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Mini Chewing

Friday, May 28th, 2010

Mini Chewing
What will stop 1 1 / 2 years old mini schnauzer to destroy and eat everything!?

She is very sweet and loving and take proper care her, she is my life! But I can not leave with a piece of paper or a piece of furniture and when we tried a cage she just barking and shouting all the time disturbing the neighbors (we live condominium) is eaten throughout the floor of the lint of almost everything lol. and clothing to forget! also eat their toys! I bought some good chew toys that are durable, but What do I do !!!???

It sounds like she is bored and not stimulated enough. Dogs can be very destructive when bored. Maybe try the exercise more like her to take longer walks or something and see if that helps.

Mini chewing a bone ~RIP~



Mini Chewing

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

Mini Chewing
He thinks he is a puppy.What can I do to prevent my yearling from chewing the on the leadrope when I walk him?

My yearling thinks he is a puppy. Everytime we go for a walk my mini bites and chews at the leadrope. He shakes it back and forth and it makes it very difficult to walk with him. His head is constantly down trying to get a hold of the lead rope. I tried to shake the lead rope, but he is starting to jump or rear at the sound and I get real scarried. Did I train him to rear or is he just scarried too? I quit doing it because I don’t want him to jump up and now he is back to chewing and playing with the leadrope again in his mouth. I’m not getting no where. He also bites at my hand, legs and nothing works, it only gets worse. I already thought about selling him because I can’t handle him. I only had him for 4 weeks. Please help. Thanks for reading.

You should not have bought him if you can’t handle him….
Anyways- if he is freaking out with the rope jingling what you need to do is go to the next step. First- say NO or make a loud airhorn/buzzer noise and give him an evil haughty look directly into his eyes (shows you are dominant and that he is annoying you). With most horses, this works unless they consider you way under them in the pecking order.
Then you may have to move up to step 2: whack him on the nose (don’t just push) and say NO or make that sound again . Just once and then walk on like nothing happened. You may have to do it a lot in the begining, but he should stop after a couple times. If he walks for a bit without doing anything praise him and give him some scratches.

Something else you did not mention: does he get any social time outside with other horses? A bored young horse that is kept alone can become more naughty because there are no adults to keep them in line and no one to play with.

Mini Chewing As Usual