We had at least 1 group of coyote stick around here for awhile last fall (Western NJ). Luckily dogs are electric fenced in or we would be minus one young fox hound. The older and much bigger Golden and Coonhound ain’t going out like that
Any ideas for getting a dumb dog to start chewing rawhide bones?
I’ve got a real busybody of a dog, and one way to get 20 minutes of quiet in the evening was to give her access to a huge rawhide bone, so big that in 20 minutes she can’t do much damage to it. She loved it for 2 years.We’d basically order the biggest ones we could find.
Recently she just stopped chewing them. I don’t think it’s her teeth hurting her, she’s happy to chew on other things. I tried putting peanut butter on them and freezing them, but that hasn’t helped. It’s not a huge deal, we’re doing frozen Kongs as a nightly treat, but it’s nice to have the rawhides as an option when we don’t have anything prepped.
The criminal in question:
Your Hitler cat is very cute.
My son’s dog is a power chewer and the folks at Mud Bay suggested bully sticks as an alternative to hard nylon bones. He bit chunks off of it and it was gone in about 2 minutes, but my previous dogs would chew on those things for days.
That a malinois?
I gave my dog those metre long bully sticks once and I looked over after 10 minutes and he hadn’t made much of a dent. Checked in 20 minutes after that and it was gone.
This dog goes through bully sticks like crazy.
I wish I had a video of this - my prior dog loved bully sticks. When I would take one out in the Kitchen, he’d run into the living room. He’d wait for me to drop it on the kitchen floor and he’d come charging in and slap at the bully stick with his paws. Take videos of random things your pets do like that.
We think he’s a Taiwan dog, so Formosan Mountain dog mixed with whatever breeds invaders brought to the island. Fast as hell and built similarly to a whippet/greyhound but without the defined muscle. He came from Texas and the rescue org was advertising him as a Mal, but he’s way easier to wear out. 20 minutes or so of throwing
the ball once or twice a day is enough to keep him from bouncing off the walls. These guys needed way more exercise/mental stimulation:
My dog makes the same Crazy Face in the snow.
OMG OMG OMG OMG!
My older dog is somewhere in the range of 11 years old. She has always been a slow walker, but as she’s aged it’s become completely insane. There’s a park a short walk from our house, that’s really her preferred destination, but that walk takes literally 45 minutes at this point. She sniffs EVERYTHING and walks comically slow. There may be a physical component to this, like stiff joints, but that condition magically goes away if she sees a squirrel.
I’m getting pretty close to being the person with a dog in a stroller. I could zip her to the park, walk through there, and zip her back in half the time it takes to do it her way. I hate denying her the park, but the walks have become torturous.
My 11 year old dog is like this too. She is very slow now and also very inconsistent. If I put her leash on she walks about 1 meter every 10 seconds. If I take her leash off she will walk at a more normal pace but needs breaks. If she sees a chipmunk she will charge it at approximately 1000 miles per hour.
My dog definitely has some joint pain. If we walk for more than 45 minutes or so she will start to limp.
Have you all considered CBD treats? We used them when our cat reached 18 and it helped a ton with his arthritis.