Eating EVERYTHING in the garden!

Hi
Bruiser is doing toilet in the garden pretty much all the time now thanks to some great advice from the people on here =D>
HOWEVER he has started eating everything in the garden......... grass, mud, tree bark...... basically anything! ive checked we don't have any plants that are toxic, but i was wondering if him doing this is bad for him? he has been sick twice from eating grass/tree bark but it hasnt put him off!

Oh will look on with interest Bodhi is doing this too, he will just pick and drop somethings but others he is eating like the bark and leaves. keep ya on your toes don't they..x

Holly does it too... just make sure your garden doesnt have any toxic plants in it..
I learnt today that mine does!!!!! so i am out first thing to pull out the weeds adn make sure no others are lerking ( wandering dew)

Be careful. Mostly, it'll do him no harm, but.

Sometimes a dog will start to eat anything & as much as possible. If they eat too much greenstuff it can collect in their stomach (dogs can't digest it so it just 'sits' there) and cause bloat. I found out the hard way & one operation £ 500 vet fees later, Dempsey was back home feeling very sorry for himself.

Discourage it if you can. He's young yet, and exploring - he'll probably grow out of it, but just watch him & make sure he doesn't get carried away. Oh, and take care with ivy - some dogs can eat some & have very little side effects, others can eat it & it makes them very ill.

We do have ivy in our garden, but its up the fence so he has ignored it.......mostly he loves eating bark from the conifers! little bugger!we do try and snap him out of it, but he loves it and now even bring in what he has to show us! we just take it away and put it in the bin.......... i put a few toys in the garden to try and encourage him to play with them, but sofar hes still choosing the tree bark hahaha

Pups, who'd have em?


US!!!

to right, they are so dam cute and so cheeky!

Billy is the same in our garden, I think he thinks his name is NO

Mine should be called 'be carefull!'

Hollie does the same in my garden, but I only have planters, i've had to put the small ones on top of the garden table out of her way. She also brings twigs, leaves etc into the house, but hides them in her crate... Been out walking in the park today and she picked up a thick twig and carried it all the way round the park till it was time to go, had to take it off her cos she wanted to bring it home...little bugger x

debbiewaterhouse wrote:Hollie does the same in my garden, but I only have planters, i've had to put the small ones on top of the garden table out of her way. She also brings twigs, leaves etc into the house, but hides them in her crate... Been out walking in the park today and she picked up a thick twig and carried it all the way round the park till it was time to go, had to take it off her cos she wanted to bring it home...little bugger x

hahha just over the weekend Bruiser has started to bring twigs in the house and hiding them under the kitchen table! little git!

Aw he's bringing you pressies, so sweet!

up to now blue`s ruined 2 kids bike,ate the pedals, ripped off the seats and chewed the tyres...X amount of my sons footballs,about £400 worth of plants,3 or 4 watering cans (they seem to be his favourite) a wheel off our bin and destroyed a 10X10 shed from the inside ..he used to live in it until he decided he`d prefer to live indoors with us.who are we to argue

Milly the same now the kids are older we are getting it all flagged in a few weeks so Milly will be sulking

Lola eats all and sundrie on walks. She's taken a great liking to what I think is rabbit poo, and she know's I'm about to tell her to stop eating it as she gets as much as possible before I can catch her. I was starting to think maybe she needs her intake of food increasing, so I did this, but no avail, she still seems to get everything. She even ran up to me the other with a strawberry.

lackeman wrote:Lola eats all and sundrie on walks. She's taken a great liking to what I think is rabbit poo, and she know's I'm about to tell her to stop eating it as she gets as much as possible before I can catch her.

Molly did this with cow and horse poo, she'd eat it as quickly as possible. She grew out of it, after being told "No" a few times, she now seems to ignore it, thankfully.

OMG Blue's a very expensive dog
Eating poo !!!
On the way home today and noticed Hollie was carrying a piece of orange peel...

Bruiser is getting worse he is now trying to eat stones aswell etc..........got to the point where i have to stand in the garden with him if hes out there more than 5 mins to keep an eye on the bugger!

Dempsey went through a stage of stone eating. I seemed to forever have my fingers shoved down his throat to stop him swallowing them. Just keep an eye open & stop him when you can - he'll grow out of it!

Have you taught him the 'leave' command yet? Really useful, as well as the 'stay'.

he no's what 'wait' is, but he'll only do it sometimes...........also it i get him to sit and wait when i approach him he runs where he thinks its a game at times! i usually get a treat and call him............he comes running then the git then i open hes mouth and get whateva delight he has in store for me out lol

lynne wrote:Billy is the same in our garden, I think he thinks his name is NO

rotf lola thinks hers is "no........nasty" LOL shes not to bad in the garden but my god she eats or carrys everything she finds on walks.we walked back from dylans school yesterday with a branch 3 times her size dragging on the floor and she wouldnt drop it till we got home.

lackeman wrote:Lola eats all and sundrie on walks. She's taken a great liking to what I think is rabbit poo, and she know's I'm about to tell her to stop eating it as she gets as much as possible before I can catch her. I was starting to think maybe she needs her intake of food increasing, so I did this, but no avail, she still seems to get everything. She even ran up to me the other with a strawberry.

disgarded apple cores and banana skins are the bain of my life......................banana skins are soo nasty when they off but lola loves em.

Glad I did a search for garden in the forum and found that I am not alone.

Just got home to find yet another mess in the garden (yard over here). Last season before emma I had a heck of a time getting them to leave it alone and finally gave up. Silly me, thought I would try again. I have never had a place with a yard till now.

brand new baby pool chewed up
many flowers and shrubs torn to bits.
arm of chair chewed

Guess Emma is feeling pretty comfortable these days and Fritz is hitting that "im gonna mess up everything" stage

I polished emmy's nails and sure enough all the polish is gone from her digging up the plants. I knew it was her so busted haha

Is there any plants that aren't toxic and the dogs don't like to eat? maybe the stupidest question ever, but..... I found roses work, they leave those alone.

I don't have a garden/yard, but She can't do any wrong surely

janey wrote:I don't have a garden/yard, but She can't do any wrong surely

perfect angels

suzyq505 wrote:

janey wrote:I don't have a garden/yard, but She can't do any wrong surely

perfect angels

Of course

Bruno tries to everything in the garden, luckily we don't have plants or grass in the back garden,just a conifer tree that i think is coming out soon. but he does like to try a stone but not actually swallowed it as when he's got something i give him the look and he drops but in the last few days he found a hiding place for things, which i go and check out and take stuff away hee hee

I had a "duh" moment yesterday. When I would plant something the dogs would dig it up everytime, driving me crazy. Well I realized that they were watching me bury "my bone" so to speak and the only way to know for sure was to dig it back up. Yesterday I kept them in the house while I planted and so far so good. Yay!