Can someone who knows about dogs 'quirks' explain this to me?

[ShinyAndNew]

Now that we have mastered (or I have, he still does not like DH ) getting Devil Dog to go to bed I have another problem with him that is doing my head in.

He eats his plastic bowls. He eats the cats bowl. He has one ceramic food bowl and a plastic water tray, as he tends not to empty the water in order to eat it, he only does that with his food bowls.

We also have a silver metal bowl, that I use for treats and/or as a spare should one of his bowls be eaten or smashed.

But he chases it around the house, getting very excited. Lots of tail wagging and baying. Which is fine apart from the noise it makes and how distressed he gets if it flips over and he cannot turn it back over. He is doing it now. Why? Why only with this bowl and not his others? If I replace this bowl will he start doing it with others?

He has food/water/bones so he's not hungry or thirsty.

He's playing. He's a terrier type and they like to chase things - the bowl probably skids along the floor adding to the fun. Just playing.

because it is fun Mine does something similar but without the barking.

Try filling a plastic bottle with pebbles and shaking (so he can't see you) when he starts doing it - it should over a day or two put him off playing with it because it produces the weird noise.

He does like chasing things. He had giggly ball he loved chasing but he ate it.

More toys sound like it might help. Are there any non edible ones? The Kong is doing well. He has only managed to eat half of that up to now. The giggly ball only lasted a few hours. He seems to like chewing and eating anything and everything. The lovely butcher gives us a massive sack of bones once a week to help with this. Which seems to have stopped him eating the children's toys, but not his own.

Plastic bottle and pebbles, I'll try that. I don't mind him playing or baying, he doesn't do it that loudly. It's the awful scraping noise this particular bowl makes when he is dragging it across the floor. And the barking and howling when it flips over that is annoying.

You mean you haven't seen the dog that hides in the metal bowl? The one that keep staring at him when he looks in it, begging him to play? Look harder, it's there We had to remove all metal bowls when our dog was younger, because she kept barking at the big scary dog reflected back at her

pmsl MrsL

fwiw, I wouldn't use the plastic bottle, as you risk making him nervous. Why not just lift the pastic bowl once he's finished using it, if you don't like him chasing it?

And yes, they always need lots of toys. He's got a ragger, hasn't he? He'll also need good sturdy balls he can chase - there's all sorts out there.

Duh! I never realised he would be able to see himself in it. It's very scratched but I guess he can still see something in there.

I'll change the bowl and hopefully he will not start chasing the new non-metal bowl about the house.

But get him something else to chase - he needs activity: to help stop him chewing everything

Yes he has a ragger. He ate the ball from the middle of it, but the rope has survived thus far. He has a kong and a rubber ball and a rubber bone as well as plenty of real ones. He eats tennis balls.

He loves toys that make noise. But I have yet to find one he can't eat.

Bella I do lift it up, but of he see's it he start whining/howling for it to be put down. We have to hide it in the cuboard, but as soon as he sees you go near that cuboard he starts again with the whining.

We used to hide it on top of a cuboard but the cat assists him with retrieving it

mine plays with icecream tubs (once they are empty). He can throw them around and chew them without doing any damage - and once they get a bit manky it gets thrown away and get another one (we always have spare empty icecream tubs in our house ).

Large plastic 6 pint milk bottle, with a little water in (in the garden)or ice, I froze water filled tubs.

our pup loves empty cola bottles which she chases manically around the house