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Puppy taking the paint off the door :(

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MiseryBusiness · 11/02/2012 09:58

Ok so I had a thread the other day about Puppy eating her bed, totally destroyed it and DH doesnt think she should have a new one so we brought her a blanket to sleep on, the day before yesterday she tore the the blanket up so the last 2 nights she has had to sleep in the floor.
Puppy sleeps in the kitchen at night, this has always been the case and she has never had a problem with this but since having no bed she has spent most of the night crying and scratching the door and wall. This morning I came down to find white paint everywhere and she's taken a lot of paint off the door and some of the wood too.
Trouble is, it isnt our house so we will have to replace the door. Is there anyway to stop her doing this? We cant use a gate as she can jump them very easily and I wouldnt trust her now to have access to the rest of the house just in case she found something else to destroy?
DH doesnt want to keep buying her beds to keep her quiet either.

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ditavonteesed · 11/02/2012 10:05

she needs a crate. if i leave eric out of his crate we end up with somthing destroyed everytime i go to bed or leave the house. much sympathy, eric has eaten part of our wall and quite a bit of the skirting board as well.

belindarose · 11/02/2012 10:12

I second the crate. We would have had things destroyed, without doubt, if we hadn't used one. Now we can leave him out a lot more (8 months) because he now prefers to chew bones. I still crate him when out and at night. Google Ian Dunbar 'errorless chew training' for tips.

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MiseryBusiness · 11/02/2012 10:14

He's eaten the WALL!?
She has a crate in the basement. She hates it. We tried feeding her in it, treats in it etc, she slept in it for about 2 weeks with the door open but if you even touch the door, not even to close it, just to push it halfway closed she screams and smashes about it until she gets out.
We go back to square one after that, feed in it, treats in it, keep her bowls in there etc etc. But its always the same, the moment she feels your going to shut the door she goes mental and the weirdest thing about it is we've have her from 9 weeks old and we have NEVER managed to close the door on her so no idea where her fear is from so we dont use the crate anymore it really stresses her out.

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MiseryBusiness · 11/02/2012 10:15

I probably have Ian Dunbars errorless everything memorised. I have followed his techniques since we got her but she just wont go in the crate.
However his toilet training advice was brill, we had one wee in the house and thats it!

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haddock1976 · 11/02/2012 10:20

Harden your heart and stick with the crate. It's not fair on her to keep giving her opportunities to caused damage/hurt herself. Kinder for her in the long run and I can't believe she's stubborner (is that a word?) than you and your husband.

ditavonteesed · 11/02/2012 10:20

he was very little when he did that, my fault entirley, he was quietly down the side of the sofa and I didnt check what he was doing, just enjoying the peace, a bit like with children if they are seeming to behave they are probably up to somethinng. also have you tried anti chew spray, we pretty much coated the whole house in it.

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MiseryBusiness · 11/02/2012 10:31

She is way more stubbon than us. She literally screams and hits herself against the crate over and over until she gets out and like I said that is when the door is open, its because we've touched the door to shut it, its never actually been shut.
We did this for months and it just didnt work.
Thing is she isnt chewing, the only thing she has ever chewed is her bed (and crayons) she is scratching to get out the kitchen because she no longer has a comfy bed so I dont think anti chew spray will work.

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herladyship · 11/02/2012 11:13

we have a bed destroyer.. after 4 or 5 cheaper beds we spent £160 on a tuffie, which is guaranteed to be indestructible!

2 months on, he is sleeping happily all night & bed still looks like new although v.expensive, we had already spent more than that on the previous beds & blankets!

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MiseryBusiness · 11/02/2012 11:51

Thats Brilliant herladyship. Think we may have to invest in a tuffie!

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herladyship · 11/02/2012 12:24

they have a website. we have got the 'really tough' tuffie... it comes with a lifetime guarantee

daisydotandgertie · 11/02/2012 22:32

Get her a bloody bed. She is a puppy and needs somewhere to sleep.

If she doesn't like the crate, and she doesn't have a bed or even a blanket, what did you expect her to do at night? Even if it's a cardboard box with old shredded blankets in it, she needs something to sleep in. She must have been stressed and cold to cry all night and scratch at the door. Puppies aren't good at regulating their body temperature.

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MiseryBusiness · 11/02/2012 22:45

I had a thread only the other day about how I didnt want her not to have a bed just because she chewed them and we did replace it it's only been a couple of nights and it has nothing to do with being cold as the heating is always on all night and she sleeps next to the radiator.
I'm not trying to be cruel.
Granted it probably isnt comfortable sleeping on the floor but we didnt take the blanket off as its all she had. We've got her a vet bed today that she can have while we wait for her tuffie.
We live in a different country and we've been snowed in the last 2 days so she couldnt have gotten a new one before today anyway.

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