Help! I have to leave Harley in the bathroom with the door shut when i go to work (instead of kitchen bc he climbs the gate) and he has chewed the edge of my carpet, completely, like there is so more carpet there. AND WE RENT!! I don't know what we are going to do. AND he shreds his puppy pads to a million little pieces!!!! I leave tons of toys and bones in there, he is just mad cuz i left him. I don't want to have to make him stay in his crate all night and all day, cuz i can't come home to take him potty. This morning I put him in the bathroom and put the gate up so he couldn't chew (the gate there makes him not be able to) and put another gate on top so he can't get out, and then put Daisy and her crate right outside of it so maybe it would keep him company. Ill let you all know how it goes tomorrow!
Just a thought... I once had a poodle who was a climber that loved to dig/eat/destroy carpets when left alone. Bought one of those indoor/outdoor portable pens (like you see at dog show camp sites) then made a top for it from hogwire (cheaper than carpet) and put her in the kitchen in the pen while I was gone. The pen was easily collapsed when I got home for storage. I think I have seen the pens at the Petco website, but they probably have them at any large petstore. The investment of $60 or so for a pen and some hogwire might be cheaper in the long run... Best of luck with young Mr. Harley!
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Wow, destructive lil bugger, eh? Deb's idea sounds like a really good one. We have a pet play pen we use when we have to be gone and it keeps the furkids out of trouble really well. I hope you can work it out.
Sounds like Deb has a good idea. He has separation anxiety and many dogs "suffer" from it. You have Daisy right??? Where does Daisy stay when you are gone? The reason I ask is that I use to keep my dogs separate and I got the same results as you did, the clawing at the door, eating/tearing at carpet and what not. But when I put the two together, that all stopped. They just did not like being alone. The only other thing I can think of is to get a kennel and keep him in that when you are away.
Daisy absolutely cannot be left alone in the house, she rips up everything!! And i wouldn't feel comfortable yet leaving harley and Daisy in a big crate together.They just get so into play/fighting, it scares me. I would leave him in a kennel but i am gone for 9 hours and i can't come to let him pee & i don't want him to pee in his crate bc then he will think it is okay to go to the bathroom in his home.But when i got home yesterday (had Harley in bathroom with 2 gates stacked and Daisy right outside of it in her crate) He didn't chew anything! Not even his puppy pad.I was so proud!
I was thinking of you putting them in the bathroom together. I use to keep Buster in the bedroom and Boots in the bathroom and that is when all the issues started. I did not think I could put the two together. But when I did, that was the best thing I could have ever done. I can understand your concern tho.... Maybe one day when you are only gone for a short while, you can give it a try. They just want company.
Mine do that play/fighting too, but I couldn't imagine separating them. They curl up in their bed together and pretty much stay there all day. I've never seen any evidence that they play around when we're gone.
Sometimes ill be in the kitchen and Daisy and Harley will be playing in the family room, and ill peek around the corner and I'll see Daisy doing something really mean, she'll jump and land with her paws on Harley.But she wouldn't do that if she knew i was looking. So i would just be sscared she would hurt him.
Yea, I guess I can see your concern. I know when we leave the house, it is like gottaluvchis said, they curl up together and they sleep until we return. Try Debs idea, seems like that would be the next logical step.
maybe give them a test. Maybe this weekend when you step out for a hr or so, put them together and see how things go, then slowly increase their time, till you can leave them all day. I never questioned them, so I'm not speaking from experience, just thinking. Chewy can be really rough with Akira too. When they are play fighting he'll grab the skin near her eye and just pull. I break them up, when I see that and tell Chewy to be nice. But haven't had any issues leaving them together. But I don't know if you remember from a previous post on CC, I took Chewy to pick out his new friend and he picked her. So they've always been best friends.
I understand your fear because of the size difference in Harley and Daisy... I would be nervous about it also. Mine are all toy breeds so I have not been worried about one of them being seriously injured if I'm not here and they have a disagreement. But Daisy is so much larger than chis that she could hurt Harley if left unsupervised. She may not intend to hurt him, but he is still a baby.
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yeah i know she could kill him. I said this b4 on CC but my aunts older lab (sweetest thing ever!) just one day got fed up of there yorkie jumping on him and stuff and he just chomped to hard when they werent home and broke the babys neck. :( but they didnt put the lab 2 sleep or anything bc they knew he was a good dog.
I got a cage from Walmart for during the day. I got the one for "medium" dogs, so that he'd have a little bit of room to move around. He does good in it now. First month was funny. It would be a mess when I got home - now, he just goes in when he sees me getting dressed in the morning. It's pretty cool how he's learned when he actually needs to go in.
Deb's idea sounds like a really good one. We have a pet play pen we use when we have to be gone and it keeps the furkids out of trouble really well. I hope you can work it out.
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