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Dog Eats Rose Canes?
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Posted by predfern z5 Chicago (My Page) on Sat, Nov 14, 09 at 0:01
| At lunch today, a coworker said that his boxer, Rosie, eats rose bushes in their yard and was wondering what could be used stop this behavior. This has nothing to do with bonemeal. The dog likes the canes. |
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| Mine never has but I suppose they could. Try liquid fence, or Ropel or hot pepper spray. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Ropel links on Google
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| I vote to give the dog something he CAN chew on, keep a closer eye on him, and praise him profusely when he's doing something he's supposed to be doing. I trained my Lab years ago to not step into my flower beds. My greyhounds now aren't a problem with this. Connie |
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| Lol , my bulldog puppy does this, it amazes me , it has to hurt! I just yell at him, and he looks for something else. As for giving him something to chew on, he simply isnt interested. He especially loves my echinacha plants. Hes quite the terror in my garden! I know a boxer can do even more damage, i feel bad for your coworker! |
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- Posted by jim1961 5/6 central pa (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 14, 09 at 11:56
our one neighbor had to put a small fence up around her roses as her dogs chewed the canes.
our one dog just likes to smell the blooms all the time, but, doesn't hurt them. |
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| We had a lab mix who did this when she was a puppy. The Ropel spray that Karl linked to was the only thing we found to stop her. It's extremely bitter tasting but not harmful. |
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| Yes, be careful using Ropel. Even the spray drift can be tasted and it's extremely bitter, but harmless. I advise to spray upwind. |
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I agree that offering a variety of toys will help, but sometimes you have to go the extra mile and build a fence around the plants or a dog run to keep your dog away when you can't supervise him (not all the time just when you're not around.)
It also can depend on how old the dog is. The first two years my german shepherd had a thing for digging up water lines and breaking sprinklers, we basically just fixed stuff she broke every couple of weeks and waited for her to grow up. She stopped breaking stuff years ago and now is content with stuffed animals and rubber balls. Sometimes you just have to be zen about pet ownership, it helps a lot to just let it go:) Of course this attitude is also why I have a lot of smashed up plants that the dogs like to roll around in. And why we never get tomatoes because the dogs take them for tennis balls and pull them right off the plants.
That ropel stuff sounds good if it works, though. |
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| I have a young shih tzu that pulls off and shreds rose blossoms. She leaves the canes and all other plants alone. She actually looks for open blossoms to pull- just for the fun of shredding them! I have bought her many toys and have been working on distracting her. |
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| Cats can have gardens; dogs need yards. |
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- Posted by jim1961 5/6 central pa (My Page) on
Sun, Nov 15, 09 at 14:16
catrose,
we had a rose band about 6-7 inches high in the ground early this past season and our cat layed down on top of it. lol
never hurt it though.
our dogs walked around it and the cat used in for a bed. lol |
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| I have a chocolate lab that is my constant shadow. Whenever I'm "deadheading" he wants to help out! Thats the only time he eats the roses! Just trying to copy me! Try giving him the raw femur bones....no dog turns those down! I used a shaker can when he was little to let him know to stay out of the flower beds. He does eat shoes, though...... |
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| We're a boxer family also. Providing toys and other activity is fine, but if you have a Sneaky Boxer, nothing is enough, they are relentless about their favorite thing. That's a good tip about the Ropel. At 5, Lucy has finally outgrown counter poaching of cell phones and prescription glasses and other high priced items. Food, however, is another issue, I won't go into her little 'finds'. Lucy is like having a little kid and all of a sudden you notice how quiet it is - count on it, she's in trouble ;-) We keep telling her that it's a good thing she's so cute. 
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