POAL: Guess what my great dane ate now?

[twinrider1]

 

[SP33Demon]

Cats > dogs. Ideally you want to get a cat-dog.

 

[iwajabitw]

I have boxers and they have chewed up all kinds of stuff. 11 5ft arborvitae this past spring. Plenty of laptop cables, blue tooth dongles.... But they are too cute the rest of the time.

 

[Anubis]

Who the flip has 22 pairs of socks? And they didn't notice them disappearing and maybe consider the dog is eating them?

umm I prob have 100 pairs of socks

 

[SunnyD]

yeah I guess tall dogs are way more dangerous, can't even leave food on the counters.

Mine isn't as tall luckily.

Usually they have to be bored before they do stuff like this though.

When I was growing up we had a golden that took off with a whole fresh raw chicken from the kitchen counter while my mother's back was turned.

Tall dogs mean nothing.

 

[mcurphy]

How old is the dog? Is he just going through the chewing phase? My experience with dogs is that they usually stop chewing the house up by the time they reach 3yo.

Of course, some dogs never grow out of it, and I have no experience with Danes.

 

[Markbnj]

This is not behavior that you have to live with, and since you bought an... um... outsized canine it's got to be really hard to live with. Get some help. A second dog might be fine, but it won't magically cure behavior issues with the first one. Some things may get better, others could get worse. The issue needs to be addressed with the dog you have. Typically this kind of problem is boredom or anxiety. Is the dog alone in the house when these incidents happen?

 

[Phoenix86]

IIRC he has other great danes, and if I recall the pics of his house, nothing they will chew on is cheap.

 

[IronWing]

You should spend less time watching TV and more time playing with your dog.

 

[smackababy]

I'd look at some obedience training. Dogs don't chew things because they just enjoy it. There is something going on, and you can correct it.

My dog at like 4 or 5 of my fish once. I was goofing around and kicked my fish tank, which then shattered and sent them all over the floor. Sure enough, less than half a second later, my dog was there eating them. It was as if she was waiting for that very thing to happen, poised ready to strike!

 

[Linflas]

lol Our coonhound ate my Harmony One a few months ago. My wife was amazed how calmly I took the news. Most recently she ate my key fob for my wife's Ford Escape. I guess the 40 varieties of nylabones just aren't as interesting.

 

[Ruptga]

Dogs don't chew things because they just enjoy it.

Lol no. More exercise or training definitely can help, but that's exactly why dogs chew on things.

 

[JulesMaximus]

See, this is why I own cats.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Luckily for you, they have among the very shortest lifespans of all breeds.

LOL! Always looking at the bright side of things. :biggrin::thumbsup:

 

[amdhunter]

In trial so no pics.

For those saying get him a companion, we'rd stupid enough that we have two great Danes. The other one is not an asshole though.

Then eat the dog! You have the good one for further company. :awe:

 

[Ruptga]

Then eat the dog! You have the good one for further company. :awe:

It does seem only fair.

 

[smackababy]

Lol no. More exercise or training definitely can help, but that's exactly why dogs chew on things.

Lol yes. Dogs can be trained. Destructive behavior is something correctable and points to some other problem. Dogs don't just say to themselves "Owner is gone? Yay! I sure love destroying random shit!"

You wouldn't happen to be the poster arguing that dogs shit all over everywhere are you?

 

[hanoverphist]

URGE TO KILL... RISING!

 

[Capt Caveman]

My older Ridgeback when he was about a year old would destroy a comcast remote if I wasn't around to take him out after four hours of him being home. I eventually learned to put the remotes up on the counter but up til then he went thru 8 comcast and 1 denon receiver remotes. Eventually, a lady at the comcast office, gave me a bag of a dozen remotes in case of any more my dog ate my remote incidents.

 

[SlowSpyder]

My lab chewed on a disposable razor I threw out. She dug it out of the garbage can in the bathroom. I came home yesterday and it was laying in the middle of the hallway, even the blade was chewed and bent up. I didn't see any cuts in her mouth. Dogs... heh.

 

[Ruptga]

Lol yes. Dogs can be trained. Destructive behavior is something correctable and points to some other problem. Dogs don't just say to themselves "Owner is gone? Yay! I sure love destroying random shit!"

You wouldn't happen to be the poster arguing that dogs shit all over everywhere are you?

Would you happen to be one of our many posters with a selective reading disability? Dogs can be trained. Dogs also like chewing on stuff. I never said they do it out of spite. It can look that way, but that's just anthropomorphizing the dog. Normally they won't do that sort of thing if they're getting enough exercise and discipline, but then some dogs are just assholes and need to be eaten.

 

[Markbnj]

Would you happen to be one of our many posters with a selective reading disability? Dogs can be trained. Dogs also like chewing on stuff. I never said they do it out of spite. It can look that way, but that's just anthropomorphizing the dog. Normally they won't do that sort of thing if they're getting enough exercise and discipline, but then some dogs are just assholes and need to be eaten.

Haha. I've met one or two that fall into that category. I have two now, a 55 lb Golden/poodle cross, and a 115 lb english lab. They get large milk bones once a day, and they will drag a branch across the back yard fighting over it, and chew it up some. But other than that they don't chew much else than their food, and never chew up anything in the house (save for the rare occasions when the too-smart-for-her-own-damn-good poodle noses open the trash can and retrieves something tasty).

 

[Ruptga]

I've got two Australian Shepherds, actually my parents do since I don't have room for them right now but that's beside the point. The one that was almost always the cause of trouble was the smarter of the two. He'd find ways out of almost any enclosure or restraint, but that stopped when we laid paving stone in a section of yard and put a 6ft tall kennel on it. Regular runs around town and time outside but in the toy-stocked kennel helped a ton. He's probably back to causing havok now that I'm gone and my lazy folks aren't exercising them.

 

[Markbnj]

Regular runs around town and time outside but in the toy-stocked kennel helped a ton. He's probably back to causing havok now that I'm gone and my lazy folks aren't exercising them.

Makes a big difference for sure. We walk ours two miles a day.