers and he just licked it like there was gravy on my fingers. The other two items he didn't really eat, he just didn't mind them on the border when he pulled it up. He also didn't eat the border, just ran around with is and treated it like a toy...He's a toy destroyer, but not a toy eater. He's a high energy dog, so he needs a lot of both mental and physical excercise and if he doesn't get enough, he'll find ways to entertain himself with digging holes to china, burying toys in said holes to china and pulling out my plastic landscape borders. Sorry for the thread hijack... __________________ Diana Mom of Brightstar's Phoenix In loving memory of Dakota 1/93 - 10/2006 He seemed neither old nor young. His strength lay in his eyes. They look as old as the hills, and as young and as wild. I've never tired of looking into them.-John Muir

06-19-2009, 03:23 PM	#22 (permalink)
short1cake Junior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Carlisle, PA Posts: 31	Re: General list of things to get Try to get the strongest toys you can find. When my beloved Chief (RIP dear-boy) would go to PetSmart 14 years ago, I would buy him "indestructable" dog toys. Seriously, it said it right on the package. I remember one in particular that didn't make it out of the parking lot. I'd go back in with the receipt and tell them to try again. They knew him by heart and would laugh everytime I would take him in. They knew it wasn't going to stand up to the money-back guarantee written on the packaging.

06-19-2009, 07:06 PM	#23 (permalink)
Chicagocanine Crowned Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 5,517	Re: General list of things to get I stopped using rawhides after I had to pull one out of my Golden's throat as she choked on it-- Of course I'd heard about dangers of rawhides but I always figured that it would be fine to give her since I always supervised and she always chewed off very small pieces, did not try to swallow large chunks...until the time she was licking a large gooey glue-y piece and it stuck to her tongue, so she tried to swallow it to get it off her tongue, and it got stuck blocking the back of her throat... It was so slimy I had trouble pulling it out but luckily I was able to get it. __________________ Chicago Canine Bianca HIC CGC TT (GSD)

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